Anyone have any experience with a foodsaver?

[KK]

Do you or your parents own one of these things? You know the vacuum sealing appliance. How good are they? Does any of the juices from whatever you are packaging up get sucked into the machine?

KK

 

[KK]

Anyone??

 

[weezergirl]

my family has one. it works just like on the commercial and no, it does not suck up the juices..only the air.

 

[z0mb13]

do you have to keep buying the plastic?? or will any plastic do??

 

[brtspears2]

Its much louder than the informercial shows.

 

[weezergirl]

you can reuse the plastic bags..but they get smaller each time you use them. and you can use other plastics but it won't work as well...but you can at least seal them up. like chip bags you can seal up but not suck out the air.

if you really want it to work you should use THEIR bags.

 

[KK]

thanks weezer for the info. I was looking at amazon at the reviews and also at epinions, some people there indicating that they would have to partially freeze the meat before vacuuming as the blood and stuff would get sucked out if they didn't. Did you have to do that?

KK

 

[glen]

I got one. let me find the brand. I like it.

 

[glen]

This is the one I have:
http://sorbentsystems.com/sinbosealer.html

 

[brunswickite]

i saw the commercial. looks too much of a hassle to vacuum save your food, everytime you eat something

 

[SaltBoy]

I have one, and when I've used it, it's been great. However, I have not much use for it now that I'm not doing any food storage.

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: KK
thanks weezer for the info. I was looking at amazon at the reviews and also at epinions, some people there indicating that they would have to partially freeze the meat before vacuuming as the blood and stuff would get sucked out if they didn't. Did you have to do that?

KK

I have one, as well. It actually works great!

As previously stated, it's a bit loud, and their bags are the only ones that work very well. And it's never sucked up anything but air, that I've seen.
We use ours a lot, until we run out of bags. Then it kind of sits in the cupboard for a while, until we buy bags again.

It's an awesome tool if you are one of those who buys meat in bulk to freeze. Or pretty much anything in bulk, for that matter.

 

[glen]

The one I linked to will use most any bag, but they also sell bags MUCH cheaper than the TV brand.

 

[RossMAN]

Costco B&M sells a vacuum sealer package which comes with the vacuum, some jar attachments and A LOT of bags for like $189.