Ed P
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I was wrong...I paid more for the Weston. I just looked and I bought the Weston at an eBay auction for $122.49 + tax & shipping on 1/10/20, total purchase = $161.53. I bought the GameSaver for $110.60 on 6/01/15 from Red's Gear on Amazon, no tax and free shipping. I was surprised when I won the auction with such a low bid! We still have the GameSaver for a backup.
We use ours quite a bit...with just the two of us, it's a necessity. I've got a pork loin roast ($1.99/lb) to cut into pork chops today. We routinely buy the limit (usually 10#) of hamburger when it goes on sale ($1.99/lb) and divide it into 1lb portions. We bought the limit (10#) of country-style ribs ($1.99/lb) for the slow cooker. She bought 9# of bacon recently, I don't remember the price. I double-seal each end of a bag with a label between seals at one end, a holdover from the early days with FoodSaver, so that's 4 seals per bag. I'm just not comfortable with a single seal, it doesn't look right to me, force of habit. I've got shopping bags of pork, beef, and chicken, all stuff we buy when it's on sale, and whenever anything goes on sale, we take inventory and see if there is anything we need.
I think we ended up with 10 steaks and 3 roasts from the rib roast sale, and I've got a ribeye steak in the fridge for dinner tonight that I'm probably going to cut in half it's so thick, and we both love a good crust so there's an opportunity for more crust there.
My wife would prefer that I seal in individual portions, but with so many things in the freezer, it's more of an organizational thing for me.
I created a sheet of labels in Excel to put between seals. With the GameSaver there is a lot of space at the top between the edge of the bag and the seal, not so much with the Weston. I'd post it but the file format isn't permitted, but it's easy to create your own. Since I double-seal anyway, it makes sense to me to do it this way., and I've been doing it this way for years...YMMV
We use ours quite a bit...with just the two of us, it's a necessity. I've got a pork loin roast ($1.99/lb) to cut into pork chops today. We routinely buy the limit (usually 10#) of hamburger when it goes on sale ($1.99/lb) and divide it into 1lb portions. We bought the limit (10#) of country-style ribs ($1.99/lb) for the slow cooker. She bought 9# of bacon recently, I don't remember the price. I double-seal each end of a bag with a label between seals at one end, a holdover from the early days with FoodSaver, so that's 4 seals per bag. I'm just not comfortable with a single seal, it doesn't look right to me, force of habit. I've got shopping bags of pork, beef, and chicken, all stuff we buy when it's on sale, and whenever anything goes on sale, we take inventory and see if there is anything we need.
I think we ended up with 10 steaks and 3 roasts from the rib roast sale, and I've got a ribeye steak in the fridge for dinner tonight that I'm probably going to cut in half it's so thick, and we both love a good crust so there's an opportunity for more crust there.
My wife would prefer that I seal in individual portions, but with so many things in the freezer, it's more of an organizational thing for me.
I created a sheet of labels in Excel to put between seals. With the GameSaver there is a lot of space at the top between the edge of the bag and the seal, not so much with the Weston. I'd post it but the file format isn't permitted, but it's easy to create your own. Since I double-seal anyway, it makes sense to me to do it this way., and I've been doing it this way for years...YMMV
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