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Blair P. Houghton Blair P. Houghton is offline
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Peter A > wrote:
>You can buy a laboratory water bath heater, accurate to 1 degree, for a
>few hundred dollars. Try Carolina Biological Supply. A FoodSaver vacuum
>machine is about $100. There you go.


I don't know why you need the vacuum bagger.

If you use a ziploc and get out most of the air and don't boil
the water you won't generate enough gas/steam pressure to burst
the seal, if you even generate enough to inflate the bag.

--Blair