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Mine is biting the dust. Had it for about 10 years.

 

Anyhow, I go to central market in dallas and load up on fish and chicken. Like $450 each time and come home and vacuum it. But my current sealer fails recently sucking all the air out and the bag is essentially a ziploc bag.

 

So.

 

Need a new one. Any recs?

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I bought this thing to do some holiday food, not sure if the duty cycle is what you need based on how much you do at a time (you'll want to let it cool down every couple seals), but it was cheap and works really well. Was on sale for less than $50 at the time.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B4W5PMB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Another option if you tend to work yours pretty hard, is go buy whatever Foodsaver at Costco, and if you kill it in the first year or 2, just return it to Costco.

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If you want a good one that will last, get a Weston.  They are made to handle continuous use.  Sealing a bunch of bags in a row is what gets the smaller FoodSaver models.

Edited by kevwun
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I have the big foodsaver with the marinade hose attachment, the mason jar sealer, and 3 hdmi ports. I’ve been happy with it for a couple of years now. 
 

Whatever you get, get the big pleated bags to make life easy with a brisket. 

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Its been a long while now, that costco switched their foodsaver model from vertical to horizontal.  The difference being the sealing edge was at the lip of the vertical model, and moved into somewhere middle of the unit.

 

That means a lot of wasted bag space both direction of the seal, in the bag and to the cutting edge.

 

They might've switched it back

 

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17 hours ago, Your Mom said:

 
 

Whatever you get, get the big pleated bags to make life easy with a brisket. 

This. Bought them by mistake, didn't know such a thing existed. No more double wrapping in foil and hoping for the best in the freezer.

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Looking at picking up a chamber sealer and I was all set to buy the VacMaster 215 until I checked Costco's site and they have the MaxVac Pro for $300 less than the VacMaster.  Both have similar specs, so I would expect performance to be similar.  Anyone have experience with the MaxVac Pro?  I can't find much online, which is not particularly reassuring.  But Costco's great return policy would cover me if it takes a shit, or if it is shit.

 

https://www.costco.com/maxvac-pro-chamber-vacuum-sealer.product.100536866.html

Edited by Chewbacca
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Has anyone used the small handheld ones? I'd like to get one for when I sous vide and don't need a big one as I don't have freezer space to store a bunch of vacuum sealed packages. 

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