Thrifty Vac - Compressed Fruits and Vegetables

[Robenco15]

Hello All,

Some of you may know about the Thrifty Vac kickstarter - http://www.kickstart...ac/posts?page=1

It looks like a great vacuum sealing product but yesterday I contacted him about whether or not his product can compress fruits and vegetables much like an expensive chamber vacuum sealer. He told me it could, but I was still skeptical because I can't believe it would be powerful enough so I sent him a Youtube video showing the process. He said that yes, it definitely can do that, and once he has finished more of the Kickstarter orders he said he'd make a video showing the process.

As someone who will never, ever, ever be spending the money on a chamber vacuum sealer, this could be quite the product I am looking for. And because I wouldn't compress fruits and vegetables every single day, this product could be perfect as I can store it in a drawer when I'm not using it.

Anyway, wanted to pass this along for those interested/never thought they could work with compressed fruits and vegetables since chamber vacuum sealers are so expensive.

[Baselerd]

I don't see how he can claim it is capable of vacuum compression - ziploc seals can't hold much pressure. Chamber vacuum machines can take pressure down to and past 5 millibar, which Ziploc bags definitely can't hold. I'm not sure how much pressure you need to compress fruits/veggies, but I would love to be wrong.

[Martin Fisher]

I don't see how he can claim it is capable of vacuum compression - ziploc seals can't hold much pressure. Chamber vacuum machines can take pressure down to and past 5 millibar, which Ziploc bags definitely can't hold. I'm not sure how much pressure you need to compress fruits/veggies, but I would love to be wrong.

In my experience, you're correct, in won't work.

http://forum.chefsteps.com/discussion/1215/thrifty-vac#latest