Method for injecting fluids into meat products
AssigneeTownsend Engineering Company
InventorRay T. Townsend
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Abstract
A plurality of needles is injected into a food product to create a plurality of cavity voids in said product, and a metered quantity of fluid is injected through said needles into said cavity voids while said needles are within said food product, said quantity of fluid being metered to be equal substantially to the volume of said cavity voids.
Claims8
The method of injecting fluid into a food product selected from meat, fish or poultry, comprising,
- injecting a plurality of needles into said food product to create a plurality of cavity voids in said product defined by the shape of the portion of each needle that penetrates said product,
- and injecting a metered quantity of fluid through said needles into said cavity voids while said needles are within said food product, said quantity of fluid being metered to be equal substantially to the volume of said cavity voids so as to uniformly inject said fluid into the fat and lean portions of said food product without creating an immediate migration of fluid through said lean portions more than through said fat portions at the time of injection.
A method of injecting fluid into a food product selected from meat, fish or poultry, comprising, injecting a plurality of needles into said food product to create a plurality of cavity voids in said product defined by the shape of the portion of each needle that penetrates said product, automatically metering a quantity of fluid having a volume approximately equal to the volume of said cavity voids formed by said needles;
- injecting said metered quantity of fluid through said needles into said cavity voids while said needles are within said food product whereby the quantity of fluid injected into said cavity voids is approximately equal to the volume of said cavity voids formed by said needles so as to uniformly inject said fluid into the fat and lean portions of said food product without creating an immediate migration of fluid through said lean portions more than through said fat portions at the time of injection.
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