"DArbabi" wrote in message
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I recently did a pork picnic on my WSM. After taking it off
the smoker
and
letting it cool a bit, I used my Foodsaver to seal it up. When I
did
that, I
notice a considerable amount of meat juices were being drawn out
of the
picnic.


A couple days later, I unsealed the bag and tried some of the
meat.
It was
the driest picnic I have ever smoked.

Has anyone else noticed that the Foodsaver dehydrates whole
cuts of
meat?


Nope, never had that problem with mine. Whatever I've sealed up,
meat-wise
was just as good coming out as it was going in. I think you had a
bad dream
or something.

Jack


Jack, I may indeed have had a bad dream, but I also think my pal
Eric hit
the nail on the head when he suggested I probably should have let it
rest
awhile longer before I vacu-bagged it.

Live and learn.

Darius

That would have been my suggestion. I often have to refrigerate my
meat for
a spell to set the juices before I vac-pak. I did some scalded
asparagus today and I
let it freeze solid in the vac bags before I pulled a vacuum on it.

Brick