[pct-l] Vacuum Sealing Issues

[Scott Williams]

Ditto the food particles in the seal.  I haven't had rice ever puncture the
bags.  What has punctured them is really dry meat with sharp edges and raw,
really dry butternut squash.  It had very sharp edges.  I've gone through
two of the machines over the years and found that the old one simply didn't
get the edges hot enough to properly seal the bags.  The new machine I
bought before last year's CDT hike worked much better, sealing everything
except those that had the sharp edges, so it maybe the machine itself.  For
those bags that got punctured due to sharp meat or veggies, I simply beat
down the offending objects so they were not sharp anymore and put a new bag
on top of the first.  A bit of extra weight, but it worked.

Shroomer


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Diarmaid Harmon <irishharmon at comcast.net>wrote:

> I discovered that the most failures I got was from debris (food particles)
> left in the sealing area. Rice usually won't puncture standard sealing bag
> material. I also noticed on my foodsaver brand unit it likes to cool down
> between operations or it won't seal the bag properly if I try to do a high
> production run.
>
> Irish.
>
> Mistyped and autocorrected by my iPhone
>
> > On Nov 20, 2013, at 5:26 AM, Alan Miller <alan.miller401 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > So, we are getting pretty good at making and dehydrating meals now.  I
> > figure now is the time to try vacuum sealing, so I borrowed my parents
> > vacuum sealer and tried it out on some stir-fry we had made.  Well, of
> the
> > eight bags I sealed, 5 of them lost their seals.  I figure it is probably
> > because the rice is poking holes in the bags.  Has anybody else
> experienced
> > this?  Any tricks I should know about or are there any heavier duty bags
> > out there?  Thanks, Alan
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