SousVideTools | Senses 300 Deep Chamber Vacuum Sealer | Sous Vide Cooking | 30 cm Bag Sealing Bar | Food Vacuum Machine | Home and Commercial Use

I am really happy with the SousVideTools Senses 300 Chamber Vacuum Sealer. It works very well and is easy to use with its easy to understand settings for vacuum, bag size and heat seal length of time. I was attracted to the manual settings because I prefer this as opposed to relying on automatic settings. The Senses 300 is very well made and is attractive. It looks far less industrial than most of the the other professional grade vacuum chamber sealers. I was considering buying either the SousVideTools® IV2.5 or IV3.0 Deep Chamber Vacuum Sealer but I am very pleased that I bought the Senses 300 one instead.

This item looks good. It pulls a strong vacuum. It would be simple to use. BUT. I had three of them and none of them worked. They all had to go back. I DO NOT recommend you buy this product. Firstly, the sealing bar did not get any more than even slightly warm on any of the units I had meaning that my bags did not get sealed. Secondly, one is supposed to be able to vary the level of the vacuum within the product bag by adjusting the amount of time the vacuum pump runs for. Unfortunately this failed to work on the units I had. Setting the vacuum pump for 1 second failed to stop the pump after one second meaning that the item inside would have gotten crushed when the chamber vacuum was released back to ambient pressure. I have had numerous vacuum packing machines over the years. This is the worst one I have tried. I had hoped it would work because, honestly, it looks pretty good and the build quality, the plastic moulding, the glass lid all seem good. But it was needed to seal bags and not look pretty on the shelf. So 1 star from here.

The machine arrives with the heat sealing bar not fitted. It is in a polythene bag inside the vacuum chamber. The bar is simply lowered over the two round lugs at the front of the machine until they locate on the lower side of the sealing bar. AFAIK, you don't have to press down! I then used the auto "smart vac" feature and the machine worked perfectly. Obviously it's early days but this seems like a quality vacuum packer, and exactly what I expected.

A simple question from the user manual to there support department resulted in an unbelievable answer and still has not been answered. No problem with the product it does all I want but I don't like being given an unbelievable answer.

Good product but no instructions and sealer bags don’t work all the time

Really pleased with the performance of this machine. As you can see you can pack food and flatten out to save space in your freezer. It also then defrosts quickly as it’s so thin. Easy to use a Sharpie pen to date and label the bags. The bags are so much cheaper than the textured bags you have to use with the cheaper machines so you use it a lot more. I’ve even been slicing up the rest of things like lemons then freezing them as the cost of the bag makes it worth it. I hated having food in freezer bags in the freezer. This is so much better just hope it lasts a long time. I paid about £500 for it but just seen it’s on offer for £400 which makes it a great buy.

This is not my first vacuum sealer or my first chamber sealer (I’m a Professional chef). The build quality is really horrible for the price paid. Yes the design is amazing but the quality is horrible. After 20 or so use one of the cathodes or power fingers for the sealing strips melted away (picture included). The machine is now useless. Naturally the first thing I tried is contacting the manufacturer customer support. Surprisingly its the only page that doesn’t work in their whole website!! Never again am I working with this company.

This product boasts an impressive speed when vacuum sealing and is effortless to clean.