Dry-Packs 60-1 Gallon ShieldPro Mylar Bags (10"x14") & 60-300cc Oxygen Absorbers (In packs of 20) For Dried Dehydrated and Long Term Food Storage - Food Survival,Silver,MB10x14-300CC-60PK-OB

Excellent quality bags, strong and durable, these mylar bags hold up well when filled with dry food items like pasta, dried beans, rice, and grain. These kinds of dried goods might puncture flimsier bags made of plastic (like the popular "Food Saver" types of bags, which I also use, but mostly for meats, which I vacuum seal and freeze). The oxygen absorbers are also of a high quality and do the job well.The oxygen absorbers actually cause a vacuum effect after they've been put into the bag with the food and sealed tightly. With time, the oxygen absorbers actually reduce the volume of air in the bag (whatever bit of air might have been left over at time of sealing. The next day, if you find a bag or two that don't have the appearance of being tightly vacuum sealed - or if they still have air in them- then it is safe to assume those bags have a faulty seal. The most common source of interference with forming a good seal on the bag is if you have trapped some flour, sugar or grain at the spot where the heat-seal was formed.I can also confirm that the Food Saver vacuum sealer only partially works with these bags. The seal portion works fine but the vacuum will not work. The reason is, if you look at "Food Saver" plastic bags, they have a raised structure designed to allow air to pass out of them under the pressure of the vacuum machine. These mylar bags will not allow air to pass because their surface is not abraided or raised. So, when you slide the mylar into the machine, the rubber lips inside the machine will press the mylar bag shut. The vacuum will run a few seconds, but no air will escape. After those few seconds, the heat sealer will activate and form a nice seal on the mylar.The good news, when using the Food Saver as a sealer is that if you've inserted the oxygen eater packets into the mylar bag before sealing, and if you've manually pushed out most of the air from the sack, then after it is sealed tightly, within 6 to 8 hours, the oxygen eater will do the rest of the work, and the bag will start to crush and collapse inward, somehow getting rid of the rest of the air and forming a nice, finished vacuum sealed look. Again, as mentioned above, this will only fail occasionally if - when you heat sealed the bag- you've trapped a grain of rice or other object in the seal. The seal must be smooth and free of debris in order to be effective.If you trap some food in the seal, and the seal is ruined, you should cut the bag open, pour the contents into a new bag, and drop in a new oxygen eater and start over, being careful this time to prevent food clumps from interrupting your smooth, perfect seal. It takes a little practice if you are a first -time food packer, but usually after the 3rd or 4th attempt you'll get the hang of it just fine.I strongly recommend you get the hand-held sealer for this. It is better than an iron, and better than the Food Saver machine. The Food Saver will do the job, but the band that heats up and makes the seal is rather narrow, sometimes making for an uncertain seal which requires that you wait until the next day to see if the seal was 100% intact. The iron method is a bit imprecise. The hand held sealer can be used instantly, makes a wider heat band- which means a wider heat seal, and of course can conveniently be used to make more than one seal if you need to. Perhaps most importantly, you can actually fill the bags higher if you are using a hand seal. The Food Saver leaves a very large, wasteful "lip" of excess material due to its design, which means you must always reduce the amount of food in each bag, in order to leave that excess flap long enough to slid into the Food Saver slot.The bags arrived very quickly after I ordered them, and everything was intact. I'm very pleased with my order- so much so that I am ordering again. Happy prepping!

I ordered these to store food for the current Coronavirus scare. We bought all sorts of beans, rice, dried egg powder and milk among other things. I am not a prepper, however, the stores around us are selling out of all sorts of things, and we didn't want to be caught off guard.These bags are a thick Mylar, and are made for this purpose. We have stored our foods, inserted an Oxygen-Absorber and sealed them with a vacuum sealer. It worked great. We now have lots of food stored for any possible future issues. We will rotate our food to maintain freshness, however these bags with the Oxygen-Absorbers can keep some foods for 20 years. We are prepared as best we know how, and these bags were a key part of our preparations. They are a terrific value and we give them 5 stars.

I ordered a some of these bags and oxygen absorbers so I could pack away some food for emergencies. No, these bags won't make food last forever, but the right foods packed the right way will last for years. I made an adapter for my shop vac that let me draw all the air out of the bags before I heat-sealed them with an oxygen absorber inside to take care of the rest. With not much effort, my wife and I packed away two years worth of dried beans and rice. The investment was minimal and so was the effort. Naturally, I hope no emergency ever occurs and that we wasted our time and money, but that's not what being prepared is all about. These mylar bags and oxygen absorbers are well made and well packed. The quality is evident and the price is right. If you haven't prepared for an emergency, do it now. If you have anything of great value that should be protected from oxygen and light, get these bags. These particular bags are 1-gallon size, but other sizes are available. Emergencies do happen. Wars happen. The bumber sticker says it all, "STUFF Happens" (or words to that effect). If you care about yourself and your family, prepare now. After the emegency, the grocery shelves will be empty. There are no nutrients in "EMPTY". Could you pack ammunition in these bags? Of course. Should you? Depends on how fast you 'turn your stock over'.

We buy these every few years to store dry goods like rice, wheat and beans for long-term food storage. We're pretty accustomed to the drill - have everything ready ahead of time so when we break the seal on the oxygen absorbers, we know we have to move fast. So while these BAGS were effective and sealed well, the oxygen absorbers honestly did nothing. After 48 hours, none of our bags had shrunk at all. We had to order more absorbers from another source, carefully unseal the bags and start again. The new absorbers worked exactly as they're supposed to, and our bags shrunk perfectly within 24hrs and have gone into storage. Diatomaceous Earth is another option for long term storage that helps prevent spoilage.

I got the 60 pack of 1 gallon bags and I am very satisfied.Oxygen absorbers are packaged by 20 units.First batch of 20 I did, 5 bags did not seem to work. However, I did my second batch of 20 yeasterday and all worked. In retrospect, I realized that the first time around, I did not try to remove as much air as possible before sealing, so it was my problem, not the product!My advice to you, first time user, is to put your food in all 20 bags upfront, then seal 2/3 of the opening (if working with a hair straightener). Then only, you open the oxygen absorber, put them quickly in each bag, and seal away. That way, you have less time with the absorbers out in the open. Keep only an opening that can be closed by 1 lenght of your straightener

The bag and oxy absorbers are perfect, but the seller only sent 50 oxy absorbers for the 60 bags! The product description states 60 oxygen absorbers!

Great product for the most part, nice to have the mylar bags and oxygen absorbers together. The reason for th elow rating is that alot of the oxygen absorbers didn't work, and I can't return the items since I have used them.I would be happy to improve the rating if the manufacturer sent me some working oxygen absorbers and bags to replace the ones I already heat sealed and will have to open to re pack.I followed instructions and used all the tabs within 3 minutes of opening (Batch of 20 bags at a time)

The product was what I had been instructed to buy for my dehydrating adventure. Ordered from this seller, product arrived in good order and was what I was looking for ... perfect outcome!!!

I vacuum packed rice and beans in seperate packets. Definitely recommend using two O2 absorbers per mylar pouch. The pouches I sealed with only one absorber in definitely aren't as vacuumed as much, but the food inside should still last a few years.