Storage question

[crossbow]

I recommend you grind your own meal. I find that ANY flour or meal goes bad pretty fast. Store bought corn meal is a poor product anyway compared to fresh ground meal. They remove the germ to increase shelf life and what's left ages noticeably within weeks. The meal you buy in the stores is probably already "dead" and tastes like cardboard. You can get a grinder for under 25 dollars if all you want is to grind corn. (Search for corn grinder on Amazon). Once you try whole grain corn meal, you won't ever buy meal again.

and once you grind a couple hundred pounds of grain by hand, you'll want to go for a country living or something you can put a motor on or hook it to a bicycle.lol

[BigJohn]

I recommend you grind your own meal. I find that ANY flour or meal goes bad pretty fast. Store bought corn meal is a poor product anyway compared to fresh ground meal. They remove the germ to increase shelf life and what's left ages noticeably within weeks. The meal you buy in the stores is probably already "dead" and tastes like cardboard. You can get a grinder for under 25 dollars if all you want is to grind corn. (Search for corn grinder on Amazon). Once you try whole grain corn meal, you won't ever buy meal again.

[servingbrother]

I like Honeyville Grains and buy from them occasionally. They have good product I trust. I agree with Lowdown3 it's better to store the whole grain. Cornmeal and even flour is only good for about 1 year vacuum sealed with O2 absorbers, unless stored in a freezer.

[crossbow]

I found a website that provides corn meal in #10 cans with a 10 - 15 year shelf life. I do not know anything about this company but it may be helpful to you.
TOTR

http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/yellowcornmealcase.aspx[/URL]

honeyville is a great company, most preppers have spent hundreds of dollars with them, their stuff is a little higher priced because their shipping rate is only $4.49 on every order no matter how much you buy, so the more you buy the more you save. the other great thing is if you buy like a 50 pound bag of beans or anything and when you open the shipping box and the bean bag is broke open, just give them a call and they'll ship a new bag right out at no charge and no hassel.

the problem with their #10 cans of corn meal is that the storage conditions have to be near perfect,cool and dry. the other thing is 24 pounds of corn meal cost about 52 dollars compared to 50 pounds of whole corn for about 39. but you can buy whole kernal yellow dent corn locally at a farm store or from a farmer or a feed mill for about 10 dollars a hundred pounds. it's the same yellow dent that is ground and fed to cows.

i do keep several cases of their powdered eggs and milk though

[Patriotic Sheepdog]

I found a website that provides corn meal in #10 cans with a 10 - 15 year shelf life. I do not know anything about this company but it may be helpful to you.
TOTR

http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/yel...nmealcase.aspx

Thanks for the website...I'll look into it.

[ToOldToRun]

I found a website that provides corn meal in #10 cans with a 10 - 15 year shelf life. I do not know anything about this company but it may be helpful to you.
TOTR

http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/yellowcornmealcase.aspx[/URL]

[crossbow]

what lowdown3 said, whole corn in mylar,oxy absorbers and pail would be good for 20 yrs, corn meal might be good for about 6 months before going stale unless stored in a freezer

[Lowdown3]

Any time you process something, it cuts down on it's storage life. Understand that I mean like milling it, etc. not "processing" as in cleaning grain, etc.

You'd be better off for true long term storage with whole corn- aka field corn or "dent" corn. It stores really well and you probably have a grinder for your wheat that will work good with it. If not, you can get a basic Corona knockoff grinder at Northern Tool for $15. or less.

The only cornmeal I've ever put up was before mylar and absorbers were readily available and it failed miserably- full of bug despite the bay leaves that were "supposed" to keep bugs out- old wives tale.

I never packed any more after that. Doesn't mean it might not work packed correctly for LTS though.

[bountyhunter69]

havent tried it,was wondering same thing myself,im going to try it in mylar bags,with 02 absorbers,and put it in freezer theromostate controlled @40 deg yr round,same procedure and place for flower,and dry cereal..plan of 2 500cc o2 absorbers per bag stored in freezer..any comments out there?

[Patriotic Sheepdog]

Bump...

Anybody tried or heard of doing this?

[Patriotic Sheepdog]

Can you store corn meal in mylar with O2 absorbers long term...like 20+ years, or will it go rancid? Just a thought I have been thinking about, but can't find any info about whether it is doable or not. Has anybody tried this?

Thanks