what oils to store stockpile long term food supply how long oils last how to use expired oils
hi it's AlaskaGranny are you wondering what kind of oils you should store with
your long-term food storage for emergency survival prepping food needs
just like other areas of food storage store what you eat and eat what you
store my favorite oil to use is olive oil so that's the first one that I keep
in my pantry I stockpile olive oil it's my favorite for cooking it's great for
salad dressings fish vegetables olilve oil is it's nice even to rub on your skin olive
oil also has some survival uses you can use it to make emergency oil lamps or
candles how to store oil so it lasts olive oil needs to be stored in a cool dry dark place and keep the lid
on tight it will go rancid after about 24 months so don't buy so much olive oil that you
can't use it up in the time before it's going to expire and remember how to rotate stored foods first-in
first-out push the oil bottles you already have to the front of your pantry shelf and put
the new bottles behind those and then rotate your food that way so that your
shelf staple food is always fresh and you are using it up in a reasonable
amount of time the next oil I like to store stockpile for long term food storage prepper food stockpile is vegetable oil and
I like canola oil it's great for things like breads muffins pancakes waffles
things that olive oil has an overpowering flavor and we don't always
want the flavor of the oil but we like the essence that canola oil it adds to our foods
canola oil can also be used in salad dressings over vegetables and it can
also be used to make emergency lights and candles next look for cooking sprays
they come in a wide variety they're so handy to just spray cooking oil sprays on your cooking baking frying pans and
keep things foods from sticking they spray oils come in all kinds of flavors in an emergency you
can even use the spray oils to season your cast iron
your dutch ovens you can use it to spray on hinges to keep them from squeaking
there are a lot of ways you can use cooking sprays choose the varieties and
the flavors that suit your tastes and needs cooking sprays have a shelf life of
about twelve months but I haven't ever noticed any go rancid or off smelling or
tasting ever at my house and I suppose if they did then you can use them for
the lubricating things and seasoning your cast iron and not worry about that
they've gone to waste but as with other oils don't buy far more than you could
use in a reasonable amount of time how to store butter long term the next oil that I like to store is ghee
ghee is actually a finely clarified butter it's actually the highest quality
clarified butter it has removed all of the water and all of the dairy it ghee can
last a year in your pantry eight years in your refrigerator and indefinitely in
your freezer know that when you put it ghee in the refrigerator or the freezer it
tends to become solid just like butter when it's sitting out on the counter
it's soft when it's been refrigerated it's hard ghee has a nutty flavor to your
cooking and it can actually be used to cook foods at a higher temperature up to
400 degrees before it would begin to smoke my recommendation is never try to
home-canned your own butter purchase butter that's already designed for
long-term food storage if you study over any of the Extension Office
recommendations on canning they will tell you just don't do it don't home can butter
it's not safe to try to can your own butter it's a risk to your health botulism and a
waste of your food storage dollars to experiment with foods that may not give
you the value or the safety that you need the last kind of oil that I like to
store is a vegetable shortening or Crisco I don't ever cook with this crisco or
eat it but I use it to season my cast iron and all of my fryers pot pans
skillets grill pans dutch ovens this all cast iron cookware gets a good coating of that crisco I season cast iron
them once a year using the Crisco you do it about once a year because I use my cast iron
pots and pans my cast iron dutch oven a lot you don't use them a lot you wouldn't need
to do it every single year the vegetable shortening can last in your pantry for
up to five years sadly it no longer comes in a can it comes in cardboard so
if you want to get the full length of value out of it crisco vegetable shortening you might want to scoop
it into a canning jar label it and put that away in your pantry I don't use
this for cooking so I'm not concerned with it becoming rancid and it's still
going to be useful for seasoning the cast iron pans because then everything is cooked
off you can also use crisco vegetable shortening it to make emergency candles in fact you can stick
a wick right into the Crisco can and light it and it will burn up the fuel
and make an emergency candle for you but just remember now it's made out of
cardboard so you may not want to actually insert a wick and light the can
of Crisco because it's no longer an actual can you don't want to risk
starting a fire if the paper melted or burned or just fell apart these are my
favorite oils fats butter that I store for long term emergencies for my prepper pantry to
make sure that I have the things that I need and use leave me a comment about
the oils that you like to store and any tips for how you use any of these products
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