VacMaster VP210C Dry Piston Pump Chamber Machine – Sous Vide Vacuum Sealer Par Excellence
Wow, what a mouthful of a name ! The name VacMaster VP210C dry piston pump chamber machine tells you absolutely nothing about the product so let me elaborate on what it is and what it does. In fact this is a review of the VacMaster VP210C that will help you decide if it is something you need in your kitchen or not.
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Sous Vide cooking is a two step process. The first step is to put the food you are cooking into a vacuum. This is done by covering it is a plastic pouch and then sucking all the air out and sealing the pouch. A vacuum sealer machine is used for this process.
You are probably well aware of the standard vacuum sealer as it is a fairly common household appliance these days. It can be used for all sorts of things, including creating the vacuum pouch for your sous vide cooking item.
However most standard vacuum sealers use the suction method of creating a vacuum in the plastic pouch. The drawback of this method is that you can’t create vacuum packs with liquids like soups or sauces because the machine sucks the liquids at the same time as it sucks out the air.
The same problem applies to foodstuffs that have juices, like precooked meats for instance, thus potentially taking some of the flavor out of the food or forcing you to pre-freeze the item before sealing it.
The VacMaster VP210C uses a different method to create the vacuum and thus can seal liquid items and foods that have juices as well as all other types of foods and other items.
It creates a vacuum (or as close to a vacuum as you get before it collapses in on itself – 27 to 29 hg) in a chamber within the machine. So you can place bags with soups and other liquids into the chamber and the pressure is equal both on the outside and the inside of the plastic. This allows the bag to lose all the air but not the liquid.
Place the open end of the bag against the heater element and it is automatically sealed.
This process takes around half a minute to complete which includes a bit of time to let the element and the sealed bag to cool down. When this is all done the lid will pop open and you can take the bag out and do whatever you had planned for it.
It is a far superior vacuum sealer machine than any of the suction style machines but it is priced to reflect this too.
The machine is quite a big appliance (approximately 13″ wide x 19″ long x 15″ high) and quite heavy at 90 pounds. It looks as stylish as a square brick like object can look in a brushed metallic finish. It need to sit on a worktop in your kitchen to use with a bit of space overhead to lift the lid up. You also get 1000 bags to play around with.
It may take a few tries to understand how the functions work but after a few goes it is quite easy to use. Once you have played around with it a bit you should have no problems. It’s make vacuum sealing foods and all sorts of other items a breeze. If you do sous vide cooking, it’ll help to give the food more flavor and integrity if the food are already cooked. And it will make you more versatile in the type of products you use in your sous vide cooking.
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