Vacuum seal a mylar bag with a food saver

Greetings my Unconventional Amigos!!!
Generally you can't seal a Mylar bag with a food saver because the sealing area prevents air from being sucked out of the bag. I had the idea of using a piece of a standard food saver bag to provide an air channel and and using the food saver to provide a temporary seal, long enough so I could hit it with the iron. It works well. I hope this helps my friends here on you tube.

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• economic collapse
• mylar
• food storage

[steelhorses2004]

Oldie but goodie video! Whatever happened to Josiah? He just disappeared from youtube

[vention4wh]

@steelhorses2004

Some coworkers of his discovered his channel and started giving him a lot of bs about it. That's why he closed the channel.

[WS6Racing]

I didnt think you needed food grade buckets if its already protected in the mylar bag. I understood that the buckets were primarily to keep the varmits out and just add a wall of protection.

[vention4wh]

@WS6Racing

You're right. If you have mylar you don't need food grade buckets. I'm looking at this more long term though. Eventually I'll use that rice and then I may want to fill the bucket with some other kind of dried food. If so I'll already have a food grade bucket. I wish I had bought black buckets though. Light will break down dry goods over the years & a black bucket will block most of the light.

[SpiritSphere12]

I just ordered 12 6 gallon buckets with 12 mylar bags with alot of oxygen absorber's. I plan on filling them up with rice, beans,oats and macaroni...:)

[vention4wh]

@SpiritSphere12

Awesome! Food isn't getting any cheaper. Buying it now is a great thing to do.

By the way I recently learned that regular old wal mart hand warmers work great as oxygen absorbers. They're the exact same thing only way bigger and they can absorb a heck of a lot more oxygen.

[306prepper]

good video, thanks. Did you get food grade pails? Al long as your foods are in mylar you really dont need them

[katzcradul]

Someone just referred me to this video. Brilliant! That's a great idea. I love having options and this one looks like it really works well. I wouldn't worry about whether a bucket is food grade or not as long as it lined with a thick mylar. The mylar is protecting your food. Great job.

[sealerdave]

Seal the bags with a KF-150CST see our videos seal any size bag with a "Coffee Bag " wide seal

[misscpb]

Hello - thank you for your video. Is is possible to just use a foodsaver and the bags that come with the foodsaver to pack individual rice portions serving 1-2 people and then put the individual packets in the bucket, or if you are using rice in a food saver and food saver bag, do you have to put an oxygen pad in the individual packets before sealing and then store in the buckets? Thanks