Wheat storage

[Moorland Prepper]

I have just bought some 21 litre food buckets described as:

Food Grade Plastic Bucket with Lid and Handle, White, Airtight, Recyclable & BPA Free

I'm planning on buying and storing wheat. Do I need mylar bags or similar or can the wheat just be kept in the buckets with oxygen absorbers? I'm just a little concerned exactly how airtight such buckets are, or even if airtight containers are needed.

If I need mylar bags has anyone any suggestings where to get these please? I've looked on Amazon and the quality of some on sale looks questionable.

[jennyjj01]

If I need mylar bags has anyone any suggestings where to get these please? I've looked on Amazon and the quality of some on sale looks questionable.

Myler sounds an expensive option. Bu I'd definitely bag up in manageable units. Zip lock?

[British Red]

I have just bought some 21 litre food buckets described as:

Food Grade Plastic Bucket with Lid and Handle, White, Airtight, Recyclable & BPA Free

I'm planning on buying and storing wheat. Do I need mylar bags or similar or can the wheat just be kept in the buckets with oxygen absorbers? I'm just a little concerned exactly how airtight such buckets are, or even if airtight containers are needed.

If I need mylar bags has anyone any suggestings where to get these please? I've looked on Amazon and the quality of some on sale looks questionable.

Wheat lasts a good long time kept cool and dry but will last much longer Mylared

[Moorland Prepper]

Wheat lasts a good long time kept cool and dry but will last much longer Mylared

If the wheat is just kept in food safe buckets approximately how long would it last? I'm just trying to work out what options I have.

[WomanOfTheWoods]

Check out The Provident Prepper on Youtube. He's cooking with wheat that's 31 years old and it hasn't killed him. He says the bread is delicious.

[British Red]

Wheat lasts a good long time kept cool and dry but will last much longer Mylared

If the wheat is just kept in food safe buckets approximately how long would it last? I'm just trying to work out what options I have.

This depends on many factors. Temperature, humidity etc

Were you planning to grind it regularly for flour or feed it to hens or the like?

[Moorland Prepper]

This depends on many factors. Temperature, humidity etc

Were you planning to grind it regularly for flour or feed it to hens or the like?

Grind for wheat. It would be stored in a coolish outbuilding.

I'm just trying to get a ballpark figure for

1. Leaving it the container/bag that it came in

2. Foodsafe bucket with oxygen absorbers

3. Mylar bags (or similar) in foodsafe buckets with oxygen absorbers

[Moorland Prepper]

Just ' mylared' my first wheat. 10kg purchased and 9.6 kg going into two mylar bags, followed by oxygen absorbers. Both fit neatly into a 21 litre foodsafe bucket. The bags were sealed with Mrs MP doing the ironing! No need for expensive bag sealers.

The 400gs retained is going to be ground up for a loaf tomorrow.

There are a lot of videos on YouTube on how to do this. Problem is that many of these are from America and talk of US gallons which are different from UK ones, and also strange measure like 'take a cup of wheat'. There are conversion tables available. We more or less got it right.

So, if anyone is thinking of doing this give it a go, it's not as hard as you might think.