Prep Genrl Mylar bags

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LtPiper

Taking cover
Well finishing up from the great flood of my basement from back in April, I found that one of my 5 gallon bucket‘s lid had came apart and was filled with water and rice.

Immediate “Oh Crap” set in as 25 pounds of rice was in the bucket!!!!! It must have broke open back in April when sh!^h3@d flooded the basement.

Fortunately I had packed it in Mylar bags, 2 cups to the bag, O2 absorber and then vacuum sealed.

Not a single bag was compromise. So I just rinsed the bags in some sanitizer and put them in a new bucket.
 
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summerthyme

Administrator
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LtPiper said:
Well finishing up from the great flood of my basement from back in April, I found that one of my 5 gallon bucket‘s lid had came apart and was filled with water and rice.

Immediate “Oh Crap” set in as 25 pounds of rice was in the bucket!!!!! It must have broke open back in April when sh!^h3@d flooded the basement.

Fortunately I had packed it in Mylar bags, 2 cups to the bag, O2 absorber and then vacuum sealed.

Not a single bag was compromise. So I just rinsed the bags in some sanitizer and put them in a new bucket.
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They really are wonderful insurance! When we cleaned and organized our basement in 2014, we inspected every non-commercial 5 gallon bucket and visually checked the seals/vacuum on the mylar bags. Out of over 200 buckets, there was ONE failure... the pail had a rack in the bottom, and insects had chewed through the mylar. The elbow macaroni was a disgusting mess.

We did discover the Gamma Seal pails are NOT waterproof... we had stzcked all the pails on a wagon outside while we cleaned and built shelves. Even covered by a tarp, the gamma seal pails ALL had moisture in them. Fortunately, they all had mylar liners...

Summerthyme
 
Jeff B.

Jeff B.

Don’t let the Piss Ants get you down…
I've been using "SteelPak" bags from Amazon which are textured, so your Food Saver type device will vacuum the bags down nicely. Originally, I was putting rice and beans in 5 Gallon pails with Mylar Bags and several O2 absorbers. Sealing them was a pain in the butt. I like the food saver type pags and wil be switching to smaller portions and also smaller buckets (geting older) to make heaving them around easier.

SteelPak Textured Bags

Jeff B.
 
kyrsyan

kyrsyan

Has No Life - Lives on TB
My longterm goes in sealable 5 gallon steel pails. Mid-term, regular food safe plastic 5 gallon. Likely to be used in the next few weeks/month - five gallon with gamma lid. And most things are in mylar. Thank you for the heads up on bags that can be vacsealed with a foodsaver.
 
nomifyle

nomifyle

TB Fanatic
Initially I was using 5 gallon mylar bags for large amounts of beans and those buggars are very heavy. So I stitched to more smaller bags in a bucket. I have several left over 5 gallon bags so I cut them in half and seal all but one edge and they fit perfectly in 2 1/2 gallon buckets and so much easier to move. I'm pretty sure I've never put anything directly in a bucket, except some boxes of foods I just didn't have the energy to put in mylar at the time, like Jiffy corn bread mix.

I opened a box of corn bread mix that has a few bugs in it and I cooked it anyway. Except for the gross factor I figured just a little more protein.

DH has all but one of the 4 shelves in the pantry room down and the contents in the enclosed trailer. I could never have gotten that done without his help.

Back when DH cut his fingers on his planner and the planner broke, several months ago, Craftsman finally replaced the broker planner. He was so excited, we both thought he never get it replaced, it was less than 6 months old when it broke.

god is good all the time

Judy
 
Toosh

Toosh

Veteran Member
I like 3/4" plywood over a row of buckets and stack another row on top. I have no proof but feel that it distributes the weight better. Contents matter. Heavy wheat and sugar on the bottom, pasta on top.
 
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