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skills and yes it is early afternoon and in a bid to continue to stock up on some um
Pantry items that perhaps I want to keep in stock I decided to do a little bit of research and the
the one item that I didn't do anything with and didn't stock up in any way was cornmeal
now cornmeal is not something that we've eaten a lot of we do use it we use it mainly to bread fish
um Michelle didn't really have a lot of cornmeal in the house and as a matter of fact I think I'm
down in my last couple of inches in a quart size jar so I have been researching the possibility of
making polenta as you may be aware if you've been watching some of my other videos and of
course the recommendation is to use a coarser uh um cornmeal in order to make polenta but
they also they do say that you can use a fine or the medium grind as well to make polenta
um and the fine and the medium ground will also work for making
um cornbread and I have made my first batch of cornbread and Mark enjoyed it and I also asked him
if he would still eat it if I made it again and he said yes she would if I made it he would eat it
okay and with that in mind I thought well I could go and get a small bag of cornmeal
specifically for polenta and I can go out and get another small bag of cornmeal to make cornbread
or I can just buy one bag of bulk cornmeal and use it for everything now it may not be the most ideal
for one or the most ideal for the other but I like the idea of buying in bulk and having um a lot of
something in stock especially these days so I did some research to try to find the closest to me
restaurant supply because the bald bags don't seem to be available in the regular stores and I did
find one that was not too far certainly the Costco Business Center Way at the other end of the city
um has a much better selection of just about anything for a restaurant supply I mean that's
what they do cater to this one was a much smaller one um but it did have the cornmeal and a bulk
bags so I'm home again and I'm going to repackage the cornmeal the same way I repackaged the flour
and that is by putting it in a brown lunch paper bags and then vacuum Shilling them in package
so that I'm only pulling out a small amount at a time and the rest is vacuum sealed and
hopefully you know where it can get in and it will keep for a long time so
that is my process for today I may make I will also keep some aside for some of the things
that I plan to do pretty much immediately okay okay so I've got my eight kilogram bag
of cornmeal the yellow cornmeal and I believe that eight kilograms is 17.6 pounds so somewhere
in that range that was the largest bag I was able to find fairly locally I'm sure I can
get larger ones but I'm not going to spend the rest of my life hunting for them this one is
big enough and should I decide I want another one and I may just go back for a second one now
my intention here is to do the same thing that I did with my flower and that is package it in
brown paper bags I've created a label for it that'll go on the outside of the bag but it on
the inside of the vacuum Shield bag so this bag will go into a vacuum Shield bag once I
determine how much I want in there now I don't necessarily want them really big and
overflowing but I am using this container just to get this bag in place so okay here we go we'll be
cutting this bag open and rather than putting it in jars I am vacuum sealing this all right
you just have to be really careful but I don't knock this bag over before it is emptied out
that would not be fun
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medium or fine grind it is certainly not a coarse grind so here we go um
I've got my scoop
and just be really cautious here
so probably three of these
no actually I've pulled it out and tested it and I think I want to do one more scoop
so it'll be four of these Scoops per bag
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I don't know what weight that is but I could find out in just a minute
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S four ounces so it's approximately the size of the bags that we want to make
so we'll continue along here
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now of course these are not exact measurements but they are close enough for my purposes nope
and it really doesn't take long to do this foreign
okay I ended up with five bags and just for curiosity's sake I can weigh each one
to see how close they are from one to the other okay this one is 3.3 almost almost 3.4 pounds
3.1
it's a little smaller
one's even smaller still 2.15 so maybe we can add a bit more to that one
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so we've got a couple of them that are a little bit light so what I'm going to do is just okay
three point one just to try and get them close
not that that's necessary at all okay 2.1 2.5 okay 3.1 so and I have this
half gallon jar with some balance left over and this is going to just be my working jar
so that I have some that available to me before I crack a vacuum Shield bag this is what I had left
and you could see it isn't even a an inch in a quart size jar so this should do four
oh making a few things and when we need it I will open up one of these now the idea here is to
Shelby's nice and tight
and perhaps I'm going to use a little bit node I don't need any tape just fold it over
and then I just have to cut the bags to the appropriate size here
not quite sure what that is the first one's always
um you judge and whether it fits wrong well then we set it aside
actually me
okay it might be a bit on the small side but we'll see if I can get this one to work
yeah I might not see oh no this will not seal okay so I have measurements on
this bag there are I don't know if it's three inch measurements or what so I'll just count them
and make it a little larger so I've got one two three go for four of those little markings
should be adequate so one two three and four make sure now that this is longer
based on word starts so I'd say there and should be fine
okay
put this one aside and use it for something else
okay let's try this again
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I just want to tuck a little label in that says yellow cornmeal and packaged on today's date
simply because I'm putting this in a brown paper bag I have no idea what's in here unless
I do label it certainly labeled the outside of the bag but I prefer to do it this way
okay let's seal this one up
I'd have to work for it just a little bit it is hard as a rock
just like when you buy your coffee that is vacuum sealed
it is extremely solid there's no air in there and that is what you're looking for
actually when all five of them one two three four five are totally packaged up
okay I've got my five packages of cornmeal all packaged up Rock Solid hard I will keep an eye
on them for a few days make sure that these bags don't leak I also will probably put a second seal
on them and so before those get put away they will just be set aside for a day or two and I also have
my half gallon jar with my ready to use cornmeal and this last little bit that I had I'm not
mixing this up with the new one I will use this up first but I will not mix the two of
them together so just to make sure that this does get used up before I start using the new one okay
anyway this is Tony from her Homestead skills hope you enjoyed this little video of how to
seal up airtight some cornmeal for long-term storage and and what is long-term this is not
a huge quantity so I may although I'm quite happy with the storage
um it will probably go in a bucket as well all right that's it for now