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How does meat processing technology work?

meat machinesMeat processing technology includes the procedures and steps of making meat products. The meat processed products include various different types of local and regional variation that includes helpful animal proteins to human diets. Nowadays, there are several meat processing techniques that use the special equipment. These equipments are available for small scale, medium sized and large-scale operations. There are some types of meat processing equipment that are needed for the meat processing.

Meat grinder

The meat grinder is an essential meat machine for meat processing that use for meat trimmings through a feeding worm under pressure with the horizontally mounted cylinder barrel. The meat processing machine has only one star knife and chopper plate but generally people use a series of plates and rotary knives. The amount of mincing is determined through the size of the holes in the previous grinding plate.

Bowl cutter or chopper

The bowl cutter is the common type of meat processing machines that is designed to make small or very small lean meat and fat particles. Bowl cutters must be equipped with a thermometer that displays the temperature of meat mixture in the bowl for the duration of chopping. Bowl cutters include horizontally revolving bowl and set of curved knives that rotates vertically on horizontal axle.

Filling Meat Machine

These meat machines are used for filling every types of meat in containers like glass jars, casings, cans and so on. There is some most common variety of filling machine for small and medium size operations. These machine models are generally equipped through portioning and twisting plan.

Clipping machine

Clipping machines are generally used in bigger operations and in most situations operated by compressed air. Hand clippers are available for the medium-scale operations. Clipping machines situate small aluminum sealing clips in the sausage ends and change the manual tying of sausages. Clipping machines can be connected to filling machines as well.

Combined equipment

There are various modern facilities that can combine operations like cooking and cooling for meat products in one nonstop procedure.