2.You can also can flour, sugar, etc, using the oven to heat them...CANNING DRIED GOODS IN THE OVEN
3.I have also heard of people using 55 gallon drums of corn (or beans, etc.)...prior to sealing, you put a mason jar in the middle of the grain, kind of just squish it down so that the top is still open. Put a candle in the jar, light it, then put the lid on. The flame will use up all the available oxygen and then burn out. No oxygen, no bugs. Cool idea, seems like it would work.
As far as corn meal goes, Buy whole and grind as you go.
DelaWhere used to talk about oven canning too. I could never quite understand the scientific process that caused the lids to ‘ping’ when no air was removed, so I’ve never done it myself. I’ve only used the oven to kill critters before adding an oxygen absorber.
I have wheatberries stored, not flour, because the wheatberries last for decades and the nutritional value of flour the highest right after being ground. The hard shell around the wheatberry is nature’s perfect encapsulator. We probably don’t even need to go the extra mile of using oxygen absorbers and mylar - wheatberries have been found in Egyptian tombs and were still edible.
Pretty neat idea with the candle! Sounds like an old-fashioned remedy that is still valid today.
Thanks for the dent corn idea and Honeyville. They have great shipping prices so that’s doable. If I can’t figure out how to find some locally.
My grinder can handle dent corn, so that’ll work well.
BTW, is the picture of the sheep on your website one of your critters? She has such a sweet face.