Meat adhearing cook-in packaging
AssigneeW. R. Grace & Co., Cryovac Division
InventorHenry B. Thompson
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Abstract
A method is provided for enhancing yield of a cook-in packaged food product that includes first providing an adhering cook-in package comprising a flexible plastic container being substantially conformable to a selected food product and having an inner surface of polymeric olefin having been subjected to an adhering surface treatment in the presence of oxygen, then conforming said package about a selected food product and cooking the packaged product, whereupon said inner package surface adheres to said food product to substantially prevent cook-out of fluids therefrom.
Claims11
A method for enhancing yield of cook-in packaged meat product, comprising:
- (a) providing an adhering cook-in package comprising a flexible plastic container being substantially conformable to a selected meat product and having an inner meat product contacting surface of polymeric olefin having been subjected to an energetic radiation surface treatment in the presence of oxygen sufficient to cause said inner surface to adhere to the meat product during cook-in, said container having been formed from hot blown tubular film;
- (b) conforming said package about a selected meat product;
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- (c) cooking the packaged product, whereupon said inner surface adheres to said meat product to substantially prevent cook-out of fluids therefrom.
A method for enhancing yield of a cook-in packaged meat product, comprising:
- (a) providing an adhering cook-in package comprising a flexible plastic container being substantially conformable to a selected meat product and having a single ply structure of hot blown, nonoriented polyethylene, said single ply including a meat product contacting surface having been irradiatively cross-linked in the presence of oxygen sufficient to cause said meat product contacting surface to adhere to the meat product during cook-in;
- (b) conforming said package about a selected meat product;
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- (c) cooking the packaged product, whereupon said meat product contacting surface adheres to said meat product to substantially prevent cook-out of fluids therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.