I was in rush today to get some backpacking clothes washed after a 5 day trip last week. My washing machine is in my gear room where I have my gear piled high along with my dehydrated food inventory. Prior to my trip I raided my dehydrated chicken stash. I buy it in a #10 tin can and then reseal it in smaller one cup packages. Somehow the can full of the vacuumed sealed packages made it into the bottom of the washing machine between then and today I filled it up clothes and ran a load. Beyond a bunch of bits of paper from the label. I had a clean #10 tin can and multiple packages still vacuum sealed full of chicken. I did put about half the 1 cup packages and sealed them for the long term. The only damage was the large bag did leak but the ones inside didn't. Out of about 10 packages of chicken only one is suspect and it may be fine. Oops