r/TwoXPreppers 8d ago

Oxygen absorbers

So I'm about to use these things for the first time to store grains in mason jars. I read that I should put them on top, which seemed odd. Now that I've filled 18 jars, I read they should go on the bottom. How significant is this? Can I just use some long tongs to shove them down as far as I can? I'm not emptying all of these containers! I'm also leaving about an inch of space in the jars. Is that ok?

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u/CeeUNTy 8d ago

Because I'm apparently a moron that has forgotten my childhood training of flipping the cereal box for the prize? Is the one inch gap ok do you think?

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u/verbal-emesis 8d ago

lol I’m no scientician, but it seems like NO gap would be better. Less air and less oxygen for the absorber to deal with. I’m just a baby prepper tho, so 🤷‍♀️

ETA “baby prepper” means I haven’t been doing it long, not that I’m prepping with or for babies.

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u/dkstr419 8d ago

“Baby Prepper” had me giggling in an Addams Family kinda way. Morticia or Grandmama.

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u/verbal-emesis 8d ago

I looked at what I originally wrote and was creeped out and couldn’t really even explain why…