A grinder for grinding or processing food is presented. The grinder has a top for inputting food into the grinder. The grinder has an inner cavity for receiving the inputted food. The inner cavity has a first clip and a second clip for coupling to a hole plate. The hole plate is for grinding or processing the inputted food. The hole plate has a first end, a second end, a first cap, a second cap, a first connecting peg and a second connecting peg. The first cap is coupled to the first end and the first cap is coupled to the first connecting peg. The first connecting peg is removably coupled to the first clip. The second cap is coupled to the second end and the second cap is coupled to the second connecting peg. The second connecting peg is removably coupled to the second clip. The grinder has a motor that is communicatively coupled to a power source. The motor rotating the hole plate to grind or process the food. The grinder may also have one or more lamps to light the work area, further the lamps are preferably LED lamps.

A reconstructed bacon product includes meat sourced exclusively from pork bellies. The product includes a cohesive mass of compressed layers of pork belly fat trimmings and pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments. A method of forming a reconstructed bacon product includes obtaining pork belly lean trimmings of whole muscle segments and pork belly fat trimmings, macerating the pork belly lean trimmings, layering the pork belly lean trimmings and pork belly fat trimmings, compressing the layers, heat processing the layers in a mold to form a cohesive mass, and demolding the cohesive mass.

An apparatus for tearing meat is disclosed. The apparatus includes a gravity-fed hopper including at least one sidewall that forms a first opening configured to receive meat articles and a second opening configured to discharge torn meat articles. The apparatus includes a rotatable spindle element positioned at least partially within the hopper and downstream of the first opening. The rotatable spindle element includes a shaft having a longitudinal axis and a plurality of teeth coupled to the shaft, the teeth being spaced apart from one another. The apparatus includes a plurality of rods, which extend from the sidewall spaced apart from one another and which are interlaced with the plurality of teeth, and a motor coupled to the rotatable spindle element configured to rotate the rotatable spindle element to cause at least some of the plurality of teeth to rotate and pass between two different rods.

Methods for separating lean and fat from beef or other meats and the separation apparatus are disclosed. The methods use microbiocidal fluids to reduce or eliminate possible sources of contamination.

The present invention relates to a meat processed food, into which a gel-like material is locally and quantitatively filled. Provided is a method for producing a meat processed food, having a step of cooling a gelling agent solution prepared by adding a gelling agent into water and then heating and dissolving the gelling agent, so as to prepare a gel-like material having fluidity; and a step of filling the gel-like material into a plurality of predetermined positions inside a meat-containing raw material.

A freezer includes a grinder to obtain a ground meat; a mixer to add fat to the ground meat; a payload bay to receive the ground meat; a plurality of evaporators coupled to the payload bay with a multiplicity of coolant tubes in each evaporator, wherein each tube enters and then exits the payload bay, further comprising one or more cryogenic valves coupled to the coolant tubes; a pump to force coolant flowing through the evaporators; and a processor with code for: chopping the ground meat and during chopping, adding salt and ice to the ground meat being chopped and adding liquid nitrogen to maintain the temperature of the meat being chopped below 5 C. to obtain a chopped meat product; adding fat to the chopped meat product and then chopping the fat and adding liquid nitrogen to maintain the temperature of the chopped meat product and fat being chopped between 1 C. and 10 C. to obtain a chopped meat and fat product, wherein the ground meat, added fat, ice and salt are present in amounts so that the chopped meat and fat product has a fat content of from 1% to 20% by weight based upon the weight of the chopped meat and fat product.

A conveyor apparatus for conveying and processing foodstuffs such as meat is provided. The conveyor apparatus includes a filling device, a mincer which can be coupled to the filling device and having an inlet and an outlet, a closure element which can be mounted to the outlet, a signaling device associated with the closure element, and at least one signal line device for the transmission of signals of the signaling device from the closure element to the filling device. The provision of the signaling device and the signal line device allows for prevention of operation of the cutting elements of the mincer when the closure element is not detected to be in a closed position, thereby making maintenance and repair safer to conduct. A method of conveying foodstuffs in accordance with the apparatus is also provided.

A frozen product of minced fish meat frozen into granules includes: 90 wt % or more of meat granules having a substantially columnar shape with a 3 mm to 7 mm diameter; and 10 wt % or less of meat granules with a short diameter of 2 mm or less. A method of producing the minced fish meat frozen into granules includes: raising the temperature of fish meat which has been frozen at 20 C. or less to a temperature of from 10 C. to 5 C.; mincing the fish meat while maintaining the temperature of the fish meat at 10 C. to 5 C. by using a meat mincer having a feed screw, a plate, and a plate knife at a rotation speed of 200 rpm or less; lowering the temperature of minced fish meat to 20 C. or less; and crushing the minced fish meat frozen at 20 C. or less into granules.

The invention relates to a machine for loosening or cutting the different fibres of the meats for human consumption into small pieces, such as chicken, beef, pork meat or meat from any animal with fibres. This is characterized by having two parallel shafts that rotate in the same direction, wherein by introducing the meat between the two blade-carrying shafts, in relation to the blades of the opposing blade-carrying shaft, permitting the tearing up of the fibres of the meat with the blades, the size of the cut pieces are determined according to the distance between the blades of one blade-carrying shaft and the other with which they intersect. This machine has different transmission means for moving the blade-carrying shafts with the motor force of the motor, given that they engage with the shaft having a speed reducer, which in turn engages with the blade-carrying shafts, wherein these can be pinions that engage with one another or via chains or via pulleys having bands, wherein these cutting machines can be used with combination gear means, as well as pulleys with bands and pinions with chains, which engage with one another or vice versa, wherein the blade-carrying shafts are disposed to be used with peripheral groups in a line of up to 4, 6 and 8 blades on each of the two blade-carrying shafts, and wherein the size of the fibres loosened from the bulk of the fibres is determined by the distance and speed present between the linear peripheral sets between each blade-carrying shaft.

A cutting device, a separator and a method for separating food components using a separator compensates the effects which an increasing wear on a cutting tool arranged on a rotating body have on comminuting a foodstuff by movably arranging the cutting tool on the rotating body.