US 2015/0305378 A1 · PRODUCTION OF TAMARI SOY SAUCE

Abstract

Present invention enables to mass-produce rich-taste tamari soy sauce with reasonable costs. First step: Moisturizing soybeans. Second step: Steaming the moisturized soybeans. Third step: Shaping the steamed soybeans into nuggets. Fourth step: Mixing a soy flour and seed koji. Fifth step: Putting the mixture on the nuggets. Sixth step: Incubating the nuggets. Seventh step: Putting the incubated nuggets in salt water. Eighth step: Fermenting the nuggets in the salt water. Ninth step: Pressing moromi (solid component of the fermented product). Tenth step: Settling the liquid obtained by pressing the moromoi. Eleventh step: Optionally filtrating raw tamari soy sauce with a reverse osmosis membrane. Twelfth step: Adjusting concentrations of some constituents of the raw tamari soy sauce. Thirteenth step: Pasteurizing the raw tamari soy sauce. Fourteenth step: Settling the pasteurized tamari soy sauce. Fifteenth step: Filtering the supernatant. Sixteenth step: Bottling the tamari soy sauce.

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Dependent claims

A method of producing gluten-free tamari soy sauce, comprising the steps of:

providing a water to a defatted soybean, wherein the amount of water provided is 70-100 liters per 100 kilograms of defatted soybean;
heating the moisturized defatted soybean;
shaping the heated defatted soybean into a nugget form;
providing a seed koji to the nugget;
incubating the nugget in the presence of the seed koji;
putting the nugget in a salt water;
fermenting the nugget in the salt water;
and
separating a liquid component of the fermented product from a solid component to obtain the gluten-free tamari soy sauce.

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A sprinkler used for producing tamari soy sauce to moisturize a soy nugget with raw tamari during its fermentation, the sprinkler comprising:

a vertical pipe, which extends in a vertical direction;
a branch member, to which a lower end of the vertical pipe is coupled;
a horizontal pipe, which goes through the branch member, and which extends in a horizontal direction;
and
wherein the horizontal pipe comprises a plurality of holes, which align in a longitudinal direction of the horizontal pipe, and which face in a horizontal direction;
wherein the branch member partitions the horizontal pipe into a first half section and a second half section, and the holes provided on the first half section and the holes provided on the second half section face in the opposite directions;
and
wherein raw tamari is configured to come out of the sprinkler through the holes, and the horizontal pipe is configured to rotate around the vertical pipe by a force generated by the come-out of the raw tamari.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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