Food Vacuum Sealer Instructions
For FoodSaver® V2240

Welcome to Food Vacuum Sealer Instructions.

This is Part 2

(See part 1 here.)

On this page, Part 2, we show you how to PROPERLY PLACE your vacuum-sealer bags on the FoodSaver!

Where to Place Your Bag for Proper Vacuum Sealing

FoodSaver vacuum sealer bag placement

Food Vacuum Sealer Instructions

The photo at the top of the page shows you WHERE TO PLACE the CUT EDGE of your vacuum sealer bag.

The edge of the bag goes right in the center of the black oval vacuum channel.

Hold the bag in place with your fingertips/hands away from the area, then close the lid. (Takes a bit of practice!)

Press the lever down that's on the right side of the machine. This holds the bag in place (see photo farther down the page) so it's ready to have the air drawn out.


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FoodSaver - push the lever down to clamp the bag in place

Smooth Out the Bag's Contents

While the bag is clamped, I smooth out the contents of the bag, making it pretty flat.

Doing this small step reduces bag punctures because when most food dries, it becomes brittle, and sharp.

Smoothing out the bag before vacuum-sealing it makes it much easier to store it later on in the Mylar bags, too.

Now, simply press the dark "vacuum and seal" button.

You'll now experience the air being drawn out of the bag, and this lasts about 6-10 seconds!

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Machine Will Auto-Switch to Seal Mode

The FoodSaver 'seal button' lit

When the vacuuming is finished, you'll see the machine switch over to the "seal" mode—and the seal button will light up in red as shown in the photo.

Let the machine seal the bag and be patient! This takes about 6 seconds.

When you see the light go off, you can now raise the handle (which had locked the lid in place), raise the lid, and remove the vacuumed and sealed bag!

NEXT UP—Important:
For
Mylar Bags Only!

NOTE:
Sometimes we do not need to use the vacuum feature—
such as when we are simply sealing the Mylar bags.

Sealing Mylar Bags

Foodsaver Food Vacuum Sealer V2240 interior

Look at the 'open wide' photo above and you'll see the dark rectangular strip on the bottom, just in front of the oval vacuum-sealer channel. This strip works in conjunction with the upper bar.

The lower strip will be flush against the Mylar bag's bottom when the lid is closed. Just press the SEAL button this time, and your Mylar bag will be sealed with no vacuuming taking place!

As the top bar heats up when the lid is down, the heated bar works to seal the Mylar bag.

Simply place the edge of your Mylar bag beyond the first dark strip (as shown in the first photo on this page)—about an inch is good. There is no need to be in the center of the oval vacuum chamber.

Also, don't be tempted to "shorten" your Mylar bags by cutting off the top. Why? Because when you want to take some of the vacuum-sealed packages out of the Mylar bag, you have to cut off the top of the Mylar bag. Sealing pretty close to the top of Mylar bags leaves you with "room" to vacuum seal the Mylar bag again.

Allow the Heating Strip to Cool Down

Allow the Heating Strip
to Cool Down

When you're vacuuming and sealing a few
plastic vacuum-sealer bags or Mylar bags—
please wait 20 seconds between each sealing
to allow the strip to cool down before re-use!

When you're vacuuming
and sealing a few plastic

vacuum-sealer bags or
Mylar bags— please wait

20 seconds between
each sealing

to allow the strip to
cool down before re-use!


...Back to Regular Vacuum-Sealer Bags:

Green beans before vacuum sealing on the Foodsaver machine

On the Bag Write its Contents and the Date Too


Green beans after vacuum sealing on the Foodsaver machine

I use a black felt-tipped pen for writing the bag's contents and the date on the very top of the bag (above the seal) that I've just vacuumed.

Yes, I know you can see through the bag, but sometimes green beans can be mistaken for peas! :-)

* * *

Thanks for reading our food vacuum sealer instructions; remember, this is part 2.

Click the link to read Part 1 of our food vacuum sealer instructions.

If You Want to be Really Sure it's Sealed, do this:

I'd like to add this that our visitor, Paul, sent in recently. I echo his sentiments.

"When I've vacuum-sealed a bag, I seal it again by moving the bag slightly—and seal again above the first seal—in effect, sealing it twice as a safety measure. Sometimes bags puncture during storage, or the seal may fail. Remember to rotate your stock and check for any 'soft' bags."

— Thanks for writing in Paul!

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