Ziploc vacuum bags.

[hamstring]

Has anyone tried the new Ziploc vacuum bags?

I have a vacuum sealer already but I am really thinking about getting these. They allow you to reopen the bag without cutting it and the vacuum pump is battery operated which is huge if you store any of your stash where AC power is not readily available. The bags are reasonable around $4 for ten 1 gal bags and the pump is around $8.

For an outdoor grower who harvests all his stash for the year at once or for the commercial grower who likes to store his product buried somewhere or away from his house I see this a big bonus over the standard vacuum sealer.

I have had my vacuum-sealed bags open up or leak. You go back to grab a bag a weed to find out that the seal has been broken. Before you had to haul it back home or to a place with AC power and cut and reseal hoping there is enough bag left to seal. With the Ziploc bags you can simply fire up the battery operated pump right at your storage sight.
I really see this as they way for the guerrilla to go with the battery operate pump you could vacuum seal everything in the field.

This is all just conjecture and I was wondering if anyone has used them yet. I talked to a friend who seals his veggies in them and he loves them because you can put liquid in them where it was almost impossible with a standard vacuum bag.

PEACE

 

[bakerman]

Hi!I'm not the best of words and when I'm typen my comp is still D-loaden,,,yah real ssslllooowww!No ,if ur vac sealer lets u get back in u can do the same with zip-locks,,,push the air out and seal!Vac seal ,U can see the air being taken out!!More ad U best PM!

 

[hamstring]

bakerman
Hey bro sent you a PM but if you get the time share your experience here also for the community. Thanks for offering to help a brother out with some knowledge.

 

[bakerman]

Yo!All Vac sealers are the same !Buy the cheap ones!All u have 2 do is seal twice!Yah the first has some air but the second wont!!!yahWTF is B-man talken about!Ok ur a bud inside a bag hold ur f-en breath!!!Then I'm sealing you in another bag(good luck)Outside I cant smell you!Thus the whole point!!!!

 

[Jeff Lebowski]

Anyone try these bags though?

 

[blynx]

Reynolds vacuum sealer

Reynolds vacuum sealer

To clarify, I am talking about the Reynolds batter operated Vacuum sealer.

I've tried the bags with food and I also tried a bag with an altoid tin just to see how it would hold a seal.

Out of the two bags holding berries in the freezer, one has held the seal for over a month just fine. The other one tho slowly lost the seal over a couple weeks. I re-vac'ed it, so we'll see.

The bag holding the altoid tin has held a seal just fine for over a month.

The bags aren't the toughest bags, so a stem might actually poke a hole in them. A foodsaver bag is definitely a lot thicker and tougher.

I did like the idea of the ease of re-sealing without losing material (ie foodsaver) each un-seal/re-seal.

I would say if you are looking to store something longterm and don't need to access it to break out a bag, then go with the foodsaver.

If you don't have a lot nor a need for real longterm storage, or want to be able to easily access it, then the Ziploc vacuum system would probably be fine for you.

 

[Jeff Lebowski]

thanks blynx. So for a few ounces you would recommend these bags?

 

[hamstring]

blynx

Hey thanks for the info. Sounds like the bags are a little thin but the idea of opening and resealing has merits.

What did you think about the vacuum pump? It looks small I am guessing you need to have almost all the air squezzed out of the bag before using vacuum pump or it would take all day. What are your thoughts on this?

 

[blynx]

thanks blynx. So for a few ounces you would recommend these bags?

For a few ounces I'd recommend a glass jar. I prefer Le Parfait jars myself.

 

[blynx]

blynx

Hey thanks for the info. Sounds like the bags are a little thin but the idea of opening and resealing has merits.

What did you think about the vacuum pump? It looks small I am guessing you need to have almost all the air squezzed out of the bag before using vacuum pump or it would take all day. What are your thoughts on this?

The vacuum pump isn't the strongest thing in the world, but it will suck all the air out of the bag in reasonably quickly.

The hardest thing I found is to actually get it to start sucking air out of the bag. There is a little blue ring you match the vacuum up with, but it never seems to work easily for me, I always have to fuss with it a bit to get it going. Once it does start sucking air out of the bag, it works just fine.

 

[hamstring]

blynx
Thanks for the info. I know exactly what you are talking about when you mention the little blue ring I saw it when I was looking at the bags. Good info. much appreciated.

 

[Fast_Pine]

Ive looked at em...They look pretty handy, and the resealability is awesome..I too have had my food saver'd baggs leak on me..

One thing I did before I had the FS was use a gallon ziplock bag, or a oven roasting turkey bag and use my lungs as a vacum sealer...

Im going to stick to my FS...90% of the crop os bagged up in Lbs, and sold that way...I break the rest down in turkey bags, so I can break them down as needed..

I gotta admit that for ~10bucks its pretty tempting to try it out...

 

[blynx]

I edited my above post as I realized that I was talking about the Reynolds vacuum sealer and not the Ziploc sealer.

I did just pick up a Ziploc sealer. It was on sale for $4 with a $2 off coupon. It came with a hand operated pump and 3 bags.

My opinion is that the Ziploc sealer is way easier to get vacuuming than the Reynolds system. Ziploc has a slightly better designed vacuum valve on their bags. I stuck the vacuum over the hole and pumped and it worked great. I didn't have to screw around with trying to get it to start sucking like the Reynolds. Also don't have to worry about batteries running out at the wrong time.

It appears the Ziploc bags can be used with either the hand-held Ziploc vacuum pump, or the Reynolds battery operated vacuum pump.

I couldn't get the Reynolds bags to work with the Ziploc hand vacuum.

 

[hyposomniac]

The bag holding the altoid tin has held a seal just fine for over a month.

Could you smell the 'toids at all?

 

[blynx]

Could you smell the 'toids at all?

It was an empty tin of Raspberry Sours.

I do see that the vacuum is slightly lessening. What I mean is that it is still sealed and there is still a vacuum, but its not clinging to the tin as tightly as it did when I first vacuumed it.

 

[mebesideme]

its a little overkill, but we keep our stash in jars inside of one of those big "as seen on tv vac" bags. The jars keep every thing from being crushed or tearing the bag, and using a shop vac gets all the air out fine. No smell, no leak down of vacuum.

 

[Old Yeller]

Pump-n-Seal - Couldn't be happier - works with any jar that has a good, air-tight lid & any heavy duty (freezer) ziploc bag.
Still got the Ziploc vacuum starter kit & the bag re-fills un-opened.
You'll need a pair of pliers to take the lid off a mason jar after using the Pump-n-Seal.

You want long term storage? P-n-S a mason jar then put it into a large freezer ziploc & P-n-S that, then into a small Pelican Case & bury in the ground below the frost line.
Show your grand children what they're missing...

 

[norcalkell]

tHEY WORK GREAT FOR SMALL AMOUNTS LIKE ZIPS..AND YOU CAN REUSE THEM.!!