Buy It And Try It: Cold Cut Bags

The Debbie Meyers Cold Cut Bags claim to keep cold cuts fresh longer.
Let's test them out.

After we put the Debbie Meyers Green Bags to the test at the culinary
management program here at Consumnes River College last year, the
Green bags have been a hit. Now we're back to test the cold cut
version.

"The cold cuts, I'm a little worried of," said Professor Cynthia
Torres. "Personally, I wouldn't eat cold cuts two weeks later."

She says this type of meat normally lasts three to five days after
being opened, so the image on the box showing the bags keeping meat
fresh for 14 days makes her nervous.

She decided she'll take three packages of meat – roast beef, ham and
salami -- half of which will stay in the original packaging, and the
other half will go into the red Cold Cut Bags.

Torres says the Cold Cut Bags are thicker and coarser than regular
plastic bags. Following the directions, we put one type of meat in
three different bags, take the air out, and seal it with its zip lock.

Into the refrigerator our samples go. We return about a week and a half later.

How did it do? We start with the roast beef in the original packaging…
which now has a green tint.

Did the Cold Cuts Bag do any better? After smelling and scanning it,
Professor Torres says no: It's also spoiled.

"This one is more translucent and more green," she says.

On to the ham: The meat in the original packaging looks okay, but has
a foul odor telling her it's no good.

What about the ham in the Cold Cuts Bag?

"It's really wet, which is weird to me," Torres says. She thinks it's worse.

Let's check the salami. The original packing left the meat "slimy,"
and the red bags don't fare any better.

"Same thing, it's got slime," she says.

She wouldn't eat any of the meat. She checked it all during our test,
claiming the cold cuts all went bad at the same time, which is too
bad, because she had high hopes after seeing the success of the Green
Bags which worked well on fruits and vegetables.

I paid $9.95 for 12 reusable bags and bought them at AsSeenOnTVGuys.com.