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US 12,458,032 B2Granted
Comminuted meat products and apparatuses and methods for producing comminuted meat products
Assigneeempirical foods, inc.
InventorNicholas A. Roth
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Abstract
A method includes receiving a stream of input material made up of pieces of meat and separating a first material and a second material from the input material. The first material includes liquified meat fat and the second material includes raw lean meat. Fat granules are formed from a portion of the first material. A quantity of the meat fat granules at a meat fat blending temperature are then combined with a quantity of the second material at a lean meat blending temperature to produce a target comminuted meat product having a target lean point.
Claims7
A method for producing a raw comminuted meat product, the method including:
- (a) receiving a stream of input material including pieces of meat;
- (b) separating a first material and a second material from the stream of input material so that the first material and second material are separate from each other, the first material including liquified meat fat and being substantially free of lean meat and the second material including raw lean meat;
- (c) forming meat fat granules from a portion of the first material;
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- (d) combining a quantity of the meat fat granules at a meat fat blending temperature with a quantity of the second material at a lean meat blending temperature to produce a target comminuted meat product having a target lean point.
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