Wife's cousin's bar mitzvah was this weekend and her aunt gave us all the left-overs. That is, 10 lbs of deli, and 15 lbs of grilled chicken breasts. I really want to keep the stuff and so I want to package it up soon. (I'm thinking vacuum packing and freezing.) What's the best way to do this? What equipment do I need to get?
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LarryR
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Do you have some kind of a vac. sealing system? I recently purchased one due to the amount of Q I was doing; now not only am I using it for Q but I'm using it for my bulk coffee etc.
Your question is, "What's the best way to do this? What equipment do I need to get?" I have a Food Saver, Seal-a-meal seems to be a respectable system too, instructions with my system were very straight forward regarding the food I wanted to use with the system.
Your question is, "What's the best way to do this? What equipment do I need to get?" I have a Food Saver, Seal-a-meal seems to be a respectable system too, instructions with my system were very straight forward regarding the food I wanted to use with the system.
Pinny,
This is what I use Reynolds Handy Vac I have a foodsaver, but it made me feel like and idiot one day so I bought the Handi-vac. It works really well for me, and the bags are only about 2x the cost of non-vac bags. You can reseal them after opening also.
Read the customer reviews at amazon first though, I havent yet. All I can offer is that they work for me as a cheap solution to foodsavers. For the price I think its hard to go wrong.
I did have a friend buy one, and the machine didnt suck for him, he thought it was the bags, but when I let him "feel" how hard mine sucked, it was aparent it was not the bags.
Another thing that helped me was to remove as much air from the bag as you can before trying to seal, otherwise it seems to take a long time because it has to empty the excess air. If you press the air out first, it begins to vacuum quickly. The other trick I use is to hang all of the meat off the edge of the counter, leaving only the blue vac-point corner on the counter. Ok, now i'm rambling
Hope this helps you,
Brandon
This is what I use Reynolds Handy Vac I have a foodsaver, but it made me feel like and idiot one day so I bought the Handi-vac. It works really well for me, and the bags are only about 2x the cost of non-vac bags. You can reseal them after opening also.
Read the customer reviews at amazon first though, I havent yet. All I can offer is that they work for me as a cheap solution to foodsavers. For the price I think its hard to go wrong.
I did have a friend buy one, and the machine didnt suck for him, he thought it was the bags, but when I let him "feel" how hard mine sucked, it was aparent it was not the bags.
Another thing that helped me was to remove as much air from the bag as you can before trying to seal, otherwise it seems to take a long time because it has to empty the excess air. If you press the air out first, it begins to vacuum quickly. The other trick I use is to hang all of the meat off the edge of the counter, leaving only the blue vac-point corner on the counter. Ok, now i'm rambling
Brandon
Larry,
no big deal, AT ALL, got a good laugh out of it. I was half expecting someone to do what you did. Anyone up for the maiden voyage video again
ok, ok I should go to bed too. Thanks for the late night entertainment.
P.S. And buy yourself a Handy-Vac, sorry about your thread Pinny...
P.P.S Maiden Voyage run Forest run!
G'nite, sorry..I had to.
Brandon
no big deal, AT ALL, got a good laugh out of it. I was half expecting someone to do what you did. Anyone up for the maiden voyage video again
P.S. And buy yourself a Handy-Vac, sorry about your thread Pinny...
P.P.S Maiden Voyage run Forest run!
G'nite, sorry..I had to.
Brandon
LarryR
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God I love that video! I can so relate to that (in the early days of my WSM).
Pinny, I too am sorry about taking your post down to the level I did (now that I'm sober I deleted questionable post). Bottom-line, I think any vac. seal system will provide you with what your looking for. If you're looking to to heavy vac. sealing than I'd look at more of a heavy duty system.
God I love that video! I can so relate to that (in the early days of my WSM).
Pinny, I too am sorry about taking your post down to the level I did (now that I'm sober I deleted questionable post). Bottom-line, I think any vac. seal system will provide you with what your looking for. If you're looking to to heavy vac. sealing than I'd look at more of a heavy duty system.