Hi everyone. Welcome back to Chefmartyrich.com. Today I’m shooting in the kitchen. I had a question from someone who watched a video that I did a couple of days ago about meeting a woman in the grocery store and I shared with her cooking for one. I had a package of chicken thighs and said that you could portion them into three packs of two and freeze two of the packages and that would be an economical way to cook for one. So today I’m going to demonstrate a Food Saver system that I talked about. And that is what the call was all about. She didn’t know what the Food Saver system was. So I am going to show you real quick right here. This is the Food Saver system, my model. It comes in a lot of different models. It has a few controls on it here. This port here is for vacuum sealing. There are settings for moist food, dry food and automatic sealing. We open it up here and these are the bags. There is a handy slicer to slice the bags to a particular size that you want it for. A vacuum channel here and a sealing strip. You just pull the bag out here and I probably need about this much. I am going to seal all four actually just to show you how to do it. Then this slicing piece comes across. Put this down here across the sealing strip and turn the little safety handle to lock it in. Press ‘Seal’ and it seals the end of the bag. It only takes about 10 seconds or so. I tend to seal the ends twice just in case, especially if there is liquids in there. Pretty quick! The machine is just wonderful. It keeps your food from getting freezer burn and that is a good thing. It extends the life of your food. We will just put three in the bag. Put it in here, right into the sealing trough there. Close the lid. Press ‘Vacuum and Seal’. And there it goes! It makes a little noise but it takes out all the oxygen out of the package which cuts down on your bacteria growth. It cuts down on mold. It keeps it from freezer burning. Like I said before I like to seal it twice. And there you have it!

Now a lot of times you will see recommendations that things are only stored for three or four months, but this will stay in there beautifully for a year. Once you take the air out of it you are all good. I’ve got to go and catch the phone, so come on back tomorrow and we will have another tip for you. Thanks.