Food Vacuum Sealer Rolls

Food vacuum sealer rolls are great for making "just the right-size" bags! Don't waste money buying a bunch of varying sizes of pre-cut vacuum-sealer bags... Here's how to make your own!

Buy rolls in varying lengths and widths, BUT MAKE sure you don't get ones that are TOO WIDE for your particular food vacuum sealer machine.

Bear in mind the sides are already "sealed" if you will. It's just the top and bottom of the "bags" that need sealing.  They usually are sold as 11" or 8" wide rolls.

Food vacuum sealer rolls make it very convenient when you have long-length foods that you want to store, such as spaghetti!

No need to break the spaghetti in half to store it! In fact, I left the spaghetti in its box... just in case I forget how long to cook it :-) you know, different varieties have different cooking times!

Wondering why I bother to vacuum-seal spaghetti?

Well, in my neck of the woods, we're prone to hurricanes. Having the spaghetti vacuum sealed protects it from water damage. Yeah, I hear ya - I don't think wet spaghetti would worry us as much as the roof blowing off the house! But still...

Wipe Away Residue from the Food Vacuum Sealer Rolls

NOTE: I have noticed the FoodSaver brand white printed section (that's there for you to write the bag's contents on it) tends to 'come off' and stick to the lower heating element strip and the upper roller of the machine.

It's not a huge problem as this white residue wipes off easily with a clean, damp cloth.

I wipe down the Foodsaver heating element strip immediately if I see the white powdery stuff on it—so it doesn't hamper future bag sealings.

It's good practice, anyway, to keep your roller and strip clean. You'll create a tight seal, and that's definitely what we're aiming for.

You can easily get these at the same place you purchased your food vacuum sealer machine from, or over the internet and shipped right to your door! Check out our picks from Amazon, near the bottom of the page.

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How to Create Perfect-Sized Bags

It's easy to create your own vacuum-sealer bags—just follow the three steps below. Take the time to cut across the width at a 90-degree angle!

1. Cut off the desired length of the bag at right angles, i.e. cut it STRAIGHT across at 90 degrees. If you keep the cut straight, you'll have an easier time vacuuming it. Not only that, you'll have rectangular bags and not odd parallelogram-shaped bags!
2. Seal one end. Add your food to be vacuumed, along with an oxygen absorber.
3. Vacuum and seal the custom-length bag! Write the contents on it too, and the date.

NOTE: For long-term storage... after vacuuming the bags, I pull out a 2ft length (approx.) of plastic wrap. I then wrap the package in it!

This extra wrap takes care of sharp pointy corners, as is the case when vacuuming the whole spaghetti box. I do this to protect other packages inside Mylar bags so they don't puncture each other.

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Use Plastic Wrap to Provide An Extra Layer of Protection

Another good reason to use plastic wrap is if a vacuumed-bag seal gives way during storage, then the plastic wrap acts as an extra air- and water-tight layer!

My real reason for using plastic wrap as mentioned earlier is to keep the bags from accidentally puncturing each other in the first place when you are putting them in the Mylar bags for long-term storage.

I created a page on how to quickly wrap a filled and fully sealed vacuum-sealer bag as a quick pictorial here.

You may wonder how foods can puncture bags. Well, if you bought a cheaper brand (read: less than 4-mil. thick) you are likely to encounter punctures, sorry.

But the main reason for punctures is this: as our foods dry, they become hard, and brittle in some cases. And sharp! It's those darned sharp edges that cause trouble.

Cocooning our vacuum-sealed packages in plastic wrap helps take care of other bags getting punctured from one rogue bag while they're nestled inside a Mylar bag.

Thanks so much for stopping by to learn about food vacuum sealer rolls.

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