VacuVita [Semi-plug]

Food & Cooking
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http://vacuvita.com/

… looks to me like the large container is the size of a loaf of bread, and the small container is the size of a sandwich.

This seems to be a next evolutionary step technology.  I’ve used those “Seal-A-Meal” whatsits with the hot wire and bags and the sucker things that try to vacuum out your Tupperware, and they’re rather… irritating.  This is going, “That’s a good idea.  How about doing it not-stupid?”

Risk of first generation tech being crappy is kind of high here.  Failing seals and electronics are common in primary runs.  On the other hand, these folks appear German; German engineering I trust.  Besides, this looks like something I want to encourage.

Guess I’ll bite.  Fresh-made sandwiches are good, but not so good 5 hours later when you fetch them from the office refrigerator.  This interests me.

Thoughts?

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Not sure how it’s different than a FoodSaver with the canister accessories.

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Thanks.  :slight_smile:

Looks like… it’s not much different!  Different form factor (the FoodSaver looks like a traditional vacuum bag style with a hose; this is more a canister with an integrated vacuum, with a hose to vacuum other canisters), but in the end the FoodSaver lets you hook up a hose to a canister and vacuum it out.

The major difference is the canister form factor.  Which is really no difference at all; sure one’s round and one’s square, but the fact is “there’s canisters, they may or may not be in a shape you like, otherwise these are the same thing.”

Good catch.

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I’ll stick with the FoodSaver (and it’s clones) because you have the option of doing jars or bags.  I’m partial to the bags, myself

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I’ll stick with living on Hawaii Island.  Wild fruit grows everywhere here, free for the picking.  No need for seal-a-meal.

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Let’s all move to Hawaii, oh wait a minute, we may not all fit, and then all our garbage will turn paradise into a s**thole.  Never mind. :wink:

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To be fair, I honestly thought this was the state of the art:

My goals are more “I just baked 2 loaves of bread… which are going to go bad before I even get 1/4 through one of them” or “I have to make sandwiches for lunch for the week.”  A week’s worth of sandwiches might be doable in bags (I’m partial to sandwich-shaped tupperware though), but being in and out of the bread container constantly is going to change things a bit.

Long-term storage is attractive, though… no bags huh?  The FoodSaver might be better for saving up vegetable ends and chicken carcasses for stock.  Can’t shove a chicken carcass in a bread box, and bags of vegetable parts will fit better in the freezer.  That’s a big use case for me too.

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My hop direct pounds of hops go into wide mouth quart jars…get vac packed then placed
into the freezer…so very little oxygen and no light gets to em…then when I need fresh hops,
out comes the jar…use what I need and vac it down again …back into storage. worx wonderful.