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extraction; and the age of the meat (King and nosus muscles were sliced parallel to fiber
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length into 2 cm2 strips; a portion of the to force the pieces of meat into close contact
mixed strips was minced twice through a to enable the protein matrix on the surface of
3-mm plate to form a homogenate; the meat the meat pieces to cross-link or bind upon the
strips and homogenate (2.4 kg) were mixed application of heat. Shaping can be done by
together for one minute and stuffed into a forcing the meat pieces into a casing or a
pressure mold with the muscles fibers running mold. The mold could be a simple vacuum
along the length of the mold to obtain 12 bag in which the meat pieces are stuffed and
treatment combinations [3 pressures (1380, then shaped manually by hand, or a more