What to Do with your Holiday Leftovers

Got a ton of turkey, a mountain of cranberry, and a pillar of roast beef left over from your holiday gathering? Don’t fret. There are a couple of great products to help you save or simmer your foodstuffs in the New Year.

Tilia FoodSaver
First up is Tilia’s FoodSaver line of vacuum packaging products. FoodSaver allows you to vacuum package at home (just like the grocer) to keep food fresh three to five times longer. Cheese cut on Christmas Day, then vacuum packaged, will still be fresh on Valentine’s Day– and even beyond. Vacuum package holiday leftovers in meal size portions in FoodSaver Bags. FoodSaver Bags are microwaveable and boilable for easy reheating. There are several models on the market. Each comes with a variety of bag sizes and unique canisters and a tube that connects to the food saver unit and allows you to remove air from coffee cans, even wine bottles. FoodSavers start in price at $120. www.foodsaver.com

Panasonic Microwaves
When it comes to defrosting, reheating and even cooking meals, not all microwaves are alike. While traditional microwaves use a power transformer to increase household voltage to create the microwaves (resulting in a constant power source and inefficient cooking controls), Panasonic’s new Inverter technology takes advantage of a circuit board that changes or inverts the frequency for more linear cooking controls when reheating, defrosting, and cooking.

Forget the physics, when you stumble down the stairs for a 1AM feeding, simply toss your turkey and dressing in the Panasonic, hit its One-Touch Genius Sensor—and it will automatically adjust power levels and calculate cooking times.

Inverter technology is available on a number of Panasonic Microwaves big and small. Prices start at $130. www.panasonic.com