Because it is so smooth, its nearly impossible to draw air out of a Mylar bag using a vacuum sealer; until now! I made a little tool that allows you to use Mylar bags just like the regular food storage bags in a vacuum sealer. I hope this helps those who have experienced similar difficulties.

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Foodsaver food vacuuming system, part 2. Cool tunes from Dr. Authur. Kasin shows how to use a small nail hole in the jar lid to easily release jar vacuum. Using recycled Mylar in food storage. She discusses pros and cons of food preservation using Foodsaver poly-bags, Mylar bags, and canning jars. When using the poly-bags, the layered approach is better – a recycled Mylar bag inside a Foodsaver poly–bag, double sealed on both ends.

Will the Pro 2300 seal a 7-mil mylar bag, The 7-mil mylar bags are used by some for long term food storage. the 2 websites mentioned in the video are www.VacuumSealerGuide.com and www.ProVacuumSealers.com On the ProVacuumSealers site you can watch more videos showing the pro 2300 in action. The pro 2100 and 2300 perform the same but the 2300 is stainless steel with a blue lid.

This is the beginning of an on going project where we are going to build two 5 gallon buckets of long term storage items. During the project we will choose more items, keep track of the nutritional profile and discuss vacuum sealing, mylar bags and oxygen absorbers. The first video went a bit long because I explained the total project and went over the first five items so watch part 1-B for the conclusion. The first items in the bucket are 2 packages each of Garbanzo Beans, Lentils, Elbow Marconi, Cranberry Beans and one large Box of Minute Rice.

This is just my method of sealing food for long term storage using 5gal bucket Mylar bag oxygen absorber/hand warmer, vacuum cleaner and cloths Iron

Greetings my Unconventional Amigos!!! Generally you can’t seal a Mylar bag with a food saver because the sealing area prevents air from being sucked out of the bag. I had the idea of using a piece of a standard food saver bag to provide an air channel and and using the food saver to provide a temporary seal, long enough so I could hit it with the iron. It works well. I hope this helps my friends here on you tube.

To store food for a long time, instead of buckets and oxygen absorbers you might try this technique using a foodsaver.

Long term food storage can be achieved without cans, buckets or oxygen absorbers. Using my techique you can vacuum seal food in a mylar bag and a foodsaver.