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Automatic Vacuum Sealing Machine (Cryovac)
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Published: Apr 29, 2018
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Food and Wine
When you live a chip shot from Costco, Costco becomes your supermarket. But it’s too super — what do you do with 5 pounds of green beans? 10 pounds of carrots? Enough steaks for a barbeque at the Kardashians?
I found a solution. From a weed dealer. He was laconic in the extreme: “Cryovac.”
Well, duh.
I knew of vacuum sealing devices, but I assumed they were expansive and complicated, used mainly by cooks partial to sous vide and, of course, weed dealers. Imagine my surprise when I found a simple one that costs just $29. I bought it. Went shopping. And spent a happy 15 minutes filling the freezer compartment. I felt like a pioneer woman making enough plum preserves to last the winter.
Amazon’s cheapest highly-rated Vacuum Sealing Machine is small (13.4” x 2.5” x 2”). Light (1.5 pounds). Easy to use, in either the vacuum seal or seal only mode. [To buy the Vacuum Sealer from Amazon, click here. It comes with 15 quart-sized bags. You’ll want more. To buy 100 quart-sized plastic bags from Amazon, click here.]
This brand only sells a black machine on Amazon. For whatever reason, here’s a wretched video of that brand… in white.
You ask: how easy is it to use? Amazingly easy, and I say this as someone who only has two mechanical skills: typing and dialing a phone. To seal, for example, you plug in the machine, put the open end of the plastic bag on the sealing strip, close the lid, lock the buckles at the ends, and press the “Seal Only” button for 3 seconds. The LED will turn red. That’s your signal to press lightly on the center of the lid. The red LED will turn green. Open the lid — and there’s your practical magic: an airtight plastic bag.
Amazon reminder: This device is “also useful for valuables, jewelries, important documents, letters preservation and sous vide cooking.” And in invisible ink: weed dealers and smokers.
