Vacuum Food Sealer?

I'm thinking of bringing meats for our fishing trip in July.
Anyone use a vacuum food sealer?
-tom

Tom Nakashima wrote:
I'm thinking of bringing meats for our fishing trip in July.
Anyone use a vacuum food sealer?

I avoid "real food" in bear country. It's just too much
hassle to cook, clean up and cart out the garbage not to
mention dangerous if you don't do all of the above just
exactly right. A bear can smell a piece of bacon cooking
from literally miles away.

I stick to freeze dried and dehydrated. We have a food
dehydrator that gets a lot of use before an extended trip,
but we've never had a vacuum sealer.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:49:47 -0700, "Tom Nakashima"
wrote:

I'm thinking of bringing meats for our fishing trip in July.
Anyone use a vacuum food sealer?
-tom

Yep, all the time, as do several friends, and I'd you give a
more-complete answer, but since I'm _well-aware_ of my position at the
top of kill-filed assholes list, I'll not waste my time...

Now that WOULD help, but, well, see the problem?
R
....have ya kill-filed Google, too?

On Apr 17, 11:49 am, "Tom Nakashima" wrote:
I'm thinking of bringing meats for our fishing trip in July.
Anyone use a vacuum food sealer?
-tom

Yes. Although most of my use is to vacuum pack
fresh meats and veggies before freezing them.
- Ken

On Apr 17, 11:49 am, "Tom Nakashima" wrote:
I'm thinking of bringing meats for our fishing trip in July.
Anyone use a vacuum food sealer?
-tom

Plastic bags and the packages hot dogs come in are dangerous to
bears. It's just another thing like six pack holders and other things
that harm wild animals. You don't want to be responsible for choking
abear or plugging it up internally. The bear knows what a cooler
looks like, they can smell them and the stuff inside. They''ll eat
your meat and maby the plastic bag as well.
If you got to take meat, make it spam. When your done burn the can in
the fire along with the paper plates you eat it out of. Spam and eggs
by a campfire, what more could you want.

On Apr 17, 12:54 pm, BJ Conner wrote:
If you got to take meat, make it spam. When your done burn the can in
the fire along with the paper plates you eat it out of.

Please don't "burn" cans in your campfire.....or plastic
or aluminum foil or.....
- Ken

wrote:
BJ Conner wrote:
If you got to take meat, make it spam. When your done burn the can in
the fire along with the paper plates you eat it out of.

Please don't "burn" cans in your campfire.....or plastic
or aluminum foil or.....

It's OK to burn a can to remove all the food and grease so
long as you take it out of the cold ashes the next morning
and pack it out with the rest of your garbage.

--
Ken Fortenberry

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:32:13 -0500, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
BJ Conner wrote:
If you got to take meat, make it spam. When your done burn the can in
the fire along with the paper plates you eat it out of.

Please don't "burn" cans in your campfire.....or plastic
or aluminum foil or.....

It's OK to burn a can to remove all the food and grease so
long as you take it out of the cold ashes the next morning
and pack it out with the rest of your garbage.


Indeed. I've camped a lot in bear country (pretty tame bears in most
of MN, though) and I always burn out my cans after opening them and
eating from them. Next morning, I dig through the ashes to find the
cans and lids and put them in the trash. This also lets me know the
fire is absolutely out. Out. Done. Dead. Caveat. If it's a
regular campground where I've got my fire, I use a stick rather than
my hands to dig. It's astounding what folks think is appropriate to
toss into a fire pit. Ugly, too, in a way that's often unsafe and /
or unsanitary.

My food, if I take more than I'll be eating in one night, goes in a
bear canister after being put in baggies.

Bear canisters remove all worries about anything larger than an insect
or a raindrop. Latter can be avoided by turning them upside down.
They make pretty good seating, too.

Now back to the original question: Yes, I've used a little cheap
vacuum packager. Works fine. Never took anything along camping,
though, as I use it for the freezer meats, and sometimes veggies.
--

r.bc: vixen
Minnow goddess, Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher.
Almost entirely harmless. Really.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

On Apr 17, 1:26 pm, " wrote:
On Apr 17, 12:54 pm, BJ Conner wrote:

If you got to take meat, make it spam. When your done burn the can in
the fire along with the paper plates you eat it out of.

Please don't "burn" cans in your campfire.....or plastic
or aluminum foil or.....
- Ken

You pick them out after there burned, flatten them and throw them in
the trash. The fire gets rid of that tasty spam smell that cause a
bear to hang around a trash container.
The only bear I have ever shot was an adult bear that weighed about
120 lbs. It had a can stuck on it's tongue. The top of the can had
been opened with a churchkey. The bears tongue was swolen up like a
football. I killed it with one shot from a 22. It probably was more
than a day or two from dying. I went and confessed to a game warden
and told him where the bear was. No jail, no ticket.

On Apr 17, 1:34 pm, BJ Conner wrote:
On Apr 17, 1:26 pm, " wrote:

On Apr 17, 12:54 pm, BJ Conner wrote:

If you got to take meat, make it spam. When your done burn the can in
the fire along with the paper plates you eat it out of.

Please don't "burn" cans in your campfire.....or plastic
or aluminum foil or.....
- Ken

You pick them out after there burned, flatten them and throw them in
the trash.

That wasn't clear in your post. I've packed out tons
of garbage that some putz thought they burned in
their campfire.

Carry on,
- Ken