Eastman Outdoors 38229 Reveo MariVac Food Tumbler

This machine is over the top. Steak tips, steak, pork and chicken come out butter soft and cook up fork tender. Highly recommend it. Also, great follow up customer service when I had questions.

I bought this for my husband for Christmas. To say he was skeptical is an understatement. "Marinade for 20 minutes is equal to several hours? NO WAY!" We eat a lot of wild game and you always have to marinade it for several hours. To quote my husband. "This is the real deal. It does what it says." IT IS WONDERFUL! We have also used it on steaks, chicken & fish. We haven't had any issues with the lid coming off or not holding the seal after the air has been removed. The rubber seal can bit a bit difficult to remove for cleaning but that is no big deal for us. Now we no longer have to plan hours in advance to cook our favorite foods.

I bought this machine full of hopes that it would improve my cooking by allowing my marination times to be shortened.

It turned out that the contraption never works. The vacuum lid was never tight as it should have been, becoming detached every time I tried to use it. The resulting BBQ sauce all over the kitchen which is not my sort of entertainment.

After sitting lame for four months, I took it to the city dump and left it there in the hope that will be put to sleep before a hapless cook can find it.

I am very disappointed indeed!

I had very high hopes when I bought this product but soon came to realize that I had made a mistake. I am a BQ person and I thought that this would be the answer to making life a little easier--not so. Upon receiving the product I had problems right out of the box--the top upon being sealed would come off and spilling marinate all over the counter top. Tried to get the top to stay on with every trick I know but to no avail it just keeps falling off and I even read the directions three times so I know that I was doing everything properly. A few times when I got the top to stay on I found that the machine would not turn properly, I guess I could go on but I am so throughly discussed with this product that my frustration level is about to come off. I have tried to reach the compnay a number of times but the phone number that I keep calling is busy all the time--I would have to think that there are many satisfied customers calling to compliment them on their superior product . I have emailed them out of frustration and of course their computer is evidently notworking. So for what ever its worth the machine is a real pooch and I am not prepared to deal with this $200.00 loss any longer.

This machine does what it's supposed to. I highly recommend it. I fixed the best broiled chicken I've ever had using mesquite/lime marinade. It was extremely juicy.