Kaarina Kreus wrote:So you can freeze dry, but to get them last a long time you still need to vacuum pack the products?
Can someone please advise.
It does not have to be vacuum sealed. The mylar bags are heat sealed with oxygen absorbers inside. but it does not vacuum them. the bags do not end up hard vacuumed. There are still other gases in the bag so it is not like a hard package or tightly formed to the product.
I vacuum seal things for the freezer, and the seal frequently do not stay air tight. They frequently lose the vacuum. I have tried multiple brands of machines and bags over the years. It will vacuum but only for a short time.
The mylar bags stay heat sealed until you cut them open. And I usually use more oxygen absorbers than recommended for the size and product just to hold things longer.
I live in a state where there are many things that can cut us off from supplies. We are in a semi remote village in Alaska. The state is already at the end of the food supply chain, then we also have the possibility of earthquakes, avalanches, snow storms, freezing rain, icy roads, and all that is before we get to man made issues like trucking strikes, lack of employees and so on. Having a way to make sure my things stay sealed and fresh for as long as possible... To me that is a big deal. I've seen folks get snowed in for more than two weeks at a time until plows could catch up with all the snow that we got in a two day period.
