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try this. get some inexspensive ziplock freezer bags and drinking straws. put your meat or veg in bag and place straw all the way to bottom at one side. zip bag to straw suck out air with your own lungs. pull out straw with mouth as you zip close that last 1/4 inch. ive been doing this for the past 20 years with great results. machines get you on the refills $$$ and eventually fail.
Yes, I have tried that. But not only is it less sanitary, I find that you can't duplicate the kind of vacuum that allows for really long storage like a year or more.
well then buy a quality one not that one. as for sanitary you lost me.the business end of the straw never touches the food.i have used year old food frozen this way with great results.what do you plan to do with your preserved food? not put it in your mouth and eat it i hope. very unsanitary dont you think?
I own a Zipvac and find it so much easier to use and less expensive that FoodSaver. The bags are reuseable and can be boiled, microwaved, frozen. My wife likes the rechargable pump and I like the manual pump. I've got a friend in Minn. who has one and he will suck the air out using his lungs, but only for keeping stuff like license, boat registration and the like. The soda straw technique just doesn't work long-term. I tried it. Since the Zipvac kit costs $29.95 and the FoodSaver can go for a couple of hundred at high retail stores, the choice is an easy one for me to make. I ordered mine offline to use it for quail and pheasant breasts mostly. They have a filet bag and other sizes as well. The Web site shows that the ZipVac won best fishing accessory in a big tackle trade show and repeated it in Australia. Not only that, but Field & Stream gave it a Best of the Best honors last year. That's what convinced me to try it.
I used a big industrial type of vacuum sealer when I was on Active Duty in the Navy. A lot of our stuff had to be vacuum sealed as it was being packaged for shipment.
My Dw vacuum seals a lot of our food before freezing it. She did own a 'Food-Saver' brand, but over a few years she wore it out.
Now she buys the plastic as flat sheets, and does it make-shift. It works for her.
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