A good vacuum sealer?

[Arielle]

THe greatest problem I have had with bags is the thickness, or rather the lack of thickness. These bags need to be fairly sturdy to handle handling.

RIght now I use a freezer bag for the chickens, and a white garbage bag for the turkeys. Not fancy but it works.

A more professional look would be preferable . . .

 

[Arielle]

Ooops wrong link.

This is the one I bought:
http://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-FSF...id=1395538506&sr=8-1&keywords=food+saver+3800

THis looks like a wonderful model!! Putting it on my wish list.

 

[miken56]

Any thoughts on bags in this thread? I bought some "discount" bags to save money for my food saver, (which really works great for us), but just had to fight to get the bags to suck out decent. Seems like they just don't have enough texture channels to allow air to suck out. I did have better luck with folding over one corner about 1" to kind of get a better air channel and had pretty good success but still not as good as the original food saver bags. I will have to dig through my receipts to find out for sure but I think they were "bulk discount bags". We cut up about 90% of our chickens before freezing for later convenience, so shrink bags don't really seam like they would be a good fit for us. It seems there were about 4 different companies selling "discount bulk food saver type" bags so was just wondering if one of the other companies were better quality/texture?

 

[homesteader89]

Yes, I use Weston Bags. You can usually find them cheaper than foodsaver bags on the web and they're better. They're thick, have a good texture for vacuuming & sealing, and work with foodsaver, though I use them with my own Weston Sealer b/c it's way better quality than foodsaver I've found them cheaper outside of the manufacturer's site, but I got a 15% off coupon for buying the bags on WestonSupply.com, so that's where I go. http://www.westonsupply.com/Vacuum-Sealers-Vacuum-Sealer-Bags-s/81.htm

 

[Arielle]

INteresting question-- sorry I have no answers as I dont have this device yet.

 

[BOBfromMI]

try bags from Weston they are CHEAP and work well in foodsavers use a ton of them for chickens and deer processing. you can get 11in bag rolls in 50ft and save a lot over foodsaver bags. I would use the poultry shrink bags from cornerstone since they work great and your going to have hot water around for scaulding ANYWAY just heat it up a little more the only downside to shrink wrap bags is the don't last as long but I use my birds buy 3 YEARS and that's how long the shrink wrap bags are lasting some say up to 5 yrs but I haven't tried it cause I like using my meat in 1-2 yrs anyway hope this helped.