I an wondering how many readers use a vacuum sealer.

I looked through the archives but didn't find anything - but I still seem to remember a previous thread about these.

Anyway, I am wondering if anyone uses the jar attachment & what do you preserve? Any 'tricks' ?

J

-- j (jw_hsv@yahoo.com), April 27, 2001

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Response to Vacuum sealers

Greetings, J,

I just recently purchased a Food Saver vacuum sealer on e-bay for about $70 (about half of what it sells for in the stores). Since then, I have vacuum sealed lots of things in the bags, but we only tried the jar sealer once to see how it worked. It did fine, but I haven't needed to seal anything in jars yet.

I have sealed whole chickens, cheese, casseroles, berries, green peppers, etc., they just need to be frozen first. The bags are more expensive than regular plastic bags, but they are washable and reusable. Foods store extremely well and don't get freezer burn or ice crystals that are caused by air in the bags.

I am looking forward to putting up all kinds of things from my garden this year using the Food Saver.

Thanks for reading.

-- Dianne in Mass (dianne.bone@usa.net), April 27, 2001.

Mom had one... she said it made things easier for her (she only can use one arm) and she never had a problem sealing anything with it. I was really happy, cause before she got it, that was MY job, lol!! She used every attachment that came with it, and then some. She even vaccume sealed my daughter's baby clothes.

Other than that, I can't help you... I don't buy anything electric anymore... (cept maybe a new computer someday, lol!!)

-- Sue Diederich (willow666@rocketmail.com), April 27, 2001.

We use a Decosonic "suck seal machine " as my daddy calls it for all our dehydrated foodstores. Jars are still done pressure can style. I love our dehydrated "larder in a suitcase".

-- Jay Blair in N. Al (jayblair678@yahoo.com), April 27, 2001.

We bought a Champion Magic Vac in preparation for Y2K. It works great for all sorts of things. It has an attachement for wide mouth and regular mason jars. We vacuum packed dozens of half gallon mason jars with dry goods and dozens of pint jars with dehydrated fruit and herbs. The benefit of using canning jars over bags is that the jars can be reused over and over, but the bags are a one use item and are rather expensive when packing large quantities. We even vacuum packed seeds for the garden that we will not be using for several years. Highly recommended.

-- Skip Walton (sundaycreek@gnrac.net), April 28, 2001.