RufusJ…congrats on new Grbaby. And praying THIS med for your eyes will work!
LilSister….thanks for words of encouragement. Hope your head cold clears up. Question(s) on bucket storage. Oxygen, Heat, Moisture, Bugs/Rodents are all enemies of our hard-won food storage. You are correct that heat will degrade the nutrient value of your bucket food. Especially things like flour. Whole wheat berries have far less surface to interact with the O2. Finely ground flour has lot of exposed surface and O2 will degrade that more easily….except O2 absorbers in a very sealed container will stop that.
But I believe the heat factor with flour, etc. might be the same…due to more of the food surface being exposed. Anyway, I just try to store things that WILL degrade with heat, in areas that are the coolest I can manage. [which out here in cold mountains is easy….but would not be for you folks who don’t FREEZE in terrible winters…lol ] Powdered milk products and fats/oils are seriously affected by heat and can go bad/rancid. I store my paper products, salt, sugar, etc in the attic loft. Not affected by hot summer conditions at peak of the roof.
It means I have things stashed allll over the place tho. Don’t know how to get around that.
Oh…one more thing, in case someone doesn’t know this: Cannot store buckets or other things directly on cement floors...or flat up against cement basement walls. The changes of temperature particularly in cement, will cause moisture to form in a sealed bucket. Look that one up for more details. But in general, it’s good to have anything up at least on a board. Pallets are better if you have the space. My basement space keeps getting flooded…often enough that I have most everything that can’t be sanitized up on pallets.
AmyD….awwww! SO infuriating to have someone STEAL from you! Hmph! Glad your loss was covered.
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