FOOD Great find!

[Sherrynboo]

My daughter, procurer of many great and wonderful things, found a case of cans last night. These are the large cans, about 8 inches in diameter, 6 cans in the case. Got them home and they are white rice! She says there are more where she found this so she is going back tonight. Guess we will have plenty of rice if nothing else

 

[FireDance]

Where did she find them?

 

[marsofold]

White rice in 50 pound bags may be more practical.

 

[Sherrynboo]

Out for the trash in an upscale neighborhood. She finds all kinds of neat stuff in that area.

 

[fish hook]

White rice in 50 pound bags may be more practical.

No, if they are left in bags you have to worry about rats and weevil's. Those in the can are probably either Nitrogen filled or have o2 packets. Will be good till the can rusts through.

 

[marsofold]

We have our bags of rice and outmeal in galvanized garbage cans inside the house. No mice or rats can reach it.

 

[moldy]

Nice find! DH once got some cans (late 2010s) that I think were leftovers from Y2K. I opened the brown rice and cooked it to feed to the chickens, as I figured it was rancid. It was not.

 

[AlaskaSue]

We have our bags of rice and outmeal in galvanized garbage cans inside the house. No mice or rats can reach it.

Something about bagged white rice vs canned …no matter how cool and dry the bagged rice is kept, the rice (including white rice) will go rancid. Good for the compost pile but not much else. However, I’ve vacuumed sealed white rice for going on 20 years that has not lost its seal (which I sure didn’t expect) and still tastes okay.

 

[Sherrynboo]

I figured it's a great find since it was free. Beggars cant be choosey

 

[philkar]

Something about bagged white rice vs canned …no matter how cool and dry the bagged rice is kept, the rice (including white rice) will go rancid. Good for the compost pile but not much else. However, I’ve vacuumed sealed white rice for going on 20 years that has not lost its seal (which I sure didn’t expect) and still tastes okay.

Alaska Sue I just have to ask, "Have you ever hunted for chaga mushrooms"?

 

[WalknTrot]

You betcha, scoop 'em up! In #10 cans they are good practically forever.

Rice, wheat, oatmeal, potato flakes, lentils, peas, beans in #10's form the basis of my long term storage.

 

[AlaskaSue]

Alaska Sue I just have to ask, "Have you ever hunted for chaga mushrooms"?

Sure! I have my eye on one of my favorite backyard birch trees. They are pretty easy to find up here I’d really love to do more of the regular mushrooming, esp morels…but I can always count on puffballs and shaggy mane around here ~~~

Are you a chaga fan?

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

What if white rice - in its original plastic bag - is frozen for a week or two, then taken out of the freezer and stored (in its original bag) inside a rubbermade tote with other similarly packaged bags of white rice?

would that protect it from insect infestation?

What about ”old age”?

 

[philkar]

Sure! I have my eye on one of my favorite backyard birch trees. They are pretty easy to find up here I’d really love to do more of the regular mushrooming, esp morels…but I can always count on puffballs and shaggy mane around here ~~~

Are you a chaga fan?

I am! Morels can be found here but are scarce but used to hunt them in midwest.

 

[bracketquant]

White rice in 50 pound bags may be more practical.

Maybe, maybe not. The 50 lb bags (stacked high on pallets in the center aisles, here) cost more per pound than the 10 pound bags. And the 10 pounders might save a trip to the hospital, or to the store for pain relief meds.

 

[Tristan]

I figured it's a great find since it was free. Beggars cant be choosey

Being frugal isn't a sin, in fact it's a win.

Same with being resourceful.

Keeping something useful out of a land fill is a plus, too.

Free on top of it all!

I think y'all did good.

 

[223shootersc]

Free is always the right price!!

 

[AlaskaSue]

I am! Morels can be found here but are scarce but used to hunt them in midwest.

We have lightning-strike fires (where some years we get over 5,000,000 acres burned). Always seems to be good place for morels after a fire. Then there’s the fireweed later in summer as a bonus

I do love foraging the wild things ~~ not exactly Florida, but not too bad even up here

As for the OP, I think you found something good!

 

[Marseydoats]

What if white rice - in its original plastic bag - is frozen for a week or two, then taken out of the freezer and stored (in its original bag) inside a rubbermade tote with other similarly packaged bags of white rice?

would that protect it from insect infestation?

What about ”old age”?

I've got some stored like that in a sealed 5 gallon bucket, and it's fine. It does take almost twice as much water to cook it and I don't know what the nutritional value is, but it tastes fine. Packed in 98 -99 for Y2K. For some reason, we stopped eating rice, when 20 years ago, we had it at least twice a week...
I figured I could always cook it for the animals, and that's why it never got tossed.

 

[Carl2]

What if white rice - in its original plastic bag - is frozen for a week or two, then taken out of the freezer and stored (in its original bag) inside a rubbermade tote with other similarly packaged bags of white rice?

would that protect it from insect infestation?

What about ”old age”?

Freezing for a couple weeks would probably kill the bugs. Plastic bags are porous to air, so we store dry foodstuffs in vacuum-sealed mylar bags.

 

[Doc1]

My daughter, procurer of many great and wonderful things, found a case of cans last night. These are the large cans, about 8 inches in diameter, 6 cans in the case. Got them home and they are white rice! She says there are more where she found this so she is going back tonight. Guess we will have plenty of rice if nothing else

Probably someone's old Y2K stash. Nitrogen-filled #10 cans of rice are/were sold by many outlets and will last indefinitely as long as the cans remain undamaged. I still have relatively ancient nitrogen-filled #10 cans of dehydrated vegetables that we got after Hurricane Katrina that are perfectly good.

A company donated hundreds, if not thousands of these cans after the storm. They were all slightly past their expiration dates then. No one wanted those cans at the distribution site and I asked the organizer if I could have them. They told me to take as many as I wanted so I loaded up the truck!

These cans are now all twenty years past their expiration date and are still good.

Best
Doc

 

[Gardener]

I have some commercially dehydrated potato slices from 1998 that I just opened and used for the first time recently. They were perfectly fine.
I have some white rice from 2008 that also seems fine.

 

[Tristan]

Probably someone's old Y2K stash. Nitrogen-filled #10 cans of rice are/were sold by many outlets and will last indefinitely as long as the cans remain undamaged. I still have relatively ancient nitrogen-filled #10 cans of dehydrated vegetables that we got after Hurricane Katrina that are perfectly good.

A company donated hundreds, if not thousands of these cans after the storm. They were all slightly past their expiration dates then. No one wanted those cans at the distribution site and I asked the organizer if I could have them. They told me to take as many as I wanted so I loaded up the truck!

These cans are now all twenty years past their expiration date and are still good.

Best
Doc

Free food!

Oh, the joy!

 

[Sportsman]

A few years ago, I finished off my white rice stored in 1978 . We just poured it into 2 liter soda bottles and stuck it in the basement for decades. Good as new. Brown rice has enough oils in it to not last very well, but white rice stores nicely in any container that will keep the bugs from eating it.

 

[Profit of Doom]

I've got some stored like that in a sealed 5 gallon bucket, and it's fine. It does take almost twice as much water to cook it and I don't know what the nutritional value is, but it tastes fine. Packed in 98 -99 for Y2K. For some reason, we stopped eating rice, when 20 years ago, we had it at least twice a week...
I figured I could always cook it for the animals, and that's why it never got tossed.

A few years ago I was n the return line at Costco and the woman in front of me was returning a big bag of rice. What was wrong with it? “Too wet”.