UMAi Dry Aging Bag for Steaks, Pack of 3, Dry Age Bags for Meat, Ribeye & Striploin Steak up to 12-18 lbs, Home Steak Ager Refrigerator Bags, No Vacuum Sealer Needed, Tender Aged Beef in 28-45 Days

Love these bags! For my first attempt at dry aging, I employed the cheesecloth method. It was a bit tedious having to rewrap the roast every few days and didn't produce the best results. Upon a friend's recommendation, I tried the UMAi bags. What a game changer! So easy to use with fantastic results. The first time, I aged 27ish days. This time, I aged 53 days, and wow! Just wow! The roast developed the expected nuttiness and crust. I highly recommend these bags! I also have a Foodsaver, and it works really well in sealing the bag.

These bags are fantastic, very easy to use, and will turn even average cuts of meat into excellent "cut with a fork" soft dry age steak with a wonderful nutty/buttery flavor. They are also great for game meat and for those who do not like deer/elk it does make the flavor of the meat more mild and more like beef steaks. No vacuum sealer needed just fill a sink/bucket with water, dunk your bagged cut of meat into it to force out any excess air, twist the opening closed and add a few zip ties. Place on a rack in your fridge and wait 30 days. Super simple. Also the best way I found to placing the meat into the bag is to turn the bag inside out 3/4 of the way and then get the thick end of the meat into the bag and slip the rest over like a sock. You do lose about 15-20% of your meat so its best to buy large cuts, don't waste the bags on dry aging anything less than 4lbs, And the more "square" the cut of meat is the better, try to avoid large/flat cuts since the meat dries from the outside in. If you do only have a cut that is 4-5" thick dry age for less time I dry aged a 5.2lb piece with that thickness for 22 days and the results were excellent. When looking at the piece you are going to age remove 1"-1.5" from all sides and that will give you a good idea of the size of your finished product. Its best to go to a butcher shop and ask them to leave some fat on the outside of the cut so it protects the meat underneath from hardening. I put a 6 and 7lb chunk of Boneless Rib-eye in the bag with plenty of room to spare I think you could fit 10lbs no problem. The hardened meat called "pelicose" that is a result of the dry aging process as well as the fat can be ground up and added to burgers and sausage or chopped into small sections and given to dogs as treats. For anyone wondering dry aging does not produce a strange smell in your fridge. If you stick your nose up to the bag you may detect a slight woody/nutty smell but its so mild you might not.

I started making my own dry aged meat with these bags in 2023. I absolutely love them. The meat tastes so good. Never had a problem.

From the time I first tried dry aged beef, decided to make some of my own and started researching what was out there, this was one of the first products I came across, but in addition to being outrageously expensive compared to the cheaper alternatives, I also could not make heads or tails out of the terminology of dry aging in general, just that everyone was promising the same thing; go with us and you won't have any problems, but at the same time I noticed a lot of people trying UMAI bags were still apparently ending up disappointed. Since these bags came advertised as not specifically needing to be vacuum sealed, which I did not want to be bothered with at the time as an extra complication, this was the reason, while still researching, I decided to get a UMAI bag, but that said, out of an abundance of caution, to say nothing of all the people out there who apparently were not sealing their bags properly for some reason or another (seems trying to figure out how much air to squeeze out and how much is ok to leave in was the real extra complication!), in the end I reversed course and did get a vacuum sealer to use with it. By now I felt like I was starting to pick up on the little things, like putting the meat on a rack and never directly on a glass shelf surface, the ideal temperature range (somewhere around 36 degrees) and ad hoc guidance about how much meat surface should be in contact with the bag (around 80%), what to do if at first you don't succeed (reseal it and try again) and how to test the seal when done (hold underwater and look for bubbles). In the course of all the work I had done to this point, I noticed more often than not that UMAI consistently referenced all the things I was coming across in other places, and not only that, but the information was available in articles, videos, pictures and even telephone support as well, which on general principle, I did not want to rely on at first, but even so, there's no question what they offer to help get you started with stands head and shoulders above their competition, so just on that basis alone, for a first time attempt you can't do much better. So the next question---how does all that supposedly good guidance translate to an actual first time project? (for first attempt at dry aging I am only using a single serving of steak--NOT recommended BTW) Week 1 - Meat is noticeably darker Week 2 - Meat darker and shrinking down on the bone with little white speckles everywhere--GF is GROSSED!! Week 3 - Meat looks completely different now--can't believe how it looks now from where it started--YES!! Update: It's like a whole new world has opened up and looking back, when it comes to getting started with dry aging, I would say you get what you pay for and the UMAI 'system' definitely got me going in the right direction when I didn't have any. Am I going to continue to pay this much for 3 bags? No---but now that I know my way around I just use the sealer to turn those 3 bags into several more as needed---GREAT product and system!!

After 25 days of dry aging, the steak developed a much richer flavor and was noticeably more tender compared to a fresh steak purchased from the store. The improvement in taste was well worth the process. However, the weight loss was significant. Between moisture loss during aging and trimming of the dried outer layer, the final yield was reduced by nearly 30–40%.

This product works very well

I purchased a 10lb choice NY strip loin from Costco to test these bags out. After 35days of waiting, you can see I got some nice dry aged steaks. Now I’m kicking myself for not going bigger with the meat, because I have to wait longer for the 2nd round of use with these bags. These don’t seal like a traditional vacuum bag, because they’re a membrane and not an actual bag. You can see my first attempt is still pretty loose in areas on the meat, but it turned out exactly like you would expect. I have my 2nd bag in use now with a 17lb boneless ribeye roast from Costco. As I use these bags up, I’ll be back for more. It’s not fair that steak can taste this good!

This product was so promising but fell short before it even got started. The product is incredibly difficult to work with. Of the 3 attempts with this bag, all 3 resulted in failures. Baggie 1: Following instructions to seal the bag at a 45 degree angle on 1 side and using the "mouse" to vacuum and seal the bag resulted in a failure to correctly seal and was completely and so the bag had to be opened, meat removed, and bag tossed. Baggie 2: Changed up my approach after watching a few YouTube instructional videos for how to handle these bags. Meat in, sealed BOTH edges at 45 degree angles. Applied the "mouse" sealing strip in the middle and proceeded to sealing the bag. Initial seal worked but came undone after 24hrs. Tried to reseal but the vacuum sealer didn't accept the bag the second time around when attempting to stick it back into the sealer. Removed steak and proceeded to retry with 3rd and last bag. Baggie 3: Followed the same approach as baggie 2 but attempt to double seal before removing the bag after vacuuming, After applying the double seal, it looked as if it worked but after 24hr the baggie came undone... again... Gave up after trying 3 times and the baggie didn't work. Now I have $200 worth of ribeye and nothing to do with but freezing it... Analysis: The "mouse" strip that allowed for the bag to be used with any FoodSaver vacuuming device also seems to have cause the sealing problem. It's a catch 22 because the bag does no work without the "mouse" and the "mouse" prevents a clean seal. Overall, the product was promising, if you can get it to work properly. Feels you'd need to buy the UMAi branded (Or suggested) food sealer to have this work properly. Anyways, it was a disappointing experience.

Excelente producto, cumple con las características que dice y se sigue las instrucciones al pie de la letra tendrás los resultados deseados, tarda un poco en llegar pero jamás fuera de las fechas que se indican, se podría pensar que el precio es elevado pero cuando sacas tu corte y lo haces es cuando notas el precio-beneficio

Item is as advertised. It was delivered overseas to me by FedEx. I would give 5 stars. However, the seal sticker on the package was torn already when it arrived. The package contents looked okay though.

The item unfortunately did not seal well. Used a universal vacuum sealer but tried all 3 bag it burnt through. Follow the linked and instructions. Was really looking forward to an easy use bag.

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