VacmasterVP215 Chamber Vacuum Sealer

The media could not be loaded. I am completely happy and satisfied with the performance of this vacuum chamber , I wish I would’ve done it a lot sooner.I am able to do wet brines and liquids with it.Machine is heavy, make sure you order a rolling card with it if you are not going to leave it in one spot.I process a lot of fish and it makes it so much easier even if the fish has some moisture, where my old food saver always have troubled the bag seal properly.The cost of the machine is high , but you will save a lot of money on the bags.I had a food saver for over 10 years, it worked great, but I was spending a lot of money on the rolls .

Bought this end of last year. Wanted to wait until I used it sufficiently to write a fair and informed review.It doesn’t take long to learn how to use this. Changing the settings is extremely easy. I had a few bags come unsealed. Read the instructions (that always helps) 😁 and found I didn’t have the sealing process set long enough. Once I adjusted that it has worked perfectly.Have used it off and on when buying large packages of meat from the big box store and has done great. Wanted to see how it worked with my veggies from the garden since that would be a bigger volume at a time. So far this summer have done corn, Lima beans and snow peas from the garden. It has been a breeze with this.I’ve purchased multiple vacuum sealers from the well known brand with their expensive bags. All the corn I did last year with that sealer (with the exception of 2 bags) lost their seal and ended up being fed to the chickens.I bought the honey-can-do 3 shelf cart with wheels from Amazon (CRT-01451) to put this on and am glad I did. It weighs a ton. Hubby extremely happy I did too. 😂 He about bust a gut getting it out of the box. Really should have 2 people to unbox. Shelves come in handy as I bought 3 different size bags elsewhere that came in packages of 1000 each.Highly recommend this if you do a fair amount of vacuum sealing. I’ve not regretted it. Told my husband today that it was one of my best purchases.

Let's be honest, this is an expensive investment. If you are looking at this, you need to understand how it is going to fit within how your family actually works. If it has a place, then you need to look at it just like you would look at any other real tool in your life. You pay more for tools that last and those that perform consistently. We have been using our Vacmaster for the past few months and it is starting to change the way that we cook and also the way we schedule our week. We do a lot of Sous Vide in our house because it is convenient, time tolerant, and you end up with a high quality product. We Sous Vide, freeze the product, and then reheat with the microwave during the week. We also make soups/steps on the stove and other more conventional products. To date, we have had no downsides on the Vacmaster. It does what it was intended to do. It will pull a vacuum strong enough to boil water at ambient temperature. So, you need to know what you want to do with it. Because it is heavy, we had to find a permanent place for it in our basement. Once we did that, using it has been a breeze and it is working more and more into our routine. This also means that we aren't fumbling around to use our 3rd Foodsaver which was beginning to fail. Chamber sealers are MORE expensive, but once you have one, you won't want to go back to clamp sealer except for specialty applications. Once you have a chamber sealer, you will find that it is just too convenient to use for a number of applications.Update July 21, 2009: We have had this unit for 3 1/2 years now and it has seen rather heavy use for a home use. We purchase meat in bulk and we vac pac each individual package for long term storage. We still do a fair amount of Sous Vide cooking and exclusively use the Vacmaster retherm bags. We have been very pleased with the unit. I've had to change the oil several times in the pump, but that is to be expected and is normal maintenence although I didn't do it for the first few years. Lately, we were having problems with the unit pulling a vacuum and so I just replaced the gasket seal on the lid and was surprised how easy this was to do. That seemed to fix the problem. Again normal maintenance for a high end tool. Honestly, I wish I purchased this years ago instead of all of the non-chamber sealers that I went through.