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Manual Way Of Sucking Air Out of 5 gallon bucket?
If I wanted to preserve dried beans in a 5 gallon bucket and wanted to suck the remainding air out of the bucket manually without air pumps and the like, how would I go about doing so, if its possible.
3 Answers
- Steve4PhysicsLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
You would need an air-tight container, not a bucket. And it needs some sort of tap.
You could then connect an ordinary hoover (vacuum cleaner) to the tap and run it for a few seconds. Then close the tap and disconnect
I don't know if it would damage the hoover though. And it would only remove some of the air.
A better approach might be not to use a vacuum. Fill a container with the beans and put a bag of desiccant (drying agent) inside. Then seal with an airtight lid.
- halrosserLv 59 years ago
You only need to get rid of the Oxygen.
Before you fill the bucket with beans, fill it with CO2 from a fire extinguisher (or burn the O2 out).
Then after filling it with beans, fill it with CO2 again, which will sink and force the O2 out the top.
- ?Lv 79 years ago
Well, unless you mean sucking the air out by mouth - which won't get much of it out - then no.
