Speeding Food Prep was Re: Inaccurate Taste memories?

[Guest guest]

> Wow, this is SO unnecessary! It's a neat hack, but Tilia makes a

> little plastic widget which fits over a canning jar with only the

> flat insert part of the lid on and vacuum-seals them. When the

> machine is finished, you remove the plastic widget and you can screw

> on the rest of the canning jar lid if you'd like to help keep the

> flat part in place, though it's not entirely necessary.

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I want a foodsaver system/vacuum sealer. I'd love to vacuum-seal ball

jars and the freezer bags I suppose would be useful as well, but I

find the whole thing very confounding, meaning, since I've never seen

one, much less seen one in use, I have no idea of what I'm looking

at/for nor how it works and egad, my poor head aches with incomprehension.

Will you--or somebody--please hold my hand and tell me exactly what I

need to purchase to set myself up? I saw the links to the lids

earlier, but do i need one? or ten? or more? and/or some other

contraption to activate them?

If I buy this:

http://tinyurl.com/8mehs

will I have what I need to get started? Or do I need to accessorize?

tia,

B.