UMAi Dry Aging Bags for Meat, Ribeye & Striploin Steak, 3 Pack, 12-18 lbs

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.

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.

Okay, I've used other bags but this one beats them all. For starters, you get several bags for the buck (bonus) and the instructions are pretty much fool proof. I like the covers for the bones and used them for sure. It was a problem using these (actually, all other bags as well) on the automatic Food Saver appliance, as the film won't trip the mechanism to seal. I had to go out and buy a manual Food Saver and that did the trick! Aging was easy and using these instructions, I discovered that it is crucial to elevate the roast for air circulation. A pleasant bonus was that I didn't smell any off gases for almost an entire 30 days. At that point, it was time to make our New Year's Day steaks. I cut away the bark (save for broth!) and made some fantastic steaks. The flavor was incredible. Hard to describe the difference in flavor to anyone who hasn't tried this, but do it! While doing a full Prime Rib roast is pricey, as long as you follow the process you'll be fine. HIGHLY RECOMMEND !!!

**EDIT/UPDATE** after much frustration and further reading I found out it is NOT necessary to use a vacuum sealer at all. Using a straw to manually suck out the air is sufficient. The intent is not to make a completely air tight seal, after all the purpose is for dry aging where traditionally the meat is in full contact with air. The bags are porous to oxygen and water but help keep odors and bacteria out. Changed from 2 starts to 4, leaving a star off mainly for poor instructions and inflated price. 1) The bags are very thin and will not work with foodsaver. Tried to push pieces of paper in with the bag to activate the sealer and it just made a mess and wasted a bunch of time. Why doesn't the manufacture tell people only certain vacuum sealers work with this product??? Amazon? 2) Over 11 dollars per bag, for bag that will not seal with the most common sealer on the market. And now you have a $80-100 dollar cut of meat in said bag. 3) Directions look like a comic book and provide nearly no additional benefit. Website video also is no help. 4) After finding on website, found that the product is 10 dollars cheaper (per package of 3) on the product website vs. amazon. Even if you are a prime member is cheaper to pay shipping and by direct from the company. I would not recommend doing that either unless you have a vacuum sealer that is a clamshell type design.

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.

This was my first time dry-aging. I used this bag to do a 35-day dry aged brisket flat. Keep in mind that it is a membrane and not a vacuum bag. Instructions were clear and concise. Produced the results I was looking for with zero off-flavors. This bag is quite pricey but it doesn't get much easier to dry-age at home. I used my everyday refrigerator and didn't care much for temperature specifics. Just remember to keep it on a drying rack in the fridge and flip it every week or so. The bottom tends to not get as much dry-age action because of the pooling juices. So flipping is important to keep it even throughout. But this was a great project and I highly recommend it as long as the price is worth it to you. If this was helpful, please indicate it below. Thanks!

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 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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