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I've been going through some of my earliest LTS foods and seeing how they fared. I've got mixed results.
First off, I'll be frank in confessing that I didn't really put that much effort into string this stuff. I know that you're supposed to use Mylar bags, oxygen absorbers, heat sealers, and what not. I took 2 40mm steel ammo cans which I washed and filled up.
The first got a 20 gallon kitchen garbage bag for a liner, a 20 lb bag of rice, and bags of dry beans adding up to about 20 lbs. I folded over the garbage bag and tucked it into the side of the contents.
The second got a garbage bag liner and 2 20 lb bags of rice. It too, was folded and tucked before having the lid sealed.
20 years later, I openned them and started consuming them. The rice in both bags was perfect, but the beans, which were all stored in the same container as the rice, were all so desicated and dried that they were inedible, regardless of how long they were cooked. I assume that the rice sucked all the moisture out of the beans and they would have been edible if they were stored seperately. They might still have been good if they were cooked in a pressure cooker.
First off, I'll be frank in confessing that I didn't really put that much effort into string this stuff. I know that you're supposed to use Mylar bags, oxygen absorbers, heat sealers, and what not. I took 2 40mm steel ammo cans which I washed and filled up.
The first got a 20 gallon kitchen garbage bag for a liner, a 20 lb bag of rice, and bags of dry beans adding up to about 20 lbs. I folded over the garbage bag and tucked it into the side of the contents.
The second got a garbage bag liner and 2 20 lb bags of rice. It too, was folded and tucked before having the lid sealed.
20 years later, I openned them and started consuming them. The rice in both bags was perfect, but the beans, which were all stored in the same container as the rice, were all so desicated and dried that they were inedible, regardless of how long they were cooked. I assume that the rice sucked all the moisture out of the beans and they would have been edible if they were stored seperately. They might still have been good if they were cooked in a pressure cooker.
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