I decided to save a few dollars and along with purchasing food grade five gallon buckets for storage, I also used some plastic tubs that originally held cat litter. These tubs are indeed tough and stack well, allowing for less wasted space than the cylindrical buckets, but after two years in the cat litter tubs, my rice is no good. It smells bad and tastes worse. The rice in the five gallon buckets is fine.
The silver lining to this dark cloud is that I know now, before I need to depend on my preps. I'll still use these tubs, but only for storing non-food items.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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Did you not put in mylar bags and seal them?
How disappointing!
That's another problem. The mylar bags got punctured by the grains of rice over time. That was something I really didn't expect. It looks like I put too much in.
Now I'm putting my rice in ziplock bags, then in mylar, then in food quality buckets.
Some cat litter buckets are made of HDPE. Those can be easily used for food storage as is.
Your rice in ziplocks, then mylar, in food grade buckets works fine. Another trick I use in storing wheat, rice, or other "pointy" food is to use the original plastic, off-the-roll, bags from the market to provide even more puncture resistance inside the ziplock.
We use cat litter buckets for rain water collection under downspouts. This helped cut our well water usage for the flower beds by about 20%. Wish it would help more, but we live in a moderately dry area.
Keep up the short, practical posts!
You have a really good point, plastic does tend to deteriorate after time especially if it's cheap plastic.
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