ALDI Vacuum Food Sealer Questions & Answers (page 3 of 3)

You may not be inserting the bag far enough into the vacuum chamber. Also make certain that you press the vacuum and seal switch. Sometimes if the edge of the bag has some residue of whatever it is you are wanting to pack it stops the bag from making a tight seal particularly if it is "wet" food suck as meat products. What I do is to run a folded piece of absorbent paper between the edges of the bag. You also need to make certain you that use the normal setting for "wet" products otherwise all the air will not suck out. It's a bit of trial and error at first but once you iron out the "teething" problems it works great. Took me a few times to get it right. Hope I've been of help. Cheers.

I've never done it but I would have to say "no". I assume you are talking about crisps and if you are I should imagine you would wind up with potato crumbs even if you used the gentle setting. Hope it helps.

My sister has a sealer that you don't suck the air out you just seal the bag after every use.

I use my Aldi- Sealer to seal potato chip bags. I push the air out with my hands and hit the seal only button. In fact some bags will not vacuum, but may seal. I also use it the same way on tortillas and other stuff. Works on some and not on others. I do not seal of very flimsy bags, because I'm scared the bag might melt.
I don't know if you would void your warranty using it on chip bags, but my machine is well out of warranty and I have pretty much always seal the chips, crisp bags.

PS. If you are talking about frozen french fries, it will not work if the bag is too cold or too wet.
I hope this helps

I've never encountered that problem before, sounds like a fault.
One thing i would do when sealing potentially wet items would be to press the vac/seal button but manually press the "seal only" once the air was out as often with wet items it would pull fluid through preventing it from sealing.

Mine has started to act the same way after about five years. Research shows it is due to the gaskets mounted in the two halves not sealing. Trying to find out where to buy the spare gaskets!

I don't really have an answer to this. I stocked up when Aldi had a second run. I was wondering myself whether any brand is compatible, I should imagine it all would be a similar type of material and the process should work the same way. Just surmising. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Although they are more expensive I have been able to use my Aldi vacuum sealer with sunbeam food saver bags. I have also used some that I bought on ebay. I don't remember who I bought them off. They worked.
Maily like Louie I always make sure to stock up when Aldi is selling the bags. Last time I bought 4 double boxes of the 5 metre rolls. If I use the bags for dry, non-greasy or packaged goods I reuse them.

Kmart $15 for two large rolls!

they don't come with a hose as far as I know. I've never used jars with my machine so can't help with that either

I live in Australia and mine came with a hose. In fact the one I bought 3 1/2 years ago, also, came with a hose. Also came with one vacuum wine sealer cap. I have seen some on eBay that look like they would work.
The vacuum sealer I bought 3 1/2 years ago is now in our camper van. I just bought a new one a couple of weeks ago. They seem very similar, although the first was a lumina and the new one was an Ambiano.

I've bought them on eBay, but make sure you get the ones with ribbing on them, smooth bags don't work in the lumina machine. Aldi have them on sale periodically as well, and I think you can get them at Myer etc, in their appliance section.

I saw them a month or so ago, but not since, they go pretty quickly you can get the eurolab ones on deals direct, they're alright as well,

I have seen some last week at BANKSTOWN here in Sydney.. Look around., ur local store may have some still