How To Store Your Flour Airtight

Making an airtight storage system for your flour supply is simple and straightforward.

Here’s what you’re gonna need:

1. Large (5-gallon or bigger) Mylar bags
2. Wooden or heat-resistant surface
3. Oxygen Absorbers (one for each bag)
4. Tin foil
5. Hot iron or household clothing iron
6. Vacuum with narrow attachment
7. 5-gallon airtight buckets
8. Permanent marker

Most of these things are easy to get at the store or online!

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steps:

1. Put the Mylar bag on a stable, flat surface, with a heat resistant surface above it.
2. Put the flour into the Mylar bag. Be sure to pack tightly.
3. Test the distance of the top of the Mylar bag to the heat-resistant surface. Make sure you’re able to lay the top of the bag on top of the surface so that it can safely be heated with the iron.
4. Put a piece of tin foil on top of the packed flour.
5. Open up one oxygen absorber and place it on top of the tin foil.
6. Quickly but carefully place the top of the Mylar bag on the heat-resistant surface and put the hot iron over it to seal the bag.
7. Leave a 2-inch opening in one corner.
8. Insert the narrow vacuum attachment into the 2-inch opening and turn on the vacuum. This will remove most of the oxygen from the Mylar bag and your flour.
9. Remove the vacuum attachment and seal the remaining part of the Mylar bag with the hot iron.
10. Write the date and contents on the side of the Mylar bag with permanent marker.
11. Place in airtight 5-gallon buckets, seal and mark contents and date.

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Do this for your year’s flour supply. That way, you’ll only need to open one bag at a time, allowing the rest of supply to remain dry and airtight.