Dug through an old forum archive once and found a PDF called 'The 25 Rules of Disputation' from some medieval university. Completely free and it basically showed us how to stop wasting time on people who just repeat themselves louder. We started timing everyone's turns at five minutes max and suddenly nobody could afford to ramble. Feels like the cheap stuff is always the real game changer because you're not trying to force it to work to justify the price.

You saying "the bags stuck to the meat and left these weird crease marks" is exactly what happened to my first batch too. I honestly thought the bags were gonna be the smart play, cheaper and easier like you said. But after dealing with a leaky bag that ruined a whole strip loin, I changed my mind real quick. Now I'm in the same boat as you, kicking myself for not just waiting and getting the fridge. The bags sounded good on paper but they just don't hold up.