Food Storage Buckets by @cahlen on 3Speak
Five gallon buckets with the screw-top Gamma Lid is my recommended way of storing large amounts of dry food for survival situations. --- ▶ Watch on 3speak.tv
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Hey, everyone, Cowan here, and in this video, I am hunkering down in my dugout shelter because there's a cold windstorm going on out there, but it's perfectly calm and quiet and almost 70 degrees down here. So, anyways, we'll be filming inside today, and I want to show you how I store my food, okay? So if you're... planning for a situation where you think things may go wrong, you may not have access to food for a long period of time, then you need to think about first growing your own food, but then also being able to store that food, okay? So, for growing your own food, storing that food, you're probably going to want a root cellar, and actually this shelter would make a perfect root cellar, so when I move out of here someday, then that's probably what this will be used for, so it's a place that's just down. in the ground, several feet. This is about six feet down, so that even when, without needing any sort of temperature control, it stays at a pretty stable temperature and humidity, okay? Doesn't get below freezing, but it also doesn't get all that warm. So even when it's below freezing outside, it's still about 55 degrees in here. Okay? But if you're just buying your food or if you're growing grains and things like that, then you may want to think about getting some five gallon buckets to store your food in, so that's what I got here. You can get five gallon buckets in lots of places, hardware stores sell them. But actually what I want to show you today is the gamma lid. So the gamma lid is something which allows you to screw on and off, okay? So normally a 5-gallon bucket's going to come with a lid, which attaches very strongly and can be difficult to remove. Sometimes you even need a tool, a specialized tool, to get the lid off. So if it's something that you're accessing frequently, then that's not really going to be what you want, okay? So this, this is like a lid. The gamma lid is like a lid that you... has basically two parts to it, okay? So it's got the actual screw on. part, but then it has the rim. So this whole part here is also part of it. It doesn't come with the bucket, okay? So you can see inside I've got a whole bunch of oats. This is probably a month of oats, and I have three buckets worth, so I have about three months of oats now. So this is what the lid actually looks like when you buy it. It will come separate from the five gallon. It has this little indent here that will fit on the lip. At the lid, you'll put it on there, you'll need a rubber mallet so you're not damaging this thing. And you'll need to pound it in pretty hard, okay? Once it's in there, it's going to be pretty hard to get off unless you have one of those tools I was talking about. But you will still be able to unscrew the lid, okay? So these things are good for storing oats, storing basically any grain. So in the past, where I was before, I had many buckets like this. full of all kinds of different things, including rice, beans, lentils, those kinds of things. So if you're looking into buying a bunch of dried goods, dried food for long-term storage in an emergency situations, I recommend getting yourself a bunch of five-gallon buckets, getting yourself a bunch of these lids. The lids are a little bit expensive, but in my opinion, it's worth it. At least having a few of your buckets. with the food that you're currently, readily, you know, daily, or, you know, several times a week accessing, having some of these lids on it, you don't have to have all your buckets with these lids on it, because you may just be storing those things for many months down the road, but a few of them for the grains that you're accessing frequently. It's probably, you know, something that I would recommend. And also, you can add things like oxygen removers and water... basically humidity absorbers, okay, so you just drop them in here, especially if you're not going to be opening it frequently, you can put these things, those things in here, seal it up, and then put the thing away, and it's going to last much longer, okay? Another benefit of these is that the animals will not be able to get into them. So when I buy 25-pound bags of my oats, I just can't just put that in storage and leaving there because mice and other rodents will easily get past that paper, but they won't be able to get in here. Also, another nice thing about these is that they can stack on top of one each other, on top of each other, and they're easy to store in various places. You know, they're not too tall, they're not too bulky. For example, when I put a shelf in here for my bed, I'll be able to store several of these. underneath of it and basically I won't even tell, be able to tell that they're in the room, okay, so they won't be taking up any space. So anyways, that's my recommendation for long-term food storage. I hope that's helpful to you, and I'll see you guys later.