Stand back, man, because when my head explodes you definitely don't want to get any of this on those nice clothes you're wearing.
I'm about to begin complaining about a kitchen appliance of such amazing promise, of such incredible technology, of such stupendous usefulness that of course it doesn't work at all. I'm talking about the Foodsaver professional vacuum sealer. What a hunk of crap taking up valuable space on my kitchen counter.
Ok, maybe it's not the thing itself, maybe it's the peripheral materials; the bags and the containers. We went all out when we got this thing. We got the high-end version, the bestest one available. We got the bags, in rolls and in individual packs, and the plastic containers, the little ones with rubber gaskets and the larger onces with turning-seals on top. We were set to vacuum seal every damned thing, literally from soup to nuts. We wanted meat to last forever. Flour to be vacuum safe from flour-eating vermin.
Ah, but isn't everything garbage?
The bags never seal. I don't know if it's the heat-sealing on the unit, but even when I do double seals -- like tire-tracks -- I return to the bags a week later and my piece of frozen salmon is merely sealed into a bag with air and ice-crystals and everything. No vacuum seal at all! The containers, which must be made out of the most brittle and cheap plastic ever, crack along the bottom causing the vacuum to disappear, so I come back to my flour a week later, lift the container by the supposedly vacuum-sealed top, only to have the bottom of the container drop off the lid and POOF! flour all over my kitchen, for goodness sakes. You'd think I'd learn not to lift the containers by the lid, eh? Even the larger, more solidly constructed containers, with the twist-lock seal on top, they end up just bleeding their vacuum away, maybe thru the seal itself even tho it's turned to "close"! Sealed the night before, my coffee container lid lifts right off in the morning, no vacuum at all.
WHAT. IS. THE. POINT?
So I write an email to "Foodsaver Customer Service" at the parent company, Jarden. What's the deal with this expensive, useless appliance? And I never get a reply.
And of everything I've written here, that sucks the most.
Does anyone else hate their Foodsaver?
MC
I'm about to begin complaining about a kitchen appliance of such amazing promise, of such incredible technology, of such stupendous usefulness that of course it doesn't work at all. I'm talking about the Foodsaver professional vacuum sealer. What a hunk of crap taking up valuable space on my kitchen counter.
Ok, maybe it's not the thing itself, maybe it's the peripheral materials; the bags and the containers. We went all out when we got this thing. We got the high-end version, the bestest one available. We got the bags, in rolls and in individual packs, and the plastic containers, the little ones with rubber gaskets and the larger onces with turning-seals on top. We were set to vacuum seal every damned thing, literally from soup to nuts. We wanted meat to last forever. Flour to be vacuum safe from flour-eating vermin.
Ah, but isn't everything garbage?
The bags never seal. I don't know if it's the heat-sealing on the unit, but even when I do double seals -- like tire-tracks -- I return to the bags a week later and my piece of frozen salmon is merely sealed into a bag with air and ice-crystals and everything. No vacuum seal at all! The containers, which must be made out of the most brittle and cheap plastic ever, crack along the bottom causing the vacuum to disappear, so I come back to my flour a week later, lift the container by the supposedly vacuum-sealed top, only to have the bottom of the container drop off the lid and POOF! flour all over my kitchen, for goodness sakes. You'd think I'd learn not to lift the containers by the lid, eh? Even the larger, more solidly constructed containers, with the twist-lock seal on top, they end up just bleeding their vacuum away, maybe thru the seal itself even tho it's turned to "close"! Sealed the night before, my coffee container lid lifts right off in the morning, no vacuum at all.
WHAT. IS. THE. POINT?
So I write an email to "Foodsaver Customer Service" at the parent company, Jarden. What's the deal with this expensive, useless appliance? And I never get a reply.
And of everything I've written here, that sucks the most.
Does anyone else hate their Foodsaver?
MC
). Mine operates flawlessly, with the bags, the canisters, the vaccuum cork wine sealer, and the jar top. The only caveat on everything but the bags, is that the surfaces have to be pristinely clean. My wife seals up her coffee beans in one of the canisters and they stay very fresh. I seal up my unused malt syrup (beer making supplies); now malt attracts bacteria like nothing else, it it is absolutely untainted when I next open up to brew more.
