Tilia foodsaver does not suck good

On 12/23/2003 9:42 AM, in article z8%Fb.626858$HS4.4575312@attbi_s01, "zak"
<[email hidden]> opined:

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I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they want
$50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is there
anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.

TIA

Next time buy the super-duper "Monica" model!
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zak said:

I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they want
$50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is there anything
I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.

Give it a credit card and tell it to go shopping.

-sw

zak said:

I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they want
$50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is there
anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.

TIA

No suggestions, but I sympathize because that sucks!

(Sorry, I coouldn't resist.)

gloria p

Steve Wertz said:

zak said:

I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they want
$50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is there
anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.

Give it a credit card and tell it to go shopping.

Rofl. And don't marry it.

Gar

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Quoted message said:

Steve Wertz said:

zak said:

I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they want
$50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is there
anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.

Give it a credit card and tell it to go shopping.

Rofl. And don't marry it.

Gar

Q: Why is marriage like a 3-ring circus?

R: Marriage also has 3: The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffe-ring ;-)

WiScottsin said:

<Gar> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Steve Wertz said:

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:42:56 GMT, zak <[email hidden]> wrote:

>I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they
>want $50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is
>there anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.

Give it a credit card and tell it to go shopping.

Rofl. And don't marry it.

Gar

Q: Why is marriage like a 3-ring circus?

A: Marriage also has 3: The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffe-ring ;-)

Why does a bride smile when she is walking down the isle?

She knows she has given her last BJ..... ;-D

On 12/23/2003 11:28 PM, in article [email hidden], "Katra"
<[email hidden]> opined:

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WiScottsin said:

<Gar> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:16:25 -0600, Steve Wertz <[email hidden]> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:42:56 GMT, zak <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>> I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they
>> want $50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is
>> there anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.
>
> Give it a credit card and tell it to go shopping.

Rofl. And don't marry it.

Gar

Q: Why is marriage like a 3-ring circus?

A: Marriage also has 3: The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffe-ring ;-)

Why does a bride smile when she is walking down the isle?

She knows she has given her last BJ..... ;-D

That's badddddddddddddddddddddddddd, however true.
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Puester said:

zak said:

I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they want
$50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is there
anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.

TIA

No suggestions, but I sympathize because that sucks!

(Sorry, I coouldn't resist.)

gloria p

If it sucked he wouldn't have a problem. ;-)

zak. Is the hole on the bottom left side of the unit that creates the suction clean?

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Steve

Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.

WiScottsin wrote:

[snippage]

Quoted message said:

Q: Why is marriage like a 3-ring circus?

A: Marriage also has 3: The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffe-ring ;-)

The longest sentence in the English language is "I do."

---jkb

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-- Bam-Bam Rubble

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:28:39 -0600, Katra <[email hidden]>

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Why does a bride smile when she is walking down the isle?

She knows she has given her last BJ..... ;-D

Which is why my new theory is "why buy the cow when you already get the milk free."

Gar <-----Hopes Snot's not lurking.

zak <[email hidden]> wrote in news:z8%Fb.626858$HS4.4575312@attbi_s01:

Quoted message said:

I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they want
$50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is there
anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.

TIA

Must be straight!

zak said:

I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they want
$50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is there
anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.

I have found that if I don't arrange the ingredients properly, I will have trouble. As in, if I put
meat pieces (say chicken legs) into the bag in such a way as to trap a little air in there at the
bottom, problem. Plus, are you meticulous when you cut the bags to make for a very straight edge for
the first seal? That's important, because if that doesn't seal correctly, you won't get a seal on
the other end.

nancy

The Wolf said:

On 12/23/2003 11:28 PM, in article [email hidden], "Katra"
<[email hidden]> opined:

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WiScottsin said:

<Gar> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:16:25 -0600, Steve Wertz <[email hidden]> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:42:56 GMT, zak <[email hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they
>>> want $50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is
>>> there anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.
>>
>> Give it a credit card and tell it to go shopping.
>
> Rofl. And don't marry it.
>
> Gar

Q: Why is marriage like a 3-ring circus?

A: Marriage also has 3: The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffe-ring ;-)

Why does a bride smile when she is walking down the isle?

She knows she has given her last BJ..... ;-D

That's badddddddddddddddddddddddddd, however true.

When are you going to give your last?

--Blair "Don't tell."

On 12/25/2003 8:02 PM, in article [email hidden],
"Blair P. Houghton" <[email hidden]> opined:

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The Wolf said:

On 12/23/2003 11:28 PM, in article [email hidden], "Katra"
<[email hidden]> opined:

Quoted message said:

WiScottsin wrote:
>
> <Gar> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:16:25 -0600, Steve Wertz <[email hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:42:56 GMT, zak <[email hidden]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air. Called Tilia and they
>>>> want $50 to send it in for repair or replacement (they decide). It is out of warranty. Is
>>>> there anything I can do to get it to suck out the air better? I have the compact model.
>>>
>>> Give it a credit card and tell it to go shopping.
>>
>> Rofl. And don't marry it.
>>
>> Gar
>
> Q: Why is marriage like a 3-ring circus?
>
> A: Marriage also has 3: The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffe-ring ;-)

Why does a bride smile when she is walking down the isle?

She knows she has given her last BJ..... ;-D

That's badddddddddddddddddddddddddd, however true.

When are you going to give your last?

--Blair "Don't tell."

When are you going to grow up and start voting Republican?
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I have tilia vacuum sealer. It does not seem to suck out all the air.

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Called Tilia and they want $50 to send it in for repair or replacement

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I am mostly a lurker but had to jump in and tell my experience.

My husband bought me a Tilia sealer a little less than a year ago. Recently the thing completely
stopped sucking the air out and would just make a whirring sound.

the manual had a number to call and I was given a return number to sent it back. Since the unit was
purchased less than a year ago it was under warranty. I cleaned it up and sent it back and they sent
me a brand new unit.

But that's not what was most interesting. And if I sound stupid with this admission I accept it. But
I know (and I'm pretty sure the Tilia guy knew it when I spoke to him) that I tried to seal some
chicken soup in the thing. Now I did it all the right way, straight cut, air bubbles removed, lots
of space at top of the bag. I did notice that the machine started sucking up the chicken soup!

Of course I immediately stopped the thing and cleaned everything out, yada, yada. It was after this
incident that the machine really, really broke. I was able to have the Tilia guy actually listen to
the humming sound over the telephone. Then he mentioned that if I'd tried to seal liquids in it and
liquid got pulled into the pump that it was irretrievably broken. I made some comment that what good
was a sealer to me if I couldn't seal bags of chicken soup. He said the booklet suggests partially
freezing the soup in the freezer and THEN sealing it. Which, I suppose, if I'd actually read the
booklet, would make sense as I was totally unable to seal the bags of chicken soup after the soup
got sucked up into the pump. Remembering, at that time I didn't know I was BREAKING the thing, I
just knew it wouldn't seal with all the liquid getting sucked up like that.

So this is what I do now with my brand NEW Tilia sealer. I fill the bags then sit them into the
freezer until they are partially or totally frozen, and THEN seal them.

Anyway, this is really a BAD design on this machine, and I told the Tilia guy this. So okay it says
not to seal liquid in the BOOKLET. The average American would likely assume it's okay to seal soup
and such in those things. And like me, they'd inadvertantly break the thing before either learning
the right way to do it or tossing the machine as broken.

Judging by the number of returns Tilia gets (they sent me what they call a NEW model but I bet it's
a machine with some sort of rubber gasket that keeps liquid from gettig sucked into the pump by
idiots like me), this is not an uncommon thing.

Some engineer somewhere ddin't stop and apply logic to how the average user was going to use the
thing. Yeah, I know it was in the booklet but if bad design is foisted off on the small print in a
booklet than that company doesn't stay in business long.

Judging by the swift way they handled my boo-boo I figure Tilia wants to stay in business. Pat
Fish/Merryland

(Pat Fish1) said:

But that's not what was most interesting. And if I sound stupid with this admission I accept it.
But I know (and I'm pretty sure the Tilia guy knew it when I spoke to him) that I tried to seal
some chicken soup in the thing. Now I did it all the right way, straight cut, air bubbles removed,
lots of space at top of the bag. I did notice that the machine started sucking up the chicken soup!

It's a waste of time and effort to use a Tilia on most liquid soups when a ziplock will allow you to
get all the air out and prevent freezer burn just as well.

-sw

Steve Wertz said:

(Pat Fish1) said:

But that's not what was most interesting. And if I sound stupid with this admission I accept it.
But I know (and I'm pretty sure the Tilia guy knew it when I spoke to him) that I tried to seal
some chicken soup in the thing. Now I did it all the right way, straight cut, air bubbles
removed, lots of space at top of the bag. I did notice that the machine started sucking up the
chicken soup!

It's a waste of time and effort to use a Tilia on most liquid soups when a ziplock will allow you
to get all the air out and prevent freezer burn just as well.

-sw

Tilias are a waste of time, period. I can get all the air out of a ziplock bag when freezing ANY
item with a simple soda straw, and a minute or so of my time... ;-)

Generally, I double bag anyway to protect from freezer burn. I squeeze all of the air out of a small
storage bag, then drop several small storage bags into a large one, seal, then label and date.

K.

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"Beaten Paths are for Beaten People". -- Anon.

All a matter of opinion. I think they are great.

B-0b1 said:

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Quoted message said:

Tilias are a waste of time, period. I can get all the air out of a ziplock bag when freezing ANY
item with a simple soda straw, and a minute or so of my time... ;-)

Generally, I double bag anyway to protect from freezer burn. I squeeze all of the air out of
a small storage bag, then drop several small storage bags into a large one, seal, then label
and date.

K.

--
"Beaten Paths are for Beaten People". -- Anon.

B-0b1 said:

Tilias are a waste of time, period. I can get all the air out of a ziplock bag when freezing ANY
item with a simple soda straw, and a minute or so of my time... ;-)

Generally, I double bag anyway to protect from freezer burn. I squeeze all of the air out of
a small storage bag, then drop several small storage bags into a large one, seal, then label
and date.

K.

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"Beaten Paths are for Beaten People". -- Anon.

I suggest that you do a side by side freezer test with 1 steak sealed with the sealer and another
one of the same kind an seal it with your method. Put them in the freezer for, oh, say six months.
Pull them out and see which one you want to eat.

--
Steve

Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.