Vacu Vin Vacuum Instant Marinater | 
| Brand: Vacu Vin
Buy Used: $39.99
Rating:  82 reviews
Sales Rank: 51008
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 6.6 x 4.2
MPN: 571992
UPC: 084256287729
EAN: 0084256287729
ASIN: B000053U7F
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Condition: In box pretty much brand new in excellent condition with all parts available and no visible stains. Outer cardboard box has a few minor stains. Instructions inside box included. Buy with confidence I only sell quality products. only the very best do I offer for sale.
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| Features:
| • | Perfect for fast marinating and storing meats and vegetables | | • | Operates manually; 40-ounce capacity | | • | Dishwasher-, freezer-, and microwave-safe | | • | Made in Holland | | • | 1-year warranty |
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Product Description
You're having a few friends over for grilled steaks, you've got the salads made, the wine chilling and are just about to fire up the grill when suddenly you realize you never put the meat in to marinate. If you had the Vacu Vin Instant Marinater you'd be right on schedule, as opposed to hyperventilating. All it takes is five measly minutes for this incredible tool to open up the pores and fibers of the food, tenderizing and marinating simultaneously.
Amazon.com Review
The Instant Marinater quickly marinates meats or vegetables, letting you off the hook when you want a flavorful meal but didn't plan ahead. To marinate meat, simply place it with the marinade inside the dish, close the lid tightly, insert the pump, and pull the air out. The vacuum causes the pores of the meat to open, allowing it to quickly absorb the marinade. The Instant Marinater is also great for storing foods, as the vacuum helps keep meat fresh and vegetables crisp. It is freezer-, microwave-, and dishwasher-safe. --Jane DePaolo
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| Customer Reviews: Read 77 more reviews...
 Cool kitchen gizmo October 9, 2001
Patricia (Nyack, NY USA)
63 out of 63 found this review helpful
This falls into the category of non-essential but pretty cool kitchen stuff. My dinners are frequently some type of marinated fish or chicken, but I'm notoriously bad at planning ahead. Sometimes you don't know what you want your protein to taste like until you get home from work and kick your shoes off. So this really makes my life more flexible since I can marinate in a flash. Also, since I'm typically marinating for 1 or 2 servings, the container is really too big (you could probably fit 4-6 servings inside). Easy solution: I just put my 2 servings in a small bowl or tray inside this gizmo, and then pump it up as usual. Does the trick without using up any more marinade than necessary.Can't wait to try the pump (along with the stoppers I bought separately) to keep wine fresher longer. A great idea!
 Great for last-minute cooks July 2, 2002
Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA)
52 out of 58 found this review helpful
If you are like me, you come home having grabbed a pack of chicken breasts while dashing through the grocery store in a total panic on your way home from work. Or you are a master of defrosting that frozen flank steak in the microwave, because you forgot to leave it to thaw as you ran out of the house at 7am with your hindquarters on fire. Needless to say, neither you nor I had the remotest chance to mix up a marinade to give these bland meats some kind of interesting flavor in a leisurely eight hour bath. I have many great marinade recipes, including a killer teriyaki, another favorite that uses tequila and liquid mesquite smoke, and of course, the garlic, olive and lemon one for Lebanese chicken. These recipes are delicious and totally useless to me normally, because I usually forget to plan ahead and actually marianate anything. (I'm lucky if I remember to unwrap them before I slap them on the grill.) Enter the Vacu-vin Marinater. Through the miracle of vacuum, you can cause your marinade to permeate the meat in minutes. It's nice and flat, so fits in the fridge. It's not all that big, again, so it fits, but this can be a problem if you need to make a great deal of marinated foods. Well, you can always batch them up --it only takes a few minutes. This device is really a lifesaver if you are having a grill party and you were so intent on making those little paper lanterns out of paper bags that you forgot to marinate the main dish.
 5 minutes? yeah, right... October 2, 2003
J. Hill (Los Angeles, CA United States)
52 out of 54 found this review helpful
A couple weeks ago, my boyfriend and I found ourselves in exactly the advertised situation for this product (albeit without the guests) -- hadn't planned ahead for dinner and didn't have more than 15 minutes to marinate. Perfect opportunity to give our new insta-marinater a shot. right? We even gave it 20-30 minutes for good measure, but we were still disappointed. The marinade didn't penetrate more than the very outer layer of the chicken (a bone-in breast), maybe the first 1/16". My boyfriend cooks a lot and so do I. We're quite familiar with the taste and characteristics of well-marinated meat. We both agree that the 15 minute marinade thing seems like a lot of hype. Some other reviewers have mentioned 2-3 hour time periods for marinating in this device, I would believe that this might be effective, but 2-3 hours is a long time for a product that claims to completely do away with having to plan ahead. Another issue was with the size/shape of the container. Seems great for steaks or boneless breasts, but the bone-in breast, for example, took some creativity to get submerged in liquid. Seems like the container could have been a little deeper. Or if a deeper one is available, think about buying that one.
And Let There Be Flavor ! September 4, 2002
David Lindamood (Cadillac, Michigan United States)
48 out of 50 found this review helpful
This Vacu Vin Instant Marinater works exactly like it is suppose to work. Creating a vacuum inside the container allows the marinade to penetrate the opened pores of the meat, even more so than if you let the marinade soak for days. A couple of hours is all you need to get a complete marinade effect on your meat.Dishwasher safe is a real plus, easy cleanup of a usually oily product. And as a food storage system, it is even better than as a marinater. Keeping meats or veggies fresh and crisp in the fridge. I really need several of these to do everything that I would want to do. A real boon to my cooking. Chicken, steaks, smaller roast and pork are all tenderized using this product in less than an hour, no more tough meat on the grill! Give it more than an hour, and it is really something else for the family to enjoy!
Good steak and a glass of wine. April 10, 2001
Katerina Kuehler (Cortlandt Manor, NY USA)
41 out of 45 found this review helpful
Yes, it will marinate your chicken or steak and make it tender and delicious in a couple of minutes. I use it frequently and mainly for this. But it will also keep your cold cuts fresh. You can use it for refregirator storage of many different foods. It is made of high quality plastic, it looks great and a pleasure to handle. This kit comes with a pump, I already had one pump from the wine saver. Because I didn't need two pumps, I bought a set of extra plugs for the wine saver and gave one of the pumps and a set of plugs as a gift. Gudgets like this marinator is what makes work in the kitchen a pleasure. Buy one if you like to surround yourself by good looking, quality things.
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