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215 has a oil pump, usually get a little bit more air out.

I don't recall the thickness of the bag. Those bags were pretty thick. You can adjust for varying bag thicknesses by experimenting a little with your time.

@@ConstructionFinance thanks.

I am just getting a JVR 100 --- veryexcited. What is your best source for quality mylar bags? I did get the extra bar to do them.

Will it do ziplock bags?

@@nkay95 Think the baggie would melt ad not seal. I have used potato chip bags tho

Yeah, I was wondering Why he would spend so much on vacuum seal bags! It defeats half of the purpose of spending all that money on a chamber vacuum! Sure, you want thicker quality bags but not bags that cost more to manufacture for a machine where it makes no difference!

We did vet our freeze dryer and it works great. This vacuum sealer is handy to have around the house, though unsightly when in your kitchen. If you have a walk in pantry or someplace like that to keep it ib, better. You can marinate meats, seal frozen foods to make them last longer, and more. If you want to see more content like this I suggest joining a Facebook group for freeze drying. There are several. Best wishes.

@@trentlife glad to hear. I'm good it was more of a suggestion to you for content. No offense Have a good one.

Yes if the vacuum is strong enough. You can minimize the vacuum time to lessen the crushing of your food, but then why would you want to be using the vacuum sealer at that point anyway?

@@trentlife With potato chips I let it run for about five seconds and then I stop, seal so that the potato chips do not get crushed

Yes

Given the correct vacuum sealer, you could just vacuum delicate stuff inside a mason jar or even a pot with a vacuum lid...

Mine doesnt pull apart. Works great.

If you still want to vacuum in mylar I'd try running it with the suboptimal seal time and then just reinforce the seal with an impulse server. the vacmaster seal only needs to hold until you can walk over to the impulse :)

I just received my no name vacuum chamber sealer last night. I was sealing the mylar bags that came with my freeze dryer at 4.5 seconds double that for cooling. They are sealed up right you're not pulling them apart. At full vacuum the noodles in my soup are crushed but I don't care. And no need for oxygen absorbers because I'm pulling near full vacuum. This is near the perfect long term compact food storage solution.

@@ericahrendt489 which machine did you get? I’m trying to figure out which machine to buy

My 215 seals the thicker 7mil (14mil total)mylar perfectly…even at 1.2 seconds you cant pull it apart.

Tough to say. I haven't tried every type of freezer bag. It seals mylar though and it also seals vacuum seal bags.

Me too!! Thanks for your comment.

Actually, you have to run it shorter. Water will boil if the water temp temp is 64F and you pull more than 29.32 in/Hg vacuum. So to keep the water from boiling off into air, assuming we're going with 64F water temp, you'll need to pull less than 29.32 in/Hg of vacuum.

My intent was not to remove air from the bag but to test the sealer to see if it created a no-leak bag situation, which it did successfully.