In Praise of FoodSavers

I was given one as a partial wedding gift, and I confess I was thinking it was a kind of cliche, but I've actually hooked it up and the thing is really frickin' neat. I'm sold!

(and no, the bags aren't big enough to put a corpse into, so don't go there).

I mean, after you go to the trouble of chainsawing that body up, you'll want to preserve it as well as possible so it doesn't smell the place up while you're deciding where to stash it or planning that BBQ for all your Repug relatives.

Seriously, if I still ate meat, I might be tempted.

Just for sealing up soups, if nothing else....

the woodchipper.

This is so depressing.

I can now keep fresh basil green and vital for more than a week in one of their vacuum jars. It used to last maaaaaaybe three days before it started to go limp and black.

Fish is another thing. We get fresh fish and have it fileted at the store. I then use some that day and freeze more. In the foodsave bag it last waaaaaaay longer. I also divide up the frozen shrimp or scallops we buy on sale and put smaller quantities in the foodsave bags. They last twice what they once did. And no 'freezer' taste.

I put of my Thanksgiving dressing in it in small portions and reheat by boiling or zapping. Its great for that kind of thing.

Yup ..... lots of uses besides just meat.

Cheese keeps a long time sealed in the bags, long enough that even I use it up before it gets moldy.

I keep all kinds of fresh produce in the vacuum jars. Blueberries and strawberries keep for a week or more; otherwise they're getting moldy in a day or two. I hardly ever have to throw out salad makings any more. I DON'T seal produce in the bags--something happens to it and it goes bad very quickly, not sure if it's being crushed by the bags glomming onto them or their cell walls explode in the vacuum or what, but it doesn't work.

The vacuum jars are kind of expensive, but they also have an attachment to vacuum-seal wide-mouth Mason jars, and I use that a lot.

Supposedly you can make your own boil-in-bag meals with the bags but I never tried that.

Lately mine has been a problem when trying to seal the bags. For some reason it just keeps sucking and sucking and never seems to get the vacuum it wants before it will start the sealing. I've cleaned and cleaned the gasket (that has been the reason in the past for failing to get vacuum) but it doesn't seem to help, so I'm kind of stuck with just using jars now.

I just sold the woodchipper on eBay.

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Why'dja sellit?

for the Giant Deluxe FoodSaver.

You know - the body bag thing............

ruin the meat. If you're going to serve long pig to your Repug relatives, you don't want them breaking their bridgework on those bone fragments.

Woodchippers are so clumsy.

....Yet a fascinating case-in short,meretricious (I love William Buckley for his vocabulary,if not his political views....It means cheap and tawdry,yet alluring).Did you know the initial reason the woodchipper became an object of interest?The suspicions of the equipment rental company became aroused because it had never been returned THAT clean before....

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It comes from the second tier of semi-recognized prostitutes in Renaissance Venice, called meretrix (root, Latin, to earn) and got the definition of cheap and showy yet desirable through the association with lesser prostitution.

I love the word.

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I also use it for saving other things.

All my important papers are sealed before I file them away.

to our little what used to be an island of sanity, but now.... well...

not so much


but welcome anyway :hi:

I used to post here a little last year. In fact I think I posted to an older food saver thread.

Then I lost my star & forgot about it since I was out of the habit.

Welcome to HappyFoodsterTown, Nicole.

"Habit"?

Or else.

It's absolutely the dumbest, funniest thing in the world.

I am.

don the wimple, have sparks fly out of your eyes, make a whirring sound, and we'll see................

I'm a clown. Like just tonight, doing some photocopying in the office. Under the watchful eye of Mickey Mouse onna wall there.


Or with Sparkly Jr, getting ready to go to a moovie (or somethin').


And wit' Sparkly, the same night.


We're all clowns.

They're happy clowns.

I'm a curmudgeon.

Ha-frikkin'-ha.

1. Your wife and daughter are beautiful;

2. You have a lovely skull;

3. You once worked for me as a researcher, I believe:

4. You're easier to wind up than Nunzilla.

But, you gotta have those flames shooting out of your eyes. Nuns have no asses.

The curse of being born beautiful.

But I persevere.