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My first thought is Foodsaver, but I thought I’d check here. I’m going to start buying more bulk items and freezing as well as Sous vide cooking. What manufacturers to you like? For design, durability, and cost of bags, rolls, etc. Any advice would be great. Thanks! | ||
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The step up from Foodsaver is Weston. They make commercial-grade vacuum sealers around $300-500 depending on size (they also make a couple of less expensive consumer-grade units). People sometimes complain about Foodsaver units sometimes not making good seals in the bags. I've NEVER had anything less than a perfect seal with my Weston Pro-2300. The next step up from there is a commercial chamber machine, they start around $1000. In a chamber machine, the machine doesn't just suck air out of the bag, you put the whole bag in a chamber that is pumped down to vacuum. The benefit is you can vacuum-seal liquids (soup, meat with a ton of marinade, etc.). A normal vacuum sealer will suck the liquid out of the bag. Weston also makes very good pre-sized bags and continuous rolls that are thick and durable and have a texture on the inside that helps eliminate trapped bubbles. | |||
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^^^^^^^^ Foodsavers are good enough, Westons are much better. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Got my food saver at Costco when it was on sale, been very happy with it. What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???  | |||
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For a brief moment, I considered a chamber vac. This could get pricey. | |||
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My suggestion (we have a FoodSaver). Get a model that has the bag roll out and cutter built-in to the unit. It's a PITA to cut the bags and slows you down. Steve Small Business Website Design & Maintenance - https://spidercreations.net | OpSpec Training - https://opspectraining.com | Grayguns - https://grayguns.com Evil exists. You can not negotiate with, bribe or placate evil. You're not going to be able to have it sit down with Dr. Phil for an anger management session either. | |||
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This. I like my Foodsaver just fine, but cutting (and wasting some of) the bags is a pain. I must say though, IF I do my part, the seal has always been solid. ________________________________________________ "You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving." -Dr. Adrian Rogers | |||
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I have owned my FoodSaver for years, and I just love this thing. I smoke a lot of different kinds of meat, then use the vacuum sealer to freeze it. It works great!!! | |||
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I have a Vac Master 550 Duo. It's a chamber and vacuum sealer in one unit. Think I paid somewhere around $600 about 5 years ago. Nice unit and has served me well. Chamber vacuum bags are about 1/3 the cost of the vacuum suction rolls and bags. Spend the money up front on a chamber sealer and if you plan on using it quite often it will pay for itself in savings on the bags. "Fixed fortifications are monuments to mans stupidity" - George S. Patton | |||
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Weston or Vacmaster are worth the money. In comparison, the Food Savers I've had were slow and weak. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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I have tried 2 different Foodsavers and 2 different brands of bags, for each. Both have had problems with seal integrity. User error, I wonder? Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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Food saver works fine for me. I buy rolls, and use the built in slide cutter. | |||
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My Foodsaver worked very well for many years but when it finally gave up I stepped up to a VacMaster chamber machine. To say the least I am very happy with my choice. I was fortunate in that when the Foodsaver decided to expire I only had a couple of rolls left. The “POLICE" Their job Is To Save Your Ass, Not Kiss It The muzzle end of a .45 pretty much says "go away" in any language - Clint Smith | |||
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Food saver one has worked fine for me. I am not sure how I could justify paying 5 or 10 times as much for one. I know it can't possibly work five or ten times better. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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| eh-TEE-oh-clez |
Sure, might be user error. The bags seal with heat. The machine presses the two halves of the opening together, and applies heat until the bags fuse. A common problem is that people don't leave enough excess bag so that the two halves of the bag can lay perfectly flat against each other. If you've got some oddly shaped stuff in the bag, the two halves of the bag might not want to lay perfectly flat on the heating element--so you've got to help it lay flat by pulling the two sides of the bag out and leaving enough "tail" on the bag for the machine to clamp down on. Also, marinades and stuff that get sucked up towards the opening might interfere with a good seal. Again, a little extra bag length and cutting off the vacuum pressure before the marinade gets drawn all the way to the opening will help. Sometimes, I'll vaccum, seal, then move the bag out a half inch, and just seal again. Creates a double seal. | |||
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I do this every time, even though I've never had a leak. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Food saver is good enough for non commercial use. No issues with mine in 2 years. There are 3 kinds of people, those that understand numbers and those that don't. | |||
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We have the cheap Foodsaver unit for hat Costco sells. It works perfectly. Most of our sealing is in preparation for Sous Vide cooking. Mike I'm sorry if I hurt you feelings when I called you stupid - I thought you already knew - Unknown ................................... When you have no future, you live in the past. " Sycamore Row" by John Grisham | |||
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FoodSaver here, it just works. Follow the rules (directions) for great results. My current one deals with liquids, a big plus!! I put them to WORK!! But they last an easy 5 years. Jar sealers with Mason jars is a must have! I keep cereal, and other like products fresh for months/years with an oxygen absorber in the jar. _________________________________________________ "Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God." --- G.K. Chesterton | |||
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