OK, got a question to everyone out there....
I heard an extended advertisement on our local Conservative talk radio from a Liquor Store down at the beach. The owner is pretty creative and includes some very unusual things.
Anyway, he was talking about 101 things to use vodka for other than drinking...
One of those he mentioned was for long term storage of grains and dehydrated foods. He said that if you laid a piece of waxed paper over your food in a 5 gallon (or other size) container, and saturated a couple of folded paper towels with vodka, put it in on top of the waxed paper, then sealed the pail, that there would be no spoilage or insects at all... Initially my thought was hmmm, great idea, then thinking that vodka was 50% or so water, so maybe 95% grain alcohol would be better...
So, question is - has anyone tried, heard of, or thought of doing this? If you did, what was the outcome - or share your thoughts?
Curious minds want to know... Well, at least I do... LOL
Man, I haven’t a clue! I’ll be curious to see what others have to say about it, though.
I always have several bottles of Clear Springs grain alcohol on hand for tinctures. I never heard of it being used for strong grains. I wonder why this would work.
I just put some bay leaves in my buckets or gallon jars of grains for bugs and try to rotate and use up stuff before it goes bad. In several years I’ve only had a few things go bad, usually things that got “lost”!
Never heard that before. Thanks.
Well, the main thing you want to do with grain storage is remove the oxygen and keep out pests and humidity. I’m not sure that vodka would kill pests (unless they were somehow attracted to the smell, crawled onto the paper towels, and died or got drunk and passed out), and I don’t see how the vodka would remove oxygen.
Anyway, he was talking about 101 things to use vodka for other than drinking...<<<
Never heard of it being used with grains, that one is new to me.
It is used with vanilla beans to make flavoring and can be used to make an air conditioner, with essential oils or a perfume.
I bought a bottle, never got around to making perfume, something told me that it would be difficult to convince a cop, that “No, Officer, I did not drink Vodka, but it does smell good so I spray it on myself”.....LOL
[I hate the smell of vodka]
Not aware yet will bump the thread for ya..... I will read up on it.
We keep a few cases of Jack an everclear on the shelf as backup pain meds as well as share some of our crop with the old hippies down the road who grow some alleged feel good crop we may have need of if all turns to crap on a nekid thursday er somethin.....;o)
Thanks for the ping/post at 7992 DelaWhere. I don’t know...but it could have been put out there by a vodka salesmam, a wax paper salesman, a storage container salesman, a paper towel salesman. A hungry bug will try to get to anything but will follow the path of least resistance to a food source. On the other hand, exploring bugs or B & E bugs may have created a path of least resistance for the lazy hunter/gatherer bugs. /sarcasm
BUMP for survival. Thanks to all posters.
My dad used to seal food by putting down a towel and wax paper, then pouring a thin layer of melted bee wax over the top of the various food, put down some more wax paper and poured another layer of melted wax. We had dried black eyed peas that kept for years without insects.