Dry Canning ...

[GeneW]

You're buying sugar in the wrong place.

Forget SAMs.

Go to The Chefs Store, US Foods, at I-240 & Walker.

You can thank me later.

 

[BadgeBunny]

You're buying sugar in the wrong place.

Forget SAMs.

Go to The Chefs Store, US Foods, at I-240 & Walker.

You can thank me later.

You know, I've been by there a couple of times but they have damned odd hours. Thanks for the reminder -- I'm gonna drag GC by there while he is burning leave off the next couple of weeks ... I'm sure he will appreciate it, too ... He HATES going to a new store with me -- I have to look at EVERYTHING ...

 

[GeneW]

You'll love it. I gaor-oh-darn-tee it.

 

[turkeyrun]

Would love to, but it is 2 hr drive to get there.

 

[dennishoddy]

Buy 50 lb bags granulated and 25 lb powdered at Sam's. Cheaper by the pound. Wife and day do a lot of baking.
20 1#, try 4 50# and 4 25# plus 50# bags of flour and popcorn (chickens love it). Them at sam's is worse than me at feed store.

We do this as well, but we found a better outlet to buy our sugar. We know a guy that drives a truck for a restaurant supply, we get a 50# sack for a lot cheaper. Put it in a 5 gallon bucket for storage.

I live in a one horse town. Not a lot of competition out there with a walmart and Pyramid owning every grocery store in town.

I do the math when buying sugar. The off brand in 1 lb bags is cheaper in Ponca.

It wouldn't pay to drive to OKC to save a couple of bucks.

 

[clock152]

I get the big bags from Sam's of flour and sugar. separate them up into 1 lb bags ( brown lunch bags work great for this... just fill em and roll the tops down ) and then vac seal them up into nice 1 lb bricks that stack nice in a tote.

 

[BadgeBunny]

OK, well, it's settled ... I'm gonna give some pecans a whirl ...

I've read mixed results on dry canning crackers. Some folks say it works great. Others say the crackers still go rancid in 6 months or so ... Because of that I'm more inclined just to bake my own crackers and leave the dry canning for things I can't make myself ... like pecans. I can grind my own flour and cornmeal so I don't see much use for dry canning those either ... But that's just me ...

I'll let you know how it goes ... Probably blow the kitchen up ...

 

[turkeyrun]

Price per pound is the deciding factor. The bigger bag isn't always the better value.