How to use Mylar Bags and Oxygen Absorbers for Food Storage

Mylar is just an industrial trademarked brand name, like Clorox is just a brand name of bleach.

Mylar is actually the clear part of they bag made from polyester resin.
The Mylar bags we use for long term food storage have a foil lining. When Mylar is laminated to aluminum foil it provides additional barrier that acts like a big flexible
can!

The best part about Mylar bags is how easy they are to seal at home, you can use anything from your food saver to a hair straighter iron!
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You will need the following

5 or 6 gallon buckets. You can buy them new or ask around at you local bakery for cheap or even free!


Lids with the rubber gasket in lid for a air tight seal.


Mylar bags, either one big one for the entire continence or several smaller Mylar bags for a mix in one bucket for easier rotation.


Oxygen absorbers. Depending on cc size an average of 8 per bucket of the cheaper S100 kind per bucket or 3 or 4 500cc of the more expensive H100s


Sealer. This can be you food saver, clothing iron with a board, or my personal favorite a hair straighter iron if you don't have one or don't want to look for one you can add one to your order of mylar bags at FrontierSurvival.net.


Food. About 35lbs of wheat will fit in a 5 gallon bucket and 40lbs in a 6 gallon. How much of any given product depends on density of the food product.

It is best to do as many of your buckets up at one time as possible. It is very helpful to have a friend or even two there to pour in food and seal with you. You don't want to have to keep opening your oxygen absorbers. Since they do just as their name suggests, absorb oxygen, you can only expose them to the air for 15 minuets or so before they are completely exhausted and will not absorb any more.

So set up your buckets with the mylar bags opened and placed inside.

Have your food bags open and ready to pour.

Make sure your iron is hot, I have made that mistake before!

Open the oxygen absorbers, put one or two in the bottom of each bucket.

Close the remainder of the absorbers back up with either a Clipit! (this is what I use) you can put them in a food saver bag and seal, or a mason jar with a tight lid.


Pour in the food, have a helper shake the bag to help pull out any wrinkles while pouring.

Fill up to about 2 inches of the top.

Repeat with all buckets that you are doing at this time.

Put the last few absorbers on top of the food in the bucket.


Seal all but 2 inches of the top of the bag with the sealer.

or you use a clothes iron


Fold down the top of the bag pushing out any trapped air that you can.


Now seal the last couple of inches of the mylar bag.


Repeat for all buckets.

Put on your lid. It may take a little muscle to do. You can use a regular hammer with a towel so you don't break the lid. But a rubber mallet is a life saver!
If you have a real tuff lid it can help to have a friend kneel on one side of the lid to hold it down while you hit the other side (hard) with the hammer or mallet. Work around the bucket until it appears snapped over the edge.


DONE!

Oops well almost, don't forget to label on the top and side of bucket what is in there and the date.