Vacuum Sealer

[Anonymous]

Are dry bags only compatible with the Snorkel type sealer or will the work with any commercial vacuum sealer?

[Anonymous]

They will also work with a chamber vacuum sealer. Channel vacuum sealers ie. Foodsaver require the textured bag in order to draw out the air from the bag. Drybags are smooth and will not work “as is” with this type of machine.

I believe I have a practical, easy and inexpensive solution that I’m playing around with. More info to follow soon… 🙂

[Ron Pratt]

Welcome aboard! Here’s a short video I put together showing how to trick a Food Saver.

Vacuuming the bag down so as to get good initial contact with the bag and the meat is important. OTOH others have posted their suggestions whereby they use the top piece of a woman’s panty hose leg to compress out air and then merely seal the Drybag with a twisty! …and then removing the hose of course!

[Anonymous]

I’ve tried every which way to use my foodsaver and had no success sealing a drybag.

[Ron Pratt]

pitmaster wrote:

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I’ve tried every which way to use my foodsaver and had no success sealing a drybag.

Even with my sleeve method? I have received a number of reports back that others have had luck following my method, but hey, if you can’t I’m sorry. I do know a guy who uses the tube thing on his FS that is used to vacuum down FS canisters. That will work also.

[Mark]

I am new to the forum and now you can add Brazil to the list of countries with a success story if it is not already there.

I did a strip loin here are the results were very good. My only complaint is that the cows are too skinny here and the strip loins are thin so a high percentage of waste.

I managed to use my foodsaver after quite a bit of experimenting. I ended up putting the meat in the drybag and then the drybag into a foodsaver bag. I left about a quarter inch of the drybag extending past the foodsaver bag and both were put under the seal lip.
I then pulled a good vacuum and it seemed the outer foodsaver bag vacuumed and the inner drybag was squeezed more than vacuumed. Either way the result was the same.
The seal temperature was set to high and is was a neat job as the inner bag sealed but the outer foodsaver bag I could still separate and open from the drybag. I then pulled the drybag out from foodsaver bag and ran a second thermal seal.
Anyway, it worked and we ate well. I used the same method on a trip tip and it is about ready to be sacrificed to the fire in a day or two

[Ron Pratt]

Welcome aboard, Kime! Glad to add another push pin to the global map! Sounds like you found a method of sealing that works for you! I may sound like a broken record, but I keep telling people to use their first bag for trial and error. I must have sealed, cut open and resealed my first 6 times. I’d rather do that than go through all my bags I bought.

Join in here whenever you can! Ron

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