Food Saver Vac Sealer - Helpful hints

[wolf]

Another thing I do as well to stop from wrecking the motor is cut paper towel into 3 sections with the 1 piece put inside the bag and put infront of the fish so any moisure gets sucked into the paper towel not into the vacuum sealer and again on alum cookie sheets and into the freezer also.

wolf

[Doug]

We do a quick (10hr+) freeze on our fish before we vacuum pack it. Freezing the fish first on cookie sheets will makes the liquids solid and when you place the item in the bag and run the vacuum there are no run away liquids that damage the seal or the vacuum.

We learned this when we where packaging blue berries and the vacuum packer would crush the fruit. Freezing them first made the fruit solid and then you could suck the package tight and remove all the air and the item remains in good shape.

Just watch out for any bones stick up or it will damage the vacuum bag

[kildonan]

If you leave the Saran wrap on when sealing I find it stops the pin bones from breaking the seal.

[High Velocity]

My wife and I also pre-freeze before vacuum packing. When I get an elk and the burger is ground, we'll make up 8-10 dozen seasoned elk burgers then pre-freeze and vacuum pack them four to a package. Very convenient for camping or family BBQ's.


Sent from my iPhone when I should be fishing.

[charls07]

I bought a FoodSaver vacuum sealer at Costco, and brought it home, wanting to begin preserving my food. an excessive amount of was attending to waste, currently that the children had bumped off. rather than throwing out 0.5 a bag of shredded cheese, I might vacuum seal some, and open it later.

[alwaysfishn]

never thought of that, but I like to give the fish a quick rinse. it seems to help the bag adhere and get good suction to the fish. It almost glues it to the frozen fish because the fish itself is cold enough to freeze that thing layer of water. By the time its sealed and back in the freezer the dampness has frozen to create an A+ seal.

As far as pinbones puncturing...I've never had the problem with salmon before. The pin bones are fairly soft and don't puncture my bags. Cod bones, crab legs, and prawn tails though...puncture damn near every bag.

I try to pinbone my fish most of the time, but I don't have a proper pinning tool...I plan on buying one in the next couple of days...pricy, but it will last a life time..

http://www.paulsfinest.com/Wusthof-Fishbone-Pliers.html

http://www.paulsfinest.com/Wusthof-F...zers-7721.html

There are other brands out there but I'm biased to a quality, German made product.

From the reading I've done, most use the tweezers for salmon, and the pliers for courser boned fish (cod ect.). Although I've been successful using regular needle nose pliers but a proper tool makes all the difference.

Here's a much more cost effective solution http://www.webstaurantstore.com/5-st...s/407TZ05.html