[pct-l] Vacuum Sealing Issues

[Alan Miller]

Thanks for the replies.  I took one of the offending bags and filled it
with green colored water to see where the leak was.  Turns out it was
leaking in a few places where the rice had poked through.  I am going to
try putting the food in a freezer bag first, and then the vacuum seal bag.
 If that works, I figure I can just throw away the vacuum bag when I pick
up my resupply and then I will have the meal in a freezer bag to take with
me.


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ditto the food particles in the seal.  I haven't had rice ever puncture
> the bags.  What has punctured them is really dry meat with sharp edges and
> raw, really dry butternut squash.  It had very sharp edges.  I've gone
> through two of the machines over the years and found that the old one
> simply didn't get the edges hot enough to properly seal the bags.  The new
> machine I bought before last year's CDT hike worked much better, sealing
> everything except those that had the sharp edges, so it maybe the machine
> itself.  For those bags that got punctured due to sharp meat or veggies, I
> simply beat down the offending objects so they were not sharp anymore and
> put a new bag on top of the first.  A bit of extra weight, but it worked.
>
> Shroomer
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Diarmaid Harmon <irishharmon at comcast.net>wrote:
>
>> I discovered that the most failures I got was from debris (food
>> particles) left in the sealing area. Rice usually won't puncture standard
>> sealing bag material. I also noticed on my foodsaver brand unit it likes to
>> cool down between operations or it won't seal the bag properly if I try to
>> do a high production run.
>>
>> Irish.
>>
>> Mistyped and autocorrected by my iPhone
>>
>> > On Nov 20, 2013, at 5:26 AM, Alan Miller <alan.miller401 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > So, we are getting pretty good at making and dehydrating meals now.  I
>> > figure now is the time to try vacuum sealing, so I borrowed my parents
>> > vacuum sealer and tried it out on some stir-fry we had made.  Well, of
>> the
>> > eight bags I sealed, 5 of them lost their seals.  I figure it is
>> probably
>> > because the rice is poking holes in the bags.  Has anybody else
>> experienced
>> > this?  Any tricks I should know about or are there any heavier duty bags
>> > out there?  Thanks, Alan
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