Reddit reviews FoodSaver T03-0023-01P Wide-Mouth Jar Sealer

Using this jar sealer and this vacuum pump, you can vacuum seal the big mason jars to store bulk items without having to buy an expensive food sealer.

I keep mine in pint-size canning jars with the air sucked out. Then they live in the freezer. One pound of pellets splits between two pint jars pretty cleanly. A canning jar vacuum adapter is pretty inexpensive and I use a Harbor Freight hand-operated brake bleeder pump to evacuate them.

I've got few ounces left of some 2014-crop hops that were still making good beer as of a few weeks ago. Probably a little less potent than fresh, but still good.

I use this combo to make vacuum sealed jars.

https://www.target.com/p/ball-12ct-wide-mouth-pint-jars/-/A-50624128

https://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T03-0023-01-Wide-Mouth-Jar-Sealer/dp/B00005TN7H/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1498677791&sr=8-12&keywords=wide+mouth

https://www.amazon.com/Ziploc-Vacuum-Starter-3-Quart-1-Pump/dp/B003UEMFUG/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1498677774&sr=8-1&keywords=ziploc+pump

I keep them vacuum sealed in a mason jars (painted black) with desiccant and oxygen absorbent. I have had them last up to a year without loosing much in potency, and remain cracker dry. They would probably last even longer, but i've always eaten them up in less than a year.

I have the basic model found at target. I got it about a month ago, dont remember the exact cost but I think it was somewhere around $55-65. Also got the [jar sealer] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005TN7H/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_9WXjyb40EXJ9H) attachment and about 4 dozen jars divided amongst quart, pint & half, and pint sized.

I loaded up on these bags: [Commercial Bargains 2 Pack 11" x 50' and 8" x 50'] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GG5I5AK/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ASXjybDZAJ08T)

The 8" perfectly fit my burritos. I'd say I'm using about 6 inches per burrito so if I'm careful I'll get at least 100 burritos out of a $12 roll. Also you can use regular ziploc freezer if you trim off their zip lock seal. The vacuum doesn't agree with the thin ziploc bags every time but it's surely good enough for freezer burritos.

Air tight mason jars work great. I've had bud last just over a year in a mason jar with air removed (http://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T03-0023-01-Wide-Mouth-Jar-Sealer/dp/B00005TN7H) that was stored in a box in my closet.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00005TN7H/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

It hold the lid up, pulls the vacuum, the lets the lid fall.

It's held on by vacuum until the jar ring is installed.

OK that answers that question. Thanks.

...but, http://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T03-0023-01-Wide-Mouth-Jar-Sealer/dp/B00005TN7H

Make it daily.
And you can indeed vacuum seal jars- my Foodsaver works with vacuum jar lids that fit standard mason jars.

I do this, only I vacuum pack my salads using one of those canning attachments and a brake bleeder.

I actually get a pretty good vacuum and my salad stays crisp in the fridge for a week. Just remember to layer your ingredients as to not get anything soggy.

As enterstip mentioned, they're easy to eat out of and readily washable in the dishwasher. I reuse the caps (lids?), too. As long as I don't damage/bend them while trying to break the vacuum.

Wide Mouth Jar Sealer

Wide Mouth Mason Jars

Edit: The advantage of doing this using mason jars as opposed to Tupperware would be evacuating near all the air as opposed to lazily squeezing it out using one of those cheap bowls.

Oh, and not to mention people at work'll think you're awful crafty bringing in vacuum-packed mason jars full of salad.

I bought one of these but don't remember paying $35 for it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B002FWIVCA/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=1421944018&sr=8-5&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&dpPl=1&dpID=31ho5XmCDHL&ref=plSrch

I use it on a mason jar sealer like this.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00005TN7H/ref=pd_aw_sims_6?pi=SS115&simLd=1

It says you need the tube but the soft rubber on the vacuum makes a good seal on top of the sealer, the only issue I have with this setup is that you open all the hops to the air every time you weigh some out, a proper vacuum sealer is definitely going to be purchased in the future.

I bought this one for wide mouth mason jars, but you can get them for regular jars too. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00005TN7H/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1498425940&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=foodsaver+mason&dpPl=1&dpID=51b0i952XTL&ref=plSrch

A freezer goes a long way.

You can also try aliquoting the nic into mason jars and use a mason jar attachment with a food saver to vacuum seal your goods.

mason jar attachment

foodsaver

As for how long you can possibly store your nic viably, no one really knows becasue

Foodsaver Jar Sealer attachment

You hook that up to your Foodsaver vacuum pump. It pumps out the air and seals the lid in about 20 seconds.

Foodsaver has an attachment that you can attach the vacuum to mason jars and suck the air out. Get a bunch of wide mouth small jars, the foodsaver machine and your are set.

There's a few handheld pump varieties too designed for mason jars too, and some DIY options.

I actually suggest going one step deeper: get some jars and use a jar sealer to split your nic into multiple jars. Suck the air out totally, stick THAT in the freezer.

I bought a ton of hops and have no idea how I will ever get through them unless I make a ton of big IPAs. On hand, I have 1 pound of centennial, columbus, and belma. About 14 ounces of cascade. Maybe 2 ounces of citra, and 4 of simcoe. They take up a lot of room, but not THAT much room. In my side-by-side fridge, they take up maybe a shelf. The centennial are whole hops and are like 2x the size, so you have to take that into consideration.

For storing, they go in the freezer, vacuum sealed. I didn't want to buy a big vacuum sealer, so I bought one of these ziploc hand vacuum pumps as well as a jar vacuum pump valve thing and that way I can do a kind of quick ghetto vacuum seal on bigger hops bags and store the smaller amounts of things in vacuum sealed jars. It's not amazing or as great surely as a regular foodsaver type vacuum, but it's way smaller and cheap, even compared to the foodsaver version of the hand pump.

I plan on storing my seeds for years. Here's how I do it:

1. Drill a 3/4" hole in the lid of a 2 or 4 oz. baby food jar, using a Forstner bit. Tape over the hole with micropore tape on both sides. Fill the jar half-way with Damprid (calcium chloride). Silica gel only gets RH down to 40%, whereas CaCl2 lowers it to <25%. Stuff the rest of the jar with cotton and screw the lid on. I stick the baby food jar to the bottom of a pint- or quart-sized wide-mouth mason jar using these from Wallyworld.
   
   
2. Put the seeds in small ziploc baggies or breeder's packs inside the mason jar. Make sure they're slightly open and not airtight.
   
   
3. Put some oxygen absorber packets in there.
   
   
4. Put the lid on and vacuum seal the jar with one of these and a vacuum pump. You can use a Food Saver pump if you have one but I went with a cheaper option. I squirt some silicone in a ring around the lip for a better seal to the jar sealer.
   
   
5. Screw the jar ring on and store the mason jar in the fridge.
   
   This method takes care of the 3 things that lower seed viability--humidity, oxidation (with the oxygen absorbers and vacuum seal), and temperature. I also plan on saving herb for the long haul like this, but with 62% Boveda packs instead of the CaCl2.

If you want to vacuum seal you can use the food saver wide mouth mason jar sealer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005TN7H/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_eJBTDbX17YWBA with a cheap vacuum sealer like a ziploc handheld pump.

You can buy an adapter/kit off Amazon from FoodSaver. I don't actually know if this is similar to what OP used. But yeah, you can do it.

Sauce and heaviest foods on botton, lightest or bruisable things or things that could get soggy (strawberries, lettuce, etc.) on top.

Pack as tightly as possible without squishing/ruining food.

Set out and let it get to room tempterature (about an hour or so), then seal the jar and put in fridge. This will allow the mason jar to "vaccuum seal", and stay sealed until you pull it back out of the fridge -- so leave it refrigerated until you grab it for work in the morning or are ready to eat it that day in general. **TIP: this works best with salads. if you're going for more complex foods, like dairy based sauces, you may want to invest in a jar sealer and seal right away!

DONE.

Easiest thing. I do it with salads all the time, and they last about 9 days in the fridge.

Tip: keep things like dairy on the side, and grab with the jar.

FoodSaver Wide-Mouth Jar Sealer https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005TN7H/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_WIx-yb44GTHDE



 Ziploc Vacuum Starter Kit, 3-Quart Bags, 1-Pump https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003UEMFUG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_iLx-yb422N6MD

You want to get the wide mouth jar sealer so you can get the greens out of the jar. I think I got  vacuum pump thing at Walmart and it was just the pump bc I didn't spend that much on it, but it's still one of the cheaper ones on Amazon and it's rly good quality.

http://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-FSFRSH0051-FreshSaver-Handheld-Sealing/dp/B002FWIVCA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1412548887&sr=8-4&keywords=mason+jar+sealer

and

http://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T03-0023-01-Wide-Mouth-Jar-Sealer/dp/B00005TN7H/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1412548887&sr=8-1&keywords=mason+jar+sealer

You use the regular lids. Seals them pretty good, but the important part is getting all the air out.

If you're cheap like me, or have no more space for appliances, like me, you can get the vaccuum lid sealer for Mason Jars, and a small hand pump that will attach to the lid. I'm sure they don't do as good a job as the electric model, but they work fine for me. I also store them in a freezer.

Interestingly, my hand pump came with the jar sealer, but I cannot find a listing like that on Amazon anymore. I only see the jar sealer with the hose attachment for the electric appliance. Just don't get the Mason lids with the nozzles built in. The attachment I listed will do it on standard Mason lids.

This is the vacuum accessory mentioned. If I don't have a foodsaver but this vacuum tool works great.

Like /u/DblBaggerDonkeyPunch says, the glass would have to be exceptionally fragile to break from being vacuum sealed.

Also, /u/CosmoVerde is correct in that the vacuum seal won't be terribly beneficial in preventing oxidization. There is still air in the bottle.

If you want to preserve your nicotine base with a vacuum sealer, seal it into mason jars using a vacuum jar sealer and store it in the freezer.

Straight up liquid? Not sure it's made for that, but I've never tried, so I don't know. I've sealed plenty of things with liquid in them without a problem, like a dish with a sauce, for instance. They do make containers and [jars like this] (http://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T03-0023-01-Wide-Mouth-Jar-Sealer/dp/B00005TN7H/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1398218675&sr=8-2&keywords=seal-a-meal+container) that you can vacuum seal with a tube attachment.

When I read your post, I recalled that they made adapters for food sealers that fit onto mason jars. But, I think what this guy on youtube did is more what you're looking for. The guy effectively sealed a bag of cigarette rolling tobacco with his food sealer for six months for a test in the sale package.

in case you haven't already considered this, if you have a vacuum sealer, you can vac-seal mason jars with this attachment. Also needs a plastic air tube if you don't already have it. If you don't have a foodsaver type thing, internet says you can use the same attachment with a hand-held vacuum sealer like this. You can also use it by itself to vac-seal plastic bags. I have never used a handheld so I can't say for sure how good it is. You can probably also find any of that stuff at WalMart or something.

This will keep things tight for a loooong time. Jars come in colors if you're worried about light getting through the clear glass. I'd recommend wide mouth jars for dry goods because they're easier to scoop out of. I do a fuckload of cooking related things so I buy in mass quantities and store a shit-ton of stuff from flours, grains, and sugars to all kinds of dehydrated food in vac-sealed jars. Moisture would fuck any of that stuff up right quick and I have never yet had anything mold or go bad. When I moved I found some dehydrated foods that had gotten pushed to the back of the shelves and were like ten years old and still perfectly good.

Vacuum seal bags can only stand up to a few re-seals before you need to put everything into new bag and static cling becomes your new enemy. Mason jars solve the static and the humidity problems. They come in pint to half-gallon sizes so you can split your stuff up however you want. You can go into them as often as you want and easily seal them back up. Put 'em in a box, throw some paper in so they don't bang together and you're good to go. I keep a working jar filled with whatever I need for the month (which I usually don't bother vac-sealing) and I keep the excess sealed up tight separately on a shelf in the basement. Golden.

Edited to add: /u/nodnizzle

You can get a vacuum sealer and use this

Wide-Mouth Jar Adapter

I have a brake-bleeder hand pump, works just fine.

These: Wide Mouth Mason Jars
This: FoodSaver Wide-Mouth Jar Sealer
This: Ziploc Vacuum Starter Kit

What do you think of the idea of using canning jars and a vacuum jar sealer attachment for hops?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005TN7H

You can reseal and it doesn't crush the contents.

You could get one of these and pack them in mason jars. You won't remove all the oxygen, but add an oxygen absorbing tab and you should be set.

I use this

https://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T03-0023-01-Wide-Mouth-Jar-Sealer/dp/B00005TN7H

this
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005TN7H/ref=pd_luc_rh_bxgy_01_03_t_img_lh?_encoding=UTF8&th=1
plus
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00P8DZ4XM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A189X0X0EK78PY
and of course some mason jars.

I don't know the answer re: density but I'll bet you'd find out more by researching why, as it says in the sidebar, the NCHFP and USDA have not approved any method for canning large amounts of fat (which pb would fall under). Canning fats is not for the faint of heart. I mean some people do so for lard and tallow. But picture pulling boiling jars of pure fat out of a giant bubbling pot of scalding water using canning tongs and you get the idea.. It can go so wrong if something tips, cracks etc.

Is preserving pb something you are trying to do? I suspect the heat and pressure required to safely do so at home would change the taste from what most people would enjoy. You could probably make a natural one with a longer fridge shelf life by taking the air out with one of these to slow down oxidization. The commercial producers use preservatives to achieve the same thing. But really, what makes the most sense is to use a jar sealer to take the oxygen out of your jars of nuts (so they don't go rancid on the shelf) and then make small batches of pb as you need it.

I've seen hot water bath recipes for canned boiled peanuts and for a nutella type spread but that's it.

That sounds cool. I didn't plan to have anything that long so I bought a dumb little Vacu-Seal and the food saver mason jar seal-y thing.

Seems to work fine, but I haven't had anything sealed for more than a week so far.

http://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T03-0023-01-Wide-Mouth-Jar-Sealer/dp/B00005TN7H

One of these plus a Mityvac brake bleeder vacuum pump.

Yeah, as stated in the original text, and the comment you replied to.. After drying them to around 8%, I stuff around 300-350g in a 1L wide-mouth mason jar and suck the air out with an attachment I bought; here's an amazon link to the same attachment. I got mine from London Drugs I think. Works well; and I just re-seal after I take however many grams out for a brew.

I'm going to see if the local HB club wants some, but otherwise name your price. 'bout $15 to ship one jar full which kinda' sucks, but.. Centennial, Northern Brewer and / or Willamette?

It works very well; I use

https://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-FSFRSH0051-FreshSaver-Handheld-Sealing/dp/B002FWIVCA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1509830584&sr=8-3&keywords=foodsaver+freshsaver

and

https://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T03-0023-01-Wide-Mouth-Jar-Sealer/dp/B00005TN7H/ref=sr_1_4?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1509830683&sr=1-4&keywords=foodsaver+wide+mouth+canning+jar+sealers&dpID=51b0i952XTL&preST=_SY300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

and

https://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-FAX12-000-Accessory-Hose-Clear/dp/B00T699C14/ref=pd_sim_79_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00T699C14&pd_rd_r=G1EK7WAZPVPAM4CBX621&pd_rd_w=LlqaD&pd_rd_wg=GDCFk&psc=1&refRID=G1EK7WAZPVPAM4CBX621

I use a foodsaver with the mason jar attachment. Works well. Stores my hops in glass, not plastic. Reusable and "resealable". I keep them in a freezer.

https://www.amazon.com/FoodSaver-T03-0023-01-Wide-Mouth-Jar-Sealer/dp/B00005TN7H

When I need hops I can open, measure, and vacuum again right away. Less waste and measuring.

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I also use this thing for storing dry goods like DME, dextrose, and things that tend to clump when left stored for a long time.

Also great for quick pickles, marinades, and whatever else.