Storing Flour Long Term ~ Pantry Tips & Tricks ~ Save Money
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- Storing Flour in Your Prepper Pantry ~ Pantry Tips & Tricks ~ Save Money
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Good evening jinni, I’m still using all purpose flour I stored over 6 years ago in canning jars .
Is it okay to just put the flour in the jar, or do you have to put it in some sort of bag first when vacuum sealing?
@@loves2spin2 I use my sealer
Good tips Jinne! One way that I’ve stored flour is to use my vacuum sealer. Initially
, I put the flour in a lunch sack then folded it over and put that in a vacuum seal bag then suck the air out. But I realized the process is much easier to put the original bag (opened but then folded up again) into a gallon sized vacuum bag. Then seal until the bag is as hard as a rock. It works great to do it this way! Of course, I freeze the flour first for several days but then I make sure the flour is completely thawed and has been left at room temperature for a day or two before placing into the vacuum bag. Don’t want moisture to get into the flour before sealing.
I do the same, the trick is to open the bag and then re-fold down the top of the bag, tape in place and then do the vacuum sealing.
I put mine in brown paper bag and vacuum seal them or if it's a small 5 pound bag just seal it in the bag with your vacuum sealer.
That works great too!! 💕
So glad to hear you write the little notes and then stick inside cabinet door. I have done this for years and it has helped me so many times! Great tips!
Now that’s good news to me! I’ve heard on many channels flour lasts no longer than a year? Even in Mylar. If it lasts longer I’m relieved! I just opened my sealed bucket that I put in Mylar with oxygen absorber. It was perfectly fine. I’m working thru it now.
I am using whole wheat flour back from 2020 and it is still fine. Now getting to white flour, I have used white flour that was about 4 years old and it was perfect as well and actually stored in the original package.
@@cm9743 This is crazy…many channels say 6 months to a year for white flour. Both channels are very popular in pressure canning and cooking. But I must say I too am using flour over a year old. It is in a Mylar bag, oxygen absorbers and tucked inside a gamma lid 5 gallon bucket. My basement is dark and cool at 50 degrees which they say is perfect. So I proved them wrong. But wow…they say no longer than 6-12 months. I’m very happy to hear this as I have other buckets and quart jars full of flour. The glass jars look great. I check every so often
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Love the videos with tips. I do freeze my flour for a week or so before vacuum sealing in mason jars. But I guess just vacuum sealing would kill any bugs.
YOUR TIPS ARE PRICELESS, JINNE !! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH. 🙂💖
Most of my flours are in the freezer. I sure need to free up some that space. Thanks Jinne for the information. Pray, Plan, Prep
Thanks Jinne. I have 100 pounds of berries in green leaf tea bottles with an Oxygen absorber. (Also beans and rice, about a pound each.) I purchase flour in 50 pound bags from a local miller. I make bread each month for the shut-in at my church. God Bless and stay safe.
Hey!
I freeze my all purpose flour for about 24-48hrs, {wrapped in a food store plastic bag} then take it out, and let it defrost, {I'm in Florida with AC on to help with the humidity} and then just throw it in it's original bag into a plastic 2 gallon bag, Mark the date, and put it away. With flour from 3 yrs ago, I just baked bread with, and it's great. No taste change, no weevils!! I do the same with all grains, spices, and pasta. No more Mylar, but I DO rotate it as I need it. We had Aldi's flour for 99¢ for 5lbs about 2 1\2 to 3 years ago, so I got 15. It's kind of like money, in that it's now 3x as much. We make bread both in and out of a bread machine and THIS really works well. Thanks for showing people how to make self rising & Cake flour! My granny did it, Mother did it, now I do it. It's perfect.
You take it out of the original bag when freezing? Then, put it back in the original bag?
Same question?
No. I just wrap it tightly in a regular food store plastic bag. I'm trying to keep the flour from taking on any tastes the freezer may have... Then I take it out, set it on the counter to defrost, removing the plastic bag, then after that, I just store it in 2 gallon plastic bags. I NEVER take it out of the paper. I had a bad experience with O2 absorbers and mylar, so I don't use that either anymore. I do this with all grains, including Rice and beans. It's been working well for me. NO weevils! No mould!
@@dragonslayer7587
Thank you for the info!
@@tanyafulton583
You are very welcome Tanya. I'm sorry if I sounded confusing. I also don't bother to put my flour in jars. I just use it out of the bag until it's gone. Keep in mind however, I use a lot. 4 cups every 2 days or so.
Thanks for the tips😃 I originally found you a couple of years ago while looking for “How to vacuum seal flour.” Been following ever since. You help in ways great and small. Love ya😘
Excellent Flour tips & tricks.👍
TFS HC, take care & keep really busy everyone. ❤🙂🐶
Thanks for the tips. With the price of bread going up and up, storing flour is smart.
Dang, I didn’t know about making cake flour like that. OR the desiccant flavor stuff. This video was really beneficial.
What about "Bread Flour
Will it store long.?
You are such a wealth of knowledge!
Thank you Jinne, for this valuable video.
Thanks for sharing. 🙏👍❤️👏🌹✝️
This was a great video. Very educational and I love the tip about sticking the basic recipe on the inside of the pantry door. Priceless ! I'm sitting here going, Why didn't I think of that? Thank you !
Great video! I did not know anything about flour that you mentioned! Thanks for sharing! 💕
Thank you for this information especially the temp about the notes on the inside of the cabinets. I do this with a guide for the temperatures of well done medium and rare meat I have a Gigi on the inside of the drawer with our dish towels.
Excellent video!!! Thanks for showing how to make Cake & Self Rising flour!!! Appreciate the help!!!
Cool. Very helpful, Jinne. I'm on keto but I hope to remember this for the future, if things get that bad.
Thanks for all of the tips! I have some flour I recently put into mylar bags. I will use those first! I ordered an attachment for the canning jar lids for my vacuum sealer just now! I had been thinking about it for months & now I wish I hadn't waited! I also didn't know to sift the cake flour several times! I will do that from now on! I bake bread a lot. I made hot rolls yesterday & cinnamon rolls this morning!
Great tips! Thanks, Jinne.
Great information, Jinne! Thanks!
Thank You for the info.
Thanks for the information, Jinni.
The last time I vaccuum sealed flour in half gallon jars and a year later, it was hard as a brick and I could hardly get it out. I’ve tried every way of preserving flour long term, and the only way I keep it well, is in the freezer. Which isn’t very reliable if we have a power down.🤷🏻♀️
Love the great tips !!
Excellent Tip Jinne!! Thanks! 👍👍
Thank you good tips!
This is great! Thank you!
Great video! Thank you
Thank you for this video!! It really helped me!! I watch your videos daily!!
Excellent tips! Thanks
Wow! I didn't know that 😳. Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm not buying any more cake flour. Thanks Ginny.
Awesome tips. 👌
Thanks Jinny
Thank you so much.
Nice tips. Thanks for sharing
Good info jinne. Thanks.
thanks for sharing all things
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Great tips. Thank you 💜❤
Wonderful useful information, thank you!
Have to share.
Thanks! Easypeazy ❤️
Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !
Yup that's the same things i do , lol , Thanks Jinne
Great information! I've been wondering what to do with all the different flours I've stored. This answered all my questions! Thank you, Jinne!
I have some rice flour in my storage, when I showed it in my last grocery haul video I mentioned it as a suggestion for those who cab't eat wheat flours
Wow! Never thought about the can or absorber affecting the taste! Thanks.
I freeze my flour for 3-4 days. Let it get to room temperature. Then I add the flour to a lunch paper bag, then vacuum bag the flour. Easy to store away in tote or 5 gallon buckets.
Excellent, I to have recipe notes on the inside of the cupboard doors. I shall add these to my collection. Great information as usual. Thanks for sharing 👍😎
I learned that flour starts oxidizing as soon as it’s milled. I started storing wheat berries as I understand they are a forever food and nutritious. Now I grind my own, fresh.
Question..I just purchased wheat berries. How much wheat berries does it take to get a cup of flour?
@@tinaellison9299 Nearly equal, I believe. You’ll lose some if you sift to remove the bran.
@@tolynette
I have a manual grain mill. I’ve been told to put it through the mill twice to get the proper consistency. I haven’t even set up the mill yet so I don’t know how fine it’s milled the first time.
3/4 cup@@tinaellison9299
similar to cream of wheat@@Pmwalls46
Thank you, just stuck 2 notes on cabinet door!! 🙂
Loved this video! NowI can make these gluten free flours
I measure mine for my bread or cakes and muffins. My Ap flour. Into ziplock bags and freeze for about 3 days . Then I put them in my flour barrel. It's a smaller food safe barrel. And do the same with my SR flour.
Thanks for the great tips!!! I certainly need to get my flour vacuum sealed into my mason jars!!!
@@nanmaco Thank you for that tip!!!!!!! 🤗👍
Hi Jinne 👋
I snagged a 17 # bucket of flour from Augason Farms on sale it has a 25-year shelf life. Plus, I keep 30-40 pounds in my rotation between the freezer and pantry. The long-term storage items give me peace of mind if the pantry runs low. Thank you for the recipes!
Thanks for the "how-to" tips. I knew how to make each type but didn't know about the shorter storage time for the self-rising flour. I just bought a bag, so will make a note to use it. I use my Food Saver and snip a tiny hole in the bag of flour, add the bag to the FS bag and vacuum. I also use your brown paper bag method to store smaller amounts. I still have a couple of bags to seal up.
Awesome!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!!!💖
Ur a genius!
Awesome info on making the different flours!!! How about "bread flour"? Thank you soooo much for sharing your knowledge. 🤗❤️👍
to make bread flour you need 1 c AP flour -1.5 TBSP flour + 1.5 TBSP Wheat Gluten
👍 ❤️ Surprised to see that it contains gluten. My son who is a chef, was desperately looking for "bread flour" during the "pandemic". I'll share this info with him. You're amazing Miss Jinny. Thank you!
Have you ever done oven canning for flour? I tried it once and it turned out great. I am not recommending it but never had an issue with it. Just curious on your opinion on this.
Can you put the flour in vacuum sealed bags?
Just a suggestion - you may want to make a separate video on how to make the cake flour and self-rising flour. That's way too important of information to not be in the title. Like you said, they are so expensive in the store and this will save people money during the high costs of groceries now. The cake flour is almost $6 a box. Just take from about the 6 minute mark to the end and make that a separate video. Thanks for all the great tips.
Question...how much wheat berries do you need to grind to get a cup of flour? I have a feeling it's more than what I think and I still need to add to my supply.
I keep flour in the freezer
What about if I vaccum seal the whole bag without opening it, into a seal-meal-bag. And does the plain flour last longer than self rising?
This is the first time I've heard anything about it lasting more than a year? So you can really store flour for longer than one year? This is exciting news to me is it true?!
I seal all my flour in seal a meal bags. How long will it last. I get the small bags at the dollar tree so i seal the whole bag. Will what i am doing have a long shelf life
How long does baking powder stay good AFTER it's opened?
Could you use arrowroot instead of corn starch? My husband has an food allergy to corn products.
So allpurpose flour in a jar vaccum seal will last 10 years. I don't have a jar sealer. So could I vaccum seal it in a regular bag over the paper bag and place in bucket? If so, how long will it last?
What is the recipe for bread flour?
@lisabreeding1861
I believe for bread flour, she said 1 cup AP flour minus 1.5 TBSP flour
replace with 1.5 TBSP wheat gluten. She answered this question above in comments. I’ll try to find it again and confirm that. I found it and that is correct. Hope that helps. 😊
How long will A.P. flour last if it isn't vacuum-sealed? I don't have and am not going to buy a vacuum-sealer tool.
Jinni~ I am having trouble keeping my flour mason jars vacuum sealed. Do you have any tips/tricks? I wipe my rims making sure there is no flour on them and have even tried to top the flour with cupcake liners with only about 50% seal success. I appreciate you sharing your channel/knowledge with us "newbies".
@LisaPTX
Heidi on Rain Country Homestead uses small pieces of clean cloth slightly tucked down around the edges of the flour. Better to watch her do it really to get the gist of it. She has used coffee filter as well. I haven’t tried either method as yet.
@@Pmwalls46 Thank you. I will look through her videos to find it. I follow her too but I am new at this.
I tried organic flour in a Millar with an oxygen absorber in November 2022 and I open it today 18 April 2024 and thete is a funny smell in it. I made a cake eith it but I thing that I am to discard it! Van it be because the flour was contaminated or because it was organic and unbleached?
How do you seal a glass jar with a dry ingredient? All I know is to do it with pressure cooker and that's only with wet
great video...we have been vacuum sealing our bags...what is your thoughts on that?
I think that is a great option also! I have some I seal in bags when I don't have jars.
Lolol. Dirty play dough!
😂 That stuff stinks!
Do you have any tips on bread flour, Using a AP flour?
to make bread flour you need 1 c AP flour -1.5 TBSP flour + 1.5 TBSP Wheat Gluten
I stored my 25 lb bag of flour in a bucket and after 8 months it smelled really bad and tasted bad I ended up throwing all of it away
Helpful tip, not so much to do with flour. I keep a quart freezer zipper bag, and i cut the directions off the bulk boxes from Costco. Like if you buy a bulk brownie mix box. Keep instructions and put bags in jars.
I didn't see this in the comments, so I'll ask: don't you worry about getting flour dust into the pump on your vacuum sealer? I've heard that unless it's in some sort of bag to stop it ffrom becoming airborne in the container, you risk that, and damage to your sealer. Thoughts?
I have read reviews where they use a coffee filter to place on top of the flour before vacuum sealing.
Should you freeze wheat berries before storing as well?
I do if they are not already packaged for long term.
Thank you for your video.
I've only had one 10kg (22lb) bag of flour "go bad" because it was stored in it's original paper bag upstairs in the hot pantry too long. This was back at the start of the Planned Demic.
Back then we went from a two bucket rotation (22lbs per bucket) to a four bucket rotation and didn't I "lose" a bucket in the scramble?
I found the bucket of flour two weeks ago stored in my deep, dark, cold, and dry subbasement. This flour was bought at the beginning of 2020 with a BBD of 2021 and here it is almost 2023.
Couldn't still be good could it?
Of course it could! I'm eating it right now.
It's all about the storage conditions as far as I'm concerned. But you mention that, ...
Good luck all.
What about bread flour?
to make bread flour you need 1 c AP flour -1.5 TBSP flour + 1.5 TBSP Wheat Gluten
Dont bake alot. I store 100 pounds of flour in mylar with O2 absorbers. After ten years I throw it out and get new. Short term flour I have maybe 20 pounds in 5 pound bags and rotate... if I use the long term flour I dont care how it tastes so much as the world has ended. Love the instructions on making cake and self rising flour..I try to keep self rising on hand but don't use it enough to justify it now that I can make my own. Many thanks!
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Good tips Jinne! One way that I’ve stored flour is to use my vacuum sealer. Initially
, I put the flour in a lunch sack then folded it over and put that in a vacuum seal bag then suck the air out. But I realized the process is much easier to put the original bag (opened but then folded up again) into a gallon sized vacuum bag. Then seal until the bag is as hard as a rock. It works great to do it this way! Of course, I freeze the flour first for several days but then I make sure the flour is completely thawed and has been left at room temperature for a day or two before placing into the vacuum bag. Don’t want moisture to get into the flour before sealing.
I put 3 cups of flour in the lunch bags and vacuum seal them so I only open what I need. I have also vacuum sealed whole bags of flour as well.
This is the process I have been following