42 PCS Sous Vide Vacuum Sealer Set - 30 Reusable Bags, 5 Clips and Sealing Clips for Anova, Joule Cookers

This product is hands-down amazing. I bought it a few months ago and still use it every day. My vegetables, fruit, nuts, and just about anything else in my fridge is sealed with these bags. The vacuum itself is small and works great. But it's a bit slow so try and get as much air out of the bag before using it... you'll be much happier. They also include some peel-able one way seals, so if one of the bags is not holding the seal you can just stick this over the original seal and it works great. The picture is of mushrooms and blueberries

I bought it to seal my seeds, and needed heavy duty freezer vacuum bags that are reusable for when I need to pull seeds out to plant, then reseal the remaining seed stock. It works well, and is very convenient. The little pump is sufficient... it will pull the necessary vacuum, but is fairly slow. But the convenience of a rechargeable small pump makes it fine for this use. If I was going to do a whole lot at a time, I'd probably rig up my commercial vacuum pump, but it's not worth the effort for as easy as it is to just grab this little unit. The bags are basically a heavy duty ZipLok freezer bag, but with the textured surface on the inside for the air to flow, and the simple check valve that the pump sets on, seals via the silicone rubber ring on the pump, and allows the pump to extract the air. It takes a few seconds for the check valve to open up, but when it does, you can then see the bag start to collapse as the air is sucked out. Great little product for the price and does what other things can't do. I'll be interested to try it on sous vide, but that's not what I bought it for... that'll just be a bonus. I do use it to store my homemade bread in. I make two loaves at a time, and one loaf get put in one of these bags, extract just enough air until the bread compresses slightly, then into the freezer. No ice crystals and it thaws perfectly. The loaf that I'm using goes into one of the large 12x13" bags, and again, I pull just enough air out until you see a slight compression of the bread... now it's sealed from mold spores and stays fresh for a very long time. It's not that hard to pull a vacuum on it after taking the loaf out to slice some pieces off of it, and the pump is compact enough to just leave on the counter. It also works great for putting tortilla chips in. When we get the big bag of tortilla chips from COSTCO, the first thing is take out as many as will fit into one of these large vacuum bags and pulling a vacuum on it. The chips stay fresh, which they won't in the opened store bag they came in. Extra produce from the farm [tomato and pepper slices first frozen on a cookie sheet] can go into these bags and then into the freezer. You can pull out "fresh" tomato and peppers to use, then re-vacuum the bag to keep ice crystals from forming on the pieces. Works great for cookies and other snacks that will go stale. Basically, anything that I need access to that the Food Saver permanently sealed bags aren't practical for, these get used. I have found that the valves do sometimes slightly leak over time, so I usually put a small piece of thin film tape [like packing tape, with a folded over section for a pull tab] over the suction valve after I've pulled the vacuum, which can be reused every time. Great little product, and I bought 3 kits for the farm.

i discovered sous vide cooking a couple years ago from Guga, and Sous Vide Everything, and have incorporated it into more than ½ of my meal plan for our family. Steaks, stews, freezing and reheating, it makes everything simpler, and the vacuum system means there’s no freezer burn, and everything is cooked to a safe temperature of my family. this vacuum pump is the handheld one i like the best, it has a liquid separator attachment that allows the vacuum to work with bags that contain liquid. the other hand held ones that do not come with the liquid separator fail if any liquid is vacuumed. the blue zippered bags with the blue seal are all about the same no matter who they are purchased from. the bags are very strong, the zippers seal really well, but the vacuum seals are what everyone seem to complain about, if they don’t seal, the bag loses vacuum, or worse, allows water in the bag during the sous vide process. there is a simple fix for this, that after years of using these bags, i’ve never had a seal failure, all it takes is a piece of clear tape over the seal after vacuuming the bag. it stays on in the freezer, and stays on when reheating the bag in water later, problem solved! the bags are even washable as long as you haven’t heated them up too much previously, turn them inside out and wash them in dish soap. this set came with several sizes of bags to fit different types of food storage needs. overall a decent value, but a one star ding because they tend to include unnecessary accessories to pad the piece count of the order, i’d rather have more bags.

As I regularily save bulk meat purchases in smaller portions, I was really looking forward to reusable bags as well as the ability to vacuum seal it. I initially tested the vacuum sealing on a random product, and it took several tries before I figured out that you REALLY have to make sure that you have the strip sealed completely. Even then, it didn't seem to hold the vacuum after a few hours. No problem, I could live with that especially since I mostly freeze the meat and it would probably be frozen before it started to lose the vacuum. However, a few days later I decided to use it to vacuum seal a marinade. The liquid was way below the top fill line, I used the liquid attachment, but I could immediately see that it was sucking up too much of the liquid. No problem.... that's not why I initially bought it, so I just disconected and let my meat marinade the usual way. But, that was the end of the vacuum. First it wouldn't start. I shook it a few times and it started but I could not longer turn it off. So that was it's funeral. On another note, I had used two bags by this time; one for the marinade, and a second for some chopped carrots. As I was returning the product, I obviously had to clean the bags. It was not only cumbersome to clean the bags, but they both had residual stains. This has unfortunately turned me off from any other resealable/vacuum product. I wish I had pictures, but I am writing this after I had already returned the item.