FoodSaver VS0150 Sealer PowerVac Compact Vacuum Sealing Machine, Vertical Storage, Black

Très bonne machine sous vide

Hace muy bien su función y cumple con la expectativa, buena medida y sellado perfecto

First, ignore all the reviews about the locking mechanism being hard to use. I am not particularly large or strong, but I can read directions, so this was easy to use, including closing the locking mechanism. This is incredibly easy to use, and I have already vacuum sealed fruits, vegetables, meat, and more. I shop at Costco, and even with the occasional thrown-away food, it is still cheaper, but I always feel terrible about food waste. Now, I my chest freezer is full of vacuum sealed food, and I am not throwing food away weekly. There are two settings, one for moist, and one for dry. I have mainly used the 'moist' setting for food. When vacuum sealing fruits and vegetables, take a few minutes and Google the best way to prepare them for vacuum sealing. (I learned that blanching is a great way to preserve many vegetables!) I have used the dry setting for flour and rice - and nail polish stickers (a weird one, I know). (I use nail polish stickers and they dry out as soon as you open the packs, so you are forced to buy more, even though you only use 1/4 of the stickers per use. I now use my Food Saver to reseal the packs and use them over and over.) I used the bags that came with this Food Saver, and went through those quickly. I then starting using the roll to make bags - there are directions on how to make the bags in the packaging, but it is also pretty intuitive. When I first ordered a new roll of vacuum seal material, it seemed expensive ($26 for 3 rolls), but when compared to how much I save on food waste, it was worth it. The one thing I messed up the first time was how far to insert the bag to seal it. I inserted it waaaay too far and the Food Saver just continued to try and vacuum the air out for over a minute. I was worried that it would burn out the mechanism, so I opened the machine and it shut off right away without damaging the machine, which is good to know in case I mess up again in the future. I then re-inserted the bag so that the edge just came up to the drip tray (like it says in the directions, funny how following them works...), tried it again, and it worked perfectly. As I was learning how to use this, I did insert the bag too far a couple of times, and used this process to correct it and vacuum seal the bag with no issues. There are lots of models of Food Savers, and I don't pretend to know how they stack up against each other. However, one of the big reasons I chose this one was the slim profile. I was able to store this in a cupboard without completing rearranging everything. Some of the models are pretty bulky, but this one takes up very little space on the counter and is easy to find a place to store.

1. Nowhere in the description or photos does it even mention that this isn't wired for Australian power or have an Australian plug. 2. The package had obviously been opened and repacked. There were no instructions or even basic safety information included 3. The whole thing just feels cheap and like a bad rip off product rather than a genuine FoodSaver???

After waiting more than two weeks for this to arrive, I received a defective unit. The packaging was sketchy as if it was opened before!