There's a recenlty divorced friend of ours with four kids (3at home) who hasn't the funds to replace the meager stockpile her dickhead ex took when he moved on.
So my wife and I put a pallet of basic staples together along with some equipment and other things to get her going again.
As a commercial diver, I have access to mixed gases in which I have always used to preserve my dried basic staples, ....staples for long term storage.
So this morning a mix named "trimix 2/70" or trimix 2/70/28, consisting of 2% oxygen, 70% helium, 28% nitrogen was used to preserve 10 pails of rice, beans and a bean medley mixture for stews.
I take a 3' old HP hose, set it at the bottom of the pail, fill the pail with food, crack the cylinder valve with lid on and give a blast for 10 seconds. Pull the hose out quickly the snap the lid tight.
If there are any divers or welders out there, this works better than any 02 absorbers which gives off that funky aftertaste.
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I'm sure it would preserve the food longer than without the gases however the pail itself it permeable and will not hold the seal for 15 years. Personally I would still use a mylar bag. I have never heard about using these gases for food storage - creative thinking!
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The problem with the buckets are the seals can harden over time depending on how they are stored.
If a guy wanted to get fancy, remove the seals and coat lightly with coconut oil.
If you want to spend money on Mylar, go for it.
I wouldn't.
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The idea is that nitrogen is heavier then o2, so by "pouring in" nitrogen, the o2 gets pushed up and out of the. Container. No o2 = no critters as long as the no2 can't leak out. Crybaby, would nitrox work as tell as trimix? I'm close to getting my enriched dive, but a ways away from trimix, as I don't really have a practical use for it.
Very good tip!
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Regular air is a mixture of gases - 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen - with traces of water vapor, carbon dioxide, argon, and various other components.
O2 is what we are trying to rid when we store long term.
Nitrox or Enriched Air would have the opposite effect in this regard.
A safe recreational dive of no more than 110' on Nitrox mixture of say 33% mean just that, 33% nitrogen and 66% oxygen.
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Deep in the night you will look into the ever looming dark and despair, and think...
"Damn it, I should have listened to Crier.... that bastard is brilliantly gifted with "supernatural common sense."
I just use pure argon, simple enough. very good for doing up a large amount of popcorn and keeping it fresh butter and all.