Can you seal Glad bags with a vacuum sealer? I have an old sealer and can

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marilynfl

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no longer find the bags. It's the press/seal type, with a heated wire to seal the plastic.

I wondered if I could just put my stuff in baggies and seal it that way. I rarely apply the "drop the frozen sealed bag into boiling water and cook" usage. I mostly use it for granola or other recipes that make too much stuff for us that I can't give away to the library. Like granola.

I wanted to test sealing Dyslexic Sauce is a small plastic bag since the jarred stuff is getting far too expensive to mail. Using this idea, I could send a vacuum-sealed portion in a padded envelope.

 
It might get too hot, but you could try...could you use FoodSaver bags?

My Foodsaver will close up other things like a chips bag. I kinda worry a glad bag would be too thin and just melt though.

 
You can't draw a vacuum--it has to have the channels to do that..

For short term, just use a Ziploc? Refrigerate. Can even mail, I'd be pretty sure.
Glad style bags will probably also melt with the sealing heat.

 
My sealer has two pegs on either side of the wire. The sealing packages have holes down

both sides to hook onto those pegs to hold in place. It's a fairly cheap setup, but I rarely use it, so I'm unwilling to buy a better, newer one.

 
It probably doesn't even melt the plastic--just burns through

it. I've tried sealing "some" plastic bags, just to seal them, and that is what happens. you can seal some chip bags (I think), just to "seal" them from humidity--like you and I have all the time!!

 
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