Yesterday I learned how to seal liquids in the Cabela's vacumm sealer. There was some air left in the bag, but for what I wanted, that wasn't an issue.
I like to marinate foods in vacumm sealed bags. It takes less space in the fridge and it is so easy to just flip the bag over and marinate the other side. For fajitas, I like to marinate the flank steak over night, and every couple of hours or so I bend and twist the meat to get the marinade in between those meat fibers. However, the Cabelas machine needs to create a vacumm for the sealing bar to work right, so I thought I was out'a luck with this new machine.
For the model of Cabelas vacumm sealer that I have, it has a manual setting for when you want to make bags off of the rolls. You will need to make the bag a couple of inches longer than needed, that gives enough space for the liquid to have to travel before hitting the sealing bar. Put the meat and marinade in to the bag, squeeze most, but not all of the air out. Put the open end into the machine and push the start button, then push the manual button right away, I mean RIGHT AWAY. You don't want liquids sucked into the vacumm chanber because it will get into the machine, there isn't much room for spill-overs. It took me two tries, the first time some of the liquid was sucked up into the vacumm area and the seal failed, but I got it sealed on the second try.
