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Unusual & mysterious kitchen gadgets

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3 hours ago, gfweb said:

This is the right color.  Its said to absorb liquid from the fish.

But at $15 each its hard to imagine they'd give them away (or have that many for that matter).

 

https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/cabelas-liquid-blocker

THANK YOU!!!!!  This was driving me crazy.  

 

And thanks to all that searched.  I've never heard of these things.  Apparently he puts them in every game type thing he vac packs.

 

I'll give them back to him....makes me feel like I need to hurry up and eat all of these fish lol.

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Got ir now 

 

its for those w a non-chamber vac.

 

interesting idea

 

maybe a straw ( remember those ?  at that FastFood Place  )

 

cut to the right length , would do the same thing ?

 

good luck finding 1,000 plastic straws 

 

multicolor  

 

these days.

 

you could wash the straws ( plastic , not pressed cornmeal )

 

and use them again !

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5 hours ago, chromedome said:

It's a 12-pack for $15. Still not negligible, if you fill your freezer with fish and game, but not nearly as big a pill to swallow.

 

I looked for the number ...couldn't find it.  12 is more reasonable

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2 hours ago, rotuts said:

@Anna N

 

 

 

[ ed :  Wimpy is or was a burger  from GB , some time ago ]

 

 

I believe that Wimpy started as a character on Popeye who "would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"

 

I'm old.

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Big Cain

 

GB

 

Back then :

 

https://wimpy.uk.com

 

That site is prompting a malware warning in my browser.  

 

The domain name does look suspect. .co.uk is standard in the UK, not that.

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1 hour ago, gfweb said:

 

I believe that Wimpy started as a character on Popeye who "would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today"

 

I'm old.

 

You're not that old...Olive Oyl.

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13 hours ago, gfweb said:

This is the right color.  Its said to absorb liquid from the fish.

But at $15 each its hard to imagine they'd give them away (or have that many for that matter).

 

https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/cabelas-liquid-blocker

 

I'll be interested to hear of eGers experience with these things, especially if they work!

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I don't understand what the problem is that this product solves?  I have more vacuum packed fish in the freezer than I will probably ever eat.

 

While I'm here, the hamburger chain dates from 1954 while the cartoon character goes back to 1931.  And let us not forget Eugene the Jeep.

 

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Just now, JoNorvelleWalker said:

I don't understand what the problem is that this product solves?  I have more vacuum packed fish in the freezer than I will probably ever eat.

 

While I'm here, the hamburger chain dates from 1954 while the cartoon character goes back to 1931.  And let us not forget Eugene the Jeep.

 

But you have a chamber vac don't you?

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Just now, Kerry Beal said:

But you have a chamber vac don't you?

 

Indeed, Polyscience.  But it doesn't pull much water out of fish.

 

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1 minute ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

Indeed, Polyscience.  But it doesn't pull much water out of fish.

 

I think these would be used for the non chamber vac version where you can't vacuum liquids. Your basic Food Saver.

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13 hours ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

I don't understand what the problem is that this product solves?  I have more vacuum packed fish in the freezer than I will probably ever eat.

 

While I'm here, the hamburger chain dates from 1954 while the cartoon character goes back to 1931.  And let us not forget Eugene the Jeep.

 

 

With a non-chamber vac, liquid is a real issue.  I've used a paper towel barrier successfully.

 

But why use a cheap paper towel when there is a gadget?\

 

My order will be here in a week or so 😉

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I need to get off my butt and test one of the bags sealers I mentioned upthread to see if they will accomplish the same thing. 
 

oops. It will have to wait a few hours as the noise will wake some one. 

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So , no plastic straws ?

 

https://www.amazon.com/Plastic-Neon-Disposable-Drinking-Straws/dp/B07L8MK983/ref=sr_1_6?crid=3RDW79O04S3LA&keywords=plastic+straws&qid=1665240598&qu=eyJxc2MiOiI2LjMxIiwicXNhIjoiNS44MSIsInFzcCI6IjUuNjEifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=plastic+straws%2Caps%2C98&sr=8-6

 

and y0u can reuse them Id bet.

 

just cut a few to the width of the various bags you use .

 

w a NonChanger vac , it also helps if the bag being vac's 

 

is well below the vac part.

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@Anna N, I have those bag sealers. My most memorable experience was one time my vacuum seal failed and the leg of lamb filled up with water. The pot and the bag were too greasy for any remedial vacuum sealing but the slider did the job well for the rest of the cook.

 

There's no way to remove the air from the bag, unless one is satisfied with a slightly clumsy water displacement method.

 

They work just fine for closing a plastic bag though.

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1 minute ago, TdeV said:

There's no way to remove the air from the bag, unless one is satisfied with a slightly clumsy water displacement method.

I wondered about that but I will have to try it for myself. Sometime this evening if I don’t forget. 

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@TdeV 

 

excellent point .

 

no idea .  I have a chamber vac .

 

when I had a weston sealer , I tried my best

 

to keep the bag low , and never vac'd w that system 

 

anything ' watery '

 

eventually the pump failed , was replaced ( $$ )

 

then never worked properly as the Weston Group

 

replaces the two circular seals , that did not need replacing

 

and the machine w those new seals , never got a good seal ever again.

 

looking again at the Cabellas' vid :

 

some liquid sneaks by  , but not much.

 

even if you keep almost all the water out of these area 

 

humidity from wet vac's eventually might do your pump

 

( dry pump ) harm

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Kerry Beal

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Can't imagine anyone on eG will have any trouble with this one - but I was surprised that two people I work with who are no spring chickens had no idea what it was. Picked up from the ground outside the food bank. 

 

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