Dry ice is way cooler than oxygen absorbers. My 2nd son as a teenager loved buying dried ice doing science experiments. He’s now an IT scientist working on things for the military. Glad I allowed him to experiment. Love your videos.
@@susananderson9619 we did it all the time when I was growing up on the farm back in the 1950s & 60s when we made hominy but I didn't know there was a word for the process until just a few years ago! We just called it "makin' hominy" 🤣
No no no..we grow Field Corn and the ground is treated with roundup an often other chemicals. idk about that particular brand but check that out also. Thanks soooo much for teaching us, i have learned so much from you!
I’m going to be honest, I was really shocked that she bought animal feed corn to eat. I’ve noticed she doesn’t seem to use organic stuff, but field corn is GMO and chemical laden. I won’t even feed it to my animals (which is what it’s made for) and she’s putting it away to feed to her family. I’m confused.
I get a lot of stuff from azure standard. They are growing by leaps and bounds so sometimes items are on back order. My yellow and blue corn has been on back order for 3 months but it looks like it’s coming in this month. Thank you for all the information you share
Thank you! I'm new to storing grain and corn in bulk and this is very useful to know, especially as my shiny new grain mill arrived yesterday. You have truly inspired our household. Since watching your videos I've go e from buying to baking all my own bread. I buy a years supply of flour and am now moving on to a two year supply of grain. Huge thanks 🥰
You two are now officially my favorite RUclips'ers! Such sincere interest in the product...and the way you both dive in and do whatever it takes to make things work. You're demonstrating an aspect of personal character that is rare today. And the possibility of buckets of exploding corn! How FUN!!!!
Michelle: Pam has 6 kids from her first marriage. My only child (a daughter from my first marriage) died in November 1985. Yes, both of us conducted lots of fun experiments with our kids in our individual families. Jim
@RoseRed Homestead -- That "Woman with a Gadget". Thanks for sharing that info, I was always curious. I am very sorry to hear about your daughter's passing.
I have wrist strength problems. Putting the bag into the sink would have lowered it and made it easier to scoop from. Thanks for your educational videos
Feed mills typically bag feed corn at 15% moisture. Good enough to store till next year, but must be lower moisture for long term. I further dry my corn to 10% moisture before sealing it. There are videos on YT of people who had their corn buckets burst open with moldy corn. For pests, food grade diatomaceous earth mixed with the corn works well. For bucket size oxygen absorbers, use “ Hot Hands” warmers.
🌹Thank you so much for all that you do to teach us. I used to "help" my grandpa make hominy. I was 7 or 8 in the 1960's and I don't remember what he put in other than corn we had shucked and I think lye, but he always had me standing back and we did it outside. I never thought I'd forget those ingredients, but don't use it you loose it, right?! All I really did was hand him stuff but I watched intently. But he was a great teacher just like you.
For those that care, much of the feed corn is GMO corn. If that is an issue to you, you can buy the organic feed corn that is GMO free. Expect it to be more expensive since it is harder to grow without the help of the insect and herbicide protection that the GMO genes give it. It requires more time to weed and special organic pesticides. On another note, in the lab when I was grad student we would make dry ice “firecrackers” with a single small dry ice pellet and some water in a microfuge tube. We would cap it and toss them on the floor. When the pressure would build up they would pop off the cap with a small bang. Nerd fun🤣
EXACTLY! The reason why soy and corn crops for animal feed (in the U.S.) are genetically engineered (GE) is to enable the plants to tolerate pesticides, including two highly hazardous pesticides commonly used on animal feed: glyphosate and atrazine.
This is interesting. Miss your freeze drying videos and food preservation ones. Those taught me a lot. With the garden coming soon would love to see more of this.
sorry about 2nd comment - pushed the wrong key. One says never use o2 absorbers because it invites botulism; another source says yes it's ok to use them. I have 50 lbs of popcorn kernels and would like to store them safely. Your help is much appreciated.
The broken corn pieces & debris would be great for chickens. I'm so thankful for you & Jim! You help me stay calm in the eye of the storm! Things seem to be getting more expensive all the time. May God bless and keep you!❣️❣️❣️
Melissa: It depends upon the store: Some keep it close to the front of the store and others may keep it in the Meat Department. If I am in a store and i have looked in all of the "logical" spots, I will ask Customer Service, or jut ask a store employee. Jim
🇦🇺 My husband worked for a gas company and on occasions we would fill our bath with water and dry ice, our house would fill with the mist. The kids loved it, a great Halloween prank.
Flint corn (popcorn) makes an inferior cornmeal and it's not recommended for nixtilization, either. You c-a-n grind it, but cornbread aficionados will turn their noses up at the final product. However...cornbread aficionados are generally only in the South. Very few Northerners make/eat cornbread.
Gosh, how I love you, Pam. I just bought 2 fifty pound bags of corn thinking it was dehydrated. I found out I was wrong but still figured there was a way I could make it edible. Walaah! Pam comes out with this video within 2 weeks of me having purchased that corn and I am thanking God that I have 100 pounds of corn that will not go to waste. Yeah! Nixtamalization saves the day! Thank Jim. He's a wonderful assistant. Better than Vana White ever was, if you ask me.
Pam and Jim, thank you so much for all that you do and share. I’ve learned so much from you! This video is super helpful! Any updates on when your book will be available? 💜
This is a grand video just to get your feet wet storing dry grain. Your comments on camera and replies to comments surely make everyone an active partner in what you are doing in each video. Truly a classroom participation feeling----wonder why that is..lolol I think the enthusiasm is close to out the roof on this series. Very exciting material and you guys excitement makes me laugh. We're all having a good time AND learning!!! Thanks for it all. Jesus bless.
Now I have questions I didn’t know I had before watching this. I’ll wait for other video because I’m sure they will be answered then. So interesting. Thank you.
Wow! I love your videos and have learned so much from you. I believe even as smart as you are that you could even teach kindergarten, and that’s a real compliment because many people who are super smart have trouble breaking it down to that level. Also, your hair looks great curly. Just one question… Can you use dry ice to store ground grains and dried beans? Thanks Pam and Jim.
Wacky: You are so welcome! Yes, any type of teaching has to be broken down into its usable components that people can understand and use in their real world lives. If that does not occur, then the teaching is useless. Jim
I hope I don't sound rude but Niacin is a B vitamin but not B12, it is B3. Thanks for another fine video, I am going to check with our local Tractor Supply.
OK the truth, I've seen people mention you on a few canning channels and those other channels get SO very mad at just the mention of you. THEY aren't near as fun as your channel and I've learned so science here it's amazing. The Woman with a Gadget AND Fun! I can't wait to do this!!! FUN, Science and self-reliance!
Georgina: Thank you! We must be doing something right when we talk about safe canning, science, and self-reliance. We appreciate that you watch our channel. Jim
Can you remind me which video you spoke of your background please? The one referencing your Dr. and Science background. I would like to share it with some skeptics who do not appreciate long term food preservation. Maybe knowing your background would inspire them. I appreciate your skill, talents and you. I wish you and your family a lovely day.
I usually don't bake a big deal about my credentials and don't quite remember which video I may have mentioned about my degrees and teaching background. I did do a micro moment on a visit to my office at the university shortly before I retired. Here is that link. ruclips.net/video/ZrEVWoHcGmY/видео.html
Sometimes the difference is how it is packaged. In a mill where they bag for livestock, if there is an issue and a bag breaks, it possibly gets scooped up, added back in & continue with bagging. Where as one packaged for humans consumption would not be handled that way. This is something explained to us at our farm supply store.
@@ram1brn I live in the country & I haven’t eaten the sweet feed, so there goes your theory- out the window..I’m just pointing out that although it may be the same product, there is a good chance it is handled in a facility that is not on par with food packaged for humans. That’s my point.
@@dillodefense what are you referring to? I just stated that food bagged for livestock is not handled as carefully as you would expect for human consumption.
Sadly, I ruined my nutrimill by getting a stone in it. It was repairable, but I am careful about what I grind. Triple milled wheat or spelt. I recently ordered lots of Amish Country popcorn for corn meal and popping. Yum! snacking
I've used dry ice for 40 + years for whole grains and beans. But pack my flour type( bulk) in food grade buckets that seal --pressing down flour to eliminate air, weevils need 3 things-air, 60 deg., and moisture. If u eliminate one it works to stop their development into weevils. I always get good QA flour. Found a bucket 7 years old. High gluten power flour. Baked up fine. No bitterness. But was in our basement..
Please forgive my earlier comment. I Love Your show and did not mean to be offensive. I was simply curious about experiments. Why one is ok and another is not. Got a comment from another of your viewers, so I went back and read the comment I had left. Guess it could be viewed negatively. Was not my Intention. So if it offends you I am truly sorry.
Sheila: I apologize for misinterpreting your comment. I had no right "go-off" like I did. I will need to think more clearly when responding to anyone's comments/questions. Jim
Thank you so much for this video. I have never tried storing corn this way. I love watching your videos, you are so innovative! Could you please explain the difference between driving the oxygen out of the bucket using dry ice versus an oxygen absorber?
This is so interesting...Love the information. Pam, I wanted to tell you that Azure Standard carries dry Organic Cannellini Beans. They are fabulous! They are pretty pricey, but omg I love them. I had never heard of them until you talked about them. My husband and I fell in love with them. Thanks to you both for all you do.
Dry s is a really good method for storing grain imagine if you had enough time and money and you put enough grain in an IBC tote (330 gallon) then you put in half a pound of dry ice and let it sit that whole container would fill up with carbon dioxide and would kill off anything inside it and you would have a lot of grain storage, corn storage, barley, whole oats.
@@sarahmiranda7130 You could use more I guess if you wanted to but you close the valve at the bottom of the IBC tote and you just let it fill up from the CO2 if you wanted to check you could hold a lighter over it or a match if the match goes out or goes damn there’s a lot of CO2 present you screw the cap on the IBC tote and then check it to make sure it’s not over pressurized. I suggest you try it and see what works best for you. And be sure to post and report your findings here so we can see
@@sarahmiranda7130 That’s a good idea I’ve never done it with a barrel before I’ve always used one of the RBCs that had the big valve at the bottom. Let me know I would love to see your results. I bet it would work great.
You said that you washed the corn but what did you do to dry it. Also did you go through that whole fifty lb. bag and clean out the junk like you showed in the small jar? Thanks.
What I remember about dry ice is it's so cold it will burn you. I think it will freeze at -50. That is cold. I never thought about using dry ice for food storage. Awesome
At the same place you purchase the buckets, they should also sell what's called a lid-lifter. It looks like a really big plastic can opener--the metal kind with the pointy end, but it is not pointy. You go around the lidand get under the lip of it while you wrench it up--all the way around.
Thank you for today's video! My concerns about animal grade corn is that it is #1: non-GMO and #2: most often is a Roundup Ready variety. In a food emergency I won't complain Also, I am in my 70s and figure I will die of something sooner than later, lol.
Great video! If you ever put it a recipe that needs cooking (boiling), please let us know if it has the same cooking time as the one destined for human consumption only and if it tastes the same. Thank you so much in advance.
This is an old method of grain storage for preppers & very effective at expelling all oxygen to kill all insect eggs. We used to use metal cans that had a screwed down band tightening the lid on. Those cans were maybe about 8 inches tall & about 6 inch diameter,, stacking well for storage & for rotation into service in the kitchen, a useful volume at a time. The only large enough place we had for storing them was our basement.
My parents stored wheat in 1967 in metal cans...approximately 4 gallons each..about 14 inches tall and 12 inches across...treated with dry ice, and then wrapped the seal with something that looked like duct tape...before duct tape was invented. They finally opened one last year. The wheat was still good, but because of the dry ice storage method, you couldn't sprout it.
Dry ice is way cooler than oxygen absorbers. My 2nd son as a teenager loved buying dried ice doing science experiments. He’s now an IT scientist working on things for the military. Glad I allowed him to experiment. Love your videos.
I use popcorn for my cornmeal recipes.
Two mad scientists in the kitchen!!! 😂 I’m really excited about learning how to nixtamalize corn!!
😂🤣🤣🤣
Lol. That's exactly what I was goingvto say!
I've never even heard nor saw the word " nixtamalization. Whoa
@@susananderson9619 we did it all the time when I was growing up on the farm back in the 1950s & 60s when we made hominy but I didn't know there was a word for the process until just a few years ago! We just called it "makin' hominy" 🤣
I'm from Philly ,PA northern suburbs so I'm learning at 63 yeahhh
This was a great video, definitely learned something new today about how the dry ice works. Awesome !!! Thanks Pam and Jim !!! ✝️💟
Love Rose Red and the flowers are gorgeous too! 🌹🤗 And hello to Jim too!
I so appreciate watching these. I am a happy little chemist. 😊
You look so much younger with your hair curly love it
Patricia: Thanks! Jim
No no no..we grow Field Corn and the ground is treated with roundup an often other chemicals. idk about that particular brand but check that out also. Thanks soooo much for teaching us, i have learned so much from you!
I’m going to be honest, I was really shocked that she bought animal feed corn to eat. I’ve noticed she doesn’t seem to use organic stuff, but field corn is GMO and chemical laden. I won’t even feed it to my animals (which is what it’s made for) and she’s putting it away to feed to her family. I’m confused.
I get a lot of stuff from azure standard. They are growing by leaps and bounds so sometimes items are on back order. My yellow and blue corn has been on back order for 3 months but it looks like it’s coming in this month. Thank you for all the information you share
Very interesting video.
❤️ The Roses!❤️
Thank you! I'm new to storing grain and corn in bulk and this is very useful to know, especially as my shiny new grain mill arrived yesterday. You have truly inspired our household. Since watching your videos I've go e from buying to baking all my own bread. I buy a years supply of flour and am now moving on to a two year supply of grain. Huge thanks 🥰
Good job Jim. Team work.
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you!!! Can't wait for the rest of the corn videos. I got 50 pounds this week!
Thank you Jim for the beautiful roses.
You two are now officially my favorite RUclips'ers! Such sincere interest in the product...and the way you both dive in and do whatever it takes to make things work. You're demonstrating an aspect of personal character that is rare today. And the possibility of buckets of exploding corn! How FUN!!!!
I can see you were the FUNNEST parents!! I bet you did all kinds of cool experiments with your children as they were growing up!!❤️
Michelle: Pam has 6 kids from her first marriage. My only child (a daughter from my first marriage) died in November 1985. Yes, both of us conducted lots of fun experiments with our kids in our individual families. Jim
@RoseRed Homestead -- That "Woman with a Gadget". Thanks for sharing that info, I was always curious. I am very sorry to hear about your daughter's passing.
Ha ha ha you two make me laugh. I always look forward to your videos. Thank you for sharing. Keep Smiling.
Sharon: Our pleasure! Thank you for watching. Jim
Shalom 🙏. Thank you for sharing this info with us 💯❗
I have wrist strength problems. Putting the bag into the sink would have lowered it and made it easier to scoop from. Thanks for your educational videos
I've never seen carbon dioxide poured out. That was so cool. I was like a little kid going...wow! ;-)
Fun science experiment! Use to love science experiments when I was a kid, many many MANY years ago 🤣👵
Wow I have learned so much on this channel. You guys always amaze me with your knowledge. Thank you Pam and Jim 🌷🇨🇦
Feed mills typically bag feed corn at 15% moisture. Good enough to store till next year, but must be lower moisture for long term. I further dry my corn to 10% moisture before sealing it. There are videos on YT of people who had their corn buckets burst open with moldy corn. For pests, food grade diatomaceous earth mixed with the corn works well. For bucket size oxygen absorbers, use “ Hot Hands” warmers.
W: I have seen information suggesting there is food grade diatomaceous earth for animal feed. Jim
Thank you! This is interesting and I am definitely looking forward to the second half of this video!
You are the best program on the internet. Thank you for all the great information you give toall.
🌹Thank you so much for all that you do to teach us.
I used to "help" my grandpa make hominy. I was 7 or 8 in the 1960's and I don't remember what he put in other than corn we had shucked and I think lye, but he always had me standing back and we did it outside. I never thought I'd forget those ingredients, but don't use it you loose it, right?! All I really did was hand him stuff but I watched intently. But he was a great teacher just like you.
Probably lye.
For those that care, much of the feed corn is GMO corn. If that is an issue to you, you can buy the organic feed corn that is GMO free. Expect it to be more expensive since it is harder to grow without the help of the insect and herbicide protection that the GMO genes give it. It requires more time to weed and special organic pesticides. On another note, in the lab when I was grad student we would make dry ice “firecrackers” with a single small dry ice pellet and some water in a microfuge tube. We would cap it and toss them on the floor. When the pressure would build up they would pop off the cap with a small bang. Nerd fun🤣
thanks for letting me know.... that was my exact question
Nerd fun its the best fun!
@@fionmor4893 no problem.
EXACTLY! The reason why soy and corn crops for animal feed (in the U.S.) are genetically engineered (GE) is to enable the plants to tolerate pesticides, including two highly hazardous pesticides commonly used on animal feed: glyphosate and atrazine.
@Universe is Evil WHY would you want to "tolerate" unnatural items in your food?
This is interesting. Miss your freeze drying videos and food preservation ones. Those taught me a lot. With the garden coming soon would love to see more of this.
“That’s science”. I so love watching your channel and seeing your enthusiasm!
Well this was very educational. I wouldn't have had a clue. Thank you Pam & Jim.🌽🌽
I LOVE THIS!!!!!!! Way more fun than O2 absorbers.
That experiment reminded me of my physics class in college with Prof Julius Sumner Miller. Science is great fun!
sorry about 2nd comment - pushed the wrong key. One says never use o2 absorbers because it invites botulism; another source says yes it's ok to use them. I have 50 lbs of popcorn kernels and would like to store them safely. Your help is much appreciated.
Thanks for the great demonstration!
Great video please keep doing the videos we learn 👍 so much from you God bless you 🙏 and yours
Love you two. Keep up the good work.
OH MY GOODNESS, I'm so excited for the next video. Can't wait!
Goregina: Soon! Jim
You will be very pleased with Azure Standard -- the anti-Amazon company! I love them.
Thank you so much for all you two do and teach! I am thrilled to try the dry ice method for storing my corn, beans and rice!
Great video,this is why i watch your channel,thankyou
Dry ice is cheaper at businesses that sell welding supplies. They also sell dry ice in pellets & other forms.
Thank you so much for this video!! I learned so much and I plan to try this dry ice system this weekend!! You two are wonderful!❤👍 Thank you!!
The broken corn pieces & debris would be great for chickens.
I'm so thankful for you & Jim! You help me stay calm in the eye of the storm! Things seem to be getting more expensive all the time. May God bless and keep you!❣️❣️❣️
This is great! Thanks so much!
You are amazing. I’ve looked high and low for dry ice. Never thought to ask! 🤦♀️😂😘
Melissa: It depends upon the store: Some keep it close to the front of the store and others may keep it in the Meat Department. If I am in a store and i have looked in all of the "logical" spots, I will ask Customer Service, or jut ask a store employee. Jim
You guys are great! That was fascinating 👍👍👍
🇦🇺 My husband worked for a gas company and on occasions we would fill our bath with water and dry ice, our house would fill with the mist. The kids loved it, a great Halloween prank.
I buy 50 pound bags of non GMO popcorn. You can use it as corn seed to grow corn or eat it as popcorn or grind it.
ALL popcorn is non-gmo
Flint corn (popcorn) makes an inferior cornmeal and it's not recommended for nixtilization, either. You c-a-n grind it, but cornbread aficionados will turn their noses up at the final product. However...cornbread aficionados are generally only in the South. Very few Northerners make/eat cornbread.
Dry ice is what I have always used in my buckets of wheat. This is so familiar to me.
This is great news. Thank you
Gosh, how I love you, Pam. I just bought 2 fifty pound bags of corn thinking it was dehydrated. I found out I was wrong but still figured there was a way I could make it edible. Walaah! Pam comes out with this video within 2 weeks of me having purchased that corn and I am thanking God that I have 100 pounds of corn that will not go to waste. Yeah! Nixtamalization saves the day! Thank Jim. He's a wonderful assistant. Better than Vana White ever was, if you ask me.
Pam and Jim, thank you so much for all that you do and share. I’ve learned so much from you! This video is super helpful! Any updates on when your book will be available? 💜
This is a grand video just to get your feet wet storing dry grain.
Your comments on camera and replies to comments surely make everyone an active partner in what you are doing in each video. Truly a classroom participation feeling----wonder why that is..lolol
I think the enthusiasm is close to out the roof on this series. Very exciting material and you guys excitement makes me laugh. We're all having a good time AND learning!!! Thanks for it all. Jesus bless.
Thank you for this!!
D S: You're so welcome! Jim
Excited to learn about nixtramalize corn. I’ve been getting this and storing, used the dry ice. Great review
We ate field corn growing up.
How do you cook it?
You could use a wine maker's airlock installed in the lid to vent the oxygen without worrying about bulging.
Augustine: I am not familiar with a wine maker's airlock. Jim
@@RoseRedHomestead I can send you information on that.
I really really really luv your videos, keep’em coming!!!
Now I have questions I didn’t know I had before watching this. I’ll wait for other video because I’m sure they will be answered then. So interesting. Thank you.
Terri: Thanks, it is coming soon. Jim
So awesome to see this alternative to storing corn!
Valuable information, thank you.
Wendy: Glad it was helpful! Jim
Very interesting to use feed corn, great video as usual. Excited to hear more about corn.
Thank you both.
I wanted to buy dry ice and had no idea where to get it from! Thank you for talking about that!
That is so cool!! No pun intended, lol!
I also love how you two work together. It’s wonderful to watch. How much dry ice in each 5 gallon bucket?
Hi Jim
Great science. What machine do you have that will grind the corn? Perhaps in your next video it will be discussed.
I would love to see her use it, process, grind and use, etc., as well.
Wow! I love your videos and have learned so much from you. I believe even as smart as you are that you could even teach kindergarten, and that’s a real compliment because many people who are super smart have trouble breaking it down to that level. Also, your hair looks great curly. Just one question… Can you use dry ice to store ground grains and dried beans? Thanks Pam and Jim.
Wacky: You are so welcome! Yes, any type of teaching has to be broken down into its usable components that people can understand and use in their real world lives. If that does not occur, then the teaching is useless. Jim
I hope I don't sound rude but Niacin is a B vitamin but not B12, it is B3. Thanks for another fine video, I am going to check with our local Tractor Supply.
From azure their whit corn is listed as dent corn and recommended for making tortillas etc
White corn
Curt & Edna: We have yellow and white Azure corn ordered. Jim
OK the truth, I've seen people mention you on a few canning channels and those other channels get SO very mad at just the mention of you. THEY aren't near as fun as your channel and I've learned so science here it's amazing. The Woman with a Gadget AND Fun! I can't wait to do this!!! FUN, Science and self-reliance!
Georgina: Thank you! We must be doing something right when we talk about safe canning, science, and self-reliance. We appreciate that you watch our channel. Jim
Excellent! Thank you!
The information is good although I would not use GMO corn.
Can you remind me which video you spoke of your background please? The one referencing your Dr. and Science background. I would like to share it with some skeptics who do not appreciate long term food preservation. Maybe knowing your background would inspire them. I appreciate your skill, talents and you. I wish you and your family a lovely day.
I usually don't bake a big deal about my credentials and don't quite remember which video I may have mentioned about my degrees and teaching background. I did do a micro moment on a visit to my office at the university shortly before I retired. Here is that link. ruclips.net/video/ZrEVWoHcGmY/видео.html
Good to know about feed corn. I used feed or seed soft wheat berries several decades ago from a local grain mill for a great price.
Also would like to know what type of lids you are using on your buckets.
Sometimes the difference is how it is packaged. In a mill where they bag for livestock, if there is an issue and a bag breaks, it possibly gets scooped up, added back in & continue with bagging. Where as one packaged for humans consumption would not be handled that way. This is something explained to us at our farm supply store.
every country person has eaten the animal feed sweet feed is great so and if you think human food is handled different it isnt
@@ram1brn I live in the country & I haven’t eaten the sweet feed, so there goes your theory- out the window..I’m just pointing out that although it may be the same product, there is a good chance it is handled in a facility that is not on par with food packaged for humans. That’s my point.
@@mimi27513 My brother in law worked at a chicken packaging facility. You would be amazed at what went on with the chicken you eat. Not in a good way.
@@mimi27513 You would be shocked at what happens if the food industry. Your source was suspect.
@@dillodefense what are you referring to? I just stated that food bagged for livestock is not handled as carefully as you would expect for human consumption.
Sadly, I ruined my nutrimill by getting a stone in it. It was repairable, but I am careful about what I grind. Triple milled wheat or spelt. I recently ordered lots of Amish Country popcorn for corn meal and popping. Yum! snacking
I've used dry ice for 40 + years for whole grains and beans.
But pack my flour type( bulk) in food grade buckets that seal --pressing down flour to eliminate air, weevils need 3 things-air, 60 deg., and moisture. If u eliminate one it works to stop their development into weevils. I always get good QA flour. Found a bucket 7 years old. High gluten power flour. Baked up fine. No bitterness. But was in our basement..
Great tip! What is QA flour?
How fun. It reminds me of making homemade root beer.
Please forgive my earlier comment. I Love Your show and did not mean to be offensive. I was simply curious about experiments. Why one is ok and another is not. Got a comment from another of your viewers, so I went back and read the comment I had left. Guess it could be viewed negatively. Was not my Intention. So if it offends you I am truly sorry.
Sheila: I apologize for misinterpreting your comment. I had no right "go-off" like I did. I will need to think more clearly when responding to anyone's comments/questions. Jim
Thank you so much for this video. I have never tried storing corn this way. I love watching your videos, you are so innovative! Could you please explain the difference between driving the oxygen out of the bucket using dry ice versus an oxygen absorber?
This is so interesting...Love the information. Pam, I wanted to tell you that Azure Standard carries dry Organic Cannellini Beans. They are fabulous! They are pretty pricey, but omg I love them. I had never heard of them until you talked about them. My husband and I fell in love with them. Thanks to you both for all you do.
Dry s is a really good method for storing grain imagine if you had enough time and money and you put enough grain in an IBC tote (330 gallon) then you put in half a pound of dry ice and let it sit that whole container would fill up with carbon dioxide and would kill off anything inside it and you would have a lot of grain storage, corn storage, barley, whole oats.
This is an amazing idea
Wouldn't it need more than a half lb of ice though? If she did a quarter of a pound for a 5 gal buck, wouldn't you need 16.5 lbs?
@@sarahmiranda7130 You could use more I guess if you wanted to but you close the valve at the bottom of the IBC tote and you just let it fill up from the CO2 if you wanted to check you could hold a lighter over it or a match if the match goes out or goes damn there’s a lot of CO2 present you screw the cap on the IBC tote and then check it to make sure it’s not over pressurized. I suggest you try it and see what works best for you. And be sure to post and report your findings here so we can see
@@Mayhemcountryliving I might try this with a 55 gal barrel.
@@sarahmiranda7130 That’s a good idea I’ve never done it with a barrel before I’ve always used one of the RBCs that had the big valve at the bottom. Let me know I would love to see your results. I bet it would work great.
WOW, Love Scientific experiments. Fascinating to watch. I'm going to need about 300 pounds of Dry Ice. Lol.
TFS RRH, & take care too everyone. ❤🙂🐶
The waste will still grow no problems in the garden.
You said that you washed the corn but what did you do to dry it. Also did you go through that whole fifty lb. bag and clean out the junk like you showed in the small jar? Thanks.
My question as well!
Dumb question here...I'm assuming dry ice does Not have any moisture to it unlike liquid ice?
??? If using smaller containers would putting bay leaves help deter bugs in the corn?
What I remember about dry ice is it's so cold it will burn you. I think it will freeze at -50. That is cold. I never thought about using dry ice for food storage. Awesome
Can you show how to get the lid off after it is sealed? Great video
At the same place you purchase the buckets, they should also sell what's called a lid-lifter. It looks like a really big plastic can opener--the metal kind with the pointy end, but it is not pointy. You go around the lidand get under the lip of it while you wrench it up--all the way around.
Thank you for today's video! My concerns about animal grade corn is that it is #1: non-GMO and #2: most often is a Roundup Ready variety. In a food emergency I won't complain Also, I am in my 70s and figure I will die of something sooner than later, lol.
I agree. After 70 those things that experts say "might" kill you after long term exposure don't seem quite as scary. 😁👵
Great video! If you ever put it a recipe that needs cooking (boiling), please let us know if it has the same cooking time as the one destined for human consumption only and if it tastes the same. Thank you so much in advance.
I wish I could even get some dry ice. I haven't been able to find it anywhere in town.
love your show. his beards looking great thicker fuller longer. enjoy your week
Does it take 1/4 lb (5.6)dry ice for 5# bucket? Been using 1/2 gallon jars sealed with food saver. Great video. Thank you
Will this work with the Gamma lids as well or will they be to hard to unscrew? You guys make a great team, I always enjoy your videos!
every country person has eaten the animal feed sweet feed is great so
What!?! Never heard of this! 🤔
This is an old method of grain storage for preppers & very effective at expelling all oxygen to kill all insect eggs. We used to use metal cans that had a screwed down band tightening the lid on. Those cans were maybe about 8 inches tall & about 6 inch diameter,, stacking well for storage & for rotation into service in the kitchen, a useful volume at a time. The only large enough place we had for storing them was our basement.
My parents stored wheat in 1967 in metal cans...approximately 4 gallons each..about 14 inches tall and 12 inches across...treated with dry ice, and then wrapped the seal with something that looked like duct tape...before duct tape was invented. They finally opened one last year. The wheat was still good, but because of the dry ice storage method, you couldn't sprout it.
Would carbon dioxide in compressed bottles work as well?Dry ice may be difficult to find for some people.
I worry about GMO corn. Glyphosate maybe the answer to (most) corn farmers' prayers, but I avoid it whenever I can.