Sunday, January 25, 2009

Cook-In-Bags™

We searched high and low for bags that are approved for use with boiling water, zip closed and have a nice bottom gusset. They were not easy to find…but find them we did!

We started with the large size (6.69" x 11" x 3.5") so that we could test them out and see if we really liked them. When you first look at them, they look exactly like our regular stand-up pouches. They don’t look like they’re made specifically for use with boiling water – but they are!

The best thing about them (other than the boiling water thing, of course) is that they have a really wide bottom gusset: 3.5 inches! That may not seem all that great but having a gusset this wide gives the bag an amazing degree of stability; so much so that when you cut the top off it basically turns your stand-up cook-in-bag™ into a eat-in-bowl. After using a bag to prep a meal, I use a sharp knife to cut the top off and then I have a pretty decent bowl to eat out of. The bottom becomes so sturdy with the food in it, that I can actually sit it down and have no worries about it tipping over.

Once we decided that we liked the large cook-in-bag™ we added the small (5" x 8" x 3") and medium (6" x 9.37" x 3.25") sizes. These are great for single serving meals (so that you can each end up with your own bowl) or smaller meals like soups or sides. They have a slightly smaller gusset because the overall bag is smaller but they both work great as bowls too.
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9 comments:

  1. Wow. Glad to find a company that is working on what looks to be tasty trail food. Even bigger plus is that it looks like a Texas company too.

    Keep up the good work
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  2. Good to know the bags hold up well, but how are they with washing and re-use? At 3 bucks a bag (which sounds pretty darn steep), I should hope they'd stand up to multiple uses... plus, it's just the green thing to do.
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  3. Great to hear you added new sizes :-)
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  4. Hey Thomas - Thanks for the shout out!
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  5. Andy - the bags have held up well with washing and reuse. I've tried it out a couple of times and so far, they've been great.

    Also, the bags are priced in packs of 5 - so the smaller bags are $2.99 for five bags or $0.60 per bag.
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  6. Hey Sarah - the smaller sizes have worked out great for smaller meals/portion sizes. It seems like these three sizes should cover everyone's needs...but if not we'll add another!
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  7. Sarah,

    I'll grab a bunch on my next order....be cool to see if one of the new sizes matches up to a pint freezer bag size.
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  8. I'm confused...if you can put boiling water in them, why can't you put them in boiling water?
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  9. I’m not 100% on this but I believe that the difference between pouring boiling water into the bags and actually placing the bags themselves into boiling water lies in the amount of time that the plastic is exposed to a certain heat point. Since the manufacturer specifies that the bags shouldn’t be placed into boiling water, I’d imagine that their tests have shown that the plastic begins to break down when exposed to boiling temperatures for extended periods of time.

    So, if you’re pouring boiling water into the bag, the water will immediately begin to cool from the time that the water is removed from the heat source versus placing the bag in a pot of boiling water where the bag would be kept at the boiling point for some time.
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