Vacuum pack machine

[Wilfy]

Ordered one of these yesterday taking advantage of the 20% off eBay code.

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/SousVideTo...735430&hash=item2cc9ed3eea:g:d84AAOSwYeRaL7Uh

 

[svenito]

I got this one for Christmas https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06WLMKM7Q/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

Pricier but will be using it for all sorts. Repacked all my hops and it works a treat. I'm now hunting for stuff to pack

 

[AdeDunn]

We have the cheaper Silvercrest one from Lidl (no buttons, you press down on either the outer corners or middle front to tell it if you want to vacuum or seal). It does a fairly good job though. Recently bought 3 rolls of the ribbed "SousVide" bags as the roll that came with ran out. Perfect for sealing up small amounts of grain and hops before I put them back in the freezer. :thumb:

My wife uses it to package up home made spent grain dog biscuits for friends and family.

Combined with my Dymo labelwriter 450 (bought for printing membership cards back when I ran an amphibian keepers club), it is really handy.

 

[GerritT]

We have the cheaper Silvercrest one from Lidl (no buttons, you press down on either the outer corners or middle front to tell it if you want to vacuum or seal). It does a fairly good job though. Recently bought 3 rolls of the ribbed "SousVide" bags as the roll that came with ran out. Perfect for sealing up small amounts of grain and hops before I put them back in the freezer. :thumb:

My wife uses it to package up home made spent grain dog biscuits for friends and family.

Combined with my Dymo labelwriter 450 (bought for printing membership cards back when I ran an amphibian keepers club), it is really handy.

This one? Just opened the package, yay Xmas in Januari :lol:
Already looking for common household use, to make the purchase more acceptable (although £25 inc p+p is a good deal).

 

[BeerCat]

My wife uses it to package up home made spent grain dog biscuits for friends and family.

Great idea. Next Christmas i am going to give all my family a tin of dog biscuits/ :mrgreen:

 

[_jon_]

I bought this one a while back:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074GQ4QR1/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

It's good. I just bought cheap ribbed bags on ebay.. and it all seems to work pretty well. I've had a couple of bags fail and air get in but in the number I've used, it's literally 1 or 2, which is fine. Probably just a tiny bit of hop debris in the seal.

I used them for everything. Even actual food stuff!

 

[Drunkula]

Already looking for common household use, to make the purchase more acceptable.

I've come up with a great way to suck air out of normal untextured bags. I folded over a sheet of teflon toaster bag (used tin foil at first) and put it through the back of the fold down bit so that it stops just before the heater strip. Then I cut a strip off a bag and opened it out so you've got a flat bit and a textured bit. You put that through the teflon and put that into the mouth of a normal flat bag and the textured bag provides a channel to let air get sucked out. When it's finished sucking whip out the strip and there you go.

The teflon/foil is just so that the strip doesn't wear the gasket when you whip it out. I'm only doing that for standard things, hops are getting the royal treatment.

 

[F00b4r]

I bought this one a while back:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074GQ4QR1/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

It's good. I just bought cheap ribbed bags on ebay.. and it all seems to work pretty well. I've had a couple of bags fail and air get in but in the number I've used, it's literally 1 or 2, which is fine. Probably just a tiny bit of hop debris in the seal.

I used them for everything. Even actual food stuff!

Before you go to fill the bags fold the top inch of the bags back on themselves on the outside, this should stop oils or debris being caught on bag as you fill it that might prevent a good seal.