I've never had a vacuum sealer or used Food Saver pouches. How many bags are there to a roll? Is there a machine that is purchased with it.?
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The roll is not sectioned off into lengths - you cut the length you want. You need to buy the Food Saver in order to use it.
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You do have to buy the Food Saver. It really saves you money. You can take advantage of sales at your local market or BJ's, Sam's Club and Costco. You seal your food and it can last for up to 2-3 years. The portion bags are my favorite. I seal a boneless chicken breast in each side, or hamburgers, left over casseroles. You can seal veggies from your garden or local farm stand. The rolls you make the length you want. There are 2 roll sizes. In addition to the regular stuff you would seal you can also buy the marinator which is wonderful for marinating food. You can also buy the jar sealers. I buy Ball Canning jars. You can store your dry food like rice, cereal, flour, sugar, etc. I also make homemade soup and I freeze the leftovers in a Ball Canning Jar after using the jar sealer. They also have a new product that you can use to seal your deli meats and cheeses. They last much longer. I would recommend you buy this model as it has the hose for using the marinator and jar sealers and the new product for deli items. You could buy this at Sam's Club, BJ's or Costco. I would search for the cheapest price. Once you start using it you will wonder what you did without it. NO MORE FREEZER BURN. Plenty of video's on You Tube. You do have to buy the Food Saver. It really saves you money. http://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-Sealing-Retractable-Handheld-Heat-Seal/dp/B00DI342IW/ref=sr_1_13?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1408380678&sr=1-13&keywords=foodsaver+vacuum+sealer
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you have to buy the machine the bags are in a roll and you can either get the preperforated which makes every bag a standard size or i personally buy the roll that lets me cut the bags to whatever size i need
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I found the Foodsaver bags too expensive. I bought 2 generic rolls of the large size and just make the bags to fit whatever I am sealing. They look just like the foodsaver bags but for a lot less money. They work perfectly and I have not had any problem. I bought them on Amazon for about $20 and free shipping. Yeah for Prime!!! I do not believe you can use regular plastic bags as they would not take the heat seal.
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Hi I've used other vacuum bags when I wanted to rewrap cheeses and meats that I received from friends with different machines. I assume that would apply to the bags you're asking about. Vacuum and heat seal worked good on other bags. I hope that helps.
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There is a cutter with the machine. Lay the roll in the top where indicated in the manual; then lift up a plastic bar before cutting & pull out the roll to how long you need. Fold down the plastic bar & put light pressure on it to hold the sheet where you want it. Slide the cutter across and voila! You have a nice clean cut. The only annoyance I've discovered when doing the vacuum sealing is sometimes if the food inside is a little heavy or bulky, I have to slightly raise up the bag where the food is to get the vacuum to work (there is a cancel button in case you need to cancel). There are very good directions in the manual...with a little practice you'll be a pro in no time. There is a cutter with the machine. Lay the roll in the top where indicated in the manual; then lift up a plastic bar before cutting & pull out the roll to how long you need. Fold down the plastic bar & put light pressure on it to hold the sheet where you want it. Slide the cutter across and voila! You have a nice clean cut. The only annoyance I've discovered when doing the vacuum sealing is sometimes if the food inside is a little heavy or bulky, I have to slightly raise up the bag where the food is to get the vacuum to work (there is a cancel button in case you need to cancel). There are... » Read More There is a cutter with the machine. Lay the roll in the top where indicated in the manual; then lift up a plastic bar before cutting & pull out the roll to how long you need. Fold down the plastic bar & put light pressure on it to hold the sheet where you want it. Slide the cutter across and voila! You have a nice clean cut. The only annoyance I've discovered when doing the vacuum sealing is sometimes if the food inside is a little heavy or bulky, I have to slightly raise up the bag where the food is to get the vacuum to work (there is a cancel button in case you need to cancel). There are very good directions in the manual...with a little practice you'll be a pro in no time. « Show Less
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I would not recommend any food saver canister. They always seem to lose the vacuum and I've even ended up spilling the contents because I picked it up by the top. The bags I love.
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HiI've used other vacuum bags when I wanted to rewrap cheeses and meats that I received from friends with different machines. I assume that would apply to the bags you're asking about. Vacuum and heat seal worked good on other bags. I hope that helps.
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I purchased the 800 count in January of this year. I still have 20 rolls left. I am not sure of how many bags per roll. If there are 20 per roll, thats 5 per 100 which which equal 40 rolls to start with?? I just put a rubber band around the rolls and they fit in a pocket well. I have been very happy with purchase/price for my 2 dogs.
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I seal anything with some liquid that could get sucked up in another bag first. I either use a cheap zip-lock bag & push the air out of it, or a regular food storage bag and do the same push the air out and twist it, then put it in the Waring bags & seal it. This keeps the liquids from being vacuumed into the machine, or at least you can see it seeping out & can stop before they start seeping up to the vacuum. I usually get a pretty good seal before that happens. This makes cleaning your resealable bags easier.
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I'm wondering why you couldn't go ahead and hit the button to vacuum and seal then, when it's gone as far as you want it to go, hit the 'manual seal' button. I've done that on my Foodsaver machines. I'll have to check when mine arrives today (yay!). This wouldn't be a deal-breaker for me anyway, but it's worth a try if you use yours a lot for just manual sealing. One of my Foodsavers vacuums pretty fast and I can still get to the manual seal button in time, before it crushes the item. I seldom have the need to do that, but you might try it.
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I have had good results with any of the brands I tried. Success seems to be based more on allowing plenty of room for the bag to be sucked in around the food and with enough room at the end to have a seal that is wrinkle-free. Too many times I tried to save a few cents by making the bag just long enough to seal, only to find air in the bag later. To more explicitly answer the question, though, my preferred bags and rolls are the Vacustrip type because they seem to fit tighter around the food during vacuuming.
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I would not recommend reusing the bags.As for the size, from the Sous Vide Supreme Web site: Quantity:2 rolls per boxEach box contains two rolls--enough to make about 40 large pouches (10" x 11"/ 25.4 cm x 28 cm) or nearly 60 smaller pouches (7" x 11"/ 17.8 cm x 28 cm). Dimensions:28 cm x 5 m (11 inches x 16.4 feet) per roll
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There isn't any. The company does not make this system or any attachments for it. It's not even on the Ziplock site. The company that makes this system, I assume, for Ziplock, has not put out any for it either. You may find some made by the Food Saver company, that's what I was using with the Ziplock system when I was using it. As far as I'm concerned, If you bought this system you wasted your money, I donated mine and got an actual Food Saver Vacuum and love it. Anything I put in a bag stays vacuumed until I take it out and open it, unlike the Ziploc system.
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I reuse them all the time. I usually put the food in an open regular ziplock bag first (it lets the air out just fine). Sometimes several small bags in the vacuum bag. That lets me portion control and all I have to do is seal the inner to thaw and reseal and revacuum the outer bag. I have used them without the vacuum in a pinch. For fruit or other delicate item you could leave it without the vacuum. Better yet, just use the vacuum until the air is mostly out without crushing fruit. It works great for me.
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This food saver seals the food in special plastic bags and you need to cut the bag from the roll and seal it in the food saver. It is not one of those for plastic wrap or wax paper, etc.
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The absorbers come in 3 sealed bags of 20 each. I don't know how to tell if they are expired other than they don't work. After 8 or 9 days of dragging all the stuff out sealing bags waiting a day then cutting open then resealing I ended up with about 10 sealed correctly. I had good flat seals on them all so it wasn't user error. I even started putting 2 and 3 absorbers in a bag but no luck. I might have just got a bad batch who knows. I bought a food sealer and stored what I wanted then put them in gray 5 gallon buckets. Alot less hassle with the same outcome. Hope this helps
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Not sure of the question, but I have sealed everything up to and including ham shoulders. It is a good food saver. For replacement bags, I ordered directly off of ebay, 400 8x12 quart size for $70. I also have used the roll type, and havent had any issues yet. Hope it helps.
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No, I do not. I know we tried to get a sealer for our old Food Saver and finally gave up and just got a new one. Sorry.