Keeping meal fresh

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Could anyone give me a few pointers on keeping corn meal, whole wheat flour fresh? Thanks,Pat

-- Patricia A. Raunick (patriciarnck@aol.com), June 04, 2001

Answers

We vacuum pack grains in half gallon mason jars with our Champion Magic Vac. The jars are re-usable and bugs and rodents can't get in. Vacuum packing in bags and then freezing should work too.

-- Skip Walton (sundaycreek@gnrac.net), June 04, 2001.

corn meal is a pain. can it be frozen????

-- ronda (thejohnsons@localaccess.com), June 04, 2001.

Any whole grain product that has been milled is very sensitive to oxygen, heat and, to a lesser extent, to light.

If you want to keep it at its best for more than two or three weeks your best bet is to freeze or refrigerate it. Failing that, vacuum sealing or using oxygen absorbers in air tight storage containers will remove the oxygen. Store in the proverbial cool, dry, DARK place.

If you can, it's better to not mill more than three or four weeks worth of meal or flour at a time and store the rest as whole grains which keep just fine.

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-- Live Oak (oneliveoak@yahoo.com), June 05, 2001.


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