There are models that will seal two bags at once. I have used them a lot when I worked at a seafood business. Some will do four at once but the four bag models use 3-phase current.

There are models that will seal two bags at once. I have used them a lot when I worked at a seafood business. Some will do four at once but the four bag models use 3-phase current.

I have been using a Foodsaver Gamesaver Bronze for about 5 years with no trouble. Looks like the current wingman series. It had some of the best reviews when I purchased it. You can buy bags cheaper at Amazon but they are not the Foodsaver brand.

I have had one of those for about 10-11 years.

I’ve been thinking of purchasing one myself, how much longer is the shelf life of food I’m the freezer when stored in one of these bags?

I have had the Vac-Master for as I said 10-11 years. For me it paid for its self within a year. The food saver bags are crazy expensive. You can get Vac-Master bags for $45-55 per thousand. If you do the math it really dosent take long to pay for one.

I have had wild game frozen for several years when the odd package gets buried and still great. It makes a big difference if your careful not to handle the frozen packages rough. If the plastic gets banged up it will leak.

I wondering if you could use Vac-Master bags in a food saver machine.?

Nope, unfortunately. The ones for the foodsaver types has little ribs on the inside of them to make the suction. That's what I've been seeing online anyway. I looked at the Weston Pro 3000 and for an expensive machine it doesn't have a roll holder or a cutter on it. I'm looking at this one as a good possibility.

Vac-Master Pro 380

No offense, but the popular narrative that a chamber vac can "pay for itself in bags" is laughable unless you're packing thousands of things per year. For normal people, they'll never get back what was spent on the machine. A "decent" one is around $1000, lets say a "decent" suction unit is $100 for arguments sake. So some are suggesting that in the first year or two, a person can save over $900 in bags. Even if you cut the machine price difference to $600, it would take years and years to spend $600 on vacuum sealer bags. Most folks would never make up the difference. I can buy 100' of 11" rolls for $17. For reference, that's only slightly less than I used to package an entire steer, minus the ground burger. And like mentioned before, chamber vacs severely limit the size you can package.
Chamber vacs are great for certain things, but for most people wanting to freeze game meat at home they have fewer benefits at 5x the cost.

The Food Saver bags they add up fast. We spent $200 on bags to do one moose when we had the Cabela's sealer

I don't know where/when you got your bags, but I promise they're nowhere near that now. Actually, your numbers don't make sense. Even at $.40/bag, $200 would mean using 500 bags. Obviously one moose doesn't take 500 bags to package?
Like I mentioned, I spent less than $30 on bags for an entire 1400 lb steer. Of course I didn't buy boxes of bags at Walmart. They're much cheaper off of Amazon for other brands.

https://www.kohls.com/product/prd-4...lAu_Aw-WwRoC3GEQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
You do well to package up a whole steer for $30

Here’s a great place to buy bags....

https://www.webstaurantstore.com/14281/vacuum-packaging-machine-bags.html?filter=freezer-safe:yes

We use ours quit a bit. We used to go through a food saver a year every 2 years on the better ones (More Expense food Saver).

We bought the Vac Master 380 5 years ago and have run several thousand bags through it. Great unit !!

Up to 15 in wide bags up to as long as you need. Or 6 inch bags with enough fillets for a meal and everything in-between.

But with any external vacuum machine freeze it before you seal it if it has water in it. fish, corn, most meat that wet or bloody

Thanks Bigbrownie! great price on 1000 I see these are 3mil I usually use 4mil do you have any issues with the thinner bags? tonight I found a pack of fish from over a year and a half ago surprisingly it came out great....



















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Funny.....just had backstraps from Nov 2017. I thought it said 2019 when I got them out. I didn't say anything to my son beforehand. He said they were fine. I do two deer a year, various waterfowl, bulk cheese, nuts, soups. I'm getting each of my kids one for xmas presents.