Augason Farms Quick Rolled Oats 4-Gallon Pail, Emergency Food Supply, Everyday Meals, 113 Servings

Great. Plain and simple. Goes good with brown sugar, raisins, butter, dates, apple, cinnamon, etc. Good value.

Long term and cheap can't beat that.

Fantastic, in a bucket!

20 lbs should last a long time . No sugar added. Easy to use . No taste .

Great price. Last decades.

Very good price and product! Perfect for eating and making whatever you want with it, also you can use the bucket for storage after you empty it win win!

Augason Quick Oats are good oats, steamed and rolled thin, packed in a sturdy air-tight container. These oats will keep a very long time, at least the claimed 30 years. You will need tools to open the container, which along with inadequate oxygen absorbent is the reason these oats got 4 but did not get 5 stars. While the bucket has an o-ring built into the lid and will clearly keep for decades, it is not designed to be opened easily and is a hassle to open.Extended long-term storage of oats requires that the oats be rolled thin and steamed, which creates "quick" oats. This process practically sterilizes the oats and hydrolyzes (chemically bonds water to) the starch in the oats. This creates a more stable chemical configuration, making oxidation the only real threat to the longevity of the oats. You must still cook the oats for a minute prior to eating them because steamed oats partially dehydrolyze as soon as the exposure to steam stops, and humans can only digest fully hydrolyzed starches.The only realistic difference between quick oats and so-called old-fashioned rolled oats is a slight difference in texture due to the oats being rolled a little thinner. Old-fashioned rolled oats do not keep as well, not only because they are not sterilized but also because unhydrolized starch breaks down spontaneously over a period of years, even in the absence of oxygen.Some reviews state that the lack of a mylar inner bag will cause the product to degrade. In my opinion, the bucket with its integrated o-ring seal is adequate and makes a mylar inner bag irrelevant. Other reviewers state the oxygen absorber is inadequate. I did the math and found that the oxygen absorber included is about a quarter of the size needed to absorb the oxygen in 10 gallons of air, so some oxygen will remain to slightly degrade the oats. I'm a little surprised that the manufacturer skimped on the oxygen absorbent. The oats will still keep for at least 30 years but it has to be said the oats would benefit from more oxygen absorbent.Good quick oats, which will keep for the stated 30 years, but the bucket is a real pain and the oxygen absorbent is inadequate.

I almost needed a chainsaw to open the lid but everything else is kosher