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Ron PrattPedro,
Welcome to the forum. I wish you would have written long before you wasted 10 of the 25 bags!
Based on what you have described I believe your FoodSaver is defective in that it is either not getting hot enough to melt the UMAi Bag or is too hot and is melting it! I do not mean that to be a smart aleck response!
You do NOT need a perfect vacuum with the UMAi Bag to achieve proper aging! As I have posted here repeatedly you don’t even need a Food Saver!! What you can do instead is to place the meat inside the bag, press the bag against the meat, and then gather the open end of the bag together and insert a flexible straw or piece of tubing into the gathered end, continue to squeeze out any captured air and then just suck any remaining air as best you can – then quickly yank out the tubing and seal the bag using a bread twisty (one of those paper or plastic covered pieces of wire – I assume those are used in your country – if not use a short piece of string tied tightly.
Ron