SousVideTools | Senses 300 Deep Chamber Vacuum Sealer | Sous Vide Cooking | 30 cm Bag Sealing Bar | Food Vacuum Machine | Home and Commercial Use

This is a really good machine for the home chef. How does it compare with anything you may have used in a pro kitchen? - Tech specs are few and far between for vacuum machines so it is very hard to compare before you buy... 1) It works well I have been able to seal solids and liquids in both normal (cheap) bags and the old super thick rolls of my previous basic vac machine (the kind that doesn't handle liquids). I have yet to try the marinating function. 2) It works slowly On a pro machine you would expect 20 seconds for fragile items and 30 seconds for full vac. This is 50 and 90 seconds respectively. Make sure you have something else to do if doing a batch! 3) It seals but doesn't cut The bags are sealed but not cut to size like in pro machines. I will experiment with longer sealing durations to see if if this does the trick. Standard sealing time is 5 seconds. You can also seal from a roll but, bizarrely, the machine goes in Vac mode for about 15 seconds before sealing. In this respect it is slower/less accurate than my old machine. 4) Handling bags can be a bit fiddly Because of the lower suction power compared to a pro machine, it needs to ensure that the bag is slightly open to extract all the air. To do this you have to place it in a specific way on the sealing bar which can be a bit fiddly. Not a big deal but bear in mind. In conclusion: you get what you pay for and this is very good value for money. It accommodates large bag sizes, comes with a spare sealing gasket and a spare sealing bar, and is the first proper home vac machine. It just requires a bit more patience that your pro machine.

This is a great chamber vacuum sealer! Easy to clean and very easy to use. The selection of these type of vacuum chamber sealers here in the UK seems much smaller that in the US, so I had a good look at the options before buying. I was concerned that this one, being by far the cheapest might be a poor purchase, but it's great! It doesn't have the stainless steel 'professional kitchen equipment' feel of more expensive models, but the build quality is still excellent, and it functions perfectly, and produces an excellent vacuum and seal (in fact, double seal) I like that it comes with a spare heat sealing element and rubber sealing gasket. This one also has a marinate feature which I've used with peppers and onions - you can tell immediate that the onions have absorbed liquids throughout the layers, so it definitely helps to at least some extent. I'm not particularly good at telling the effect of most marinades, so I can't vouch for more than that. FYI, chamber vacuum sealers are a lot slower that the strip sealers, but do a generally better job, and, of course, handle liquids much better.

This item looks good. It pulls a strong vacuum. It would be simple to use. BUT. I had three of them and none of them worked. They all had to go back. I DO NOT recommend you buy this product. Firstly, the sealing bar did not get any more than even slightly warm on any of the units I had meaning that my bags did not get sealed. Secondly, one is supposed to be able to vary the level of the vacuum within the product bag by adjusting the amount of time the vacuum pump runs for. Unfortunately this failed to work on the units I had. Setting the vacuum pump for 1 second failed to stop the pump after one second meaning that the item inside would have gotten crushed when the chamber vacuum was released back to ambient pressure. I have had numerous vacuum packing machines over the years. This is the worst one I have tried. I had hoped it would work because, honestly, it looks pretty good and the build quality, the plastic moulding, the glass lid all seem good. But it was needed to seal bags and not look pretty on the shelf. So 1 star from here.

Good product but no instructions and sealer bags don’t work all the time

I am really happy with the SousVideTools Senses 300 Chamber Vacuum Sealer. It works very well and is easy to use with its easy to understand settings for vacuum, bag size and heat seal length of time. I was attracted to the manual settings because I prefer this as opposed to relying on automatic settings. The Senses 300 is very well made and is attractive. It looks far less industrial than most of the the other professional grade vacuum chamber sealers. I was considering buying either the SousVideTools® IV2.5 or IV3.0 Deep Chamber Vacuum Sealer but I am very pleased that I bought the Senses 300 one instead.

A simple question from the user manual to there support department resulted in an unbelievable answer and still has not been answered. No problem with the product it does all I want but I don't like being given an unbelievable answer.

Really pleased with the performance of this machine. As you can see you can pack food and flatten out to save space in your freezer. It also then defrosts quickly as it’s so thin. Easy to use a Sharpie pen to date and label the bags. The bags are so much cheaper than the textured bags you have to use with the cheaper machines so you use it a lot more. I’ve even been slicing up the rest of things like lemons then freezing them as the cost of the bag makes it worth it. I hated having food in freezer bags in the freezer. This is so much better just hope it lasts a long time. I paid about £500 for it but just seen it’s on offer for £400 which makes it a great buy.

Consegna avvenuta correttamente e in anticipo rispetto ai tempi concordati,la macchina sembra lavori molto bene,la uso da pochi giorni e finora ho ottenuto ciò che speravo, abbastanza capiente e neanche tanto rumorosa rispetto ad altre macchine che conosco, per uso casalingo è perfetta ,sono soddisfatta e la consiglio vivamente....

Dopo molto cercare e confrontare ho scelto questa macchina, rapporto qualità prezzo di gran lunga superiore alle sue concorrenti. La uso solo da 3 settimane quindi non posso testimoniare riguardo la sua durata, ma x il momento mi ritengo molto soddisfatta. Un plus la camera profonda che permette di sottovutare anche i vasetti.