Reddit reviews 2 Pack - SimpleHouseware 11" x 50 Feet Vacuum Sealer Bags (total 100 feet)
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Safety: BPA Free, Simmer and Microwave Safe, Great for Sous Vide CookingOne for All: Designed for use with all vacuum packaging machinesHeavy Duty: Commercial grade multi-ply material block oxygen and moisture and eliminates freezer burn and dehydrationEconomic: 2 packs 11'' width, 50 feet length. which is 100 feet total. Making your own length of bag.
Anova is usually on sale for like $80. Works great and simple to use
You can use it in a plastic tub or pot. Also, I use a roll of these and cut them with these.
Vacuum sealers are nice to have but not necessary. You can just use a sturdy ziploc bag and water displacement before sealing. Or you can just clip it to the side of the pot, no sealing necessary.
I use these bags which are cheaper. The roll doesn't fit into the food saver, but I just open the pack and roll up half of it without a center and stick it in there and it works fine. The unit I linked is meant to use a continuous bag like this and you just seal/cut a bag to size when you use it. I would suspect you could just do the same with what you have, just take it out of the box.
did 48+ hours on these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K07MZBO/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
2 50ft rolls for $18 USD.
I use these. They work perfect.
The FoodSaver bags are pretty expensive.
I bought two 11x50' rolls for $18 and I can't tell the difference between them and the FoodSaver brand bags.
Bag rolls are cheap enough that - while I also hate waste - they're so inexpensive that it's usually cheaper for me to vacuum seal, than it is to use something like a ziplock bag.
Make sure to get the 11-inch wide rolls, the 9-inch ones are often just barely too small for for what I want to do.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K07MZBO/
Standard disclaimer that I'm not promoting any particular brand or seller. There are many nearly-identical items for a nearly identical price on Amazon.
I think that the generic bags my husband purchased were half the price of the foodsaver branded bags. Now that I am reading the description on amazon, it says they were for a 'commercial' grade food saver, so this sounds like user error on our part. 2 Pack - 11" x 50' Vacuum Sealer Rolls Food Storage Saver Commercial Grade Bag for Foodsaver and Sous Vide (total 100 feet)
https://www.amazon.com/Pack-Vacuum-Storage-Commercial-Foodsaver/dp/B01K07MZBO/ref=sr_1_6?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1536974284&sr=1-6&keywords=foodsaver+bags
They seem to works great, other than the rolls being too big.
Where did you find that info on the Foodsaver bags?
I just did a Live Chat on their website and they said that their bags are 5 mil (as opposed to the standard 4 mil) and are rated for 185 degrees with no limit on cook time as long as the temp is below that.
That being said, the food vac bags get a lot of love on this sub, and they're 4 mil.
I will be buying those next, but I currently use these and they don't even say how thick they are, but I did Char Sui for a little over 8 hours yesterday with no issue. But that was only at 140.