In my experience, bags of this type are very poorly suited to sous-vide. The process leaves residue on the inside of the bag that is very time consuming to remove.
@werehatrack agreed. I’d say they’re poorly suited for storing anything that could be messy. You’ll never get them clean. I used some reusable vacuum sealer bags to sous vide steaks one time, and immediately realized they’d never be clean again. I threw them in the trash where they belong.
@IndifferentDude@mediocrebot Are those Mobius toilet paper rolls? Showme may have just solved one of the timeless challenges facing humanity. Thanks AI!
These are awesome. We use them constantly. Probably don’t store a red curry in them, but we’ve stored dark colored soups and the dishwasher cleans them just fine.
I like these and own some already. I do not cook in them though. I just use them in place of food storage plastic baggies. Mostly for bread items, block cheeses, some vegetables, and occasionally fruits. Pizza fits ok sometimes. My favorite use has been for freezer foods. Vegetables, shrimp, chicken, fish, whatever. Use what I need, dump the rest into one of the quart bags and call it good. Yeah, sure you can just leave it in the plastic bag, do the spinny twist to close it, and hope you don’t accidentally pick it up wrong so it spills in the freezer, but it isn’t quite as nice of a solution.
I will say, there are a few caveats to these that people may not like. The most plainly stated being they take up a decent amount of cabinet space depending on how many you get. Way more than a box of ziplocks. Secondly, the opening can be smaller than you might assume, and they don’t have a ton of give before I get afraid of damaging the bag. For example, a normal size sandwich will slide into the sandwich size fine, but if you make a tall, over stuffed, huge sandwich, or have larger than “just normal white bread” slices, you might have some trouble getting it in there without squishing it a bit. Additionally, sometimes they are are not air tight if you do not ensure you have sealed them correctly. These particular ones are also not intended for any sort of liquid (i.e. soup) storage, but I feel like that much is obvious. There is a version made for that purpose, but they aren’t for sale here today. You probably can get by for marination purposes, as long as you make SURE it is sealed.
As for cooking and cleaning, I’ve never cooked in them really beyond reheating super bowl snacks a whole one time in the bag. Wasn’t in the microwave for a long time, or particularly hot. Seemed to work fine on that front. As for clean up, you can give them a good wash, rinse and wipe them out. A sponge works better than a brush. If you have very large hands, you may have trouble getting in there. I however am lazy, and pop them in the dishwasher. Holding the bag open using 2 tines lets the dishwasher do its job fairly well. Your results will vary based on your dishwasher, how dirty your bags are, and how open you can get the bags to be if you pop them in there. They dry ok in there as well, but for hand wash these really need to be propped open to fully dry, or wiped out thoroughly. I am crazy and will just hold them open over a cup/glass on the counter, which works for me well enough.
In any case, Meh is getting my cash for 2 of the 6 pack quart size clears. The 2 I own aren’t even close to enough, especially for freezer purposes. This price is a steal compared to what I paid. Dear Meh, If you happen to find the two largest stand up size clear bags, that just happened to fall off the back of a truck, at fire sale prices, hook me up. I am in the market for more of those.
TLDR: Like. Have issues and aren’t perfect replacements for zip lock bags. Good enough for my purposes and hope they last many years.
As a more robust form of ziplock bag, they’re okay, as long as they are used only for things that leave behind no residues that are in any way difficult to clean out. Even then, the process of cleaning them is much more complicated than it is for a hard-sided container like Tupperware or any of its far more economical-to-acquire competitors. We have some, and they’re used for food about a fifth as often as either a regular ziplock bag or a hard-side container, because neither of us is happy about having to clean them after use.
Overall, we tend to regard them as a solution whose perfect problem apparently only happens to other people.
I’m thinking of getting the snack size for keeping small items in my pocket or bag, especially things like lip balm that can melt or have the top come off.
@verysmallkisses so would I, but after enough reuses, those eventually get brittle and crack immediately as they leave the freezer (I’m still going to go through all my little plastic buckets, waxed Chinese takeout boxes, ice cream pails, and eventually ziploc bags before I switch to tin foil and glass)
I might have considered these, however I use a 2 compartment glass bottom set similar to the one one sidedeal (received in an IRK a year ago) happy with it!
Also got a vacuum sealer in my latest boc, haven’t tried it yet.
I’m ordering 6 more of the half gallon ones. I’ve got some already. They are okay. Perfectly appropriate product for meh. I had very high hopes for them but was disappointed with what I got for the very high price. They work okay in the sous vide and okay for leftovers. They aren’t as easy to clean as they were advertised to be. But for the price here, I’ll grab some more. I wouldn’t be too enthused to pay more for them though.
I like the Stasher bags that I have but I have to be honest, I don’t use them as much as the other reusable bags that I have. I feel like they are useful for a limited range of things, so I don’t regret having them, I just wish I hadn’t gotten so many of them. The sandwich size bags in particular end up not being very useful. Mostly because the opening isn’t big enough to fit anything larger than a grilled cheese sandwich in it.
The ones with the wide bottoms I use a lot more often (I keep one rolled up in my bag when I’m out in case I run into a circumstance where I have food I can’t finish and want to take home) and the bowls I literally can’t live without. The bowls are fantastic.
I do really like them for storing items more so than food, though. They’re especially great for protecting things you want to throw in a backpack or purse of any kind.
Specs
Product: Stasher Reusable Food Storage Bag Bundles
Model: H-STMK06-TN, H-STM06-TN, H-T-STHG2-TN_CL, H-T-STHG2-TN_AQ
Condition: New
What’s Included?
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Price Comparison
$86.94-$131.99 at Amazon
12x 12oz Snack Raspberry
8x 28oz Sandwich Raspberry
6x 64oz 1/2 Gallon Clear
6x 64oz 1/2 Gallon Aqua
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Jul 15 - Thursday, Jul 18
Can these store more than food?
@yakkoTDI
@yakkoTDI You can store souls in there, but you have to dry them first.
@AaronLeeJohnson @yakkoTDI sadly, with eBay having completely banned the sale of them, there isn’t much of a secondary market for souls anymore.
@AaronLeeJohnson They dry very well in the trunk.
In my experience, bags of this type are very poorly suited to sous-vide. The process leaves residue on the inside of the bag that is very time consuming to remove.
@werehatrack agreed. I’d say they’re poorly suited for storing anything that could be messy. You’ll never get them clean. I used some reusable vacuum sealer bags to sous vide steaks one time, and immediately realized they’d never be clean again. I threw them in the trash where they belong.
@warpedrotors I used the rest of the “reusable” dedicated sous-vide ones that I had bought exactly once each, and tossed them as they were emptied.
First you sell Reusable Water Balloons …
and now Reusable Sandwich Bags!!
What’s next? Reusable Toilet Paper???
@IndifferentDude I think you mean the shells.
@IndifferentDude condoms
@hchavers @IndifferentDude now I want some Taco Bell.
@IndifferentDude I was wondering why I bought a toy poodle in 2020.
@warpedrotors “Regiment decided to have this one rreapairred.”
@IndifferentDude Well, toilet paper does have two sides…
/showme reusable toilet paper that lasts forever.
An attempt was made, @mediocrebot.
That mummy is going to be very angry.
@IndifferentDude Isn’t that just a bidet?
@blaineg I sense an opportunity for a comedy horror movie script here.
@blaineg
To me the paper clips are the most troublesome!
@werehatrack
@blaineg @chienfou Real engineers work it out with a pencil. Or so I’m told.
@blaineg @werehatrack
FIFY
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@mediocrebot Yes, something DID go terribly wrong! Mainly, your doubled-sided rolls of TP!!
@IndifferentDude @mediocrebot Are those Mobius toilet paper rolls? Showme may have just solved one of the timeless challenges facing humanity. Thanks AI!
These are awesome. We use them constantly. Probably don’t store a red curry in them, but we’ve stored dark colored soups and the dishwasher cleans them just fine.
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
My wife would throw these out after one use. I am not made of money.
@hchavers
/showme a man named hchavers made entirely out of money.
@IndifferentDude I think I would be more happy with the muscles.
Amazon charges $11-22 each for these? Seriously?
Regular zip locks are reusable too. Just sayin’.
I like these and own some already. I do not cook in them though. I just use them in place of food storage plastic baggies. Mostly for bread items, block cheeses, some vegetables, and occasionally fruits. Pizza fits ok sometimes. My favorite use has been for freezer foods. Vegetables, shrimp, chicken, fish, whatever. Use what I need, dump the rest into one of the quart bags and call it good. Yeah, sure you can just leave it in the plastic bag, do the spinny twist to close it, and hope you don’t accidentally pick it up wrong so it spills in the freezer, but it isn’t quite as nice of a solution.
I will say, there are a few caveats to these that people may not like. The most plainly stated being they take up a decent amount of cabinet space depending on how many you get. Way more than a box of ziplocks. Secondly, the opening can be smaller than you might assume, and they don’t have a ton of give before I get afraid of damaging the bag. For example, a normal size sandwich will slide into the sandwich size fine, but if you make a tall, over stuffed, huge sandwich, or have larger than “just normal white bread” slices, you might have some trouble getting it in there without squishing it a bit. Additionally, sometimes they are are not air tight if you do not ensure you have sealed them correctly. These particular ones are also not intended for any sort of liquid (i.e. soup) storage, but I feel like that much is obvious. There is a version made for that purpose, but they aren’t for sale here today. You probably can get by for marination purposes, as long as you make SURE it is sealed.
As for cooking and cleaning, I’ve never cooked in them really beyond reheating super bowl snacks a whole one time in the bag. Wasn’t in the microwave for a long time, or particularly hot. Seemed to work fine on that front. As for clean up, you can give them a good wash, rinse and wipe them out. A sponge works better than a brush. If you have very large hands, you may have trouble getting in there. I however am lazy, and pop them in the dishwasher. Holding the bag open using 2 tines lets the dishwasher do its job fairly well. Your results will vary based on your dishwasher, how dirty your bags are, and how open you can get the bags to be if you pop them in there. They dry ok in there as well, but for hand wash these really need to be propped open to fully dry, or wiped out thoroughly. I am crazy and will just hold them open over a cup/glass on the counter, which works for me well enough.
In any case, Meh is getting my cash for 2 of the 6 pack quart size clears. The 2 I own aren’t even close to enough, especially for freezer purposes. This price is a steal compared to what I paid. Dear Meh, If you happen to find the two largest stand up size clear bags, that just happened to fall off the back of a truck, at fire sale prices, hook me up. I am in the market for more of those.
TLDR: Like. Have issues and aren’t perfect replacements for zip lock bags. Good enough for my purposes and hope they last many years.
/giphy merry-predictable-advice
@Tiamat114
That is, by far, the most informative review I’ve ever seen on this site.
Thanks for taking the time and energy!
@Tiamat114 I was going to save your post and read it later, but it wouldn’t fit in my quart-sized bag.
@macromeh Use a smaller font with a slower flow rate to avoid splashing the text out of order.
What? They come in purple but you don’t have any?
For that reason alone, MEH!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZDVQ26M
So…flat Tupperware?
@somf69 Flat Tupperware with sharp, deep little corners that collect stuff and can be next to impossible to scrub.
As a more robust form of ziplock bag, they’re okay, as long as they are used only for things that leave behind no residues that are in any way difficult to clean out. Even then, the process of cleaning them is much more complicated than it is for a hard-sided container like Tupperware or any of its far more economical-to-acquire competitors. We have some, and they’re used for food about a fifth as often as either a regular ziplock bag or a hard-side container, because neither of us is happy about having to clean them after use.
Overall, we tend to regard them as a solution whose perfect problem apparently only happens to other people.
I’m thinking of getting the snack size for keeping small items in my pocket or bag, especially things like lip balm that can melt or have the top come off.
I’ll stick to my deli containers.
@verysmallkisses so would I, but after enough reuses, those eventually get brittle and crack immediately as they leave the freezer (I’m still going to go through all my little plastic buckets, waxed Chinese takeout boxes, ice cream pails, and eventually ziploc bags before I switch to tin foil and glass)
Snack size- freeze old bananas for baking or smoothie use
Sandwich size- curate all frozen things for smoothie so all you have to do is throw it in the blender with your liquid (and anything else not frozen.)
I love that my 3-word-phrase order code was ill-advised-nuclear-grain, I got an extra -.
I’m such a meh person that odd order codes make me happy.
/showme ill-advised-nuclear-grain
/giphy ill-advised-nuclear-grain
I might have considered these, however I use a 2 compartment glass bottom set similar to the one one sidedeal (received in an IRK a year ago) happy with it!
Also got a vacuum sealer in my latest boc, haven’t tried it yet.
/giphy equable-imaginary-eagle
edit: bah, never mind
/giphy crass-authentic-lettuce
site doesn’t like me today, getting a 5buckchuck irk was easier
Oh, no wonder this is more expensive than glass; this is medical grade silicone
https://jutionsilicone.com/blog/the-guide-to-platinum-silicone
I’m ordering 6 more of the half gallon ones. I’ve got some already. They are okay. Perfectly appropriate product for meh. I had very high hopes for them but was disappointed with what I got for the very high price. They work okay in the sous vide and okay for leftovers. They aren’t as easy to clean as they were advertised to be. But for the price here, I’ll grab some more. I wouldn’t be too enthused to pay more for them though.
I like the Stasher bags that I have but I have to be honest, I don’t use them as much as the other reusable bags that I have. I feel like they are useful for a limited range of things, so I don’t regret having them, I just wish I hadn’t gotten so many of them. The sandwich size bags in particular end up not being very useful. Mostly because the opening isn’t big enough to fit anything larger than a grilled cheese sandwich in it.
The ones with the wide bottoms I use a lot more often (I keep one rolled up in my bag when I’m out in case I run into a circumstance where I have food I can’t finish and want to take home) and the bowls I literally can’t live without. The bowls are fantastic.
I do really like them for storing items more so than food, though. They’re especially great for protecting things you want to throw in a backpack or purse of any kind.
This is a hell of a price for these though.
These should be better than ziplock and the like, so in for 8x 28oz raspberries and 6x 64oz aquas…
/giphy equanimous-educated-sugarplum
Er… not quite sure why, but this animation is fascinating to me.
@baqui63 It also looks a bit like the baby’s emerging from one of the red bags being sold here!
Why do these smell strongly of magic markers?