Method and apparatus for cooking, pasteurizing and chilling meat.

摘要

A method of processing meat characterized in that the meat is introduced into a mobile cooking vessel, the vessel is sealed and adjusted to super-atmospheric pressure, a stock liquor is passed through a heat exchanger to raise its temperature to at least 60 DEG C and circulated through the vessel and heat exchanger for a period of time sufficient to heat up and cook the meat, substantially immediately after which the circulating stock liquor is cooled by the same heat exchanger to a temperature suitable for cooling the meat to 15 DEG C or below within a maximum time of 45 minutes.