Cryovac Units

Ditto - the Sunbeam is easy to use, effective and trouble free for us too.

Ditto: on our 2nd one a later model up date ....but bags not cheap ....

cheers nick

Another vote for Sunbeam if you make the bags long you can just waste the sealed bit and reuse the rest, otherwise the bags work out to be about $2 probably a small price for what you can achieve. We have used meat about six weeks old and it appeared and tasted fresh.

Cheers
Graham

Yes Sunbeam is the way to go. I use ours all the time and have had no trouble with it. I get the rolls and cut them larger than required just wash them and reuse them. I get the rolls from Hervey Norman $30 for a box of two rolls.
Cheers Mandy

I can't believe you wash the bags!

Any yet another vote for the small Sunbeam.
Rob

What model Sunbeam are we talking about, is one model better than another?
I have looked at a few on Ebay but it's hard to tell the differances between the models except the model numbers.
Cheers Dave.

sunbeam it works well small & you can get bags/rolls easily & the heating is not that many amps so will work on a inverter if you have enough amps

I'm on my second Sunbeam. The first decided to hand it's chips in.

We used it at home and on the road, and we also consumed meat that had been packed a month previously. It was not tainted in any way and tasted as steak should.

But one word for the wise. I purchased a cheaper brand roll of bags a month or so ago. Absolutely hopeless, would not hold a vacuum any longer than a day or two.

I certainly shows that you don't travel second class.

I'd like to offer a different point of view here. The zip bag, with all the air you'll have inside it, will induce freezer burn and that's not very good for any food. The vacuum bags reduce freezer burn to almost zero. They don't leak if your freezer carks it and can be refrozen very quickly.

I do agree that vacuum bags are just brilliant for your car fridge/freezer and esky. I'm off west on Saturday with the 50L Engel and a goodly portion of frozen vacuum packed food as base to make sure my beers stay cold.