摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for producing frozen raw eggs to be preserved each increasing a sterile degree through preventing contamination with sundry germs as much as possible, decreasing a production cost through simplifying processing steps, easy to handle due to require only a short thawing time when utilizing them in a secondary process and remarkably improving product quality. <P>SOLUTION: The method for producing the frozen raw eggs comprises heat-sterilizing put-off raw eggs only for a prescribed time at a temperature range required to sterilize various kinds of bacteria including at least salmonella, automatically crack the eggs in a sterile condition, holding liquid egg of the whole egg or separated albumen or yolk in a prescribed container, rapidly freezing the liquid egg in the container in a refrigerant at a temperature range destroying no functionality of protein components, thawing only the surface of the frozen liquid egg contacting the inner face of the container, and automatically separating the container from the frozen liquid egg in a sterile condition to obtain the frozen raw egg of the form of the container unit. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |