New Product Reviews

I saw the Frisper at Linens n’ Things but they only had one there, on display, but I was intrigued by it and the more I looked at it, the more I liked it. So I ordered my Frisper from Amazon and it came overnight.

As you can see by the photo, it’s a small little countertop kitchen appliance and it is basically a vacuum bag sealer for food. It’s a hefty little doodad with a massively-heavy transformer (the big plug for the wall). I mention this because fortunately it’s not polarized; if so, it would not work for me as the weight of it pulled it right out of my top socket. I had to redo my outlet and plug it the other way around into the bottom outlet. In fact, it’s so heavy I actually just weighed it to show y’all how heavy it is. Here is it in grams and ounces — 15.6 ounces and 44.2 grams!!!

Using it was pretty simple. Plug it in. Put in the food and zip up their bags (you can only use their bags; more on that later on). There are about 6 little green circles on the bag.

You open up your Frisper and place the circle in the right place, an orange circle. It’s not hard to do but placement must be perfect. Once in place you push down and let her rip! It does the work for you, and it’s pretty loud! It sucks out all the air and when the light turns green, it’s done. You just push the button on the side to open it up and remove the bag. If the heat seal isn’t perfect, there are direction on how to reseal the bag, and yes, you can do that. You can unzip, remove food and then reseal, too. Good thing as the bags are not cheap!

The box of 20 quart size replacement bags bags was $9.99. I didn’t even price the gallon size bags as I don’t use them. But they have them at Amazon for $9.99 for 14 gallon-sized bags. Now, the bags ARE large and made of a thick plastic … and can be reused. 50 cents each may not seem like a lot but I’m sure that can add up if you do a lot of freezing foods like I do.

Of course, I do have the Handi-Vac and the bags are MUCH cheaper, but it does take a lot longer to extract the air, it’s not easy to do all the time (tough lining up exactly) plus the batteries are a pain to change, well, you can read that in my other review.

On a scale of 1-10 I’d give the Frisper Freshkeeper system. a 9 and that’s only due to the cost of the bags. Well, the unit was $80 but it’s not one of those big, bulky units that takes up a ton of counter space. In fact, I’m going to say 9.5 because you can stick this in a kitchen drawer (I do have some deep drawers) and the storage bags are easily stored.

The price of food is crazy right now and if you’re like me, when there is a sale, you stock up. But it’s crazy to spend good money only to open packages of food with freezer burn due to store packaging. In the long run this will pay for itself.

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