Patent ID: 9192173
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: A22C

Abstract:
1. A method of making sets of individual portions of meat, wherein each set of individual portions of meat has a predetermined total weight and each individual portion of meat has a predetermined shape and weight, the method comprising: preparing a deep-frozen mass of meat having an overall weight equal to the predetermined total weight and comprising at least one piece of meat; loading the deep-frozen mass of meat into a mold having a cavity formed by an upstanding outer rim and a flat or nonplanar floor surface corresponding to desired shapes of the individual portions to be made; pressing a first stamp having a shape that is complementary to a shape of the cavity down into the cavity inward of the upwardly projecting outer rim and deforming the deep-frozen mass of meat into a continuous mass of deep-frozen meat covering and conforming to the floor of the mold, having an exactly defined shape, size, and weight and filling the entire cavity within the rim; removing the first stamp from the mold; and applying a second stamp to the continuous mass of deep-frozen meat to separate the continuous mass of deep-frozen meat into the individual meat portions of predetermined shape and weight in the mold.