When manufacturing sausage products we essentially do four things; comminute meat (comminute is a fancy word for reduction in particle size i.e. grinding, flaking, dicing or chopping), season the product, manipulate proteins and shape the product.
The term “time-tested” may not properly describe the processes of grinding and stuffing meat, simply because it may not infer enough distance in time. To be certain, grinding protein is an art and skill that dates forever, and stuffing of meat into casings is just as longstanding a tradition as far as protein-processing goes.
Sara Lee Corp will raise overall prices in the high single-digit percentages this fiscal year, with increases on everything from Jimmy Dean sausage to frozen pies, an executive said at the Reuters Global Food and Agriculture Summit on Monday.
Senators Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) have introduced a bill to repeal the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit, saying that it would save taxpayers $6 billion.
There is no doubt that Chicago still is very much a meat-processing town, as dozens of companies make their home in the Windy City. Those processors carry on a tradition
I live a few miles west of Wrigley Field, on Chicago’s North Side. I am near Hot Doug’s, the self-acclaimed “sausage superstore” that made international headlines a few
Specialty Foods Group, Inc. (SFG), under license from Nathan’s Famous Systems, Inc., has just launched its new improved Nathan’s all-beef and pork/beef loop sausage, now made with Angus beef. Nathan’s
Poly-clip System is the world’s leading manufacturer of clip closure systems. Its machines play a major role in enabling meat processors to develop new products and open up new markets.Since
The discontinuing of unprofitable products and the introduction of new products is one of the trademarks of a successful meat processor. It can be very challenging to find ways to
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