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Vacuum sealer
I know this seems like a trite topic of conversation but I am curious about this. Who owns a homeowner-grade vacuum sealer?
What do you do with it? I am kind of looking for new ideas to try.
We often buy ground beef in bulk and then make 200 meatballs or so. We cook them and put them in serving size packages and seal them. Or we make mini-meatloafs in muffin tins and then freeze them. Or we cook up 5 lbs. of taco meat, partition it into servings and then seal and freeze it.
After hunting, I clean the pheasants or grouse, breast them, dust them with flour and brown them. Then I sandwich them between wax paper then freeze and seal them. It's pretty easy to pull out a pack, peel the breasts apart and make parmiagana or put them in some type of sauce.
Any other ideas people are doing?
Whistler
What do you do with it? I am kind of looking for new ideas to try.
We often buy ground beef in bulk and then make 200 meatballs or so. We cook them and put them in serving size packages and seal them. Or we make mini-meatloafs in muffin tins and then freeze them. Or we cook up 5 lbs. of taco meat, partition it into servings and then seal and freeze it.
After hunting, I clean the pheasants or grouse, breast them, dust them with flour and brown them. Then I sandwich them between wax paper then freeze and seal them. It's pretty easy to pull out a pack, peel the breasts apart and make parmiagana or put them in some type of sauce.
Any other ideas people are doing?
Whistler
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Vacuum sealer
I have one and love it. I bought mine at Sam's...don't recall the brand right now, but we use it quite a bit. It definately seems to cure freezer burn, and it's handy to store all sorts of things besides fresh meats; jerky, dried fruit, keeps lettuce fresh for a lot longer than just storing in the crisper drawer. I can even vacuum seal in quart/pint jars.
The only drawback I see is that the bags can get expensive. You have to use (on mine anyway) only the manufacture's bags.
You can get different rolls with different widths, and cut them to the whatever length you want.
Oh yeah..now I remember. Mine's a Tilia FoodSaver.
Good luck.
The only drawback I see is that the bags can get expensive. You have to use (on mine anyway) only the manufacture's bags.
You can get different rolls with different widths, and cut them to the whatever length you want.
Oh yeah..now I remember. Mine's a Tilia FoodSaver.
Good luck.
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I also own the Tilia Foodsaver. I'm not sure what first lead me to buy it as I'm single. However, I found the machine to be a great purchase. I take advantage of some bulk packaged items at the clubs and break them down into small portions. It's a little work up front, but the stuff keeps a long time when you seal it without the air. I found the rolls to be an economical way to cut costs.
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Handy tool for sure. I've used mine to store half used caulk tubes, ammo, guns, fireworks. They're great for sealing anything that needs to stay dry but is going on a wet trip, like cameras PDAs and the sort.
My wife even uses it to store food in sometimes.
My wife even uses it to store food in sometimes.
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I have a Tila Foodsaver too. We had one lesser one that Joan managed to kill (she is a whizz at killing appliances) So I bought the upgrade one, with more features, and use it all the time. It saves food beautifully - a box of cereal was halved, one half into a foodsaver jar, the other into a ziplock. We are still using the cereal from the vacuum jar, over a month since we had to throw away the mouldy cereal in the ziplock bag. I buy large blocks of cheese - cut into three, vacuum up two, use one. Keeps totally fresh for the whole month, rather than drying out.
Soggy stuff is a problem, but the foodsaver came with a video that suggested good ways of not killing the thing. (Joan should have watched it with the first version.)
Theo
Soggy stuff is a problem, but the foodsaver came with a video that suggested good ways of not killing the thing. (Joan should have watched it with the first version.)
Theo
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