by: Susan Gast / Author, Blogger at Beesville Books, Bored Boomers, and a Food Dehydrating Fanatic!
Looking for an easy way to draw air out of your filled Mason jars? Well, check out this Pawcute Mason jar vacuum sealer review.
It's a handy dandy gadget by "Pawcute" which is available on Amazon. It comes with two different-sized vacuum lids: one for wide-mouth jars, and one for regular-mouth jars - plus the hose, a lid remover... a manual pump, and six spare jar lids.
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I read in other reviews for the FoodSaver model (and other types, to be fair) that Amazon customers noticed the inner rubber ring came out, and people were having issues sealing their jars. Some people even resorted to using TWO lids to try to complete the vacuum suction by adding a little height!
I was pleasantly surprised.
Check out this video demo of me using the wide mouth lid vacuum top, and my hack for older models (vacuum sealer models, not aging runway fashion models!) and how I made it "work" with my V2240 FoodSaver vacuum sealer (it's over a decade old!)
The connector hose I ended up using in the video (which I thought earned me a "10" in the "brainwave" department) is shown just a little bit further down the page (click the "connector hose" link if you can't wait... ;-)
I'll give credit to Pawcute for saying which food vacuum sealers it won't work with, but again, my model is "so old," it didn't work. I hear you asking, "Just how old is it, Susan?" Let me say that it was used on Noah's Ark...
Again, I ended up using my "green-ended hose connector" (that I also bought on Amazon) for sealing FoodSaver REUSABLE bags - which IS its intended purpose, by the way.
This is Pawcute's note on Amazon:
Note: If your vacuum sealer machine is FM2000, FM2100, FM2500, FM4800, FM4900, FM 5800; VS0160, VS1130, VS0100, VS0150, please use the original hose that comes with the vacuum machine or choose another mason jar sealer vacuum kit that with a manual vacuum pump.
I just now went back to the kitchen to double-check that in my haste I hadn't tried hard enough to make the connector hose that comes with the two lids work. I still couldn't make the hose work.
NOTE: I am keeping the connector hose that came with the two lids in a safe place because I know my trusty old FoodSaver is not going to last forever. (Don't worry, it can't hear me from here).
I honestly WISH I'd forked out the extra buck to get the manual pump, plus the extra lids. Call me cheap. I could have used the manual pump! But hey, you live and learn. So get the manual pump version so you can use it in a power outage.
My "dollar-cheaper" choice has two lids, the hose, and the opener.
The "dollar-extra" option has two lids, the hose, the opener, six spare lids, and the manual pump.
For the record, the "bare bones" and the "extras" Pawcute options are available in two color choices.
I chose the one with the white top with the balance being green. No idea why.
The other style is the main body, which is green, with a band of white. Same difference! Anyhoo.
Pawcute lid top showing smooth center areaSuffice to say that the surface on the very top around the vacuum hole where the hose should be inserted was smooth enough for my hack to work. If the surface had been heavily textured, it would not have worked for me (or you!).
Mason jar lid removal toolThe Pawcute image at the top of the page contains the special "lid remover" (i.e. "extras") which actually works! It also opens bottles of beer which would be handy if I drank beer. Gave that up in 1997 and that's a whole other story
But I do want you to visit my "Dehydrate Eggs Safely" page and if, like me, you opted to save a dollar - Elissa's video shows you what she uses to remove vacuum-sealed lids... and it ain't her fingernails AND it's something we all have plenty of! (Grin).
If you don't want to use Mason jars and like the flexibility of bags, try reusable bags. My FoodSaver is an older model and I had to buy the up-to-date hose connector for the bags. I chose the 2-pk in case I broke it or lost it!
The black rubber suction end is firm, but supple enough to create a tight seal against the FoodSaver bags (as designed).
Yes, the hose shown below is the hose you see in the video (go watch it again!) And this is the hose I used for my hack to seal the Mason jars!
Here is the accessory hose 2-pk as seen in my video for vacuum sealing the FoodSaver reusable bags:
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Quart and Gallon FoodSaver Reusable Bags with the black zipper closure tool in frontThe image below is the FoodSaver® Reusable Quart Vacuum Zipper Bags and are sold 10 to a box.
It also includes a handy dandy zipper bag closure gadget! Use it... it works wonders. You should have seen me messin' around with just my fingers trying to seal the zipper part (sigh).
Below are the FoodSaver® Reusable Gallon Vacuum Zipper Bags which are sold 8 to a box and they also come with the bag zipper closure tool.
Thanks for stopping by my product review of the Pawcute Mason Jar Vacuum Sealer. Go ahead and spend the extra dollar and get the six lids and the manual pump. Don't be cheap like me! LOL
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