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Default Vacuum marinating


"Steve B" > wrote in message
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> "Shawn Martin" > wrote
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>> I have not done this with meat, but I have used this trick to infuse
>> juices, and liquor into fruit. It really is only effective using a bag,
>> and chamber vac. You cannot effectively draw a vacuum on liquid with a
>> chamber vac.

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> My experiences, drawn from hundreds of years is this: You can't really
> get a vacuum, because if you did, you would suck all the juice out. So,
> you just try to get the air out, the culprit in freezer burn. Since you
> can't get a hard vacuum with the marinade liquid and body juices in there,
> the point of hard vacuuming is moot.
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> Steve
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meant cannot. Sorry :-(