I put oxygen absorbers in my salt and sugar mylar bags. Do I re-bag them or is it ok?

Posted by Level-Blueberry9195@reddit | preppers | View on Reddit | 26 comments

So, I was just done storing salt and sugar and dropped some O2 absorbers. I searched up if they even needed 02 absorbers and apparently they don't, Google said it might harden them and make them hard to use.

I just thought that I could crush them if that happens in a future scenario, or if I should just repackage and waste 3 mylar bags

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MrHmuriy@reddit

Nothing has happened to salt even since the time of the dinosaurs - it never went bad. You just wasted the mylar bag and the oxygen absorber.

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Federal_Difficulty@reddit

It’s almost like it’s made of rock or something.

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Salvarius@reddit

Almost

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SgtPrepper@reddit

Moisture absorbers will harden them. Oxygen absorbers will just take out the O2, but since air is mostly Nitrogen there won't be a real vacuum inside the bags anyways.

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TheWoman2@reddit

The bags aren't wasted. Cut open the bag right below the seal, remove the oxygen absorber, reseal the bag.

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Pea-and-Pen@reddit

I would empty them. Otherwise you will have to use a chisel to use them.

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ryanmercer@reddit

I mean, sugars exist.

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Ingelwood@reddit

Cool. I learned something interesting today, from you. Sugar hammers; now I have to find one! Thanks friend.

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KneeHighToaNehi@reddit

don't bother, it'd take you about 6 hunnert years to tunnel under the wall with that

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FlashyImprovement5@reddit

Remove the O2 absorbers NOW

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4evr_dreamin@reddit

I suggest rebag. Ill say you will see why if you fill the original bags with water. They often have many small holes.

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TexFarmer@reddit

Yes, they will turn into rocks, O2 absorbers have water in them to react with the iron to form iron oxide. the sugar or salt will absorb the water faster than the iron can react with it. I would repack them if possible. Both salt & sugar are so hydrophilic that they cannot support any bacterial growth if sealed properly they have a shelf life measured in centuries.

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sgtPresto@reddit

I dud the same many years ago and opened them years later to find a few white bricks

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ExtremeIncident5949@reddit

Don’t use oxygen absorber with either. Get it out or you will have a hard brick. It still will be ok to use but you’ll work for your sugar with a chisel.

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Eredani@reddit

Rebag

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HappyAnimalCracker@reddit

I’d repackage them without the O2. The longer you wait the harder the bricks will become

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Neoliberal_Boogeyman@reddit

There are salt formations over a billion years old. Sugar has such a high osmotic potential that concentrated sugar inhibits microbes unless its completely and totally soaked. Keep either dry and they will last thousands of years.

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-zero-below-@reddit

Exactly. That’s why I just store my water in puddles in the back yard. Water has been around since just after the formation of the universe. All these people trying to bottle it to keep contaminants out are just pansies.

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Dmau27@reddit

You're a poet. This was a great comeback.

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JL3Eleven@reddit

Exactly. That’s why I just store my air in the sky in the back yard. Air has been around since just after the formation of the universe. All these people trying to bottle it to keep contaminants out are just pansies.

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