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HANDLING OF VACUUM SEALED PACKAGES
•
Do not heat any vacuum-packed food in the bag. The bag may explode!
Additionally, the material of the bags will melt, spoiling your food.
Always
take your food out of the bag, before heating it.
•
Also, avoid heating food within the vacuum containers to avoid spoiling your
food and damaging the container. Additionally, vacuum containers could
burst when exposed to high temperature.
Nevertheless, when using vacuum
containers for heating food, always remove the lid first. You may place the con-
tainer into a bain-marie (pot with hot water) for warming the contents.
• With some vacuum containers, heating in the microwave oven is possible.
Before
placing your vacuum container in the microwave oven, ensure that the contai-
ner material is microwave-safe
, indicated via the microwave symbol or an appro-
priate information on the container. Remove the lid, before heating the container.
However, to maintain the endurance of the container, it is better to transfer your food
into another microwave-safe container for heating, because even microwave-safe
plastics will get brittle when exposed to microwave radiation repeatedly.
• Direct sunlight could spoil your food or cause an unappetizing appearance.
Also, foils/bags and plastic containers do not tolerate direct sunlight indefinitely.
Thus, ALWAYS store foils/bags and containers in a dark, cool place.
STORAGE GUIDE
Important:
It is difficulty to predict how long foods will keep their quality, flavour,
appearance, or texture with vacuum packaging, because this depends on the
type, date of production, and state of the food on the day it was vacuum packa-
ged. Consider the following tables as a rule of thumb.
Food
Refrigerator + 3 to + 7 °C
Freezer – 16 to – 20 °C
Normal
Vacuum
Normal
Vacuum
Meat
2 - 3 DAYS
8 - 9 days
3 - 5 months
1 year
Seafood and fish
1 - 3 days
4 - 5 days
3 - 5 months
1 year
Cooked meat
4 - 6 days
10 - 14 days
Vegetables
3 - 5 days
7 - 10 days
Fruit
5 - 7 days
14 - 20 days
Eggs
10 - 15 days
30 - 50 days
