for an occasional user without a doubt go with a standard foodsaver machine. If you do your own sausage on a few deer and the occasional elk or moose, it is worth it to spend up to one of their higher end models. Their expensive ones are a fraction of what a chamber style is. As for bag prices. We buy them pre made from Halfords. A 10/14 is around $0.30/bag. depending on how big the case you buy, or how many. I find the bag quality on the chamber machines to be lesser than the foodsaver style. A friend has a big chamber machine and I usually have roughly 30% loose their seal within a year, it usually is not the seal but punctures from moving the frozen meat around in the freezer. Our foodsaver bags hold a good vacuum far better IMO. I have kept meat for over 2 years with them and it is still great.
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