Given the background description of some cooking related query, summarize the question into a title

Example Input: So I usually buy irradiated beef. From what I understand, the beef is packaged, sealed, and the absolutely blasted with radiation. I'm a nuclear engineer for a living, so I know that most things tend to die when exposed to the levels of dose that this beef is subject to. Normally food spoils by having bacteria and mold and such munch away on it, but here, all of that should be dead.If its perfectly sealed away, and there's nothing living inside the package, how can it spoil?
Example Output: How does irradiated beef spoil?

Example Input: I've got about 20 red thai peppers from my garden this year that I air dried. I currently have them in a mason jar with the lid and ring on (not sealed though). Is this a sufficient storage method, or is there a better way? The peppers are whole.
Example Output: Storing dried peppers

Example Input: You've got a cocktail party and need a supply of crushed ice through the night without having to continually bring out the blender.Leave it out and it melts quickly.Put it in the freezer and it joins back together.Is there some cheap way of keeping it crushed like those super-expensive, super-unreliable Iced-Coke/Slurpee machines do?
Example Output:
Keeping crushed ice from melting, without it joining back together

