I like to take photos to indicate how one thing works. So immediately, it’s about Dicorain™, a brand new method to vacuum seal bottled meals. A few of you have been asking me about this Dicorain™. Ray talked about it in a remark, and I made a decision to purchase and check out it. Matt talked about I ought to put up about it, so right here we go, my buddies. Please have in mind I bought this merchandise myself.
Not all meals might be safely vacuum-sealed, so let’s focus on that. This unit is much like a FoodSaver however with out the machine. You need to use it to take away the air from sure meals in a container to increase their shelf life. However keep in mind, some meals ought to nonetheless be within the fridge or freezer.
I’m a Grasp Canner Preserver, and I’m cautious about how I retailer my meals. I observe the USDA pointers. Take a look at my archive of posts to examine meals gadgets that shouldn’t be canned; they aren’t protected, despite the fact that you could have a buddy or neighbor who says in any other case. I observe the motto: “Higher protected than sorry” when canning and storing meals.
I’m undecided the USDA has something to say about utilizing a FoodSaver, however most of us know what we are able to and may’t placed on the cabinets when utilizing a FoodSaver or Dicorain. A few of you’ll use oxygen absorbers, and I don’t. I additionally don’t dwell the place it’s humid. It’s a private resolution. I haven’t saved my home made dehydrated meals for a couple of yr.
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How To Use The Dicorain Vacuum-Sealer
Dicorain: Contents In Field
The unit is available in a comparatively small field. It accommodates the sealer unit, a USB Kind-C twine to cost its rechargeable battery, a lid opener, an instruction booklet, and a few common and wide-mouth mason jar lids that can assist you get began. You might wish to hold the field to retailer the unit and its equipment simply when not in use.
Earlier than utilizing the Dicorain, you want to cost the battery. The contents image exhibits the Kind-C cable plugged into the highest of the unit after which right into a wall outlet utilizing a USB transformer (not included). The cable is designed for a USB transformer or your USB-capable laptop computer. If absolutely discharged, recharging the unit might take over two hours. The LED display screen on prime exhibits the proportion cost till it reaches 100%. It’s urged that you simply recharge the unit when it will get close to the 20% cost stage so it’ll work for the venture you’re at the moment doing.
Dicorain: The Pink Line on the Proper Reveals the Locked Place
The unit is designed to hoover seal each common and wide-mouth mason jars. When within the locked place, it is able to vacuum seal the regular-mouth jar lid. To take away the decrease part of the unit to entry the wide-mouth sealing converter, you flip the decrease part counterclockwise.
Dicorain: The Unlocked Place of the Unit is to the Left
You possibly can pull the 2 sections aside when you line up the pink line with the image of the “lock” with the latch open. This now permits you entry to the silicone sealing ring that gives vacuum sealing for the large-mouth lids.
Dicorain: Common Measurement Jars
This image exhibits the unit with each sections intact and able to seal the regular-size lid. Regardless of which dimension lid you’re putting on a jar, make sure the jar opening and the silicone seal of the Dicorain are clear.
Dicorain: Filling Jars With Funnel
My kitchen has many devices, together with a funnel to assist me fill mason jars. It really works with each common and wide-mouth jars and makes filling them simple with out spilling. For finest outcomes for sealing, fill the jars with the meals product as much as the slender a part of the jar, and earlier than reaching the lid ring threads, as proven beneath.
Dicorain: Vacuum Sealing a Vast Mouth Jar
This image exhibits the unit with the regular-mouth jar sealer part faraway from the unit and the unit firmly seated on prime of the crammed wide-mouth jar. If not firmly seated, the vacuum can’t seal fully, and also you’ll should attempt once more. When each sections are related, you carry out the identical steps when sealing the regular-mouth jars.
Dicorain: USB Port and On/Off Button
The highest of the unit has an LED show space with a light-weight within the center. The sunshine exhibits the variety of seconds the unit has used to seal the lid as soon as to push the On/Off button. Each dimension lids ought to take 30-40 seconds to finish the job, and 40 seconds is really useful. It’s going to routinely shut off when full. You activate the vacuum sealer by pushing the On/Off button on the other facet of the unit’s prime. You possibly can flip off the sealing course of by urgent the button, however by doing so, you’ll intrude with the sealing course of.
Whereas charging, the LED gentle exhibits the proportion cost. When you push down the button for a number of seconds, it’ll present the remaining cost when it isn’t plugged in.
Dicorain: Put A Lid On Jar
After all, you seal the jar with the lid earlier than placing the jar ring on. Once more, make sure the lid and the jar opening are clear and freed from any particles from filling the jar with the meals product.
Dicorain: Flip It On To Seal
Right here, you see the variety of seconds the unit has been working as soon as the ON/Off button is activated.
Dicorain: Vacuum Sealed Jar
With each Ball and Kerr jar lids, the vacuum seal has succeeded as a result of the lid’s center is recessed. If the lid’s center continues to be upright, you have to repeat the sealing course of. If it nonetheless hasn’t labored, you could have a defective lid that must be discarded.
Dicorain: Vacuum Sealed Jars with Rings
When you’ve accomplished the vacuum sealing course of, put the jar rings on the jars to assist maintain the lid in place. It could assist if you happen to didn’t should tighten them greater than a finger tight.
Please notice: When water bathing or strain canning meals, after 24 hours, you take away the rings.
Dicorain: Eradicating Lids
When it comes time to make use of the meals product, you should use the offered lid remover or a daily handbook bottle opener you utilize for soda bottles.
What You Can Vaccum Seal
The Dicorain can vacuum seal just about any meals merchandise. This unit isn’t designed to seal your mason jars for long-term meals storage. I plan to make use of it for shorter-term storage of things I’ll hold in my fridge or pantry. In immediately’s put up, the meals you see within the jars is a few freeze-dried meat from a #10 can that bought broken in our current transfer. I put it in a few jars and retailer it within the fridge over the subsequent few weeks till I determine to make use of the meals in a recipe.
- Recent Fruits: like strawberries, blackberries, or blueberries (refrigerate)
- Grapes: Fridge
- Carrots and Celery: Fridge
- Shredded Cheese: Fridge or freezer
- Lettuce: Fridge
- Pasta: Pantry
- Nuts: Pantry or freezer (I freeze all my nuts)
- Stacked Salad: Fridge
- Popcorn: Pantry
- Cornmeal: Freezer
- Pancake Combine: Fridge or Freezer
Precautions for Secure Use
Some issues to think about for protected and correct use:
- Absolutely cost the unit earlier than every use.
- Don’t attempt to sanitize the unit or any equipment by working them in your microwave.
- Please don’t put the unit or elements in a dishwasher or submerged in liquids like your sink. Wash with a humid material.
- Don’t clear the unit or the silicone rings with metal wool, abrasive cleaners, or corrosive liquids.
- Don’t have moist arms when plugging the USB twine into the unit, laptop computer, or wall outlet.
- The unit comes with a 6-month guarantee.
Closing Phrase
What I like about this unit is the worth and comfort. I can get it out and make it way more accessible than my Meals Saver unit with the wanted vacuum seal equipment. Most of us have mason jars, which you should use broad or regular-mouth jars. This offers us yet one more method to protect our meals. Please do not forget that your vacuum seal should be refrigerated or positioned within the freezer for some of your meals. Could God Bless this World, Linda
