Using hand warmers instead of oygen absorbers

[scott2820]

I recently heard that hand warmers can be used in place of oxygen absorbers to store food in Mylar bags and 5 gallon buckets. Can anyone confirm this and how would I do it? just throw them in while there still hot? Thanks

[MustangGal]

I wouldn't do it. Why not just use the correct product? The only thing worse than having no preps in a SHTF situation would be having preps you couldn't use, because you tried to cut corners.

[thedreamers]

You need to research better. Sorry. Use the right thing for the job works better. O2 absorbers are the right way not the fly by night way.

[Rmplstlskn]

All that work and $$$ to store away food for years, decades even, and you want to save a few bucks on O2 Absorbers? No logic there...

[protus]

I recently heard that hand warmers can be used in place of oxygen absorbers to store food in Mylar bags and 5 gallon buckets. Can anyone confirm this and how would I do it? just throw them in while there still hot? Thanks

tell me where you heard this. pleeeeeaaasssseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.



rmpl hit it on the head.

[scott2820]

Hey. Below is the link where I saw it.

Admin edited out to avoid any further bad information being passed around.

We are not going to waste bandwidth on ridiculous stuff like this.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

dsarti imagine that, watch the rest all the way up to the point where they declare him mentally incompetant and take his guns.
Heres the deal- Companies save as much money as they can with all the legal shortcuts they can. I have yet to see a company put handwarmers in their food. Think about that for a bit and then come up with your own educated choice

[protus]

dsarti imagine that, watch the rest all the way up to the point where they declare him mentally incompetant and take his guns.
Heres the deal- Companies save as much money as they can with all the legal shortcuts they can. I have yet to see a company put handwarmers in their food. Think about that for a bit and then come up with your own educated choice

thanks matt.
there's this one channel..wont say who..who's been around longer on LTS than most on youtube..that wasnt on that show.
But then agian they werent pushing an agenda or a product.

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dsartis a scam.... plain and simple like most on that show.

[EX121]

It's good that you asked before you went and did it. Imagine the disapointment. Don't be afraid to ask.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

thanks matt.
there's this one channel..wont say who..who's been around longer on LTS than most on youtube

Yep learned from that channel alot when i had to change the way I stored food a few years ago and many thanks to "them southern idahoans". And i saw him and some others doing even worse and made my own choice based on things. It doesnt take long watching folks to see how good/bad they are when you have experience yourself. Watching a 400lb+ ninja across the yard with no skill, watching someone who cant- physically pretend they can, watching someone tell me "how to" and knowing that it doesnt work that way, didnt take long for many youcanpostanythingutubers to get flushed.
There is nothing wrong with being new, there is something wrong with pretending and teaching. This subject is like every other in life, you must make educated choices and do research, test, listen (not get on tv), try, fail, learn. I know i sound harsh but please be careful out there folks, this is your life, your loved ones lives and there is no second place or do overs in survivalism when that day comes. Doesnt have to be SHTF, you can get your a>> handed to you in a parking lot at wallieworld tonight because you listened to an idiot thinking they were an expert and you didnt try that thing you "learned" or kill/sicken your grandchild with a harmful substance you stored in some food 10 years ago and you rotated to your stock.
the sig line applies

[Lowdown3]

Sorry guys, but I absolutely cannot even condone the posting and passing along of such stupidity.

Nothing against you Scott (the OP) and yes we want to answer questions and all that good jazz.

I seem to remember someone saying that they thought the REAL danger behind that stupid $@# show would be new people watching NEW and INEXPERIENCED (long term inexperience, 2 years does not impress me) "preppers" show dumb ideas and stupid methods like this, or the soda pop bottle garbage, etc.

We've covered some of the garbage methods in the thread that is tacked at the top of the Basics forum.

Sorry I'm not wasting any more bandwidth on ridiculous stuff like this. Above all else, we have a RESPONSIBILITY with the information we pass out to others.

You have two camps of ridiculousness in DIY food storage-

1. Is what I call the "clean room" people. These are the ones that think the food they eat everyday is grown, packed and handled in a sterile lab like environment. The idea of using a used bucket that held FOOD in there previously is too much to fathom for these types.
2. On the opposite end of the spectrum are the retards that really don't think they will ever have to EAT the food they are packing. So with that idea in mind, they cut corners with garbage like handwarmers, soda pop bottles, mylar party balloons or use archaic methods like dry ice.

The middle ground is the common sense approach used by the big professional packing houses. How do I know this? Cause I've been in the food storage industry since 1989 and ran a mid size commercial cannery for 2 years in the 90's. During just those 2 years I owned and ran the cannery, we packed well in excess of half million lbs. of food in #10's and Superpails. We copied the EXACT methods used by the big boys in the industry. They worked and we see that testimony on a daily basis as we rotate food packed decades ago and use it at home.

I'm closing this thread, we are NOT wasting any bandwidth on ridiculous food packing ideas.

I hate it when I'm right and I said clearly that I knew this sort of thing would be ONE of the negative outcomes of that ridiculous $@% program showcasing (mostly) inexperienced people.....