Methods of producing ready-to-eat breakaway meat portions
AssigneeThe Hillshire Brands Company
InventorsKent Bearson, Kasia Orbik, Forrest Tyler Tate
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Abstract
A method may include grinding raw whole muscle meat into a ground meat material and heating the ground meat material to cook the ground meat material into a cooked ground meat material suitable for consumption. The method may also include freezing the cooked ground meat material and mixing the frozen and cooked ground meat material with an additive comprising a starch to produce a meat mixture. The method may further include pressing the meat mixture into a formed shape and slicing the formed shape into meat portions of a predetermined size.
Claims9
A method of producing meat portions from whole muscle meat, the method comprising:
- grinding raw whole muscle meat into a ground meat material;
- heating the ground meat material to cook the ground meat material into a cooked ground meat material suitable for consumption;
- freezing the cooked ground meat material;
- mixing the frozen and cooked ground meat material with an additive comprising a starch to produce a meat mixture;
- pressing the meat mixture into a formed shape;
- and slicing the formed shape into meat portions of a predetermined size;
- wherein the frozen and cooked ground meat material has a temperature of approximately 5 to 19 degrees Fahrenheit when the ground meat material is mixed with the additive.
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