Skippy, IIRC oxygen absorbers work by using up the oxygen in an enclosed space, so if you put rice in a mylar bag and then put in an oxygen absorber and then seal the bag it will act like a vacuum.
the-gnole wrote:Skippy, IIRC oxygen absorbers work by using up the oxygen in an enclosed space, so if you put rice in a mylar bag and then put in an oxygen absorber and then seal the bag it will act like a vacuum.
I may be wrong, but that is my recollection.
Yup that's what I've on the videos. The mylar bags go rock hard once the absorbers have used up all the O2.
Probably not, but Oxygen is only 20% of the volume of the air so just don't squeeze most of the air out of the bag, what is left will 'pad' the contents like a crisp packet. Don't forget the air space around each grain of rice when calculating/guessing the air space.
Even not squeezed down, sharp bits tend to damage the Mylar type of bag. That is one reason I use the normal barrier bags which are more robust and work as well as or better than Mylar. Barrier bags also don't need packing in plastic buckets for protection, I just use those scrap copier paper boxes for my stores. Cost nothing and easy to stack and move.
