Debbie Meyer Green Bags
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Debbie Meyer Green Bags
Customer Review: check my pictures, judge for yourself
Summary: 2 Stars
edit: I'm going to have to eat some words, since they DID work for my banana test, as you can see from the picture.
I left both the tops open (brown bag and green bag), put them in a cupboard for 8 days, without any wiping or paper towels. It's possible that they're the same ripeness inside, but I haven't eaten them yet.
My tomatoes seem to be at the same level of ripeness still, but I'll post those results as well.
First off, they're not even very well made bags. The zip-tops are flimsy and can tear. The 'large' bags I received were long and narrow, like a tube. No way I could fit a bunch of bananas, maybe two. Nevertheless, I decided to put them to the test by splitting a fresh bag of iceberg lettuce mix. Putting some in a regular ziplock bag and some in the greenbag, I think I actually gave the greenbag the advantage by more lettuce and fewer of the thick white pieces that turn first, so admittedly it's not very scientific. Anyway, I opened each bag every other day and removed some lettuce. By day 12, they both had started turning, and the greenbag wasn't as bad, but that could be for other reasons I mentioned. At best it kept the lettuce fresher for a couple of days longer, nothing more.
I assume that the life expectancy on these bags is because they won't hold up to repeated use, not because they get saturated with this 'gas', but I could be wrong.
I'll be conducting further tests and will also post the results.
Customer Review: If you use it right...not as advertised
Summary: 1 Stars
Boy oh boy, I wish I hadn't wasted my money. The people that give this item 5 stars think about what you are saying...You have to wipe the moisture away....you have to use the right produce....the produce has to be fresh. What on earth are you all excited about? When I bought items before kept them in the bags the come in and washed them right before use, (btw that is how you are suppose to treat fresh food, don't wash them before you store or they will rot) and they would last a fair amount of time.
I guess I should have left this alone, too many rules to follow and by reading some of the TRUE post looks like I wasted my money because my produce from my shopping trip (July 4) are about to go bad. Definetly going to remove them all when I get home if it not too late.
I take fruit to work everyday, put it in a ziploc, into the fridge at work and by the time I get around to eating them at lunch they are mushy, maybe the transfer shocked the fruit not sure.
Remember before you purchase, you will need to wipe the bags out more than once a day on ALL your bags, you are told on the instructions not to close with tie, but to fold them over, they are long skinny bags, etc etc.
I was one of the foolish ones, don't be, those five star folks have way too much time on their hands wiping each and every bag twice a day, and they enjoy mushy veggies and fruit. Me, not much of a fan for either of those task.
BTW, let me point out again like others have before, NO MONEY BACK GUARANTEE!!!!
Customer Review: A lot of hype
Summary: 1 Stars
I've read all the reviews on this product and have to agree with most that it does not work as advertised and is not worth the amount they charge for them.
I put some bananas in the bag and some outside the bag and watched them for a week. The ones inside the bag had fewer brown spots but the insides of each were exactly the same. However, the ones IN the bag molded from the moisture. I put paper towels in there and even tried to wipe it down but I have better things to do than come home and wipe down 10 bags of vegetables every day. Kind of defeats the purpose of the product. The same thing happened with my cherries and other fruits, they all molded within a few days.
I did find that the less moist vegetables did benefit from this. I stored broccoli and cauliflower in the bags and forgot about them in my fridge for 10 or 11 days and when I pulled them out, they were both still crunchy and edible. They had just begun to turn brown.
They advertise as washable and re-usable, but let's get real. Have you ever tried to wash a plastic bag and worse yet, to dry it? It's just not practical and depending on what you had in there, I'm just not sure it's safe to re-use.
I'll just stick with my current method of planning my shopping to buy only what I can use and freezing what I can't. See my review on Packmate 95000 Vacu-Seal Starter Kit with Handheld Vacuum Sealer and Bags.
Customer Review: Use them properly and they work very well
Summary: 5 Stars
Green bags work well if used properly. They don't work at all if you deviate from directions. You can't mix different produce in the same bag. You have to put them in dry and keep them dry. I have found that putting a paper towel in the bag helps. You need to press all the air out of the bag that you can without crushing the product. Things I have found they work well for include potatoes, tomatoes, peppers. For carrots, celery and onions I use the freshness eggs instead. I just toss one in the vegetable bin with them, and they do stay fresher longer. I did not find them overly helpful with bananas, but my mother in law uses them for bananas all the time. She puts green bananas in the bag and takes them out one at a time to ripen. I think the color change in the bags that someone else noted is a cue that the bags are losing their effectiveness. I know the Glad green bags I bought lost their green much faster than Debbie Myer bags, but they were more convenient and easy to use with the zipper. Only one size in them though.
I use green bags and vacuum seal bags both. Each work better for some products than the other. For example, berries seem to do better vacuum packed in a container than they do in green bags. If you use fresh produce alot, and on a daily basis, they really help save money. If you put produce in them and forget it for a week or two, especially produce with a high moisture content, they don't work so well.
Customer Review: I know some say they don't do anything, but they work in my kitchen!
Summary: 5 Stars
I belong to a veggie co-op, and get veggies every two weeks. I never know what I'm going to get until a few days before, and so storage is important (while I figure out what to do with bok choy!). These bags work. I don't know how, I don't know what the gimmick is, or the science, but I can tell you that before I started using them, I threw out a bunch of veggies every two weeks (from the previous batch), and now, man, sometimes I can't even tell which ones are the new and which ones are the old.
I mean it - they work that well for me. Especially on greens. I have lettuce in the drawer in a green bag right now that I KNOW is over 2 weeks old, and it's still crisp and fresh. That never used to happen.
I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't started using them. And I'm not sure how one reviewer found that even though they look good, they're rotton on the inside - that has NOT happened to me at all.
I mean, it - I have month-old carrots in there that I can't tell from the ones I got today. Still crunchy and still snap when you bend them.
And I DO reuse them, and have not seen any decline in their effectiveness, even after washing several times. The only time I chuck them is if, once in a while, something does eventually go bad in them. (Hey, it happens to the best of us.) I don't reuse those - I just throw them away.
I use these bags, and I'll never stop.