Will Bottled Frozen Rice Stay Edible Stored Out Of The Freezer?

[stonecypher]

I've been recycling those 2-liter soda bottles for both food AND water storage along the lines of what's suggested in this article:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...2/ai_n16509325

My question is about brown rice storage in these bottles. I filled a couple dozen of them with bulk brown rice I bought at a big-box store and put them in the freezer for storage. If I want to remove the bottles from storage in the freezer and put them in the garage on shelves (and thus at room temperature) to make room for more bottles of rice I've packed, will the frozen rice in the bottles form condensation that will ruin the contents?

Need some input here. Thanks!

[Cyngbaeld]

As long as the lid is tight the condensation forming on the outside of the bottles will not be a problem. If air can get inside the bottles you can get condensation on the rice and that will ruin it.

[texican]

White Rice maybe, if in the cooling down process no moisture is trapped inside...

Brown rice will go rancid quickly, outside of the freezer. I wouldn't attempt to store brown rice for more than several months at most, outside of the fridge/freezer. It goes bad within a month here... so I don't bother... If I want fiber or vitamins, I'll get it elsewhere. I'd hate to have to eat bad rice, under any circumstances...

[diane]

Brown rice is no long part of my preps because it goes rancid fairly rapidly even in northern states if left at room temperature. So, to answer your question, no I wouldn't take it out of the freezer unless I were planning on using it up fairly soon. As far as the other part of your question, I have never had a problem with moisture forming and ruining my rice when I "pasturized" my jars of white rice, or anything else for that matter, in the freezer and then took them out and put them on the pantry shelf. I do it all the time.

As others have noted brown rice is not a good keeper at room temperatures, especially not at typical garage temperatures.

Stuff an oxygen absorber in their with them then reseal the bottles tightly and you can improve on that, but the freezer will work better still.

.....Alan.