How would I store Bulk oil and shortening in my pantry?

If I buy bulk shortening or oil..... What would be the best way to divide it up and store it? In a pantry with ziplock backs. Tupperware?How would I store Bulk oil and shortening in my pantry?
How much bulk oil, and how long do you wish to store it? Also, what kind of oil?





I have about two years food storage in my pantry. Needless to say, I study about proper food storage methods a lot.





Most oils are only good for two years or so, before they start to go rancid. When an oil begins to go rancid, it actually changes composition. The oil then produces things which are harmful to the human body. This is an ultra simplified explanation. Needless to say, you do not want to consume oils and fats which have begun to go ';off.';





About the only thing you can store long term is Crisco. Crisco will keep nearly indefinitely as long as it's in it's sealed container. However the older the Crisco is, the faster it will begin to turn once opened. Still, you can keep cans of Crisco sitting on your shelf safely for 10-20 years, and have them still be perfectly edible.





Plastic is NOT the way to store oils/fats/shortening for long term. You really want to have them in metal (like olive oils) or glass.





Plastic IS porous, and will allow air exchange with the outside air slowly over the years. You can actually make liquid foods toxic (in just a couple of months) if you store plastic containers of food directly on cement floors. The plastic will absorb toxins right through and into the foods from the cement.





Storing in the plastic bottles you bulk purchased in (like five gallon containers of oil) are fine to use. Indeed it's better to leave the oil in its sealed container, until you need to start using it. Just store it off the floor, even something as simple as wood planks to hold it off a cement floor. Carpet over cement is not good enough...it needs more than that.





Keep your bulk oils and shortening in a cool, and dark pantry. Cool and dark are the two keys to having your food last as long as possible.





If you stored too much oil, and it goes off, do not just toss it out. There are still ways to use it.





It can be burned in lamps, used to make soap, poured on gravel driveways to keep dust down (ONLY food grade oils, NEVER motor oils!), as a base for a homemade insect spray for fruit trees, as a flea and tick dip for your animals (note takes a LOT of shampoo to wash out), and a whole lot of other uses.





Since we also have livestock, I buy a lot of bulk food oils. It's a good addition to the diets of pregnant, or elderly animals when it's winter.





~Garnet


Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 yearsHow would I store Bulk oil and shortening in my pantry?
If it is oil I would think any plastic container that has a lid on it..Not a bag I believe it would leak.As far as if it is shortening once it is open I would be leave that it would have to go into the fridge so it would not turn rancid.