Chamber Vacuum Sealer?

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Brian, is it kind of a pain in the hinder sealing larger/longer items ?
I had a turkey carcass from Christmas that I sealed up the other day to save for stock but didn't try to fit it in my chamber and just used my regular sealer. It might have fit but would have been close. Beings I already had the regular sealer out to make a food saver bag that was long enough I figured I might as well just use it. I would say anything over 12" from the point of the seal will be pushing it. Still for what I paid for the Vevor it is already worth it for the small amount I have used it (by comparison of what I used to vac seal or others do). I haven't ordered bags for it yet but have been either using some of my Food Saver bags or buying boxes of precut from the local Scheels which isn't as cheap as where you can get others online but still not bad.
 
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It has to fit inside the sealing chamber. I have used the 10" x 13" bags. The chamber height is 2" and the dome has about an 1" bubble.
I watched one YouTube vid, the guy was sealing up a whole chicken and just stuck the open end of bag in sealer. Was curious if this was how it worked. He used regular vac bags, not chamber bags for this.
If you were to have ring sausage longer than 12" or so, would you have to roll them circular to fit in bag then 🤔

How about if trying to seal whole rack of ribs ?
 
I watched one YouTube vid, the guy was sealing up a whole chicken and just stuck the open end of bag in sealer. Was curious if this was how it worked. He used regular vac bags, not chamber bags for this.
If you were to have ring sausage longer than 12" or so, would you have to roll them circular to fit in bag then 🤔

How about if trying to seal whole rack of ribs ?
If it outside the chamber works links a regular sealer. Liquid would get sucked up into the seal I would think.
 
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I watched one YouTube vid, the guy was sealing up a whole chicken and just stuck the open end of bag in sealer. Was curious if this was how it worked. He used regular vac bags, not chamber bags for this.
If you were to have ring sausage longer than 12" or so, would you have to roll them circular to fit in bag then 🤔

How about if trying to seal whole rack of ribs ?
Not sure how exactly a guy would go about it to get the seal without having a long chunk of unusable or a ton of unusable, plus the way a chamber sealer works I would think you need the bag inside for the negative pressure to work. Are you sure the YouTuber was using a chamber sealer or just a regular sealer?
All you need to do is figure out what your max length is and stay under that. In mine sausage over 12-13" I would bend or cut in half, rack of ribs cut in half, whole chicken no problem, large side of fish like a salmon cut in half or portions you want, etc.
My in-laws said they have some friends that have a chamber sealer and they have to use certain bags otherwise it doesn't work correctly, I have had no issues with different bag material like the Food Saver textured bags, some different style that had ribs and another is textured and has some kind of extra layer on the one side, then of course the chamber specific style.
 
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Not sure how exactly a guy would go about it to get the seal without having a long chunk of unusable or a ton of unusable, plus the way a chamber sealer works I would think you need the bag inside for the negative pressure to work. Are you sure the YouTuber was using a chamber sealer or just a regular sealer?
All you need to do is figure out what your max length is and stay under that. In mine sausage over 12-13" I would bend or cut in half, rack of ribs cut in half, whole chicken no problem, large side of fish like a salmon cut in half or portions you want, etc.
My in-laws said they have some friends that have a chamber sealer and they have to use certain bags otherwise it doesn't work correctly, I have had no issues with different bag material like the Food Saver textured bags, some different style that had ribs and another is textured and has some kind of extra layer on the one side, then of course the chamber specific style.
Here's the vid that Winter mentioned. You can seal large items outside the chamber vac but you have to use textured bag material. I've vac sealed ribs out side the chamber a few times and just did a couple of long Summer Sausages the other night to finish sous vide.You can use chamber vac bags (Much cheaper than regular food saver type bags) or the textured bags in the chamber.
 
If the seal bar goes out and a new one is unavailable, you just have a useless brick lol.


Pretty sure most of them come with spare parts for the seal bar. New metal resistance strip and the tape to cover it. My Vevor had the spares with it.
 
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Here's the vid that Winter mentioned. You can seal large items outside the chamber vac but you have to use textured bag material. I've vac sealed ribs out side the chamber a few times and just did a couple of long Summer Sausages the other night to finish sous vide.You can use chamber vac bags (Much cheaper than regular food saver type bags) or the textured bags in the chamber.

Thanks Norwester55 and Winterrider Winterrider . The more a guy knows I guess, hind sight not sure why I didn't Google it up myself. That being said after watching and skipping around to get the majority of it I wouldn't do it with my setup mostly because I have a conventional sealer too. Couple other things is the excessive waste of material I would need to reach my seal bar that is in the back and limited to bag size that would fit between my hinges.
I tend to use a crescent wrench for a hammer if it is handy sometimes but I don't ever plan on building a whole project with finish nails and no hammer at all
 
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Here's the vid that Winter mentioned. You can seal large items outside the chamber vac but you have to use textured bag material. I've vac sealed ribs out side the chamber a few times and just did a couple of long Summer Sausages the other night to finish sous vide.You can use chamber vac bags (Much cheaper than regular food saver type bags) or the textured bags in the chamber.

holy shit!!!! im glad i watched this had no idea!!
 
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Pretty sure most of them come with spare parts for the seal bar. New metal resistance strip and the tape to cover it. My Vevor had the spares with it.
Right, but what next when the spares that came with it are gone? If I'm shelling out that much cash, I want a source for replacement parts for whatever I decide to go with.
 
I have one coming by Monday to test and review. Ill let you know how it goes.
 
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Right, but what next when the spares that came with it are gone? If I'm shelling out that much cash, I want a source for replacement parts for whatever I decide to go with.
I know for certain the Avid Armor ultra series comes with replace seal element and a replacement lid seal plus additional seal elements and seals can be purchased as needed. FWIW I have used the Ultra 32 for 3 maybe 4 years and still using the original sealer and lid seal. Comes with a 1 year and if you follow their procedure they'll toss in another year for free. I never used my warranty but I did engage customer service, they were quick, responsive, nice and helpful.
 
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So went ahead and ordered an Avid Armour USV32. Reached to them and asked for a discount or code and they gave me one quickly. So pretty good so far on customer service. I may order a Vevor and test them side by side.

Here is the discount code Avid Armour sent if anyone else wants to use it. "OHDEER2025" I think it was $50 off.

Will report after I use it and seal up some meats.
 
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