Talkin' Kitchen Trash Bags
Written: Jan 13 '07 (Updated Jan 13 '07)
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Pros: Nice white color. Brightly colored drawstring.
Strong sounding name.
Cons: Middling performance. Does its job, nothing more.
The Bottom Line: This is a satisfactory bag but pales in performance paired with its superior sibling. Buy it with a coupon when it's on sale
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| nagels's Full Review: Hefty Cinch Sak Tall Kitchen Bags |
Talkin Trash bags
In the tall kitchen bag world there are basically three types from which to choose. There’s the original basic plastic bag fastened with the included wire ties. These bags aren’t bad as long as you can find a tie and are usually the least expensive. Then there are the bags with built in flaps to be used as ties. There’s no losing of ties with this model, but if the bag is full, closure can be difficult and tedious. The last and most convenient bag type is the one with the drawstring at the top. It works much the same as a drawstring on a pair of sweat pants, easy to pull and tie unless the bag is too heavy or too full. On the sweat pants one end of the string sometimes disappears in the channel, not so with the garbage bags.
A new player in the bag universe is the stretchy, expanding bag. The Hefty Ultra Flex model is excellent, but more expensive than the others and not as often on sale. You may want to read my review of that bag type. There are also scented bags on the market (and in the market as far as that goes) and clincher bags that don’t sink down into the can.
Hefty CinchSak Tall Kitchen Bags
Today we examine the Hefty Cinch Sak. We do so because the Spud household was down to its last few kitchen bags, and I had a coupon for these sale priced Hefties.
The bags come in a cardboard box, and can be drawn out one by one through an opening in the top of the box for the user’s convenience. Pulling them all out at once is not recommended.
These white bags are available in white or white and have attractive blue drawstrings. These handy 13-gallon sacks measure 2 ft. by 2ft. 3 3/8 inches and are .9 mil. thick. The 100 per cent recycled paperboard box tells us that the bags are of everyday strength quality. I guess that means you can use them every day of the week.
Added Info From the Box
Plastic bags can cause suffocation. Keep out of the reach of children.
Not recommended for food storage. (We put table scraps in ours, but I don’t think that counts.)
The Dual Duel
I saved one drawstring bag from the previously purchased box to have a bag off, a head to head competition. The challenger to the Hefty Cinch Sak is an Ace brand 13-gallon bag with the exact same dimensions. On the Ace bag is a bright lemon yellow colored drawstring.
Both bags fit into our trashcan fine and neither one sank below the can’s rim when trash was deposited. It’s a tie. There was no difference in effort required to pull full bags from the trashcan. Exertion necessary to extract the bag was measured by my highly sensitive, trained arm. It’s another tie.
During the month preceding this writing, I only remember one or two times that the drawstring tie on an Ace bag broke during the tie procedure. None of the Hefty drawstrings have broken, but one came close. Since an equal number of Hefty bags wasn’t used for this comparison, we’ll give Ace the benefit of the doubt and call this one a tiealso.
The Ace bags cost lest than the Hefty bags.
We Visit Spudman Laboratories
“We” decided to test the relative strengths of these bags. Into the Ace bag I deposited two five-pound bags of Domino sugar. Five-pound bags of other brands might weigh more or less. The Ace bag strained but held. Next I started adding 16 ounce bottles of water. At the seventh bottle the tie broke, but the bag itself remained intact with lots of thin stretch marks around the top.
I did the same with the Hefty bag, adding the same sugar bags and water bottles. At ten bottles the Hefty bag and tie still held, but the tired technician aborted the experiment. Though there was no breakage, the tie was stretched thin and similar stretch marks were all around the top of the bag.
Conclusion
The Hefty CinchSak is an OK bag, but there is nothing special about it. If a store brand bag with the same dimensions and thickness can be had for less, buy it. Of all the tall trash can bags we’ve tried here in Spudland, the Hefty Ultra Flex is without parallel or peer. Unfortunately it ain’t cheap either.
Recommended:
Yes
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