Brian, I plan on vacuuming packing the pork after it freezes in the individual containers. I don't know what I would do without my vacuum sealer! I just finished sealing some chicken breasts. Winn-Dixie had them on sale for $.99 pound and they are huge ones! Took the ribs off to make soup with and then I boned some of them also so more stuff for soup! Froze them individually and than vacummed sealed them. As for the liquid smoke...I'm not really that much of a fan of the smoke flavor.