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Post by orly152 on May 30, 2012 1:03:02 GMT -7
Great Wheat Storage PDF File. I encourage other member to post comments on how they store their wheat. Attachments:
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Post by missj on Jun 8, 2012 22:43:48 GMT -7
I put it in mylar bags inside of plastic pails (what everyone calls 5 gal buckets- but they are actually 6 gal).
you can fit 3 25 lb bags (75 lbs total) perfectly into 2 buckets.
I'll admit I do not rotate through my wheat as I do the rest of my food storage. Because of it's long shelf life I just kind of forget about it and treat it as food insurance. Once it goes past it's prime I suspect that I'll use it as animal feed..
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Post by bigiron on Jun 14, 2012 7:37:25 GMT -7
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Post by aero86 on Jun 18, 2012 18:43:26 GMT -7
thats an interesting site. wonder how their prices compare?
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Post by woodyz on Jun 18, 2012 22:04:16 GMT -7
So you are storing raw wheat to grind as needed and then use the wheat flour for whatever wheat flour could be used for?
Why not just store flour?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2012 0:26:05 GMT -7
I put it in mylar bags inside of plastic pails (what everyone calls 5 gal buckets- but they are actually 6 gal). you can fit 3 25 lb bags (75 lbs total) perfectly into 2 buckets. I'll admit I do not rotate through my wheat as I do the rest of my food storage. Because of it's long shelf life I just kind of forget about it and treat it as food insurance. Once it goes past it's prime I suspect that I'll use it as animal feed.. Actually, instead of making it animal feed, you can try using it to make wheat grass sprouts first. That can be juiced and drank, just a little a day goes a long way towards helping the body and the immune system...its really good for you. And if you don't likenthe juice, you can feed the sprouts to your chickens, cats, dogs, everyhting eats it as its growing. Just a couple of ideas for it besides using for flour.
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Post by bigiron on Jun 19, 2012 7:42:20 GMT -7
So you are storing raw wheat to grind as needed and then use the wheat flour for whatever wheat flour could be used for? Why not just store flour? My understanding is that these wheat berries last 25-30 years. Flour will not last that long - some say 3 or 4 years is possible. So yep, just to have and grind my own flour. Big
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Post by missj on Jun 19, 2012 13:07:17 GMT -7
flour stores for about 2 years. wheat berries store for 30+ years. I don't want to have to rotate through it all, cuz its a lot. i'd just rather put it away and forget about it.
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Post by woodyz on Jun 19, 2012 13:24:34 GMT -7
What makes the flour not keep? Something added during the grinding phase? I understand keeping keeping some raw wheat for planting, but if in 3 or 4 years I haven't been able to grow even wheat, I'm probably not gonna need any.
But let's say we had a nuclear winter or other world wide event where being able to grow anything for several years was not possible, wouldn't flour, beans and rice to eat for those non-productive years and wheat and rice for seed after be more practical?
Of course I realize as I wrote it that no one said they were storing just wheat, so maybe I didn't think it through.
My plan is store a couple of years worth of what I will eat and seeds to grow and reseed while I eat that, rather than eat my seeds. Although I understand during previous periods in history they did resort to eating their seeds, before they could plant and then had to wait on wild cultivation to be available again.
I'm not meaning to sound critical, I am just asking and thinking out loud and trying to cover as many bases as possible. When I thought of wheat seed as stored, I thought future crops not food.
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Post by missj on Jun 19, 2012 19:53:43 GMT -7
I don't remember the exact scientific way to describe it...but the "husk" or kernel of the wheat protects the inner "germ" and keeps the oils? or proteins? or something separate so that they don't mix and go rancid.
I know that is a really sucky explanation and CWI55 or Celtic Warrior would give much better descriptions....but that is it in a nutshell (or in a wheat-shell ha ha ha so funny! ;D).
Also, weevils tend to infest the flour after a period of about 2 years...the weevil problem can be avoided by a few methods which is why I think the maximum storage life for flour is sometimes quoted at 3-4 years and I believe that is how long it takes for the oils/proteins in weevil-free flour to spoil the flour. Of course that will be shorter in a hot & humid environment and longer in a dry and/or cold environment.
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