The cost for a machine that vacuum-packs food has dropped to a level where you have to wonder: What if I had one in the house? Vacuum-packaging systems keep food fresh by extracting the air around an ...

Fresh air can be pretty bad for your coffee beans. Good beans come vacuum-packed to keep them from oxidizing and becoming bitter. But once you've opened that bag, you've pretty much doomed whatever ...

The pfft! tells you that it’s fresh. Whether it’s a can of coffee or a jar of roasted peanuts, the sudden rush of air when you open a vacuum-packed container tells you that the contents inside should ...

If you've ever opened a vacuum-sealed package of raw meat and noticed that funny smell escaping (almost sour and unappealing, maybe a touch like a rotten egg), there's no need to panic just yet.

Vitasoy USA Inc., the maker of Nasoya products, hopes its new vacuum-packed and ready-to-eat baked tofu products will bring new consumers into the category by making tofu easier to prepare and ...

Dear Heloise: Reading your article about the person who felt that putting the avocado seed back in the guacamole would prevent discoloration -- (It doesn't help. -- Heloise) -- prompted me to think ...