So, I had one of my bags leak tonight from my porchetta, and it got me wondering about a few things things. For clarity sake, this was a porchetta that I'd put on earlier this evening. It'd spent 24 hours in the fridge with salt and spices, and then been blanched for a few seconds in a pot with a rolling boil. It'd then been vacuum sealed (where I may have gone wrong here was not cooling it down before sealing). I'd cut it in half, and then put each one in it's own bag. I use a simple food saver (because I'm feeling poor at the moment, and don't have space for anything bigger right now). Everything had been in the bath at 155 (which was going to be for 36 hours) for around 3 hours before disaster. The plan is to finish this with a quick deep fry.
1) The bag didn't look like it'd been leaking a long time, just enough to slightly taint the water color, and I immediately pulled it out, cooled it down with some ice water, and then proceeded to reseal it. Is it ok to eat still though? Or at least try, mostly for academic process more than anything else?
2) The water / immersion circulator was of course now full of pig fat / grease... so I ran another bath and got it as close to the temp in the other as I could (133 F), moved both bags after cleaning them off to the new bath, cleaned off the circulator, and moved everything over. Was this the right thing to do? I figured my circulator is of more value than the food, so at worst I save that from grease and grime... but, with the small temp fluctuations (surface temp dropped about 10 degrees or so (Fahrenheit) on the still sealed bag, and around 25 degrees on the now re-sealed bag (surface temp), did that have a negative affect on anything?
Perhaps a section on the course itself on what to do to prevent bag breaks, how to clean up after bag breaks, and then what to do if disaster does strike may be useful. I was surprised to find little to ZERO on the internet about this when googling it. The only thing I found on cleaning the polyscience immersion circulator was this : 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNs-rGNetzM
Thanks!
