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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ralph E. Weldy, Schererville, IN (US);
Brent Afman, Hammond, IN (US);
Assignee:
OSI Industries, Inc., Aurora, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 1/314 ; A23L 1/318 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L 1/314 ; A23L 1/318 ;
Abstract
Methods of curing and processing pork bellies into fully-cooked bacon have been developed that eliminates both injecting the whole pork belly with pickle solution and smokehouse treatment thereafter. The method of the present invention immerses individual pork slices into a pickle solution sufficient for each slice to absorb 110%-120% of green weight and employs a single heating step that fully-cooks the slices to achieve the necessary weight reduction to meet the regulatory product definition for cooked bacon.