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George Shirley
 
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Default Vacuum sealed plastic bag of fresh cream in refrigerator---Vacuumdisappears?

John Decker wrote:
> Question:
>
> I just shelled some fresh cream peas and vacuum sealed them in a plastic bag and
> placed them in the refrigerator and noticed that after a day the vacuum sealed
> bags no long contained a vacuum. What has happened? What can I do to prevent
> vacuum sealed fresh cream peas from nullifying the vacuum in a sealed plastic
> bag. I presume that some type of gas was formed by the peas that destroyed the
> vacuum? I do not want to blanch the peas, I prefer them fresh in a vacuum sealed
> bag stored in the refrigerator (not freezer) for about a 4 days before I consume
> them. In other words, how do I prevent the vacuum in a sealed plastic bag from
> being destroyed by the cream peas in the refrigerator?
>
>
> John Decker
>

As the peas chilled down they shrunk into a smaller size thus causing
the bag to loosen up or, as an alternative theory, your bag has a pin
hole leak in one of the seams. That happens fairly frequently.

George