Comments on: Foodsaver V840 lets you to vacuum It, Seal It, and Enjoy It!

By: Redd

Redd — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:07:27 +0000

Model V2050 Foodsaver. The melting strip quit after 2 uses. This is the second one I have purchased. Won’t do it again.
And I agree with Jacob about wasted bags.

By: Joyce

Joyce — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:43:32 +0000

I have the Foodsaver V2040, all I can say about it is”What a piece of junk.” It will only seal about once in every five to six tries. I have to cut the end of the bag off and try again, ultimately running out of bag and I have to get another one. Food also gets freezer burn. My old Seal-A-Meal worked much better for several years before biting the dust.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:48:35 +0000

The food saver is pretty good overall, but it has many ugly flaws. First of all I can wrap my food with plastic wrap and place it in a zip lock bag (that I can reuse), and get just as little freezer burn as with the food saver. The larger problem with this machine is the cost of bags, and the fact that the newer machine does not allow you to manually seal the bag. 1.5″ on each side of the bag is wasted before the heat seal. That is 3″ per item you seal. An 18 foot roll is $20. If the average sealed package is a foot, that means that roughly 25% of the roll is wasted. That is $5 per $20 roll, that makes me sour!

By: Shermie

Shermie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:17:54 +0000

FoodSaver, sorry to have to put it to you like this, but your food vacuum sealing machines are all PURE JUNK!!

I bought four of them, and they were all short-lived, lasting only a few months at most! I will NEVER buy another FodSaver machine ever again because they all break down too prematurely!! I’ll try other brands first.

~Shermie.