freezing vacuum bags

[Wayne K.]

Another newbie question. Do you folks wrap your sealed vacuume bags in butcher paper or just freeze the bag ? I'm going salmon fishing next week & hope to have some salmon to freeze. Some I will put in the WSM when I get home & some for later. Mmmmm.... thanks all.

 

[Corey Elks]

freeze the bag.. thats what they are made for. good luck on the fishing

 

[Chris Allingham]

I put raw meat into the bag sealed on only 1 end. Let the meat get semi-frozen then seal the bag. I think this is a technique from my old Foodsaver manual that keeps the sealing pressure from squeezing a lot of liquid out of the meat and fouling the seam sealing process.

Then I often put several sealed bags inside a large Ziploc bag just as a way of protecting the sealed bags. If you get a nick in the sealed bag from it jostling around in the freezer against other stuff, you lose your seal. So the Ziploc kind of takes the brunt of things, not the precious sealed bags inside.

Regards,
Chris

 

[Wayne K.]

Thanks Chris, I will give that a try.