(Continued from Part 2. This concludes the article.)
The Final Answer: How Reliable Are Freezer Bags For Storing Food?
The most important questions these experiments were trying to answer is how reliable freezer bags are as a food-storage method? Do they work for the short term? And how well will they work for the long term?
Thinner sandwich bags are definitely a bad way to go. Pests had chewed through the plastic in just a few months. Pantry moths in my cupboard also had no trouble chewing through the foil packets of hot chocolate or getting under the lid of a container of raisins.
During these experiments, pests hadn’t chewed through the thick walls of any of the freezer bags over a six-month period. The bags will be checked again time a year after the packing date to see if they can keep pests out for a full year which would be the minimum time a JIT freezer-bag food-storage system would have to endure. That’s assuming a SHTF event occurred right after bagging beans and grains.
So, based on these experiments, the most-important question of whether or not pests can chew through the heavy-plastic walls of freezer bags still remained unanswered.Continue reading“Food Prepping With Freezer Bags – Part 3, by St. Funogas”
