Anova - Precision Vacuum Sealer - Black

so I use this a lot. You have to be careful if you are vac sealing anything with liquids. It still works you just have to push "seal" quickly when the liquids start heading towards the sealer. You have to step up to around $600 to get a sealer that handles liquid without manually intervention. I make large chilies and soups seal them in small portions then freeze them. Sous vide 2 to 4 person servings. I season steaks then vac seal the steak and fridge age it for 2 days before cooking. You can dry age meat for 30 days no problem but there can't be any liquid when in there when you dry age. I literally use it 3 to 4 times a week

Works very well & easy. It also only takes about 20 seconds to store an item. Can use any plastic bags to seal foods for storage.

I love my Anova Precision Vacuum Sealer... so many uses...provides a quick precision seal...great vacuum capability.

Super easy to use. Great for Sous vide and also great for portioning and freezing for later.

Vacuum sealers don't last long at my house. I don't think I'm particularly rough with them. I just think the pumps suck and not in the good way. I spent over $200 on the last one and when it burnt out, so did I. I really didn't want to buy another one. Well then I got a sous vide and found out rather quickly that I needed another vacuum sealer... Since vacuum sealers don't last long at my house, I decided to go cheap and found this one on sale. At around 1/4 the price of my last one, why not. But I didn't expect much. What a pleasant surprise this machine has been. This thing has been a dream to use. The pump has been excellent and the sealer works great every time. I have had no problems with this machine and it's small size makes it easy to put away. I am happier with this machine than I was with the last 4 name brand units I had. For bags i went online and bought a couple different sized bulk packs of generic pre made bags. Easy and it cheap.

Had been considering purchasing a vacuum sealer for years but never quite got around to it. Wish we had done this years ago as it is extremely easy to use and seems to keep your foods much fresher for longer, especially frozen. You can easily see the food in the bag as well. To use just plug it in, put food in one of the 10 provided 7.9 x 8 inch bags and position it in the unit, push the top of the unit to insure it is ready to seal, then press Vacuum and seal and unit will automatically remove the air from bag and seal it once done. Thats it! You can also use the pulse button if you want to control the suction or the seal button to seal only with no suction. We recently purchased the Anova Precision Wifi sous vide cooker and while you can use regular storage bags - it is so much easier using bags from this vacuum sealer. Straight from freezer to sous vide cooker. I think it will pay for itself by more or less eliminating freezer burn and lengthening time food can be stored. Highly recommend...

My 15 year old vacuum sealer finally gave up and I needed one in a pinch. This one had very good marks for the price so I decided to go with it. It works well. I like that you press it down and it locks so you don't have to hold the cover down like on my own one. The only bad is that it doesn't have a great duty cycle. I was packaging my processed deer and I had to pause several times and let the unit relax a bit. If you are just using it every now and then I'd say go for it. If you need to use it a LOT over the course of a short period of time for a lot of back to back sealing then this machine will not keep up with that kind of use but for the average user I think it works just fine.

Does the trick for all my needs. It does a pretty good job of getting most if not all the air out most of the time... you can easily hit the manual suction button to give it some extra help before you seal it. My only reasons for not giving this 5 stars are: 1. When it sucks up any juices from the bag (there's always a little juice...) it ends up going into the little suction area, which is annoying to clean because it's awkward and narrow 2. The distance from the suction area to the seal area is a little bit long so you waste a little bit of bag length each time. Overall I use this thing all the time and love it. I also like using it as a sealer only for things like potato chips that come in plastic bags... it works great!