Posted on 08/18/2011 12:19:26 PM PDT by Kartographer
Good idea for those who don’t get seasick...
There is no silver in mylar its evaporated aluminum.
The advantage is a much less permeable to gases (important in food packaging) and reflects up to 99% of light, two of long term storage foods wrose enemies.
Before modern chemicals were available, folks used natural insect repellants. "The herbs most well known for their insect-repelling abilities are bay leaf, chamomile, cinnamon, cloves, garlic, lavender, lemongrass, neem leaf, mugwort, pennyroyal, rosemary, rue, santolina, southernwood, tansy, and thyme." Which Herbs Are Natural Insect Repellants?
Your cat will tell you that pennyroyal is nasty stuff. It is. Don't get it around pregnant woman.
mylar is really expensive, is it really mylar?
What is the advantage for mylar over regular plastic?
The bags aren’t so expensive. But the shipping is because just a few of the bigger bags have weight.
I shop from sites that give a set price on whatever amount you order, shipping at $4.95 such as honevillegrain.com.
They ship all over the U.S. doesn’t matter if you order $20 bucks or $200 bucks worth of goods, shipping is $4.95.
Oh and mylar keeps out oxygen, moisture and LIGHT.
To the un-initiated, a 5 gallon bucket with an o-seal is not something they are likely to come across easily. They would want to look for Gamma-Seal lids, available from-———————
Walmart bakery/deli. Mine sells them for $1, and that includes the lid. Previously had icing in them...
Any recommendations for a brand of vacuum sealer?
That looks awesome. I have a lot of canning jars that I store stuff in.
Ok, I get it, Mylar is only Dupont’s product name/trade name
Basically all these other products including the one I am using are Mylar too as long as they have a metal coating. I just checked, mine all have a metal film too.
They are just your standard long term food storage bags that I bought from the grocery store. 10x cheaper than the “Mylar” brand.
Mine is a FoodSaver and I am happy with it. I brought mine from Amazon.
You can seal the mylar bags with a regular clothes iron over a 2” wide piece of flat wood or similar. You fill the mylar bag within a couple inches of the top of the bucket, put one of the oxygen absorbers in, fold the mylar bag over the wood strip and iron one side on an setting of about 8 (if I remember right), then fold the seam you just created over the other way and iron it again. You can find the video on Youtube. I just watched it a couple days ago.
Great link. Thank you for that.
Drat! I read that on a thread on FR once per week. I make a mental note to stop at the bakery department when I go shopping on Thursday...then promptly forget to "read" my mental note. I'm writing it on next week's 'want' list right now!
BTW...do those buckets you get have the rubber O-ring in the lid?
Good info. I'll have to keep an eye on that. Thanks.
My FoodSaver is out on the counter and used many times a day. I keep almost everything in my pantry in 1/2 gallon mason jars, vacuum sealed with the jar attachment. It takes 10 half gallon jars to store 25 lbs. of flour. Don't waste your money on FoodSaver brand canisters though. I've had a pantry full of them and almost every one has failed. Mason jars of all sizes are the way to go!
Sam's Club always has a nice FoodSaver set available too.
Honeyville sells Mylar bags? I didn’t see them on their website.
Do tell. Brand name? Store name? Mfr. name? Size? Price per bag?
I imagine the ones you bought are a couple mils thick vs. the more expensive 4-5 mil...which should be ok.
Inquiring minds want to know.
“BTW...do those buckets you get have the rubber O-ring in the lid? “
Yes
I just bought the ones at foods for less grocery store chain that were in the plastic wrap etc. They were their brand what ever it is, they are labeled long term heat vac and store bags. there are the generic version of the ones that they had on tv they were selling. I just dumped this out of the boxes into a kitchen drawl or I would tell you exactly.
They are simular to these ones at this link:
http://www.uline.com/BL_5552/Food-Bags
I will definitely check out Sam’s club. I have a membership.
What aisle would that be in? I’m going to be up that way tomorrow anyway and will happily check it out.
And, if my memory serves me, you should get mylar that is at lest .45ml thick (which maybe what is meant by “food grade” mylar?)
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