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Originally Posted by mulecrazy
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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The reason that the food saver bags seem higher quality is because they are thicker so that the ridges don't collapse when you are sucking the air out which is why they are also so expensive.
Smooth side: 3mils thick.
Textured side: 11.5mils thick.
You can get chamber bags 5 mils thick, 10x13/14 for around $0.20-$0.21 a piece or so.