Pantry Organization With FIFO: Rotate Before You Lose It
You reach behind the front row for a jar of green beans and find one with no label at all. …
Pantry Storage
Mylar bags, oxygen absorbers, buckets and airtight containers. Long-term food storage that keeps pests and moisture out.
Mylar Bags in a Vacuum Sealer: Why It Fails
It is one of the most reasonable assumptions in home food storage, and it does not work. You own a …
Mylar Bag Sealer: Impulse, Iron or Improvised
Sealing mylar is the step where a pantry project either becomes storage or becomes an expensive way to keep rice …
Gamma Lids: What They Seal and What They Do Not
The first time you try to get a snap lid off a full bucket of dog food with wet hands, …
Food Storage Buckets: Food Grade, Sizes and Lids Explained
A bucket looks like the least interesting purchase in the whole pantry. It is a plastic pail with a lid, …
Weevils in Flour: Save It, Bin It, Stop It Coming Back
You tip the flour into the bowl and something small and dark moves against the white. Then you look closer …
Pantry Moths: How to Clear Them and Keep Them Out
The first sign is one small moth flying a lazy circle near the ceiling. You wave it away. A week …
Oxygen Absorbers: Which cc Size for Which Container
The little sachet is the part of long term food storage that people understand least and worry about most. It …
Mylar Bags: Which Thickness and Size to Buy
The reason people buy mylar bags is almost always the same story. A twenty five pound sack of rice bought …
Long Term Food Storage: Which Method Fits Which Food
Long term food storage gets sold as a shopping list. Buckets, bags, absorbers, a shelf unit, done. What actually decides …
How to Store Rice Long Term: Mylar, Absorbers, Buckets
The twenty five pound bag was a bargain, and eight months later it smells musty, or there are small brown …
How to Store Potatoes: Cure, Cold and Dark
You dug forty pounds of potatoes in September and by Thanksgiving half of them have sprouted, one corner of the …