CONTINUOUS COOKING/CHILLING OF TUBED MEAT

摘要

"CONTINUOUS COOKING/CHILLING OF TUBED MEAT" : An apparatus and process for continuously cooking and cooling beef and other meats stuffed in tubes in such a way so as to ensure that potential presence of certain viruses like foot-and-mouth disease is inactivated. The meat product is encased in packs which are processed in an upright position and whithout sealing the opening at the top. The apparatus includes a cooker tank containing a bath of boiling water into which the packs are dipped and transported fully submerged up to the neck thereof for a suitable length of time to inactivate the virus. Thereafter the packs are chilled first using tap water and then refrigerated water. A chain system transfers the pack holders from one end of the apparatus to the other, and then returns the holders to the loading end for a new lot of meat packs via a sanitizer tank integrated alongside the cooker tank.