Posted: 2/28/2009 10:36:58 PM EDT
| I've got a boat load of store bought pasta and more to come. I've been told this stuff has the half life of Selenium if packed away well. Is it possible to nitrogen pack buckets yourself? How would one go about doing this? |
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I've got a boat load of store bought pasta and more to come. I've been told this stuff has the half life of Selenium if packed away well. Is it possible to nitrogen pack buckets yourself? How would one go about doing this? Just a general comment: Using 02 absorbers is, in a sense, the poor man's version of nitrogen packing. When you eat up the oxygen in air, you're left with mostly nitrogen. 
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I've got a boat load of store bought pasta and more to come. I've been told this stuff has the half life of Selenium if packed away well. Is it possible to nitrogen pack buckets yourself? How would one go about doing this? Just a general comment: Using 02 absorbers is, in a sense, the poor man's version of nitrogen packing. When you eat up the oxygen in air, you're left with mostly nitrogen.
easiest way IMHO> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW7_cTn6YpE or bucketpacking.com lot of info on self packing your food items. |
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www.bucketpacking.com
www.howtopackfood.com Be careful, some store bought spaghetti gets ate up with bugs really easy. Spaghetti is the ONLY pasta type I've had to throw out in the last 23 years of storing food. Egg noodles, elbow mac all store fine. We just finished a couple of small buckets of elbow mac a year ago that were from the early 90's. No mylar, no absorbers- you couldn't get them back then. Just poured into clean buckets. Once mylars and absorbers came commonly available most people stopped using dry ice. It's sometimes hard to get, safety issues involved, and does NOT provide a real barrier to oxidation. ALL, I repeat ALL that dry ice does is act as a FUMIGANT. "But it replaces the oxygen with nitrogen" Sure, but since you can't use a mylar with it, over time you have no oxygen barrier. If you look at the vids on youtube where we are showing "old" rice that was just poured into buckets- oxidation is the biggest factor in breakdown of food. Dry ice was the ticket before mylars and oxygen absorbers became commonplace, since then it's went the way of the dinosaurs. Lowdown3 |