Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Processes – Molding – casting – or shaping
Patent
1976-09-20
1978-02-07
Penland, R. B.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Processes
Molding, casting, or shaping
426 92, 426657, 426518, 426524, A23J 300
Patent
active
040727637
ABSTRACT:
A meat product is disclosed, comprising a flat or planar cut of predetermined peripheral shape or contour and thickness, and consisting of thin slices of meat which have been compressed in a meat press or dies to form a layered structure, in which the layers extend substantially perpendicular to the plane of the flat cut. The cuts are made by a method in which chucks, such as beef chucks, are placed in trays, upon or in adjacent relation to each other with the chucks preferably extending in the direction of the grain of the meat and frozen into a substantially solid mass, the frozen chucks tempered at a temperature slightly below the freezing point, and sawed or otherwise cut into elongated blocks of somewhat irregular shape or contour, the cutting being effected along lines which are parallel or substantially parallel with the grain of the meat. The tempered blocks are placed in a slicing machine, in which they are rapidly sliced to a thickness of from about 1/40 inch to about 1/20 inch, the slicing being against the grain of the meat, that is, substantially perpendicular to the grain. The thin slices are then placed in a meat press, and compressed by the dies of the press to form a "log" consisting of slices of meat which are flattened or stacked or compressed upon one another and lie lengthwise or longitudinally of the dies, with the grain of the meat extending perpendicularly to the axis of the dies, and thus, perpendicularly to the axis of the log. The logs are then cut into cuts of the meat product, or steaks, consisting of strips which extend perpendicular to the plane of the cut, instead of layers of meat which are parallel to the plane of the steak.
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patent: 2823127 (1958-02-01), Gwilliam et al.
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