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Mr. Prop-B-Gone · 07-30-2009, 06:42 PM

Just got a new toy, an Eastman Wild Game Marinator, AKA, Revio Marivac Food Tumbler. Tried it out tonight and it IS a keeper! It is a vacuum tumbler marinator, and it works great!

It has a solid base unit with the vacuum pump, timer and rollers, and a heavy duty plastic drum that will hold 5 pounds of meat and marinade. You put the meat and marinade in the drum, put the top on, and hook up the on board vacuum pump, push a button, and it pumps out the air. Stops automatically when it is done. You put the drum on the rollers and set the timer for 5-20 minutes. It runs very quietly, and works as advertised! It's easy to clean by hand, and, except for the rubber vacuum seal, it can go in the dishwasher. The vacuum line has an easily cleaned moisture separator to protect the pump.

We tried it tonight with a couple of London Broils from Heath Market at $1.99 a pound and a dollar's worth of Hannaford Inspirations marinade. The steaks were perfectly marinated in the specified 20 minutes, very, very flavorful and very tender, cutting easily with table knives instead of steak knives. A very nice $5 meal for two with leftovers for tomorrow's lunch!

It retails for about $220 plus shipping on Amazon and other online stores, but I found ours new on Ebay under the Revio name for just under $150 with shipping. WalMart Online advertises it under the Eastman name at $137 with free shipping to a local store, but strung me along for two weeks with phony tracking messages, then claimed it fell off the truck somewhere between Raymond and Gilford and canceled my order and told me to try again. Went to reorder it and it was no longer available, so I went to Ebay and had it in 4 days!

Anyway, definitely worth the money! Going to try it on chicken tomorrow night!

07-30-2009, 06:42 PM	#42
Mr. Prop-B-Gone Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 106 Thanks: 4 Thanked 30 Times in 17 Posts	Rolling your own... Just got a new toy, an Eastman Wild Game Marinator, AKA, Revio Marivac Food Tumbler. Tried it out tonight and it IS a keeper! It is a vacuum tumbler marinator, and it works great! It has a solid base unit with the vacuum pump, timer and rollers, and a heavy duty plastic drum that will hold 5 pounds of meat and marinade. You put the meat and marinade in the drum, put the top on, and hook up the on board vacuum pump, push a button, and it pumps out the air. Stops automatically when it is done. You put the drum on the rollers and set the timer for 5-20 minutes. It runs very quietly, and works as advertised! It's easy to clean by hand, and, except for the rubber vacuum seal, it can go in the dishwasher. The vacuum line has an easily cleaned moisture separator to protect the pump. We tried it tonight with a couple of London Broils from Heath Market at $1.99 a pound and a dollar's worth of Hannaford Inspirations marinade. The steaks were perfectly marinated in the specified 20 minutes, very, very flavorful and very tender, cutting easily with table knives instead of steak knives. A very nice $5 meal for two with leftovers for tomorrow's lunch! It retails for about $220 plus shipping on Amazon and other online stores, but I found ours new on Ebay under the Revio name for just under $150 with shipping. WalMart Online advertises it under the Eastman name at $137 with free shipping to a local store, but strung me along for two weeks with phony tracking messages, then claimed it fell off the truck somewhere between Raymond and Gilford and canceled my order and told me to try again. Went to reorder it and it was no longer available, so I went to Ebay and had it in 4 days! Anyway, definitely worth the money! Going to try it on chicken tomorrow night!