Method for treating ammoniated meats
OwnerEldon Rothinventor
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Abstract
An initial comminuted meat product (21) is exposed to ammonia to produce an ammoniated meat product. The ammoniated meat product is further comminuted in a comminuting device (12) to produce a further comminuted meat product (22). The ammonia exposure to the original comminuted meat product (21) is controlled to result in a pH of at least around 6.0 in the further comminuted meat product (22).
Claims20
A method of treating comminuted meat made up of a plurality of initial pieces of meat, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) exposing at least a portion of a quantity of comminuted meat to a quantity of ammonia;
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- (b) after exposing at least a portion of the quantity of comminuted meat to ammonia, further comminuting the meat to reduce the size of each initial piece of meat and thereby produce a further comminuted meat.
A method of treating comminuted meat, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) displacing a quantity of comminuted meat, composed of initial meat pieces, through a conduit;
- (b) enabling gaseous ammonia or ammonia in solution with water to flow into the conduit as the quantity of comminuted meat is displaced therethrough;
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- (c) after exposing the quantity of comminuted meat to ammonia, further comminuting the meat to reduce the size of the initial meat pieces and to produce a further comminuted meat.
A method of treating comminuted meat, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) exposing, comminuted meat composed of initial meat pieces, to ammonia;
- (b) after exposing the comminuted meat to ammonia, further comminuting the meat to reduce the size of the initial meat pieces and;
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- (c) maintaining the temperature of the comminuted meat at a process temperature during the step of further comminuting the meat, the process temperature being a temperature at which a liquid phase remains in the comminuted meat.
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