Rice-#1 Survival food on planet in use
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Aparrently the contents of that video are a national secret, It is not available in my country.
I can supply a couple VPN networks
. came up fine for me.
Hope you get to see it @Tirediron its a really good video filled with nuggets of gold.
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He's in Canada!!I can supply a couple VPN networks
yeah, vpn's don't care
Check your stored rice!!!
DW cooked some rice for her supper tonight, and found little black bugs in it.
It came from a sealed, unopened bag so she figures it must have had eggs already in it.
I'm pretty sure most rice does.
So she went thru all of our stored bags and these are just the ones that passed inspection.
Probably just as many did not.
(Yes, we are preppers, I just don't brag about it.)
I think pouring all your rice in big sealed container is a bad idea, because if just one bag has some eggs in it, all of it will have bugs in it in just a few months.
Edit: I'm sure it would be safe to eat after being cooked in a crisis situation, just comes with extra protein.
DW cooked some rice for her supper tonight, and found little black bugs in it.
It came from a sealed, unopened bag so she figures it must have had eggs already in it.
I'm pretty sure most rice does.
So she went thru all of our stored bags and these are just the ones that passed inspection.
Probably just as many did not.
(Yes, we are preppers, I just don't brag about it.
)I think pouring all your rice in big sealed container is a bad idea, because if just one bag has some eggs in it, all of it will have bugs in it in just a few months.
Edit: I'm sure it would be safe to eat after being cooked in a crisis situation, just comes with extra protein.
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Additional: The 2 bags on the left did not pass secondary 'close-inspection', so the birds will have about 20 pounds to eat now.
Happy birds.
Happy birds.
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Too bad you don't have chickens. I would cook it up for them
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Preppers store their rice in mylar bags or non permeable sealed glass/plastic containers with Oxygen absorbers.(Yes, we are preppers, I just don't brag about it.
I think pouring all your rice in big sealed container is a bad idea, because if just one bag has some eggs in it, all of it will have bugs in it in just a few months.
Edit: I'm sure it would be safe to eat after being cooked in a crisis situation, just comes with extra protein.
Retail plastic bags/packaging won't cut it.
A stable deoxygenated atmosphere makes the eggs dormant initially....and then dead later.
I have pulled 20 year old rice out of storage and.....no bugs.....also cooked up and tasted fine.
Most references suggest that properly stored rice is good for several decades (longer than most of us have left).
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Those are probably rice weevils. I have often thought that just about all grains end up with some kind of bugs. Think about prepared foods, mixes, etc. If there were bugs in the grains before it was processed, we would never know.
How many hungry people are there in the world who would probably pick the bugs out, or not, and keep on cooking and eating? The thought makes my stomach roll a little.
Yes, the bag may be sealed, but the bugs were probably there before the rice was bagged. This is where freezing and oxygen absorbers help. I have no trust for bags like that, the original packages. That rice would go into another container, a 5 gallon bucket, a plastic bin with a tight lid, or into jars with lids.
How many hungry people are there in the world who would probably pick the bugs out, or not, and keep on cooking and eating? The thought makes my stomach roll a little.
Yes, the bag may be sealed, but the bugs were probably there before the rice was bagged. This is where freezing and oxygen absorbers help. I have no trust for bags like that, the original packages. That rice would go into another container, a 5 gallon bucket, a plastic bin with a tight lid, or into jars with lids.
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Check your stored rice!!!
DW cooked some rice for her supper tonight, and found little black bugs in it.
It came from a sealed, unopened bag so she figures it must have had eggs already in it.
I'm pretty sure most rice does.
So she went thru all of our stored bags and these are just the ones that passed inspection.
Probably just as many did not.
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(Yes, we are preppers, I just don't brag about it.
I think pouring all your rice in big sealed container is a bad idea, because if just one bag has some eggs in it, all of it will have bugs in it in just a few months.
Edit: I'm sure it would be safe to eat after being cooked in a crisis situation, just comes with extra protein.
That was one of the first things I learned about food storage. It doesn't matter how you store them if the rice you buy is infested in the first place.
You gotta throw your rice in the freezer for a few days to kill the bugs before storing.
Edit: ah @Cascadian beat me to it haha
Which is why I stock many hundreds of pounds of rice.
Check your stored rice!!!
DW cooked some rice for her supper tonight, and found little black bugs in it.
It came from a sealed, unopened bag so she figures it must have had eggs already in it.
I'm pretty sure most rice does.
So she went thru all of our stored bags and these are just the ones that passed inspection.
Probably just as many did not.
View attachment 167298
(Yes, we are preppers, I just don't brag about it.
I think pouring all your rice in big sealed container is a bad idea, because if just one bag has some eggs in it, all of it will have bugs in it in just a few months.
Edit: I'm sure it would be safe to eat after being cooked in a crisis situation, just comes with extra protein.
Well, yeah....that is why you store bulk rice in mylar with deoxygenator packs. Prepping 101.
But I also don't buy low quality rice.....in addition to the hundreds of pounds I have in proper storage, I always have a bucket with gamma lid filled with the 'ready' rice. Usually lasts a year or so per bucket before I refill it.
Its all Jasmine rice from Costco.....I've never seen a even a single bug in it.
