Didn't Work WE used/tried to use the sealer after receiving it yesterday. After trying several times to vacuum seal a bag following all the directions & using troubleshooting it just wouldn't work/seal after vacuuming the air. We tried everything & finally had to use the seal only button after the air was somewhat removed. We purchased this elsewhere but wanted to warn others about the fact that IT JUST DOESN'T WORK! I would have given it no stars if it were an option.
Bags don't hold a seal We got this sealer as part of a package deal with the Sous Vide Supreme water oven and some Sous Vide Supreme vacuum sealer bags.For FREEZER / PANTRY STORAGE our machine is not functional. We've sealed ten bags for the freezer. All of them start out looking good but not one of them held the seal airtight overnight.For SOUS VIDE it can be made to work. We've found sealing each bag three times at each end holds the seal long enough to cook the food.
Cheap and not durable Bought the Sous Vide Supreme and sealer as a package about a month ago.At first the vacuum sealer worked fine but after several uses 10 times or so the sealer doesn't work as well as when it was new. Now the vacuum seal function is inconsistent. Sometimes it seals sometime it doesn't. You have to manually press 'seal' during the suction or it'll auto shut leaving the bag unsealed. Agreed with a lot of reviewers that this vacuum sealer does not work well at all with liquid in the bag. Yet SVS website recommends recipes with meat/fish in marinate while sealing. For those recipes I now notice they use a professional cryovac machine and not this piece of cr*p.
Don't bother with this ineffective toy One of the worst designed products I've seen in a while. Got it anyway despite the reviews because it matched the Sous Vide Supreme. While that is an amazingly designed product that's built well this is a disaster. The main sealer gaskets will fail almost immediately stick together or disintegrate necessitating ad hoc repairs that look uglier and uglier. I have to hold it down with all my weight now to get it to vacuum seal. Made of cheap plastic it's an unworthy companion to the main cook chamber. Take my word select another sealer from someone else.
Sealer stopped working after a few months. The sealer worked adequately at first. I'll agree with some other reviewers that you had to be careful with any amount of liquid in the bag but we found that refrigerated [nonfrozen] meat worked fine.However after about six months [say 2530 uses] it completely stopped working. Makes a loud noise but doesn't create a vacuum or do any sealing. Very frustrating.
Just doesn't work Got this unit for use with the SousVide Demi and while the water bath works great the vacuum sealer does not. The vacuum mechanism chokes on even the smallest amount of liquid such as the marinade left after draining the marinated meat and I only got the Vacuum and Seal feature to work once on a ribeye. Didn't work on any other dish on at least a dozen attempts. The Seal mechanism often left air holes no matter how careful I was.To be fair I don't know if other vacuum sealers work better but I am returning this and intend to find a better rated and functional unit.
Bad product Any amount of liquid is fatal after some accidents now the machine is not capable of producing a vaccuum. Also for the seal you usually have to seal it 2 or 3 times in different spots so the bag will hold the seal.
Too much vacuum The reason why sous vide needs vacuum is quite simple too much air in the bag and it will float on top of the water bath with poor and uneven heat transfer. Having said this you don't need to apply a huge amount of vacuum and compress the meat. In most cases a ziplock bag and a straw will do. The problem with this device in particular is that the suction is so strong and you can't regulate it that unless you have a very dry piece of meat there will always be some small amount of juices that will be sucked into the area where the seal is to be formed. If the entire line of the seal is not 100% dry the seal will not be made properly and then you will have hot water coming into the bag from the water bath. Poor design and typical example of overkill. There should be a button where you can override the vacuum pump. I end up always double sealing i.e. seal once with vacuum then clean the insid area of the bag beyond the first seal to ensure it is clean and dry and reseal only. Finally the bags are hugely expensive. I assume sousvide supreme wants to go with the razor / razor blade model.
Stopped working after 3 months The vacuum sealer worked very well and is easy to use with my Sous Vide Supreme oven. It has a very strong vacuum and seals food quickly. Since it does have a strong vacuum I had to be very careful not to let liquids from meats or veggies get sucked into the unit. It has a Seal Only button which is very useful when you don't necessarily need a vacuum seal.Unfortunately the machine stopped working after 3 months as it no longer has the ability to suck out the air from the bags. It's quite unfortunate since I took good care of it and tried my best to prevent liquids from entering the unit. Bottom line is that this unit isn't built to last.
poor quality vacuum sealer worked fine the first couple of times. Now the unit does not seal the bags at all. Do not waste your hard earned money on this product.
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