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Mine is biting the dust. Had it for about 10 years.

 

Anyhow, I go to central market in dallas and load up on fish and chicken. Like $450 each time and come home and vacuum it. But my current sealer fails recently sucking all the air out and the bag is essentially a ziploc bag.

 

So.

 

Need a new one. Any recs?

I bought this thing to do some holiday food, not sure if the duty cycle is what you need based on how much you do at a time (you'll want to let it cool down every couple seals), but it was cheap and works really well. Was on sale for less than $50 at the time.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B4W5PMB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Another option if you tend to work yours pretty hard, is go buy whatever Foodsaver at Costco, and if you kill it in the first year or 2, just return it to Costco.

I’ve got a big food saver. Works pretty well. Maybe you should look at some LEM or Cabelas stuff for the volume you are taking about.

America's test kitchen did a comparison on them - video on youtube

I have used the hell out of a FoodSaver from Costco for the last two years with no issues.

If you want a good one that will last, get a Weston.  They are made to handle continuous use.  Sealing a bunch of bags in a row is what gets the smaller FoodSaver models.

Edited by kevwun

The big Cabelas branded sealers used to be made by Weston, not sure if they still are.

I have the big foodsaver with the marinade hose attachment, the mason jar sealer, and 3 hdmi ports. I’ve been happy with it for a couple of years now. 
 

Whatever you get, get the big pleated bags to make life easy with a brisket. 

On 12/17/2019 at 9:26 AM, Jerry Callo said:

I have used the hell out of a FoodSaver from Costco for the last two years with no issues.

 

this 


Its been a long while now, that costco switched their foodsaver model from vertical to horizontal.  The difference being the sealing edge was at the lip of the vertical model, and moved into somewhere middle of the unit.

 

That means a lot of wasted bag space both direction of the seal, in the bag and to the cutting edge.

 

They might've switched it back

 

if you do not mind hand pumping it is hard to beat one of these

 

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44 minutes ago, ButtFumble said:

if you do not mind hand pumping it is hard to beat one of these

 

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Grandpa?

I got this bad boy last month. It works great, as it should considering the price. It also takes up a shitload of space.

Weston Pro-2300 Commercial Grade Stainless Steel Vacuum Sealer (65-0201), Double Piston Pump
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001GP81R2/

17 hours ago, Your Mom said:

 
 

Whatever you get, get the big pleated bags to make life easy with a brisket. 

This. Bought them by mistake, didn't know such a thing existed. No more double wrapping in foil and hoping for the best in the freezer.

Yeah I am regretting not picking the food saver at COSTCO when it was on sale a couple weeks ago.

  • 4 months later...

Looking at picking up a chamber sealer and I was all set to buy the VacMaster 215 until I checked Costco's site and they have the MaxVac Pro for $300 less than the VacMaster.  Both have similar specs, so I would expect performance to be similar.  Anyone have experience with the MaxVac Pro?  I can't find much online, which is not particularly reassuring.  But Costco's great return policy would cover me if it takes a shit, or if it is shit.

 

https://www.costco.com/maxvac-pro-chamber-vacuum-sealer.product.100536866.html

Edited by Chewbacca

On 12/19/2019 at 4:21 AM, ButtFumble said:

if you do not mind hand pumping it is hard to beat one of these

 

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It's damn sure hard to beat with that attached. 

Has anyone used the small handheld ones? I'd like to get one for when I sous vide and don't need a big one as I don't have freezer space to store a bunch of vacuum sealed packages. 



It's damn sure hard easy to beat with that attached. 





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