Side by Side Comparison of: Universal Vacuum Bags vs FoodVacBags

I really like these bags. I have ordered these (both the 8" and 11" double roll packs and in combo packs) several times over the past two years. Although they are usually only described as Commercial Vacuum Seal bags or Commercial Bargain Bags, the ones I have received have always been produced by a company called Out Of Air which is a member of Darwin LLC. But I have always had good service with these bags. If you look up the info on these, they are 4 Mil thick. They also come with the textured back side which is slightly thicker. This is the same thickness as the more expensive name brands Heavy Duty and Heavy Duty Boil "N" Microwave bags. A lot of your other saver type vacuum seal bags standard size is 2 mil thick. So these are more than adequate for most of your uses. Plus, I have even stored boney items like Pork Ribs and Beef Country Style bone-in ribs and so far have not had one puncture the sides. The Vacuum seal machine I am using is a two year old Food Saver V3220 and I've never had an issue with it sealing these bags. So if you seal a lot of items and want a better price alternative to the name pricier brand bags, give these a try.

Great bags for sous vide. They seal well in my Food Saver device. You need to be careful that the bag stays flat at the sealing strip to eliminate folds in the seal that will leak. It helps to give yourself an additional inch or so in length to facilitate that so the bulge of the food in the bag is not hear the heating strip. Since these bags are cheaper than OEM I do not mind the additional waste as much. The only leak I have had is a bag tearing in the freezer with clumsy storage and handling. Now I inspect the bag closely before I put it in the bath.I used to use more 11 inch bag material than 8, but I now use a lot of this size. It fits better in the bath and the size is better for individual bagging of single pieces. The seal is more secure since it is shorter. The price per square inch is about the same.

My sealing success with national name brand bags and rolls was very lackluster. I was not pleased that my food aka "time and money" was being wasted by inferior seals not keeping everything air tight.I decided to take a chance on these"off brand" rolls. I timed their arrival with my weekly huge cooking marathon of meals and putting up my CSA produce. W-O-W !!!!These rolls are much thicker material than any other I have tried. I followed the advice of another reviewer and used them writing side up - exactly as they come off the roll.Still 100% success which makes my wallet sing every time I look in my freezer. I have a Nesco American Harvest food sealer - but I have no doubt these will work with any dealer.Wonderful product!!

Wow! This is a great value. We have enough bag material to seal our food and leftovers for a long time. We have an old Kenmore sealing machine and we're always conservative using it due to the cost of bags. When we buy the bagging material in the store, it costs $10.00 for a little boxwhen it's on sale (not very often). Now I have 100 feet for a couple of dollars more. They are as good or better quality as the store product. Will definitely buy again from this vendor. Love my Amazon Prime!!!

These sealer rolls are great! I have been buying them off the shelf at the local store for years and each time it is a mental budget struggle because they are so expensive! Sure they save money on food cost in the long run, but that initial $20-$30 for two little rolls always seemed like too much. Till now.These bags are great quality. At least as thick as the "name brand" and the side seams are well constructed. They seal well and keep food airtight and protected. The only inconvenience you might find is that the rolls are so big they might not fit in your machine. But that's not a problem if you have a pair of scissors around. Just unroll about half of the roll, roll it up and put it in the machine, store the rest until you need it.All in all a great product at an awesome price.

I am very pleased with these. I have reused them, depending on what was vacuumed before. Perfect width to make bags. For meats, I make the bag and put it in the freezer for a while and then use the vacuum sealer. If meat or anything has liquids, the sealer doesn't work correctly. Lightly freeze the food and then seal. These came quickly and were so economical that I do not feel it costs me much to keep my food fresh longer. VERY pleased with the quality of the material. I know it is a lesser quality than came with my sealer but it is high enough to do the job I need. I'll reorder but it will be awhile since I have a LOT remaining! I recommend these!

This is my second time to order from this seller. They work beautifully and are priced well. The Food Saver bags are so expensive I hated buying them, glad I found these!

These bags work Great with our Cabela's commercial grade sealer and a better price than the ones sold by Cabela's. We put 2 pounds of meat in each bag easily for storage in our freeze. Great bags at a Great price.

Nice heavy duty bags for a lot less than the Foodsaver bags. I cannot find anything bad to say about them. We use them with all types of food and they always seal right. I try to fold over the top of the bag when filling to keep from contaminating the area that the sealer fuses together. Just unfold an seal.

Purchased on-line, price and quality are good and the bags work great with my Food Saver Game Saver model vacuum sealer. The delivery was one day longer than they originally said it would be, it took 7 days to get the bags with regular shipping but shipping was free. I would recommend this purchase

We have been using these top quality sealer bags for over a year and they consistently meet our needs perfectly

I have purchased other style bags made for Food Saver vacume appliance and these are the best I have ever found and will continue to use until no longer available. Others have had a screen mesh for Oxy savers, but the plastic would puncture or not seal. I have dehydrated several Garden items and only to find they did not seal. These new bags I am rating are the best to date without any issues, they seal great and hold the vacume. I would compare to the original food Saver bags without the cost.

Review for 8" X 50' Vacuum Sealer RollsI bought these because I was tired of paying such a high price for the original rolls/bags my vacuum sealer manufacturer suggested I use (their own). Most of the things I use my sealer for are premade meals or repackaging of bulk items. Most of the time the thickness of the bags is not a huge concern but when it is I will use the thicker, more expensive material. This product will cover 90 percent of what I do.I find this product to work well with my machine so far. I've made about 30 bags with it of various sizes. I only had 1 problem with one bag that got a crease in it during the sealing process and did not seal completely. All I did was trim and reseal making sure the material was completely flat. Not as much of a issue with thicker material.Pros 1) cost, 2) Size/Volume, 3) Works with my machine.Cons 1) **No area to write date and contents, 2) material is thinner (already mentioned)** As far as #1 Con goes, you can write on the bag with a marker but sometimes it's still hard to read. What I do now is seal the bag leaving about 1 inch of space at the top, then cut small strip of paper, write or type info on it, and seal it in the bag above original seal (see picture). Sometimes this means that I have to cut the bag a little longer but with the cost savings I don't see this as a big deal.I will buy this product again as long as the quality and price remain consistent.

Super economical, but the roles are too wide to fit into the FoodSaver devices!!! i.e. too many bags on the role. I didn't think of it before I bought it but now I'm like dangit! 4 roles of 25' would be more likely to fit, but 50' is a no go. It is waaay waaay less expensive than the "real thing" though and I would likely buy from these people again, I will just look for a 25' option.FYI - I found with wet filling, I have to seal twice (seal, pause, seal again); once doesn't do it. This might be an issue with other bags as well though (I'm still a vacuum sealer nubie). But twice provides a good, solid seal, so no complaints here.

I really like these bags. I'd love to leave a 4 1/2 star review. I couldn't tell much of a difference between the thickness of these bags and the name-brand bags I was buying before. I even got my roommate's opinion and she couldn't tell much difference either.The only thing I would recommend for any type of bag like this is to double seal it on both ends and beware of something that could poke a hole in it and cause it to leak. I sealed up chicken breasts with bone-in in the name-brand bags and I had to throw away three because a sharp bone poked through the bag, so those reviews who blame it on a cheap bag may want to just be more careful.I do a double seal on both ends and if I'm sealing something that I think might poke a hole, I just place it in an unsealed baggie first to give it a it more cushion, so to speak.Overall, I'm very happy with these bags and for the price I paid, I can't beat them.

I used these to seal all the meat, cheese and vegetables in my freezer. I used seal a meal vac and it worked great 98% of the time. A few times I had to reseal the ends which was probably my fault for not giving it enough room to lay flat. You have to make sure the top is nice and flat any rippling will not seal right. So far none of them have popped a seal or had a hole poked in it and they do a great job. I froze up half the stuff in my deep freezer and used about half a roll doing so. I left extra on the ends for cutting open so I could reuse the bag also :P. I will be re-buying these when they go on sale.I have found that freezing items in the bags then sealing them makes it a lot easier to get them to seal because if you do not the liquid will keep using out and the sealer will try to seal then there is a tiny line of liquid that doesn't seal and air goes back in. They work great when I freeze the food in the bag every time and have my deep freezer full and still have not used up a full roll but its almost gone. I have also reused these bags and they do hold up.

Great Vacuum sealer bags to use with your Food Saver for most foods. These are slightly less heavy than name brand bags but work great for soft foods with no sharp edges such as ground beef, fish, and chicken breasts. I had no trouble with sealing any of those. It worked every bit as good as Foodsaver bags. If sealing ribs or any other items that have hard or sharp edges, these bags do not hold up as well and may puncture more easily which will then not vacuum seal.If you have a machine that you put the rolls in and cut right from the machine, you will not be able to use that. These rolls are much fatter than that the area to put the roll. That means you are getting quite a lot on one roll, but you do have to cut them by hand.I would definitely recommend these as an alternative to name brand, but you'll still want to keep some thicker bags on hand for some foods.

These bags are a good bargain. However, that is what they are, bargain bag rolls. Although they will seal most items well, they are not as high quality as FoodSaver bags. They are described as "commercial quality."For items that do not have sharp edges, they do pretty good. However, when trying to seal dehydrated potatoes, many of the potato edges punctured the bag. I also had issues with pecans and macaroni.Compared to FoodSaver, the textured side of FoodSaver is thicker and sturdier. In the video, you can clearly see a difference.Due to the bags being thinner, they tend to curl on the ends. This makes placing them into the sealer a bit trickier and I must cut the bags a tad bit longer. They also take much longer to vacuum with some items taking well over one minute. It may be just my FoodSaver. I have not had any not seal nor vacuum.However, for the price difference, if the items you are sealing do not require the higher quality FoodSaver bags, these do ok. I have used a fair amount of this brand, both the large and small rolls, and they work. I just have to adjust for the curling and make sure I don't use them for sharp edged foods.I deducted 1 star for the seller giving the impression that these are a higher/commercial quality bag. They are not, in my opinion.Hope the video gives you a better idea of how they compare to FoodSaver.See comments for updates.

ok

Very pleased with quality and price. We sealed pecans this year. We are testing to see if they keep them as fresh as the food saver brand . Usually keep pecans for 3 years in food saver bags.

nice bags, right price

great and reasonable replacement for my cabella bags

Compatible with Food Saver bag but more economical especially for retailer and small business ownerDefinitely will use this product again

Hard to work with because they don't fit into the top of my V3240 system making it difficult to cut using the Foodsaver cutting wand. I was able to use it but had to leave the roll on my counter, insert the product in reverse under the cutter wand and slice it across. This was the only problem I had, the vacuum sealer worked good and the heat sealer worked good. I recommend them if you want to save on bags but I am not sure if this issue with the cutter outweighs the savings you get versus using bags that fit properly into the unit.

I ordered these in conjunction with the vacuum sealer. They work great. They're sturdy. You cut off the length you need, seal one end, fill the bag, then seal the other end. My only problem really is that the roll, when new, won't fit into the sealer. So, until you use about half the roll, it's cumbersome to cut the bags using the sealer's cutting mechanism. I just keep a pair of scissors handy which works, but I like the nice straight edges I get from the sealer better.

have purchased other "not brand name" vacuum sealer bags and they worked very well - these bags seem to have 2 main issues that were not present with previous orders: 1) there are significant wrinkles within the roll that has been used 2) although on the outside portion of 50' roll even the first made bags curled over to the point of causing the machine to not want to accept the bag for sealing.Thickness is less than previously ordered product - this product isn't bad but, is thinner than previous multiple ordered products. Basic sealing projects I think it would be an acceptable product but, if sealing things with hard edges might not be strong enough.

These commercial quality food saver bags work well with my FoodSaver V4865 machine. They also hold their vacuum seal as well as the brand sold with my machine. I've been pleased with the quality and the price!UPDATE: I spoke too soon; I used these with fish -- they marginally vacuumed the product and one of the packages would not vac. Dropped the rating. Will update again when I have another group of items.

This works REALLY well in our FoodSaver vacuum sealer, and for the price, it's a great value. But I didn't realize until I had opened it and compared it with my FoodSaver brand rolls that there is PROBABLY BPA in this plastic, which is slightly concerning to me. The FoodSaver brand rolls advertise that they are BPA-free, and since the stuff I vacuum seal goes into the freezer, this is an issue. I'm sure these rolls are NOT BPA-free, considering they don't say so and the price is so low. I still used them, but will be sure NOT to heat my thawed food in the microwave in this packaging, as that would further release the BPA into my food.

The bags are pretty sturdy. They don't leak air, and they do a good job of keeping things fresh and free of freezer burn.I figured they would be boilanle/microwaveable, but they are not. It melted when I tried to boil it and exploded when I tried to microwave if, which to me makes it significantly less useful.But it does what it claims.

always good

It does get the job done but will buy Cabelas bags next time. I was trying to save a penny with these. Not worth it.

Purchased to use with a food saver, I've tried several brands of bags and rolls and found the machine not particularly picky working with pretty much anything I've tried. That is, until these. As other reviewers have mentioned these are much thinner than most other brands. The textured side that allows for the air to be evacuated is either too soft or indistinct preventing a good seal.

Not impressed. I have made 15-20 bags so far and have a 40-50% vac failure ratio. Not sure why, sometimes recutting the end works but not always. Scared to use them with long term freezing. I use a high end food saver unit and never have an issue with their rolls so this product will be for short term only until I decide to toss it out. Update, after answering a buyers question about cutting the rolls with sissors I tried using the cutter on my food saver backwards and while it was dry whole coffee beans and not moist meat, the ratio was one vac failure out of eight.

So far, so good on these. I've only used them on wild game meat, and they do just fine. They aren't as thick as name-brand products, so I take care when I stack them in the freezer so as not to cause damage to the bag, potentially wearing a hole in it against other frozen items beside it.I have not, however, actually measured the product as some users have. They claim they didn't get the full 50'. Perhaps I do that next. What a pain that'll be.Edit: after a few months I've discovered that many of the sealer bags I froze meat product in have punctured in the freezer, probably due to the thin wall of the material. This means that they have not maintained their vacuum seal.

I don't know whats going on with these bags. I've bought them once before, and they were good. But these have an issue. about every third bad wont vacuum. So there must be a leak somewhere in the factory sealed edges. I'm going to fill one with water and seal it so I can look for the leak. I may be wrong. The problem may be something else, but it is a problem if you expect vacuum sealed food. I am using the bags that wont vacuum to seal things I am less concerned about a tight vacuum in such as food I will eat sooner. I have a roll I haven't started yet. If it has the same problem I will look elsewhere.

These bags don't seal very well with the FoodSaver FM2000 if there is any wetness inside the bag where the seal is being placed. You'll lose the vacuum. This happens, for example, when you're trying to vacuum pack a grilled chicken breast and the vacuum process pulls a bit of the juice toward the opening in the bag beyond where the seal will occur. If the contents are completely dry, these bags seal like a champ. Just a heads up if you are using this like me to preserve a few days worth of lunches.There may be a way to double bag something like a cooked chicken breast (maybe wrap with saran wrap before putting it in the bag) to get around this problem, but I'll be checking out a different brand in the future, because I didn't have this problem with neither the FoodSaver branded bags nor the 11" bags I purchased off Amazon.

I'm really disappointed in these rolls. I bought 4, 2 in this size and 2 in a narrower size. They are thinner than the regular food saver bags, but the real disappointment comes from the facts that, #1, they curl after being cut and it is very difficult to seal the ends. #2 After I get the food into the bag and I try to seal it, again, many times the ends curl and I have to wiggle and jiggle the bag to get it into the vacuum. #3, They leak. I'm guessing because of the way they are difficult to seal, there are probably tiny flaws in the seal and after a period of time in the freezer, I'm really angry to find bags that have lost their seal and the food inside is freezer burned. I won't buy these again.

I have a FoodSaver V3860. These bags did not work. The machine was not able to pull air from the bags. I tried both rolls with the same result. I tried a different brand of bag, and it worked just fine. Tried these again, didn't work. There's something about these bags that just did not work. I guess I'll have to use up what I have as storage bags without having air sucked out of them, as I'm fairly certain I'm well beyond the return period. Will not buy again.

I had hopes that these bags would work. Certainly a good price but not a value.In the middle of vacuum sealing some fish fillets my supply of the branded bags ended and I switched to the new Commercial bags. Because this was in process I did not note which bags were which but a some point the bags just stopped vacuuming. I erroneously assumed it was the Food Saver unit so washed the seals and let them dry. Still no vacuum although it was pumpingFinally dawned on me to check the bags. Did not have the Food Saver 8" bags but had some 11" so tried that and sealed fine.Look at the picture to see test. Had a few shallots to work with and the 11" on the left is the Food Saver bag and the right is the 8" Commercial bag. Obvious which got vacuumed and which did not.Unit is fine, bags are bad.

Not impressed, not happy didn't like them. I had been buying Weston bags but thought I would try this brand. I don't like them. They don't vacum very well and they didn't seal as well as the other brand. This size also did not thaw well in the microwave either and as I wrote in a different review for the other size, it whistled then blew up and scared my other cat half to death (she wouldn;t come back in the kitchen for an hour). Ok scaring the cat can be funny and good comic relief on a bad day but the truth of it is the quality of this brand isn't good and I love my pets (my dog growled the next two times I used the microwave, yes they are spoiled but that is beside the point) My food saver is still pretty new (sept of 2014) and I do know what I'm doing. That leaves me with believing this is an inferior product that I can not recomend.

This product will not vacuum no matter what I try to seal. I have a FoodSaver and was hoping I could save $$ but there is no way I can depend on this brand of rolls. I will be going back to FoodSaver products ONLY! I would not recommend these to anyone.

Just received these today and the rolls looked suspiciously small. I unrolled one and measured it -- 16 feet. Thus despite paying for 100' (and the package is clearly marked "2 Large 8" x 50' Vac") I only got 32' in total. Very disappointed.

The rolls I received were not 50' each, they are 16' each. The product label matched the description for the items ordered, but the actual items were not as described.

I bought these anticipating vacuum packing my corn on the cob with my foodsaver sealer. at the same time i bought another 100 from a different vendor. these bags will not vacuum down. as soon as you try the vacuum comes on and it immediately seals without vacuuming down the bag. either too thin so that the foodsaver collapses the embossed side or made crosswise.save you money. by the time my corn was ready, this product was not able to be returned. The hundred from different vendor worked fine. I have been doing this for over 10 years and never had a problem till now. Junk is still Junk

I bought these early to vacuum pack corn in with my Foodsaver.something is wrong that they will not seal at all. The sealer tries to vacuumbut does not vacuum at all but starts and immediately seals the bag. My guess is thatit is too thin and the embossed side collapses or that the bags are made wrong direction.I waited too long and now Amazon will not take them back. I have bought lots of bagsfrom different vendors and never had a problem. Fortunately I had bags beside these.