Vacu Vin Food Saver Refill 1.3 Liter

Product Features

• Use with a Vacu Vin pump (not included) to pull out air.
• Stores over a pound of coffee
• 1.3 Liter or holds over a pound
• Dishwasher safe

From the Editors

The vacuum storage container preserves food by keeping out air and light to keep food fresh. Tinted container protects from harmful effects of light and seals out air to preserve taste and crispness.
Product Description

Customer Response

Leaks Air!
I was very disappointed in this product. I have another one that I bought two years ago which works just fine. I bought the second one to keep a different variety of coffee in and it wouldn't seal, no matter how carefully I tried. Darn! Hopefully VacuVin will come up with an improved product to replace this one; their wine stoppers work great.

Great idea, poor implementation!
I bought this item to store cereal and coffee as we've had trouble with those little pantry moths. The concept was great and my Dad & I were both very excited to try the product. The problem is that this product is just not user friendly and not easy to use.
The first time my Dad, who is 80, tried to vacuum seal the top, he broke the lid. Since I had 2 lids, we swapped the lid out and then I would vacuum out the air out of the container. I had trouble with the lid, too. Getting the pump placed just right and then "fiddling" would commence until the pump was in the appropriate placement before air removal commenced. This morning my dad again attempted to seal and vacuum the air out of the cereal container, again, with no luck.
I don't recommend this product. It's not user friendly and requires an awful lot of work to get it to function the way it's supposed to work.

The best that I could find...
for storing coffee (or other perishables) these really are great. I have used other storage containers (most recently, those made by Oxo - not inexpensive, and despite the impressive lids, not airtight) and these seem the be the best. They can be a bit of a chore to pump - it is much easier to pump out a wine bottle! And this is why I give them only 4 stars. They are just too big. I buy coffee freshly roasted, typically in 1/2 pound lots. There is already a lot of extra space in the containers with this amount of coffee, only getting larger as I use the coffee from day to day. Lots and lots of pumping. I think a 0.9 liter or 0.7 liter would be ideal (or a pump with a larger barrel, hence fewer pumps needed to create the vacuum). Also, the lids fit on in a slightly tricky way, so it is important to make sure you have it just right. But, my coffee stays really fresh, with no discernible coffee odor leaking out of the container (unlike OXO) and so I would say this is a great product that could use a little tweaking. On a purely cosmetic note, different colors would be nice - that would help in differentiating which coffee is which - perhaps different colored lids could be offered. They do seem to be very solidly made, good heavy materials, so they should last a long time, which is only fair given the price.

Works Nicely
This does exactly what it says. It creates a vacuum to keep food fresh. This product does not come with the pump though, so make sure you get that if you need it.
The tinted plastic supposedly reduces harm from sunlight. Looks good to me.

Old Vacu Vin was better!
I liked the old style canisters that were produced. The new canister is hard to grasp and they feel clumsy when handling them. Also, my old pump works with the new snout, but I cannot tell if the seal is vacuum tight. I hope they decide to return to the old straight canister soon.

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