All About Vacuum Sealing Machines! - Innovate BLOG

The innovation I have chosen to research is vacuum sealing machines. Vacuum sealing machines are a very helpful and useful tool when working in a kitchen. Prior to the machines invention, vacuum sealing was done to protect the food of families and soldiers that had gone off to war. German engineer Karl Busch, invented the first industrial sized vacuum sealer in 1963 and now they are a staple seen in most professional kitchens all around the world. Vacuum sealing is the process of removing the oxygen from the food, to make it last much longer. The reason for this is because when oxygen is prevalent, microorganisms and bacteria can grow, causing the food to mold or go bad, but when the oxygen is removed this either doesn’t happen or takes much longer time to happen. The food is placed in specific bags and placed into the machine, when the lid is closed the oxygen will be taken out of the bag and you will be left with a tightly sealed bag of food, with all of the oxygen sucked out. Nowadays, vacuum sealing has manual settings, touch screens, double or triple chambers and come in multiple different sizes. This innovation directly has helped me because we use these nearly every day in the restaurant I am working at and it makes us able to cook large batches of food and seal and freeze it until later use. Without this, we would be making smaller batches more often which takes much more time than making a large batch, putting the food into bags and sealing and freezing them. While vacuum sealing is great for solid foods, it can also be done for sauces, purees or other liquids. Using these machines requires someone to be filling the bags, placing them in the machine and closing the lid, meaning it isn’t automatic, but doesn’t need a lot of work to get the job done. Vacuum sealing machines are a very innovative product and have changed how cooks all around the world safely store their food.

1st photo from:

https://omcan.com/product/turbovac-heavy-duty-vacuum-packaging-machine-with-13-seal-length-and-16-m%C2%B3-vacuum-pump/

2nd photo from: my time at The Chefs House, we were marinating and vacuum sealing pineapple for our Adobo.

Work cited:

Karl Busch (engineer). (2014, April 18). Retrieved November 17, 2021, from https://second.wiki/wiki/karl_busch_ingenieur.

Becky. (2021, March 4). The history of vacuum packing. First Food Machinery. Retrieved November 17, 2021, from https://www.firstfoodmachinery.co.uk/history-vacuum-packing/.