The 2.5 quart instant marinater has been been one of our favorites for the past few months, and, while the product is far from perfect, we recommend it for everyday home use. If the product has one major advantage it’s speed: you can use it to marinate food quickly with its vacuum seal that allows you to season food more quickly. For its price, it’s unusually reliable – the polycarbonate design is dishwasher safe and is designed to last for years. Weighing just over 1.5 pounds, it’s ideal for short or long term food storage.
Designed to help the food enhance its natural flavor, with a vacuum seal, as well as enhancing the flavor with a spiced marinade, the product worked great on our recipes. At just under $40 it’s a pretty solid value compared to higher end products on the market. Vacu Vin isn’t a high end brand but the product flat out works, so we’ll happily choose it over more established brands that cost into the hundreds. One drawback is that is can only hold a limited volume, so if you’re preparing large meals you’ll have to purchase multiple products to ensure that you can marinated everything you need to. Vacu Vin did increase the volume from the previous generation and you can now fit larger roasts, but big family holiday meals will still not quite meet the capacity requirements.
In our tests, we stored food overnight and had great results with Vacu Vin, which retained all of the flavor and freshness. Probably the best feature is that it’s entirely dishwasher safe, which is great for those who are weary of hand cleaning after a solid marinade is complete – the good news is that it comes out solidly clean after washing. We used the previous model for years, and gladly upgraded to the new Vacu Vin. The company is known to stand behind its products and is quick to respond to inquiries, so we can recommend the product to our readers.
