All, What is an adequate foodsaver device that (hopefully) has cheap bags and can get the job done in terms of coffee? Online, it looks like the ones I am seeing are about $60. Thanks! -- Steven Hay hay.steve -AT- gmail.com Barry Paradox: Consider k to be the greatest element of the set of natural numbers whose description require maximum of 50 words: "(k+1) is a natural number which requires more than 50 words to describe it." |
I use the high end Food Saver, but I amn not sure it makes a great deal of difference. I do not use the bags, but the canning jar appliance and vacuum coffee beans in Ball or Mason jars. I am not convinced this is optimal because of the evaporation of volatile essential oils under extremely low pressures, but it is a damn sight better than freezing. Dan |
Get one of the vaccuum sealers. There are a few major brands available, Id say see what is or appears the most available in your area and go with that one, or compare the bells and whistles of the brands available and go with what seems best for you. $60 seems about right, depending on all what you want or how big of a 'kit' you want to buy with it, ive seen them go from $45 to $145 dollars. Cheap bags. hmm ok, oh and have you found cheap ink for inkjet printers yet?.... Thats how they make their $$$ off you, with the bags. BUT they do make containers that you can use over and over again. Pick up a few of them. One of the vac machines I hear comes with a gadget that you can also use it on mason jars. Probably a lot cheaper than their containers. They do make generic bags for these things, .... not quite as expensive. I have not had any significant problems with them but others have posted saying they had troubles with their generics and to stick with the name brand. They do work well though and I used one for the testing I did earlier this year for the best method of storing coffee and the vac worked the best of all. Aaron |
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Steve, I've played with food savers and coffee. Most are more than adequate for getting most of the air out and sealing the bag without issues (since coffee has no fluids to get into the sealing area and impact it during the heating process). Now, "cheap bags" becomes the problem. I've yet to see good / cheap bags. I'd mention the brand of food saver and where I got the best / in expense bags for the price, but I'd rather not start world war 6 on the list. Frankly, after messing around with sealing the bag, opening it, resealing it, reopening it the next day, resealing it, etc,etc I couldn't tell the different between that and using a SM bag with the food saver (or any other vacuum device) being used to simply remove the air from that bag. Those bags last longer and don't have the re-sealing problem (unless you get something into the ziplock area). From: homeroast-admin [mailto:homeroast-admin] On Behalf Of Steve Hay Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:35 AM To: homeroast Subject: +Coffee; Foodsaver All, What is an adequate foodsaver device that (hopefully) has cheap bags and can get the job done in terms of coffee? Online, it looks like the ones I am seeing are about $60. Thanks! -- Steven Hay hay.steve -AT- gmail.com Barry Paradox: Consider k to be the greatest element of the set of natural numbers whose description require maximum of 50 words: "(k+1) is a natural number which requires more than 50 words to describe it." |
I have the Foodsaver and it works great. So does the mason jar attachment. I definitely use it for roaster beans! |
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. Get the mason jar attachment. Very handy tool and of course you can open and re-open jars with no problems. From: homeroast-admin [mailto:homeroast-admin] On Behalf Of B. Scott Harroff Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:34 AM To: homeroast Subject: RE: +Coffee; Foodsaver Steve, I've played with food savers and coffee. Most are more than adequate for getting most of the air out and sealing the bag without issues (since coffee has no fluids to get into the sealing area and impact it during the heating process). Now, "cheap bags" becomes the problem. I've yet to see good / cheap bags. I'd mention the brand of food saver and where I got the best / in expense bags for the price, but I'd rather not start world war 6 on the list. Frankly, after messing around with sealing the bag, opening it, resealing it, reopening it the next day, resealing it, etc,etc I couldn't tell the different between that and using a SM bag with the food saver (or any other vacuum device) being used to simply remove the air from that bag. Those bags last longer and don't have the re-sealing problem (unless you get something into the ziplock area). From: homeroast-admin [mailto:homeroast-admin] On Behalf Of Steve Hay Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:35 AM To: homeroast Subject: +Coffee; Foodsaver All, What is an adequate foodsaver device that (hopefully) has cheap bags and can get the job done in terms of coffee? Online, it looks like the ones I am seeing are about $60. Thanks! -- Steven Hay hay.steve -AT- gmail.com Barry Paradox: Consider k to be the greatest element of the set of natural numbers whose description require maximum of 50 words: "(k+1) is a natural number which requires more than 50 words to describe it." |