[Sca-cooks] Pennsic food

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Why buy one of the machines? Run a sink full of water, put whatever you
want into GOOD ziplock bags, and lower the bag into the water. The weight &
pressure of the water will squeeze out the air. You just carefully zip up
the top while making sure the air is out and the water not in. Close it off,
and you've basically done the same thing as the machine does, only a LOT
cheaper.

    Sieggy

----- Original Message -----

> Just a thought, for what it's worth....what we're going to do (and we're
> copying another household nearby) is put our stews, etc., into bags and
use
> one of those vacuum sealer machines to vacuum seal them.  Then we'll
freeze
> them.  When we get up there, all we should have to do is drop the bags
into
> boiling water...not only will we not have to do much cooking, we won't
have a
> lot in the way of pots to clean, either.  These machines can be purchased
at
> BJ's, I know, and they're not terribly expensive...and they come with a
fairly
> substantial amount of bags which come on a roll and can be cut to any
size.
>
> Kiri