What is pork trimming and how is it used?

To simplify and facilitate the transportation, storage and processing of meat, apply trimming. It can significantly reduce the time and financial costs in the production of meat products.

If you literally translate the word "trimming" from the English language, you get a not very pleasant meaning for the Russian person - "trimming." By definition, trimming is the result of cutting, deboning or trimming carcass pieces that do not contain bones, skins, and connective tissue. The percentage of fat content in such pieces should not exceed the value of 70. And under this definition do not fall into small natural pieces of meat that do not contain bones. They can be used in food after heat treatment.

However, do not confuse trimming with meat trimmings. These pieces of pork are formed in the manufacture of even and regular shape of the meat product for retail sale. Trimming is sold only in warehouses and bases. It is mainly used in production.

According to the accepted designation, it is possible to determine the percentage of lean and fatty meat in trimming. For example, trimming 65% or trimming 65/35. This means that the product contains 65% lean meat and 35% fat.

There are three types of trimming: pork, beef and mutton. Pork, in turn, are divided into head and corps.

Meat of the head more wiry and solid. It is cut only from the head. In the people the product is also called "meat of pig heads." In appearance it looks like stuffing.

Nowadays, the meat industry practically does not use manual cutting of meat carcasses, after all, progress takes its toll. And to replace the ordinary cutting knife came automated and manual trimmers. Hence, the name takes trimming, meaning a product produced with a trimmer.

Large pieces of the carcass cut with the involvement of automated lines. After that, hand trimmers refine the obtained pieces of meat. Thanks to the trimmers, the process does not take much time.

Pork trimming is the raw material for a variety of convenience foods, sausages, sausages, wieners. All manufacturers of semi-finished products use it. This allows you to reduce the time, labor, financial costs, respectively, to increase profits.

Basically, this raw material is used for the manufacture of boiled sausages and minced meat, which are subjected to heat treatment before eating. More lean trimming is used to make sausages and sausages. The product with a high content of fat is used to make minced meat and aspic.

In fact, pork trimming is only raw material, and it is worth remembering that it must go through several processing steps in order to become edible. This product is intended for production, it is impossible to use such meat in the economic or food purposes.

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