vacuum bagger

[Charlie]

OK, it seems to be a harmless hobby, carry on. (Are there very many "death while vacuum sealing" deaths yearly? What do the stats say? Be safe.)

 

[jpatm2]

Sometimes we will use ours to reseal bulk bags after we remove however much we need for our secondary container. This way it doesn't go stale.

 

[Tony2]

1. Left over pizza
2. Flour tortillas
3. Left over Bush's chicken tenders.
4. Meyer's sausage left overs.
5. I individually re-seal those HEB thick and tasty burgers. Keeps the frost off.
6. Sealed up about 24 bars of bath soap I found in bulk on Amazon
7. Tea Bags
8. Bags of flour
9. Brown Sugar
10. EE savings bonds
11. A WWII pistol my Dad brought back
12. Grandpa's Model 1892 Winchester
13. I vacuum seal all my ammo in the original boxes. When I run out of room in the ammo cans, I just store them on the closet shelf.
14. You can reseal bags of chips, pretzels, etc.
15. I use the jar attachment from the Food Saver to re-seal Planter's freeze dried peanuts in a quart jar, after the large 32 0z package has been opened. Keeps them fresh until I'm ready for them.
16. Keurig K-cups
17. Rubber bands
18. Spare rubber fuel line for the lawn tractor
19. Garden fresh green beans.
That's all I can think of right off the top of my head.

does it work good with the green beans. I have froze them in zip locks and they aren't worth eating. I understand the rubber hose and bands

 

[TheDan]

OK, it seems to be a harmless hobby, carry on. (Are there very many "death while vacuum sealing" deaths yearly? What do the stats say? Be safe.)

Like slipping and hitting your head on the kitchen counter? I'm trying to imagine how badly one must be misusing a vacuum sealer to cause their death

 

[mantawolf]

I vacuum seal my vacuum sealer bags to protect them...

I use a food saver, one of the higher end ones. I used to shop at Costco for meat, would go once a month and stock up. I could seal 8-10 bags before I had to let the thing cool down for a while. In my opinion the FS is great but if you are going to seal a lot and do it quite often, you might consider something more commercial. Just doing that once month was irritating to me.

 

[Mexican_Hippie]

I freeze and seal okra about once a week. Works fine for me.

 

[Bozz10mm]

does it work good with the green beans. I have froze them in zip locks and they aren't worth eating. I understand the rubber hose and bands

Yep, green beans freeze and keep great. But, you have to blanch them first. Can't just put them in the bags and freeze them.