[Sca-cooks] seal-a-meal clones

[Vitaliano Vincenzi]

Hint: Almost ALL seal-a-meal clones will use the Generic bags available 
at Target, Kohl's and if you have them, Farm & Fleet stores. We have the 
Black & Decker "Fresh guard" model but never buy the Black & Decker bags 
because, 1) we can't find them, and 2) they are too expensive when we 
can find them.

Don't believe the hype on the side that says "only use our bags" or 
whatever text is there. They are just trying to put more green in their 
pocket. Keep that green for yourself and find generic bags - they work 
just as well. :)

Anne-Marie Rousseau wrote:
> On picking a seal a mealer gadget...
> 
> One of my primary concerns was availability of the bags. I ended up going
> with the one that sealed, sucked ;) and that was about it, but whos bags I
> could get a my local Fred Meyers (a PacNW based chain that isn't going to go
> anywhere :)) as well as CostCo.
> 
> I actually had a "real" seal a meal but couldn't find the bags except
> online. One may be able to use different bags on them, but I wanted to be
> sure.
> 
> --AM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Stefan li Rous
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:12 PM
> To: SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] seal-a-meal clones
> 
> Malkin commented:
> <<< Hint
>    don't use it for bread unless you have the option of sealing without
> vacuum.  >>>
> 
> Okay, why? Do you then end up with dried, rock hard bread? Or  
> something else?
> 
> Stefan
> (Who, after the comments about these here over the years, is probably  
> going to buy one, but last time he got serious about one, got tied up  
> in all the options and sizes and some that do containers as well as  
> bags etc, that no decision was made. I almost got one for this last  
> Gulf Wars, but was able to join a food plan with wonderful, although  
> non-period food, so didn't get one for this Gulf Wars)
> 
> There is a Florilegium file on this kind of thing, but it isn't  
> specific to the sealing type seal-a-meal type bags.
> 
> bag-cooking-msg   (24K)  3/22/03    Using plastic bags to warm pre- 
> cooked foods
>                                         at SCA events.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/bag-cooking-msg.html
> --------
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>     Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
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