 "Works great!" | 2009-07-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3A2Q7Z7QWWCA6 |
| These bags are great but I had a problem with sharp foods... (Bag was punctured.) |
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 "Yup, they're bigger bags alright." | 2009-06-21 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1QAYN2ICZ7NST |
| These are larger bags that work with the FoodSaver. Like the smaller bags, they work...and that's about it. |
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 "Do the Math - VERY EXPENSIVE (about $0.50 per use) and not Very Good." | 2009-06-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2MATLUO176SR1 |
The endless bag idea is great, if it were economical, and if the bags were of decent enough quality to hold a vacuum.
OUTRAGEOUS COST
At $27 for 18 feet of bags, my cost per 1 foot bag is $1.50. At the very, very best, you can use the bag three times, or $0.50 per use. This is ridiculously expensive. What a gimmick.
PROBLEMS
* The only way you can reuse the bag is if you make a giant bag long enough to hold a broom. Every time you open it, you have to cut it below the seal, and discard the portion above it and toss out a piece of your bag. After two to three uses, you will have a tiny bag that is good for sealing handful of coffee beans, once! True that they are reusable, but with a huge caveat.
* When you seal things with liquid it in, they end up in the machine, and interfere with a proper seal. You will get a leak.
* When you seal powdery substance (ground coffee, corn meal, etc.) they will again interfere with the seal.
* Mystery leaks. Some times they just leak and I cannot figure out how or why. I attribute this to faulty thin bags, which are inferior grade relative to the original ones that came with the machine.
OTHER REVIEWS
The highest rated review in Amazon is from a person who claims to save money by buying 2 rolls every two weeks. THAT IS ABOUT $800-900 PER YEAR, if you add tax and delivery. Not accusing anyone of being an insider or inflating their observations, just poor math. Just how much did they save?
POSITIVES
It stows well in the FoodSaver device.
SUMMARY
Do your homework and look at everything in the market before you fall for the "save" sell point. It may save the food, but it will empty your wallet doing it. |
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| "What can you say?" | 2009-06-08 |
| - Reviewed By User: A18TUDRG10Z2Y5 |
| Like the title says...what can you say about vac sealer rolls? They are sealer material on a roll...just as advertised. The work great, just like the rolls that came with the sealer. The price was good, but after adding in shipping, it was very close to the price I could get at a local store. |
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| "Food Saver Rolls." | 2009-03-17 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2UHX1G1NNIOMH |
| I have not used it yet. It looks pretty good except it is thinner than the original that came with the seal-a-meal. I will send another review after I use it. Lucy Cyllinan |
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| "Love my foodsaver" | 2009-02-24 |
| - Reviewed By User: A147QED59WAP5G |
We received the Food Saver from a family member who had 'upgraded' and we were skeptical. I personally didn't think it would seal well and figured in 6 months, I'd be throwing yet another dust covered gadget into the garage.
We were converts in 2 days. I was packing up the last of the summer peppers for the freezer and froze a back of sliced peppers and got a beautiful tight airless seal. 6 months later I am still using the same bag, I left a large length and cut it, take out what i need and reseal each time. Every time I get a beautiful seal that lasts until I open the pkg whether it's days or months later. I've used this for meats bought in large packages, to vegetables from the garden, to yeast that I rarely use.
The rolls are VERY convenient and (unlike the bags I was given with the FoodSaver) have a nice big spot to write the contents.
I admit, had I not been given the machine, we probably would have never tried it. But now that I have it, I don't know how I lived without it.
OH! and the amount of space in the freezer it saves! Those peppers don't get all mushed up but the airtight seal takes up about 1/3 of the space a regular freezer bag would take! Another benefit!
Goodbye freezer burn, good bye mystery gray freezer-to-trash meat, goodbye running out of room in the freezer every 2 weeks. :)
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