Vacuum sealer

[Buckeye_Hydro]

Best one?

Our $5000 model might be a tad bit of overkill for you.

 

[bstacy1974]

If you're only sealing hops and small bags of grain, any budget vacuum sealer on Amazon will do.
If you're looking for a true kitchen, household tool, get a chamber sealer. Luckily, I kinda inherited a chamber sealer from my in-laws. It's a small commercial model we use to seal salmon in the summer.
Once you start sealing things, you'll look for more and more ways to use it.

 

[Steveruch]

If you're only sealing hops and small bags of grain, any budget vacuum sealer on Amazon will do.
If you're looking for a true kitchen, household tool, get a chamber sealer. Luckily, I kinda inherited a chamber sealer from my in-laws. It's a small commercial model we use to seal salmon in the summer.
Once you start sealing things, you'll look for more and more ways to use it.

That is all I'll probably be doing.

 

[AzOr]

Am I the only one that’s drooling over a shiny new vac chamber sealer?

Pros; seals wet stuff easily, cheaper bags, tighter seal for meats etc.
Cons; heavy, expensive

The other big plus is you can seal things like beef patties or crab cakes without them turning into mush. With my current vac sealer I have to form things into patties and then put them on a cookie sheet and par freeze them before I seal them. I actually do this quite often with salmon and crab cakes, sausage and beef patties etc. It's a pretty big pain in the rear. Being able to seal soups and marinades in pouches would be a game changer ( I hate that saying).

 

[day_trippr]

The FoodSaver model I have has a low-power setting for dealing with squashable or wet stuff. No problem freezing patties, for instance...

Cheers!