Dave,
A very important thing to remember, dont break the seal of the vacume bag in the freezer. If you shuffle things around it will cause the bag to get a tiny tear and lose the vacume. It's not the machine that causes the leaks, its the guy digging around for something tasty. One way to prevent this is using paper bags with the sealed bags in them, just dont shuffle, take from the top, each paper bag reperesnts a successful trip>>>nice

Dr.