Where do you get "technically you're supposed to throw the bags away" from? I read the box from the quart size and the gallon size, and it doesn't say not to reuse. I make sure and label mine so I don't use a chicken bag for onions, but that's really not a problem with the way I'm washing them and the fact that the chicken is frozen and then cooked. I just don't want to add chicken to an onion bag for fear of taste transfer.Good! Glad to hear it.
Technically, you're supposed to throw the bags away once they're empty, but who's gonna know?
If you think you can get much more milage from them that way, then why not? This unique little invention; Boy! That's money!!
I had the option to do a rebate too but I don't have a checking account so I didn't bother. I got mine for $8 at Harris Teeter and bags for $2.86 at Wal-Mart.I bought mine at Vons (Safeway) two days before Thanksgiving, on sale for $9.98 USD and it came complete with a $5.00 mail in rebate coupon. For 4 bucks, it doesn't have to work all that good, but it does.
If it's not in the safety section, or on the box of bags, then they are trying to cover themselves but it's not imparative to throw the bags out. If it was it would have to be listed under safety precautions. Unless they are going to label the bags "single use" I'm reusing them. And there's no instruction booklet in my box. I kept everything just in case I wanted to return it.She thought it was one of those, you know, don't want to say it here.
Under the General Usage Information and Tips on the back of the little instruction pamplet that comes with the machine.
The last sentense says not to reuse them once all of the contents have been removed.
On the website, it says that the bags might be difficult to wash near the textured area, as food and/or liquid may get lodged there and become hard to remove, supposedly paving the way for bacteria to grow, I imagine.
But I didn't want to scare or discourage you in any way. I guess if you plan to reuse the bags immediately, there shouldn't be a cause for concern.
A fold out pamphlet/instruction booklett are one in the same, it's just semantics. Regardless, I don't have one. My point is that the company is not stressing, in any way, the bags are single use. They hide the info in obscure places and not on the actual bags or on the packaging of the machine.I myself, never said that you couldn't reuse them. I'm not going to send the food police to your door.
I merely said that the co. is suggesting that people don't. It's not on an instruction booklet. Rather it's a small folded pamplet. Does anyone else have one with theirs, I wonder?
Okay ~ I forgot to share the funny story about the handi-vac.
My daughter came in right after I bought it and saw it on the table and started screaming "oh my god, oh my god, what is that? why is it on the table???" And before I could say what it was (obviously she's watched too much Sex in the City) she let out a sigh of relief and say "Oh, it says Reynolds on it."
To which I replied, "What? It's a breast pump for the cat." She now calls it the breast pump. But then again, that's what that little suction cup kind of looks like.
I have one and I love it! I have decided against a big bulky food saver taking up space for this little gaget.
I threw my pamphlet away but didn't it say you could use them as boil in bags? Maybe not but if it is true then why couldn't you put them in the dishwasher? Just a thought.
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Hi Corey 123,
I have found a website for you to look at their home page, vacu-seal.com.
I bought it at BBB about a week ago for $29.99 which was for the Vacu-Seal machine, batteries and 3 bags. There weren't that many of them left but they were near the Food Saver's which just look so ridiculously big next to this little handheld.
Let me know what you think if you try it.
Did you notice you can only use the bags for that machine with frozen food? Not sure I would like that.
I couldn't actually find it available in the US when I did a search. I wonder if the VacuSeal is only in the UK. Even the QVC offering was QVC UK.
Did you notice you can only use the bags for that machine with frozen food? Not sure I would like that.