A key and vital piece of equipment that every home should have is a vacuum sealer.
Here is the link for the one I use, and perhaps one of the best $50 investments you can make. You can spend a lot more money on one, but don’t. This one is great.
Link: Vacuum Sealer
Here is a link to the vacuum sealer bags.
Here are a few reasons why you should order one now:
1. Extend the shelf life of your food – two to three years in the freezer; weeks instead of days in a refrigerator.
2. Protects food – from freezer burn or dehydration.
3. Food Preservation – prevents mold or bacteria from growing.
4. Stop wasting food – vacuum seal leftovers.
5. You can buy food in bulk and break it down into smaller portions.
6. Sous Vide Cooking - more on this in an up and coming post.
7. Better tasting food – vacuum sealing food holds its moisture better.
By having a food vacuum sealer, we now cook on the weekends and sometimes during the week with the intention of cooking an additional dinners worth of food to have in the future when we don’t have the time to prepare and/or cook it.
I save money by purchasing larger portions of meat and break them down into steaks, salt them, and then vacuum seal them.
We feel comfortable ordering food knowing that any leftovers will be vacuum sealed and consumed at a later date.
In an upcoming post we will talk about sous vide – cooking food in vacuum sealed bags in a hot water bath. A sous vide machine (commonly found in the finest of restaurants) enhances the value of the vacuum sealer exponentially.
