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MEAT ANDWŒAT—PR‘ODÜCTS
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is suiciently large for a
process0r—s to “haVeset' up 'specialcooking and
dicing lines to supply
of the
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si
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The quality of theconimerciàl prôductiOn of
is variäble—and
is generally criticized as being relatively tougher than :canned‘, ÎÏÔZŒJ* or fre“shly«œokèd
meat and is so1etimes”found tobe dry 45 LaCk of
is.—another -CritiCismïbütthiS is
inevitable when for instance meat is cooked and drained free from =‘fat and liquôr'ibefore“
dehydrati0n.
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As in the case“of
matchthat
obtained in laboratory and pilot scale experiments. Much remains
methods of cooking and preparation! for drying and also;partiCularly With regard to! cùted
meat, about ways of improving st0rage—lifei
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Freeze—Drieä Cookeä Beef
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Working to develop military purchase descriptions,
associates.,at_the U, S.
Army Food and Engineering Command laboratories have obtained mtëfeëæmg“ëë:züts
on the relative
bôditiôs‘ithä’ manu;
facture of cooked
1
f‘w=
As the internal cooking temperature ‘Was’inci‘ëased to 82 °C;
in toughness and time—'— of
”above
the meat became more tender asthe
high
temperature cook is therefore to be preferred 28.
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The drying
a
nal temperatüre ‘exceédigbO
tôfï”icau8e brownmg wasratedasacceptable
as product dried at a lower
avour in dried beef 21_
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Because heavy loadigs
of
.
cooked beef can' be
maxnnum
production capacity of
is”
equ1pentmanufacturers
With this product 1nm1nd
The ability of cooked beef to Withstand severe drying conditions also accounts
fact that a relatively good hot-air dried cooked minced beef canbe
described by Sharp 18, and this per1its a direct comparison betweenthetwodrymg
techniques.
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Minced, cookedbeesamplesg
werecomparedby Bällä‘
tyne et al. 3 who claimedat the
di}athe1brbcostlyfreeze—dryproœssconfered’
—
no advantage—.
turn
out not only a
prices would, be about 3750perkofor hœ-ærdnadagalst $60perko
freeze—dned
,
cows and he1fers)wellîrlmmîîd0fgsead‘3‘3Î-‘11‘3‘3ÜV‘3lïlssuÔnîlStbeusedn
theother
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hand, unless afafiy
,
is—=toosoft;
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advantage
Other freeze—dried
uses
itary;raüon3Thesemcludedlcedbeefmeatballs0XtameatandcuŒdsm0kedbœf
slices.
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