good morning everyone this is tony from her homestead skills
and coming to you with another video on food preservation uh i was
out and about with mark over the weekend he wanted to go to a show at a small town and we i of course
was invited and decided to go with him and after the show he graciously took me to
the thrift shop in that small town which is always going to be different from the thrift shops that
we have locally here and we also found an antique mall so i did buy something at the
goodwill in that particular town and then in the antique mall we spent quite a bit of
time and i did purchase something there as well so i'll be showing you those in another video
um just to lighten things up a little bit but today's video is going to be on
more food preservation and specifically i've had a lot of comments on my um
preserving flower video putting it in the freezer like vacuum sealing it and putting
it in the freezer a lot of you have stated that you use a brown paper bag so as to not damage the
food saver so the flour goes directly into the brown paper bag and then it's vacuum sealed and
you get a good hard seal and others have stated that you do use the ziploc bags but you just don't
pinch that last seal so that all the air can be sucked out of the
ziploc bag as well so i thought i was going to try both methods today and see how i like them
and apparently these do not have to go into the freezer at least that's what my subscribers tell
me that they don't have to go in the freezer once they're done uh yes that you would want to put
them in the freezer for three days to kill any uh eggs or anything that might be in the flower
so i'm going to do some of both that method and let you know what my feelings on it are
as well i was told that yes it is best to freeze my yeast now this is a fairly substantial 32 ounce
two pounds of yeast that i bought at costco and i bought another one of these a while back and i
probably have half of it left maybe not quite that much but it is kept in a mason jar in the fridge
at all times so that one's kept cool so i will put this one in the fit for a freezer as for a number
of people's recommendations i don't see any harm in that and i'm sure i could find enough space
to put this little block in the freezer so okay um let's i do have another 22 pound bag of flour
and if i'm happy with the end results i may go out and buy another larger bag and
process that as well based on a lot of the things that i'm hearing you probably can't have too much
flour in your home today all right let's get started okay first things first i do have my
um ziploc bags i have a package of brown paper lunch bags i have my plastic container and
my big bag of flour and i'm going to cut this open and for the time being to save
this as it tells me what the best before date on this is so let's uh here
okay yeah so let's just cut this open
and i will label my packages i think i'm going to start off with my brown paper bags let's
adjust this camera first okay and i'm going to um use a smaller scoop i think my big one
would just be too large for this now these brown paper bags are not the most expensive
kind i just bought them at the dollar store but hopefully they'll do the trick
and i'm going to use this plastic container to catch any drops of flour so here we go
and perhaps i should weigh this to see how much i put in each bag
might be not a bad idea but i don't know that it makes any difference because i'll probably just
split the bags open and put it into a one gallon jar when i need flour
now people have asked about flour going rancid and some say that it never does and others say that it
goes rancid pretty fairly quickly you can tell by the smell mostly and when you open up a fresh
bag of flour it should have a very pleasant aroma now something that's gone rancid will
lose that it'll be a little bit musty and still smelling so it's not the most
appealing but it's still you push paint to shove you wouldn't starve
okay so i've got a fair amount in this bag i'm going to um let's see first
i'm going to fold it over
and it should make a nice little looks like about a two to three pound two and
a half three pound package so hopefully i'm going to cut a bag that'll be large enough to
hold this that's always a guesstimation until you get the first one or two done
oh yeah this bag is finally big enough now i'm going to go get a marker so that i can label this
before i vacuum seal it okay so i've decided in this scenario rather than using the marker
i made up little labels that say all-purpose flour best before date according to the bag
and i'm just going to slip it in to my package here before i vacuum seal it and here we go
looks like it sealed nice and hard just like coffee in the brick when you buy it
and i have my uh labeled product so i know what's in this brown paper bag because
obviously that's one of the worst issues so i think i'm going to do
this whole bag of flour with brown paper bags and just save my
ziploc bags for something else i have some beans i have to
process and we'll see which method i use but this one seems to be working nicely
and it makes a nice square brick so if i can keep them into nice square bricks it might
be easier to package them so i'm going to move right along here and pack up some more of this
and these bags as i said are not the best of quality i certainly remember them being a lot
stronger than this but that's not the most critical feature because the bag is just to
prevent the vacuum sealer from sucking up flour into the motor and getting destroyed
and it seems to be working to do that okay now i'm not want to say you have to do things my way
there is more than one way to skin the cat and whatever works for you works for you
and not you know people may object to your methods or my methods but if it works for
me or for you i really don't care what other people think so i don't get too uptight about
that kind of thing somebody tells me that their way they do something a certain way
consider it and see if it's worthwhile for me to use that method like i'm doing here with these
brown paper bags and if i don't think so i'll just ignore it and keep doing things my own way
and i'm gonna just put that aside for the time being and fill up another bag
you might be able to get three filled up in this container just
going to have to vacuum seal yes i should okay moving right along then
and it's definitely more economical to use the paper bag that i paid a dollar
25 for a pack captain a dollar dollar tree yes i bought these at dollar tree
so and yes our dollar tree has not gone up in price i understand in the us
they've changed the prices to a dollar and a quarter well because of our canadian dollar
it was always a dollar and a quarter but so far the dollar tree that i'm that's local
to me has not changed their pricing there's a little surprise to hear that when i heard that
they raised the prices in the u.s but we'll see it likely will go up here as well one thing i did
notice though is that they're starting to carry items that cost more than a dollar and a quarter
and i think that they were missing out on a huge market by not doing so because dollarama is
growing by leaps and bounds here yeah it's a huge uh does very well and i think they sell things
even up to five dollars mostly up to four not so much five but not everything is a dollar anymore
at dollarama as a matter of fact very little as a dollar anymore
okay so i've got three packages here ready to be vacuum sealed
and i'm going to do that before i go any further
cool i think i don't mind this at all
okay so i ended up with six packages of well i have no idea what the weight is i could probably
try and they're not exactly the same they're all a little bit different okay let's zero that out okay
three pounds five point nine ounces
three pounds five
three pounds five pretty much mostly the same i think one's gonna be larger though
ah three pounds ten
three pounds five and this one is the biggie three pounds twelve okay and i did end up with just
a little bit of flour left over about 15 ounces so this is going to go into my bigger jar that i use
before anything else i might as well and those will get put into a large bin and
kept it hopefully in the coolest place i can okay that's it for this video hopefully you found it
interesting and entertaining and you might want to try this method to me it seems like
definitely worthwhile it reminds me of my coffee packets that i've got um
vacuum sealed the heart is a rock and that's it for now i hope you enjoyed this video
and hopefully uh you'll return for the next one have a great day