AIRMSEN Handheld Vacuum Sealer for Food Preservation & Storage, Portable Mini Vacuum Sealer with 11 PCS Reusable Sous Vide Bags and 2 PCS Vacuum Wine Sealer

popular with friends
bought one for me and then sent one to 2 friends. That friend ended up buying 2 for family members. just make sure the zip lock is closed snug before getting the air out. The slightest little leak with release the hold.

Works well
I just bought a ninja combi and wanted to test out the sous vide function I also love a nice piece of beef but 15 bucks a pound just isn’t in the budget. This unit has the current usb C port for charging and comes with a short A to C cable but any C cable will work. The bags have a round disk that you place this over on a flat surface. You have to use a little downward pressure to get it to suck the air out of the bag when you hit the power button on top. It stops automatically. My first test was a cheap chuck roast at 135 degrees for 24 hours. We shall see, I’ve had friends tell me how wonderful sous vide is if it can really make a cheap cut of beef taste like an expensive one I’m all for that stuff for sure. My only small complaint is with the way you seal the bags it uses this little plastic bit that I know my counter will swallow instantly. The sealer should be larger and have an eyelet on it so you can hang it someplace to avoid losing it. For now i put it in the cloth bag with the vacuum unit. I hope the seller sells that sealing tool as I’m sure I’ll need another one, you get a good number of bags but may want more of those too in the future. I tried using my fingers to seal the bag its tough the tool does a better job. I only used this a few times can’t speak on battery life but it also charges up pretty quick. After reading a few reviews it sounds like this unit works best with the style of bags that it came with, don’t seem to have much luck finding those at least on amazon, they need to either sell the bags that work with their unit separately or provide the link to where they can be purchased. I did find one product on amazon that looks like the same bag in photos may try those out so far these bags seem to hold the seal well and not leak.It appears you get something like six to ten uses from a bag before the seal fails and you can no longer suck the air out properly. Several bags come in the kit just now one of my two largest must be replaced. I’m happy to say they took the suggestion to sell the bags for their vacuum unit separately, the large five quart bags are currently about two dollars each which isn’t bad if they last ten uses. update: had this about 7 months now, unless it’s my imagination this thing seems to be getting steadily harder to make it seal where it sucks the air out of the bag. Make sure to press on the zipper closure with your fingers and press down on the round seal to be sure all that is where it should be before you apply the vacuum device. Your results may vary but I seem to have the best luck getting it to seal when I place the seal on the flat counter and move the device around a bit till it finally sounds like it’s sucking air out. I’m looking for a less persnickity sealing device you can’t tell when the battery is too low all you find out is it just stops and that tells you it’s time to charge it again. I saw another brand similar to this one that should work with the same bags at a much higher price may give that one a try. It comes with a two year warranty supposedly.

Better than FoodSaver
I had a FoodSaver hand held vacuum sealer. I was never terribly happy with it, but didn’t want to spend the money to replace it. It finally wouldn’t hold a charge so I had to look for a replacement. Based on reviews I chose the Airmsen. I’m very glad I did. It removes the air much more quickly than the FoodSaver, and I don’t have to hold down the control through the process. Push the button and it does its job. Another bonus, it works with the FoodSaver bags I already have. I’ve only had it a week, but I’ve used it every day. I’ll update this if anything changes.

poor suction power
I chose this product because of the price, instead of the more expensive one. its okay, but I was not satisfied with the suction power. and probably should have paid more the better one. I guess you get what you paid for. I would not recommend this product.Sidney in Lancaster, TX

Being new to vacuum sealing products, I first tested this little handheld sealer. In reality, it is a extremely low powered air removal and suction device that is held in one hand. It is used with proprietary pre-cut bags that have a little valve built into each bag. It appears to me that the primary marketing gimmick is that the supplied bags can be reused more than once. Therefore implied savings I guess. However , my experience was that only 30% of the 8 bags of dried cat food which I sealed, retained airtightness for more than 12 hours. All the others immediately became filled with air within 12 hours. So complete waste of my time and an amazingly high defect rate . I contacted the manufacturer who said there might have been something wrong with the bags that came with it, and offered to send me more bags. That is not a good way to start off a user experience or produce confidence in a product in my opinion. I declined his offer. Instead, now being a more educated consumer at this stage, I then saw the vast majority of other air sealers here on Amazon use an entirely different technology (NOT reusable bags with a valve in each bag). I can see why! All the other brands use a much stronger motor to suck out more air, then use a built in heating wire which thermally (heat) seals the plastic bag airtight. That technology works great, is reliable, and Technically speaking, you could even cut open one of the heat sealed bags on the edge , clean it out so it was perfectly dry, then use it again for another ceiling test. Personally I wouldn’t want to go through the hassle, but it could be done . In any case, the bags and rolls designed to be used with heat ceiling units are quite economical . I have no idea why this little handheld unit remains for sale, because there are so many other heat ceiling units here on Amazon that do a better job and they start at the same price as this useless little handheld unit. Consider yourself warned! My advice isdDon’t waste your time with this unit, rather get one of the heat sealing vacuum sealers here on Amazon to avoid wasting your time with a return which is what I did with this one.