vacuum pack

present singular third person vacuum packs · participle present vacuum packing · participle past vacuum packed · past vacuum packed · alternative vacuum-pack

1. transitiveTo pack something in an airtight container from which some or all of the air is removed, creating a partial vacuum.

   Most suppliers charge 3 cents per pound to vacuum pack product.

   1975, Edward M. Harwell, Herman Friedman, Sam Feig, Meat management and operations, page 158

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   Packaging can be tricky as you need to be able to vacuum pack chips.

   2009, Cheryl Kimball, 55 Surefire Food-Related Businesses You Can Start for Under $5000.

   Tofu is a very difficult product to vacuum pack, though firm tofu is easier than soft.

   2010, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, page 320

   How you store your dried herbs and flowers depends on how you intend to use them. Once dehydrated, they are very fragile. If you vacuum pack them, the leaves/flowers will be crushed.

   2014, The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook

plural vacuum packs · alternative vacuum-pack

1. An airtight container in which something has been vacuum packed.

   Yet the water that surrounds the tofu inside the vacuum pack detracts from its appearance.

   2010, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Soybeans and Soyfoods in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania, page 320

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   The simplest form of MAP is to remove air from the system and hold the meat in a vacuum pack.

   1999, B. A. Blakistone, Principles and Applications of Modified Atmosphere Packaging

   When purchased in the grocery store, frozen lobster tails packed in special vacuum packs can have an extended shelf life of twenty-four months.

   2010, Michael T. Murray, Joseph Pizzorno, The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods, page 552

2. A device which becomes rigid when suction is applied to it, used to pack a wound.

   Bouts of diarrhea had forced the medical team to perform a surgical procedure to remove the vacuum pack on her leg, clean the wound and reattach the pack dressing.

   2013, Timothy N. Cole, Every Day for My Daughter, page 203

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   Because of the high complication rate under these circumstances, an aggressive approach to early fascial closure in the post-traumatic open abdomen is suggested, using a combination of the vacuum pack, vacuum-assisted closure technique (KCI VAC, KCI USA, Inc, San Antonio, TX), and a biologic material, human acellular tissue, matrix (Alloderm, LifeCell Corp, Branchburg, NJ) to bridge the gap in the abdominal fascia.

   2008, Juan A. Asensio, Donald D. Trunkey, Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care

   The abdominal vacuum pack and commercial vacuum-assisted abdominal dresssings both allow for rapid, easy reentry into the peritoneal cavity, control and quantification of effluent, and preservation of the facia for later definitive closure.

   2012, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, Lewis J. Kaplan, Management of Peri-operative Complications, page 252