* Posted in alt.cooking-chat but thought some here may find
it useful info.


ok, I'm getting ready to head up to our camp for deer season
with a couple friends and needed to vacuum seal individual
servings of chili, sausage & peppers, and stew. And I hit a
problem and solved it. I thought I'd pass it on.

The problem: getting the inside top of the bags wet/goobered
up so they wouldn't seal properly with out wiping them off
prior to sealing.

The solution: Find a food grade tube of plastic, preferably
flexible, around 3 1/2" in diameter and 9" or so inches long.

Use: Insert the tube into the bag but *not* all the way to
the bottom. Approximately 1/2 way so that when you scoop the
food into the tube it falls out the tube into the bag
without messing up the outside bottom of the tube.

Pull the tube out and seal the bag with nice clean insides.
Works great.
--
Steve