FoodSaver FSFRSH0051 FreshSaver Handheld Vacuum Sealing System, White - Best Price
Food prepping ahead of time means less time spent in the kitchen and more time to enjoy with family and friends. Slice up an array of deli meats and cheeses for a party platter, then keep it fresh and ready to go with the help of this rechargeable handheld vacuum sealer. Designed for use with the FoodSaver vacuum zipper bags and FoodSaver deli containers, the cordless unit removes the air with the press of a button, creating an airtight seal that keeps ready-to-eat food items in the refrigerator or pantry fresh for longer. The thoughtfully designed device comes with a dishwasher-safe nozzle that catches overflow liquids, and its compact size takes up minimal space on the counter or in a drawer when not in use. Two medium zipper bags come included. Quick and convenient, the handheld vacuum-sealing system measures approximately 4 by 3 by 9 inches and carries a one-year limited warranty.
Reviews of Foodsaver Fsfrsh0051 Freshsaver Handheld Vacuum Sealing System White
Handheld unit OK, but bags will not hold vaccuum!
Rating by : Eee Tee, 
I've owned a Foodsaver for years (now on my third) so I'm familiar with their conventional vacuum bags and canisters.
I got an email from FoodSaver touting the new FreshSaver zipper bags for frequently used items so you don't have to keep cutting down and re-sealing regular FoodSaver bags.
Sounded good to me, so I ordered one. The handheld unit vacuums reasonably quickly, and the small compatible storage containers work well.
However, the quart and gallon size bags zipper are worse than useless. They appear to hold a vacuum initially, so you put it in the fridge only to find the next day that the bag lost its vacuum. The bags are stiffer than regular zipper bags, so when the seal fails, the bag expands and allows more air in than a regular plastic bag. The unit was supplied with 5 quart bags and 5 gallon bags. Only four bags held a vacuum more than a few minutes! Of those four, only two bags held vacuum a second time. Even those two failed on the third use.
Absolutely maddening - you THINK you sealed the bag, only to find out hours later it isn't sealed after all!
I called Jarden (Foodsaver's corporate owner) to complain. They said the only thing they could do is send me a box of 12 gallon-size zipper FreshSaver bags as a 'goodwill' gesture. Unfortunately, those bags are just as bad as the first ones. The problem is the valve tab. The bags feature heat-welded multilayer construction (good) and heat-welded zippers (good), but the valve tab is fastened using a pressure sensitive adhesive like 'scotch' tape (BAD). The tabs fail, either by leaking when the tab comes loose, or when the tab doesn't stay sealed around the pinhole in the bag under the tab. As a test, I vacuumed a bag and immediately covered the tab with a square of clear 3M box sealing tape, and then the vacuum holds! Unfortunately, when you remove the tape, the vacuum tab peels off too, so that isn't a fix, but confirms the source of the failure.
Absolutely worthless design! Customer reps at Jarden aren't able to help - they just want to sell you more stuff. (Too bad for you if what they just sold you doesn't work like they promise!)
I love the idea, but the bags are too annoying to bother with. I consider this a wasted purchase.
P.S. Some here have commented/suggested that I must have used the bags with wet/greasy foods that undermine the seal. (I learned that lesson 15+ years ago with standard Foodsaver.) I've used the Freshsaver with hard, dry cheese (Parmigiano Reggiano) and made sure the tab stayed flat, but still have leaks. I'm glad there are those who have had no problems, but that makes me wonder if Foodsaver has poor quality control on the Freshsaver bags, some work, some don't? As for me, I'm back to using the regular Foodsaver bags since they work very well.
Quick, convenient, and a bargain for what you get
Rating by : Mrs.J.Breen, 
I saw this on the shelf when I was buying some new bags for my big old foodsaver vacuum system. I thought this was a great idea. And at $20, what a deal! I did scoff a bit at the price of the special ziploc bags you had to buy, but I still thought it was worth a try.
If I only ever used this for lunchmeat and cheese, I would still be SO happy with this investment. These are two items that always go bad before we use it all, and that I am never going to pull out my big old foodsaver vacuum and bags every time I open them up.
I transferred my [...] bag of salami and bag of sliced cheese into the special fresh saver ziplocs and it has just been awesome. It only takes a couple of extra seconds to grab the freshsaver and seal those bags up tight each time you get into them. My meat and cheese looks like the package has never been opened several weeks later. I couldn't be happier.
I know I will end up using this for a lot more down the road...but I couldn't let this great product continue to sit up here with no reviews. It is just excellent. It is great for items that you access a lot that are a hassle to deal with the traditional food saver system on. Or if you can't afford to invest in the bigger system. I highly recommend it. The only downside is the bags are pricey, but again, these bags get opened an resealed a lot, they last a long time...and you could probably wash and reuse them a few times if you were so inclined.
UPDATE 1/14/10: I will add that I have seen some comments about the seals failing and not working. The only time I have had this problem is if I have sealed and resealed the same bag more than say 15 times or so. Also, you can have failure of the seal if the product inside is very greasy or moist, to the extent that grease or liquid gets sucked up through the seal when sealing...than can compromise it. If not those cases, I have never had a bag fail on me. I still highly recommend this product. And I saw your latest commercial Food Saver people. How about sending me some love?
Total Failure
Rating by : K. E. Badger "srt medic",
Purchased the FoodSaver� FreshSaver� Handheld Vacuum Sealing System from Wal-Mart about 6 months ago along with 3 boxes of quart sized bags to go with it. The handheld unit works just fine, sucking out the air out of the bags like it is designed to do. But the failure of the system is the bags. The consistanly failed to maintain the vacuum status that they are designed to do.
After about 2-3 days, air is back in the bags. This is just not with the sample bags that came with the unit, it is also with the bags that are new in sealed up boxes fresh off the shelf. So I have lodged my complaint with FoodSaver over my loss of $45.00 not that I am expecting anything to come of this, but perspective buyers need to be aware of the failure.
Two days ago I purchased from the very same Wal-Mart, Ziploc's version of the system. It is a manual pump made out of cheep plastic for less than $3.00. Guess what folks, it works and the bag is still maintaining its vacuum on the product that I have placed inside. So a $3.00 product beats out a $19.95 product that is way more complicated.
The Freshsaver unit does make a very nice paperweight through.
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