Vacuum Sealing Mylar Bags... The Easy Way! Please read the description about oxygen absorbers 

THANK YOU! I just got into Mylar bag storage and can never get enough air out before ironing. I looked at my vacuum sealer and thought this has to work somehow, let’s go to RU-vid and look. You sir, saved me some grief. Worked like a charm. Thanks again and subd

TYFS! My husband passed 09/22/21 and had purchase a box of Mylar bags from Amazon and I was going to put them in my yard sale (this spring) and I had a thought to go on RU-vid and research food savers and Mylar bags and found your video! Will definitely give this a try. 🤗

Most excellent presentation. Professional quality!! Very informative, excellent audio, camera work and information. Best I have seen out of hundreds! Keep on keeping on.

You Sir are a genius! I've been battling this for days. Thank you so much. It all made perfect sense.

I played the video at 2 times speed. Great idea using the vac bag strips

I was going to return and purchase a different sealer before I watched this video. Thanks this helped a lot

Fantastic! You helped me so much with this. It's easy-peasy once you know the trick.

I am just starting to get into dehydrating food and storage for emergency purposes.. And this is just brilliant I will use vaccum sealer bags with oxygen bag in but this just gives extra protection for long life brilliant

Best one I've seen so far! Thank you so much for sharing!

Terrific! Thanks for taking the time to make this comprehensive tutorial.

This is the greatest idea I’ve heard of. THANK YOU.

HOORAY!! a use for the leftovers and little bits!!! always hated throwing that away! this is super to know!

Definitely the best method that I have seen on YT.

Very comprehensive, and obviously very effective. Good tips BPH! (StratMaster)

Thank you for this. I was frustrated with my sealer and this works really well. I was going to buy one that would seal mylar bags so you saved my $400.

This is very helpful, especially appreciate where you take the time to explain why the suction does not occur due to no path the air can take and how to solve for it. thanks!

You did an outstanding job explaining that process! It's very valuable knowledge thank you so much

I was today years old and learned something new. This old dog thanks you!

Thank you for the detailed video. I appreciate the close ups.

Great video. My husband just suggested today to go this route. For my bigger buckets (5 gallon), I use my vacuum. I sanitize the crevice attachment and use my hair straightener to seal the Mylar, sealing the path were the tool was as I take it out of the bag. Not glamorous but it works.

just ordered my vac seal, Mylar bags and food saver rolls. Thanks for the video!

When the two plastic strips are placed into the mylar bag only insert them to just above the heat strip. When sealing you will only be sealing the mylar and not the added strips.

Thank you for the excellent step-by-step video.

Thank you so much for this hack!! I LOST MY MIND when the sealer wouldn't draw. I went and purchased a New Cooler & More Groovy vac/sealer ONLY to find it DIDN"T WORK EITHER. Lucky I found this post and also lucky I was able to return the New Cooler & More Groovy vac/sealer. This also made it so that I did not have to use my more expensive 1/2 Gallon bottles to stow food. Again thank you very much. I will share this information.

I am going to give this a try tonight. Thank you for the great tip!

I just ordered the textured mylar bags off of amazon. Came in a 16’ roll. Thanks for the tip!

Thank you so much for putting this video together and sharing it great work my friend, kind regards Roy

Thank you for this very helpful hack. It will save me a lot of time.

Brilliant Thankyou .i 🙏🏼 you win the lottery for your kindness taking the time to make this video good luck🙏🏼🤞🏁

Excellent! I was creating a community emergency food pantry and have been studying all this, OTR ratings, oxygen absorber sizing, etc. Thank you!

Nice tip I hope this works for me when I try later. Thanks

Thank you for sharing your video.. We recently purchased some growguard mylar bags on amazon and was looking for a video on proper storage techniques.

Hey man, thanks a lot for this. Works great! What a great idea

Cleaver wway to make this work! We just got a vacumm sealer and were wondering if sealing mylar bags would work. Welp... You just answered our question! Thanks for this tip! - Brian + Erin

For powders I put them into a brown (or white) paper bag then into foodsaver or mylar bag this avoids the danger of powder being sucked into machine

Thank you for the tip, much appreciated!

Awesome video. Was annoyed when I was trying to vac and heat seal some mini mylar bags and was worried I needed more equipment or materials. Thanks!

Thank god i watched this video. I was about to buy a medical auction unit. Usually my foodsaver hose attachment can suck the air out really good. But couldn't with oats and grains. Not strong enough. You saved my ass in the future lol.

Great idea, thank you for sharing, I look at your video cause I am sealing food with mylar bag and I was doing powder milk, it happens that I have many pieces of sealer bags, thank you very much for your video.

Thanks for a great tip. We were successful with it. Thanks again!

Works great. Thanks for the Tip. Greetings from Germany. 🙂

Thanks for solving the problem for us. I will be testing it out over the next week, once my new oxygen absorbers arrive, I only have 50cc on hand for my jars at present.

Thank you ! I just bough the machine and felt like I am about to bash my head against the wall trying to vacuum mylar bags. I will be trying your trick and add my own twist. I am anyway doing double seal as I fill the bags too full and the mounth often gets wrinkled. So I'll do you trick and cut off excess from the inner seal then I'll seal (w/o vacuum) again outer seal without the plastic.

Just ran into your channel and thought I’d subscribe! Trying to decide what kind of vacuum sealer to get, within our budget.

New subscriber. I just got 10 cat litter buckets and need to order some mylar bags. Thanks for the tips

Thank you for the hack.

Great idea cheers Graham

Thank you for sharing the tips, just what I was looking for

Very cool. I didn't want to buy a more expensive machine to seal mylar bags. Apparently I need to use a mylar bag to store rice. I'm quite good with scissors!

This was so helpful I’ll be doing this to my rice today

Wow! Genius hack, Thanks.

Thank You for a great video and valuable information

New sub. New to prepping. That's great! Thank you for the info. I was just wondering if inserting a textured piece of a vacuum sealable bag into all the smooth mylar bags I've purchased would "do the trick" the - vac and seal. Thank you for proving it dies work withou me havubg to exoeriment and reinvent the wheel. You and your family enjoy your Easter holiday weekend, this Lent and Passove season and all the renewing and newness Spring brings. ps - I'm about to watch you updated info on sealing mylar bags that was on an I card in this video. God bless you and yours and all your subs. Amen.

A great help, many thanks brother. Appreciated. 👍

Excellent!! Thanks for the helpful tip!

Thankyou sir - you have made my day👍

Very useful video. Thank you

The OCD in me would have to trim those tabs flush after sealing!

Great explanation. Thanks.

Thank you, it worked well.

great tips! Thank you~

Thanks, blessings to you

Nice work. Thanks!

Thank you very much for the video :)!

That is genius! Thank you so much.👍

i love it! still applicable today

Thanks man! Cheers from Poland!

Great thinking. Awesome

You're awesome, man! Thanks a million!

Some people may ask or think, why would I even use mylar bags over regular vacuum sealer bags. Something that is not talked about by these companies is that if you pull a hard enough vacuum on something, like 28" Hg +, two things happen to most materials. They begin to outgas (literally molecules of the material start to "break off" and permeate the vacuumed space) and eventually oxygen/air starts to permeate through the material to the inside, as well. There are not many materials out there that don't outgas and that can hold a medium to hard vacuum for a very long time. Plastics are particularly bad with this, minus teflon and Kapton. But teflon requires a very high heat to melt and when it does, it releases toxic fumes. Kapton requires a ridiculously high heat to melt. But metals on the other hand, particularly aluminium and some steels are very good at not outgassing and holding a vacuum for a very long time. In other words, mylar bags should, theoretically, hold a better vacuum over a longer time than regularly vacuum sealer bags. Because the Al is encased in the plastic, you will still experience some outgassing, but the Al layer will make it much harder for outside oxygen/air to permeate through to the inside. I had to learn all this stuff, because I'm less interested in vacuuming sealing for food, but more because I'm using one to make vacuum insulated panels. Personally, after sealing a mylar bag with this or other methods, I would go ahead and get some Al tape (sold for HVAC duct work etc), and fold it over the end of the seal, just as an extra barrier in case it didn't seal completely well.

Thank you !! Great video

Great video. Thanks

Great info! I don’t have anything but the zip lock standing Mylar bags (on sale:) and need a solution. Thx! I did not know any of this.

Thank You! Great video!!

Great idea

Thank for this information

Great hint! Thanks!

Thank you for posting

Thank you! Doing this today!!!

Great info!

Nice job thanks.

I've used this method as many times and it works good. Problem is most home vacuum Packers especially the food saver are not designed to seal that thick and rigid mylar bags and it burns out the ceiling unit on the vacuum Packers, especially the food savers. And once you burn it out you have to buy another one because trying to buy parts and fix it is virtually impossible. I quit doing this and I now just use large size oxygen absorbers and accomplish the same thing with my curling iron

Very nice. Thank you.

Excellent! Thanks so much!

I do not know much about this stuff. I would think this would lower the integrity of the mylar down to normal sealer bag quality. I do not know what the internal surface of the mylar bag is. Using an iron further down to seal the mylar together afterwards might correct for this. I appreciate your post. Good stuff. Your get a thumbs up fella.

Brilliant!

I'm researching the "best for the money" foodsaver - which is quite overwhelming. I would like the feature you mentioned (separate vacuum/seal button). Do you have any recommendations? Thank you so much.

Great video my friend!! 🙏

Brilliant! Thank you!

thanks

Thank you so much!

Interesting, thank you I will give this a shot :-)

Thank you 😊

Thankyou.

Thank you.

Brilliant Sir!!!!! Thank you!

Brilliant

Genus move!

You’re a genius

Thank you! 👍👍