Mylar bag and oxygen absorber info needed.

Welcome back, man. I don't know about the tin canning equipment, I remember we discussed it years ago, can't find the thread. I know LDS could let you use their equipment or will can for you if you donate or pay the fees. Depends on your local LDS I guess. If you are a member, it should be no problem. I have none near me however.



I have been looking for the old tin canning equipment locally, hoping to score, but never found any. Also, buying the cans to can might prove to be a bit of a hassle.

 

Can Seamers are a VERY Premium Product these days, as most of the Companies that built them, have gone out of business... Also #10 Cans and Lids are very rare to find if you do not have a local Supplier, already. Mormon Canneries have been mostly shut down, except for one in each Region, that now Cans for the rest of the StoreHouses, in that Region. Prices are still about the same, but they consolidated the Canning to a single Regional Cannery. All my Long Term Preps, are in #10 Cans that were Nitrogen Flooded, and then sealed in a Nitrogen Flooded Sealer. Same machine as a Vacuum Sealer, but filled with pressurized Nitrogen Gas, instead of being under a Vacuum. Momma opened up a tin of 15 year Old Brown Rice, last fall, and we used it for a month or two last winter. Still as good as the Day we brought it home.

Canning goods this way, means we do not have to mess around with o2 absorbers, or Dry Ice, or Wet CO2... Nitrogen is the way to go, and it is cheap, when you already have the Regulator, and just rent a tank from the Gas Guy....

 

Not to mention the #10 cans are a great size and can be used quickly enough for the food not to spoil in most cases. A 6 gallon container of wheat berries without a gamma lid would be a pain, and even with a gamma lid, that's a whole lot of grinding to do if you can't repackage or use it all in time.

 

Thanks for the videos, Byte! Thanks to your information, I found a place selling one of these, under $1,000: All American Senior Flywheel Can Sealer - 1502

 

In one of the videos above, the gentleman explains how to search for the cans. I will post it here so folks can reference it at any time. You want to search for 603/700 welded sanitary can

The #10 cans are called 603/700 because that is their trade name based on their size. Manufacturers will stock them according to this name. I performed a simple search for you already, here's one website which sells them: Container Supply Company

You may conduct additional searches if you wish, and possibly yield more results.