METHOD FOR PROCESSING PERISHABLE ANIMAL FOOD USING GAS CONTACTED WITH HOT CHARCOAL AND PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR PERISHABLE ANIMAL FOOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the characteristic fishy/bloody smell of perishable animal food, to keep the high quality of the food in raw state over a long period and to obtain a perishable animal food having improved freshness and appearance and free from disagreeable taste and odor caused by attached tar component, etc. ;SOLUTION: Charcoal heated at 850-1200°C is made to contact with oxygen or air of an amount not to cause the complete combustion of the charcoal, the generated gas being in contact with hot carbon is cooled and a perishable animal food such as fish, shellfish and cattle meat is made to contact with the cooled gas after being in contact with the hot charcoal. The cooling of the gas being in contact with the hot charcoal, discharged from a charcoal heating furnace, is preferably carried out by bubbling the gas in a water tank to effect the cooling and the water-washing of the gas.;COPYRIGHT: (C)1997,JPO