Reusable Sous Vide Bags 3 Sizes - 20 Pack with Hand Pump, Sealing Clips for Sous Vide Cooking and Food Storage (Blue Kit)

I was initially skeptical, but upon using the vacuum bag and pump, I have found this to be a great kit!! I am very pleased with the purchase and will be ordering more bags. I have used the vacuum bags and pump over the past month for sous vide cooking, avocados in the refrigerator, and meat in the freezer, all with great success. As a 60+ year old female, I have found the hand pump easy to use and my strong, nearly 30 year old son has had no problem operating the small plastic pump either. Highly recommend watching the product video included on the Amazon site. Waiting for approximately 5 seconds after the first, initial pump is IMPORTANT as it seems to release/activate the valve in the bag. You can actually hear it pop or snap open. Just remember to press it closed again AFTER pumping as shown on the video. So nice to have a small manual pump to vacuum seal the bags instead of an expensive and bulky piece of single use, electric equipment. Thank you for a great and useful product.

I used this product for sous vide and it worked well. It’s a little difficult to get the seal started.

Fast shipping, I have used these for several years. They are good quality for the price & thickness, I have yet to find a better price for this thickness bag.Works very well in my vacuum sealer and so much more reasonably priced than the vacuum sealer brand. They seal perfect. You can not go wrong with these bags. Will buy again positively. I am very fortunate to have found this on Amazon. From start to finish this was an outstanding expierence.These bags are of a very good quality. They make vacuum sealing so much easier then making my own bags. Definitely recommend!

Once you get the feel of using the suction pump that comes with it, how well it vacuums is actually impressive. I've not actually used them for Sous Vide yet. So I can't speak to how good they are for that. I have used and reused them as freezer bags several times now. And for that purpose they work wonderfully.

Sturdy bags which sous vide adequately. Difficult to get good suction. Poor instructions inside. Finally had to go to YouTube to figure it out. Still not always working well.

I rate these a complete failure.I love cooking Sous Vide style and have always used a vacuum sealer with single use bags. I bought these hoping that they would be reusable, but they were a huge disappointment. These bags are not soft like baggies or typical food seal plastic bads, rather, they are a bit on the stiff side.The first use showed that they let a little water in the bag while cooking. The amount of water that entered the bag was enough to alter the flavor.Afterwards they were thoroughly cleaned and with the second use there were two problems:1. Even though the double seal had been cleaned they were letting air in during the evacuation process. I stopped, removed the food, re-cleaned the bags and tried again. They still leaked. Next, I removed the food and re-cleaned then ran scalding hot water over the sealing edges to try to soften them. That finally allowed a good seal.2. When cooking was complete, and I removed the bags each bag had an extra two to three ounces of water inside.I wanted my steak cooked in it own juices, not poached in a bag of water.

These lasted me a good while! I washed them out a couple of times and reused em. Overall very satisfied.

At first, I nearly tossed the product because I thought it was so poor. Despite appearances, I decided to test it out. To my surprise the bags did hold a perfect seal for quite a while. But I also discovered that the hand pump is (ridiculously poorly made) junk. The bags deserve a five-star but the hand pump that they include in the set, deserves less than one star.I already owned a mechanical (rechargeable) handheld pump which works perfectly with this product. I sometimes use Ziploc sandwich bags for portion control. I seal portions inside ziplock food bags and then put it inside these sous vide bags and my mechanical pump removes the air from both the inner portion bags, the ziplocs (that speaks to how airtight those sandwich bags are) and the actual vacuum bag.They are reusable. I have not found out how many times you can vacuum seal a bag, I've not reached a limit yet. I'm constantly pulling things out of the freezer, opening it and removing what I need. So far they've worked perfectly after resealing it.I absolutely adore them and have already purchased more bags. I use them in the refrigerator for produce protection, in the freezer to prevent freezer burn, and for dry storage (but not powders).The seal on the bag is super strong, way better than anything I've ever experienced. They have a large size that I believe will work with documents so I'm planning on protecting some important documents that way. I also recommend using the little closing tool that they provide and I just leave it in a handy spot on the counter when I'm not using it.Please note: The seal on these bags are not designed for liquids or powders, if you vacuum too strongly or too long, it will pull the liquid/powder through the vacuum seal as well. This potentially could go through the machine and wreck your pump.