Foodsvaver test drive

"Dave Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I finally tried out the Talia food saver that I got for Christmas. I
could not believe how easy it was to operate. I picked up an economy
pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts today, made up some bags,
stuck two (half) breasts in each bag, stuck one end in the vacuum
channel, closed the lid, pump started running, the air got sucked out of
the bags, bags got sealed, pushed a button to release the top and pulled
out a vacuum pack with enough chicken for dinner for two. Piece of
cake. I like this machine.

I got one for Christmas too, and have only sealed one bag so far, but I've
got a few canisters filled. I also got the jar-sealer things, and I can see
how those are going to be really handy, especially for things that I'm going
to want to open and reseal multiple times. And canning jars and lids are
pretty cheap.

D.Currie said:

"Dave Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I finally tried out the Talia food saver that I got for Christmas. I
could not believe how easy it was to operate. I picked up an economy
pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts today, made up some bags,
stuck two (half) breasts in each bag, stuck one end in the vacuum
channel, closed the lid, pump started running, the air got sucked out of
the bags, bags got sealed, pushed a button to release the top and pulled
out a vacuum pack with enough chicken for dinner for two. Piece of
cake. I like this machine.

I got one for Christmas too, and have only sealed one bag so far, but I've
got a few canisters filled. I also got the jar-sealer things, and I can see
how those are going to be really handy, especially for things that I'm going
to want to open and reseal multiple times. And canning jars and lids are
pretty cheap.

Congrats to you both. The biggest savings factor that I've found for it
is buying meats, poultry, etc in bulk when they're on sale, freezing
them and into the freezer. As most here already know, I won't be
without one again.

--
Steve

Life should *not* be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body
thoroughly used up, worn out and screaming, "WHOO HOOOOO, what a ride!"

Dave Smith said:

I finally tried out the Talia food saver that I got for Christmas. I
could not believe how easy it was to operate. I picked up an economy
pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts today, made up some bags,
stuck two (half) breasts in each bag, stuck one end in the vacuum
channel, closed the lid, pump started running, the air got sucked out of
the bags, bags got sealed, pushed a button to release the top and pulled
out a vacuum pack with enough chicken for dinner for two. Piece of
cake. I like this machine.

And you will love it when you discover the package of chicken behind
everything else next year and it has no freezer burn.

--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral, 48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)

Dave Smith said:

I finally tried out the Talia food saver that I got for Christmas.
I could not believe how easy it was to operate. I picked up an
economy pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts today, made up
some bags, stuck two (half) breasts in each bag, stuck one end in
the vacuum channel, closed the lid, pump started running, the air
got sucked out of the bags, bags got sealed, pushed a button to
release the top and pulled out a vacuum pack with enough chicken
for dinner for two. Piece of cake. I like this machine.

You will soon ask yourself why you never got one for yourself years ago,
and why you waited so long after Christmas to try it.

BOB
wishing my old antique Foodsaver would finally die so I could get a newer
model with a whistle or bell or two

BOB said:

BOB
wishing my old antique Foodsaver would finally die so I could get a newer
model with a whistle or bell or two

Me too BOB, but the dang thing just won't die!

--
Steve

Life should *not* be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body
thoroughly used up, worn out and screaming, "WHOO HOOOOO, what a ride!"

BOB said:

You will soon ask yourself why you never got one for yourself years ago,
and why you waited so long after Christmas to try it.

It never occurred to me before that it would be worth my while, but the
conversation about them here last month got me thinking. I didn't have
anything that needed to be stored until yesterday and someone had mentioned
something about having trouble getting theirs to work (a different make).
This thing was a breeze. I put some of the chicken into the bags that came
with the machine. All I had to do was to put the chicken breasts in the back,
set the open end into the vacuum area and press down. The pump came on and
sucked out all the air and when it stopped it was done. Having had such great
success with that I made a bag from the roll and it was equally simple. I was
really impressed with the ease of operation, mush simpler than I had
expected.

Quoted message said:

wishing my old antique Foodsaver would finally die so I could get a newer
model with a whistle or bell or two

What bells and whistles do you need. I would be content just to find an
inexpensive source of material. That was the thing that made me reconsider
the need. It looked like it was going to cost about 50 cents per foot of
plastic, which out to question the economy of the whole idea of vacuum
packing to save money.

Dave Smith said:

What bells and whistles do you need. I would be content just to find an
inexpensive source of material. That was the thing that made me reconsider
the need. It looked like it was going to cost about 50 cents per foot of
plastic, which out to question the economy of the whole idea of vacuum
packing to save money.

The bags are re-useable first off. Secondly, my time "wasted" shopping
is valuable to me. Plus from the reviews I've seen and people that I
talked to the thinner bags are prone to freezer burn in a commercial
style freezer that holds the temps at -15 to -20dF such as mine.

Everyones different and has different needs. When the Tilia that I have
goes belly up (if the *#&# thing ever does) a new Tilia will be ordered
the same day.

As for the bag expense, if you get on Tilia's mailing list every so
often they run the bag materials at around 1/2 price and I stock up. It
doesn't go bad.

--
Steve

Life should *not* be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body
thoroughly used up, worn out and screaming, "WHOO HOOOOO, what a ride!"

Steve Calvin said:

Dave Smith said:

What bells and whistles do you need. I would be content just to find
an inexpensive source of material.

The bags are re-useable first off.

Everyones different and has different needs. When the Tilia that I
have
goes belly up (if the *#&# thing ever does) a new Tilia will be
ordered
the same day.

As for the bag expense, if you get on Tilia's mailing list every so
often they run the bag materials at around 1/2 price and I stock up.
It doesn't go bad.

There are also a lot of bags for Tilia available on eBay.

Jill

jmcquown said:

Steve Calvin said:

Dave Smith said:

What bells and whistles do you need. I would be content just to find
an inexpensive source of material.

The bags are re-useable first off.

Everyones different and has different needs. When the Tilia that I
have
goes belly up (if the *#&# thing ever does) a new Tilia will be
ordered
the same day.

As for the bag expense, if you get on Tilia's mailing list every so
often they run the bag materials at around 1/2 price and I stock up.
It doesn't go bad.

There are also a lot of bags for Tilia available on eBay.

Jill

But be careful. A lot of them aren't genuine and are much thinner. Or
the "genuine Tilia" ones that I got certainly weren't. Negative feedback
left but that's about the only recourse except to toss 'em out and get
the real thing. I'm not saying that they all are, just to be careful.

--
Steve

Life should *not* be a journey to the grave with the intention of
arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body. But rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body
thoroughly used up, worn out and screaming, "WHOO HOOOOO, what a ride!"

Steve Calvin said:

jmcquown said:

Steve Calvin said:

Dave Smith wrote:

> What bells and whistles do you need. I would be content just to
> find an inexpensive source of material.
>

The bags are re-useable first off.

Everyones different and has different needs. When the Tilia that I
have
goes belly up (if the *#&# thing ever does) a new Tilia will be
ordered
the same day.

As for the bag expense, if you get on Tilia's mailing list every so
often they run the bag materials at around 1/2 price and I stock up.
It doesn't go bad.

There are also a lot of bags for Tilia available on eBay.

Jill

But be careful. A lot of them aren't genuine and are much thinner. Or
the "genuine Tilia" ones that I got certainly weren't. Negative
feedback left but that's about the only recourse except to toss 'em
out and get the real thing. I'm not saying that they all are, just to
be careful.

Agreed, but that is true of about anything on eBay. Some people are
reliable and represent their items honestly, others don't.

Jill

Dave Smith said:

What bells and whistles do you need. I would be content just to find an
inexpensive source of material. That was the thing that made me reconsider
the need. It looked like it was going to cost about 50 cents per foot of
plastic, which out to question the economy of the whole idea of vacuum
packing to save money.

If you have Costco, or know someone, you can get that down to about 30¢ ft.
The rest of the savings is dependent on the sale price of the food.
Occasionally, I will buy when, say, chicken is 30% off. But, on that rare
occasion chicken is discounted by 60%, you can bet I'm all over that and the
ol' Tilia gets a serious workout. Another example is the huge discounts on
fish last summer. Alaskan salmon for $2lb and pollock for $1lb. I bought
about a years worth. No way would it have kept without the vac packing.

nb

nb

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If you have Costco, or know someone, you can get that down to about 30¢
ft.
The rest of the savings is dependent on the sale price of the food.
Occasionally, I will buy when, say, chicken is 30% off. But, on that rare
occasion chicken is discounted by 60%, you can bet I'm all over that and
the
ol' Tilia gets a serious workout. Another example is the huge discounts
on
fish last summer. Alaskan salmon for $2lb and pollock for $1lb. I bought
about a years worth. No way would it have kept without the vac packing.

I think people don't get that because the informercials are so heavy on the
money saving thing. I'm all about the no freezer burn thing. I want to go
into the freezer and get a package of *whatever* that is good to eat.
What's worse than thinking 'i'll take out a package of pork chops and
finding out they are done for ... great, pizza for dinner, yuck.

nancy

Dave Smith said:

I finally tried out the Talia food saver that I got for Christmas. I
could not believe how easy it was to operate. I picked up an economy
pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts today, made up some bags,
stuck two (half) breasts in each bag, stuck one end in the vacuum
channel, closed the lid, pump started running, the air got sucked out of
the bags, bags got sealed, pushed a button to release the top and pulled
out a vacuum pack with enough chicken for dinner for two. Piece of
cake. I like this machine.

You're going to run out of bags. And freezer space.

And then you're going to start noticing the little
sale-price signs in the beef case at the supermarket,
and wishing you had bags and space.

--Blair
"I may insulate my garage
next weekend."

Nancy Young said:

I think people don't get that because the informercials are so heavy on the
money saving thing. I'm all about the no freezer burn thing. I want to go
into the freezer and get a package of *whatever* that is good to eat.
What's worse than thinking 'i'll take out a package of pork chops and
finding out they are done for ... great, pizza for dinner, yuck.

The only time I've ever had anything go remotely "bad" in
a Tilia bag was when one got nicked by something else in
the freezer and it lost vacuum and grew some freezer-burn.

Testimonial:

Because of my dieting, I have had about two steaks at home
in 6 months, but I have about 15 of them stored up.

A few weeks ago, on a splurge for hitting my goals,
I pulled one out of the freezer that was dated sometime
early last year when the local stores were going crazy
offering bone-in strip at 1999 prices.

Dropped the bag in a full sink of cool water, waited half
an hour, slit it open, and it smelled like I'd bought
it yesterday.

Grilled up perfect.

--Blair
"Handy tip: clip the price sticker
and put it in the bag; saves you from
getting out the sharpie to mark the
date, cut, weight, and how hard you
saved."

"Blair P. Houghton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Nancy Young said:

I think people don't get that because the informercials are so heavy on
the
money saving thing. I'm all about the no freezer burn thing. I want to
go
into the freezer and get a package of *whatever* that is good to eat.
What's worse than thinking 'i'll take out a package of pork chops and
finding out they are done for ... great, pizza for dinner, yuck.

The only time I've ever had anything go remotely "bad" in
a Tilia bag was when one got nicked by something else in
the freezer and it lost vacuum and grew some freezer-burn.

Testimonial:

Because of my dieting, I have had about two steaks at home
in 6 months, but I have about 15 of them stored up.

A few weeks ago, on a splurge for hitting my goals,
I pulled one out of the freezer that was dated sometime
early last year when the local stores were going crazy
offering bone-in strip at 1999 prices.

Dropped the bag in a full sink of cool water, waited half
an hour, slit it open, and it smelled like I'd bought
it yesterday.

I've always read/heard that you shouldn't defrost meat in this way....
rather let it defrost naturally.
Or is that an old wives tale. I'll be miffed to think I've waited all those
(collective) hours when I could have been tucking in much sooner!

Quoted message said:

Grilled up perfect.

--Blair
"Handy tip: clip the price sticker
and put it in the bag; saves you from
getting out the sharpie to mark the
date, cut, weight, and how hard you
saved."

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Dave Smith said:

I finally tried out the Talia food saver that I got for Christmas. I
could not believe how easy it was to operate. I picked up an economy
pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts today, made up some bags,
stuck two (half) breasts in each bag, stuck one end in the vacuum
channel, closed the lid, pump started running, the air got sucked out of
the bags, bags got sealed, pushed a button to release the top and pulled
out a vacuum pack with enough chicken for dinner for two. Piece of
cake. I like this machine.

You're going to run out of bags. And freezer space.

That problem already happened when I bought a whole lamb. Solution was easy,
though. New freezer!

Quoted message said:

And then you're going to start noticing the little
sale-price signs in the beef case at the supermarket,
and wishing you had bags and space.

Well, I'm thinking that this might save me a bit of space, since the
vacuumed packages are smaller than all the wrapping when I package things
conventionally.

And I might be able to move a few things out of the freezer that don't
really need to be there if they're in vacuum canisters, like my whole wheat
flour...

Yeah, that'll work! Gotta go shopping!

:-)

Jay said:

"Blair P. Houghton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Nancy Young said:

I think people don't get that because the informercials are so
heavy on the
money saving thing. I'm all about the no freezer burn thing.

Testimonial:

Because of my dieting, I have had about two steaks at home
in 6 months, but I have about 15 of them stored up.

A few weeks ago, on a splurge for hitting my goals,
I pulled one out of the freezer that was dated sometime
early last year when the local stores were going crazy
offering bone-in strip at 1999 prices.

Dropped the bag in a full sink of cool water, waited half
an hour, slit it open, and it smelled like I'd bought
it yesterday.

I've always read/heard that you shouldn't defrost meat in this way....
rather let it defrost naturally.
Or is that an old wives tale. I'll be miffed to think I've waited all
those (collective) hours when I could have been tucking in much
sooner!

I defrost things this way all the time. The caveat is COOL water. Don't
attempt to rush things but putting a package of meat/fish/chicken in warm or
hot water.

Jill

"Blair P. Houghton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Nancy Young said:

I think people don't get that because the informercials are so heavy on
the
money saving thing. I'm all about the no freezer burn thing. I want to
go
into the freezer and get a package of *whatever* that is good to eat.
What's worse than thinking 'i'll take out a package of pork chops and
finding out they are done for ... great, pizza for dinner, yuck.

Quoted message said:

Because of my dieting, I have had about two steaks at home
in 6 months, but I have about 15 of them stored up.

A few weeks ago, on a splurge for hitting my goals,
I pulled one out of the freezer that was dated sometime
early last year when the local stores were going crazy
offering bone-in strip at 1999 prices.

Dropped the bag in a full sink of cool water, waited half
an hour, slit it open, and it smelled like I'd bought
it yesterday.

Grilled up perfect.

That's what I love the best. Knowing there's food in the freezer so I
can stock up like that. Apparently I have no talent for wrapping
cuts of meat for the freezer because no matter what, freezer burn
city within say 3-4 weeks. I was *so* careful, I tried everything.
Forget it. Now, if I see a nice bunch of steaks that look good, or
sometimes a filet of beef, like that, I don't hesitate to stock up.
Love my Tilia.

nancy

The biggest use of my Tilla is homemade piggy link sausage. I have found a
great sausage spice with no msg at sauasagesource.com and Boston Butts are
always on sale at .99 to 1.18lb in my area so I make my own piggy links for
breakfast at about 90% fat [I remove visible fat from the outside at
processing] and place 24 links in a bag large enough that when I take a
serving out I reseal and use over and over. The last serving is usually
down to a 11x1.5 inch size but it still works.

--
Emil Luca

"Nancy Young" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Blair P. Houghton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Nancy Young said:

I think people don't get that because the informercials are so heavy on
the
money saving thing. I'm all about the no freezer burn thing. I want to
go
into the freezer and get a package of *whatever* that is good to eat.
What's worse than thinking 'i'll take out a package of pork chops and
finding out they are done for ... great, pizza for dinner, yuck.

Quoted message said:

Because of my dieting, I have had about two steaks at home
in 6 months, but I have about 15 of them stored up.

A few weeks ago, on a splurge for hitting my goals,
I pulled one out of the freezer that was dated sometime
early last year when the local stores were going crazy
offering bone-in strip at 1999 prices.

Dropped the bag in a full sink of cool water, waited half
an hour, slit it open, and it smelled like I'd bought
it yesterday.

Grilled up perfect.

That's what I love the best. Knowing there's food in the freezer so I
can stock up like that. Apparently I have no talent for wrapping
cuts of meat for the freezer because no matter what, freezer burn
city within say 3-4 weeks. I was *so* careful, I tried everything.
Forget it. Now, if I see a nice bunch of steaks that look good, or
sometimes a filet of beef, like that, I don't hesitate to stock up.
Love my Tilia.

nancy