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Post by token on Nov 7, 2016 21:18:41 GMT 10
lol, yer, same machine, it does the job, and being that i harvest animals and make a good amount of time of it, the machine is handy. To be honest though, getting good freezer bags is just as good if you double them up and quicker if indeed your putting stuff in the freezer meat wise. Otherwise the machine will do everything else like nuts, cereals etc. Sourcing cheaper but good quality bags is a task as im not paying for the sunbeam ones!! but even with the thinner ones if you make a mistake from ebay you can still use them on the cereals etc.
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Post by token on Nov 7, 2016 21:21:58 GMT 10
So you've both got the same machine and are happy with it? Well that makes my life easy. Can probably swing $300 as there's plenty I want to do with it. Tomatoes; My wife does a lot of pickles and canning, not really my department... I just know I've spent a lot on the jars over the years and we've got a couple cupboards full of them! She sounded interested when I described your vacuum sealing the jars for fruits and nuts as she said she'd had to change a few of her recipes to suit the fact she has to boil them. One thing I'm really interested in vacuum sealing is ammunition. Have seen a lot of people on youtube with vacuum packed rounds and it looks like a really good solution to a problem I'd been thinking about for a while. O2/moisture absorber and they'll outlast me.  They are a good tool to have, and not just for food as you say, check this out... |
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Post by tomatoes on Nov 7, 2016 22:08:50 GMT 10
Remember though, the things you would usually preserve with a water bath still need that, eg you can't use the vacuum sealer for a jar of fresh/cooked peaches. I don't want to give that impression. But for something that you would normally keep in a container in the pantry, like dried fruit, nuts, etc, if you vacuum the jar it keeps better. I just vacuum seal our back-up jars of those things.
It is great for other dry goods in bags though, and I also do batches of things like pizza topping combos ready to go and then freeze them.
I have had overlocker thread get old and break when I tried using it so I was thinking of vacuum sealing back-up spools of thread.
(Not ammunition I know, but another use!)
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Post by paranoia on Nov 7, 2016 22:18:42 GMT 10
All good! Its all "ammunition" I can use to convince the wife it was a sound purchase. She's much more interested in overlocker thread than anything that goes bang. |
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Post by tomatoes on Nov 7, 2016 22:31:23 GMT 10
I figured your wife might like that idea
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Post by spatial on Nov 10, 2016 19:27:37 GMT 10
Beef jerky made using a cheap dehydrator from Aldi then vacuum sealed with oxygen absorbers. Opened after 2.5 years - in better condition than when placed in the mylar bag... I need to upgrade my mobile as images are very poor.   |
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Post by token on Nov 11, 2016 7:43:06 GMT 10
Remember though, the things you would usually preserve with a water bath still need that, eg you can't use the vacuum sealer for a jar of fresh/cooked peaches. I don't want to give that impression. But for something that you would normally keep in a container in the pantry, like dried fruit, nuts, etc, if you vacuum the jar it keeps better. I just vacuum seal our back-up jars of those things. It is great for other dry goods in bags though, and I also do batches of things like pizza topping combos ready to go and then freeze them. I have had overlocker thread get old and break when I tried using it so I was thinking of vacuum sealing back-up spools of thread. (Not ammunition I know, but another use!) Yep, good advice there. Just on canning as well, i highly recommend spending the $13 some for the ball canning magazine. The thing has tonnes of solid info in it that was hard to find elsewhere. |
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Post by tomatoes on Nov 11, 2016 10:12:20 GMT 10
Beef jerky made using a cheap dehydrator from Aldi then vacuum sealed with oxygen absorbers. Opened after 2.5 years - in better condition than when placed in the mylar bag... I need to upgrade my mobile as images are very poor. I had raw organic cashews that I vacuum sealed and about 6 months later I'm sure they were crunchier and fresher tasting than when I first put them in. I also compared them to a new pkt from the supplier and they were definitely fresher tasting than those, although I don't know how old the suppliers cashews were though. |
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Post by paranoia on Nov 11, 2016 14:42:47 GMT 10
Vacuum seal ammunition? My experience is it doesnt work very well, especially with loose rounds, and even when using quality bags and sealer. Packet ammo does a bit better but I still find the airtight seal fails within days, or weeks. Very interesting a lot of people seem to do it. I'm curious as to why the seal would fail prematurely over say a bag of nuts. The people I have seen doing it were both doing it loose and neatly lining them in rows before sealing. Will have to do some more research into this, thanks for brining some first hand expirence to the table frost. |
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Post by paranoia on Nov 11, 2016 16:18:28 GMT 10
I read an interestng write up basically saying that you're either trapping air in the ammo which will leak out over time or if you dont crimp that hard the vaccum pressure will cause the gunpowder to offgas.
Either way it seems like a bad idea, theres also the issue of potential differences in COAL if not crimped at all. Will probably stick to ziploc bags and o2/moisture absorbers in ammo cans.
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