[PA Engineer]

I’m also interested in learning how best to store salt, sugar, and spices, for long term storage. For large quantities of salt and sugar is vaccum packed in large mylar bags in plastic buckets with oxygen absorbers and dessicant packs adequate to keep it good/useable for 2 years or more?

Sugar and Salt will store forever as long as you keep them very dry in a well sealed container. There is very little else you need to do. I just use Gamma Seal lids with my buckets. Have been doing it for years.

[OB1kNOb]

Thanks for the insight. Do you use mylar bags, OA’s or dessicant packs for your salt and sugar stored in the buckets?

[familyop]

Thanks for the link to the bucket lids. I already need those yearly (far from cities and sometimes months of deep winter ice pack).

[bgill]

Make sure to label everything with the produce and the date. Sugar and salt particularly. I made the mistake of dumping what I thought was sugar into some lovely strawberries once only to find out it was salt. Lesson learned.