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US 4,919,951 AGranted
Method for the heat curing of raw meat products
AssigneeTulip Slagterierne A.M.B.A.
InventorsHans C. S. Jensen, Henning Pedersen
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Abstract
A method for heat curing a raw meat medium is disclosed wherein the meat medium is conveyed through a pipe while being subjected to electromagnetic waves having a frequency of less than 300 MHz. A continuous heating of the meat medium is hereby effected so that the heating thereof is finished when it leaves the pipe and immediately thereafter while its temperature is still at least 70.degree. C., can be cut into slices or pieces and packed.
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A method for heat curing a raw meat medium, the method comprising:
- conveying the meat medium through a pipe, and
- passing at least one electromagnetic field through the pipe into the meat medium, the electromagnetic field having a frequency of less than 300 MHz, whereby meat medium is heat cured.
A method for producing a packaged heat cured meat product, the method comprising:
- (a) forcing a raw meat medium through an elongated passageway at a preselected velocity;
- (b) providing at least one high frequency electromagnetic field of less than 300 MHz in at least one zone of the passageway, the intensity and frequency of the field being such that at the preselected velocity the meat medium is heated uniformly by the electromagnetic field to a curing temperature in the range of approximately 80.degree.-90.degree. C. before leaving the zone;
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- (c) processing the cured meat medium into sterile packages.
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