06 Feb

Oxygen Absorber Use in Long Term Food Storage

Posted by: admin  /  Category: long term food storage

Shelf life can be increased by removal of oxygen from storage containers. In a previous post, we looked at the use of the food sealer vacuum to accomplish this, but it may not always be practical or feasible to do this. Five or Six gallon sealable buckets are a relatively inexpensive way to store foods, and oxygen absorber use is an effective way to deal with the problem of oxygen inside the buckets. Make sure you use sturdy sealable buckets as oxygen absorbers will create a vacuum inside the container. There are several sources online, including Walton’s Feed.

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6 Responses to “Oxygen Absorber Use in Long Term Food Storage”

  1. RoadScribe Says:
    February 19th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    Do you put oxygen absorbers in your vacuum food sealer packs? I’d like to by foods local, dry them myself to make up my own dry food pouches to save money.

  2. Dave Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    I don’t think you would need to put oxygen absorbers in the vacuum sealer packs. The sealer should remove the oxygen sufficiently. Drying your own food and storing in the vacuum sealer packs is a great idea.

  3. Winter Says:
    March 11th, 2009 at 9:29 am

    We have a customer who have reported using our smaller 100cc oxygen absorbers in the vacuum sealer bags. He them placed them inside of a 6 gallon mylar bag lined bucket. That way he was able to store a variety of foods in a 6 gallon bucket for easy rotation, and felt assured that his food was oxygen and thus bug free.
    oxygen absorbers & mylar bags can also be bought here

  4. TheSurvivalMom Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 6:09 pm

    One reason I haven’t used my package of 25 small oxygen absorbers is because I have to get organized enough to have 25 containers all needing them at the same time. When I open the package, how long will they be effective before being put in with food?

    Lisa

  5. admin Says:
    October 21st, 2009 at 6:44 pm

    Not sure how long they are good, but it is recommended that if you don’t use them immediately, then repackage them in an air tight container such as a mason jar shutting tight with a new canning lid.

  6. June Smith Says:
    August 16th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    I have put silica gel in mason jars with home-dried foods but this year intend to try O2 absorber packets, too. My thought re storing unused packets is to bury them in clean white sand, within a mason jar. Sand grains are very small, should do quite well at shutting out air. Book, “Stocking UP III”, Rodale Press, p.146, says dried foods may be pasteurized by heating in oven at 175 deg F for 10 or 15 minutes. Pasteurize the sand? Good white sand is very low in mineral contaminates.

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