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0 or 10 F. Products should not be held in break-up rooms any longer than is absolutely necessary.
10. Product, when received at the retail store, should be put immediately into a 0 F storage room.
11. Display cases in retail stores should be continuously K1H at temperatures of 0 F or lower.
12. Display cases should not be overloaded, expecially above the /reel hue.
12. Temperature of the display cases shoufai be recorded. An alarm should also 6s provided to worn ofexcessive rise in temperature.
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FROZEN MEAT PRODUCTS
r_. Qf products and Method of Preparation, Sanitation, Packaging, Age of Meat for Freezing, Effect of Storage Temperature '^Qualify* Storage Life of frozen Meats, Effect of Packaging, Changes in Product During Storage, Effect of Freezing ** Temperature on Quality, Effect of Thawing on Qualify
ARLY
experience with frozen meats did little to
E encourage further expansion in this field. The difficulty
it that
was that space for display and storage was ex-
tremely limited, and the consumer was not prepared to accept
jnaen meat products.
More recently, hotels, restaurants and hospitals (the insti-
fional trade) were among the first to recognize the advantages
to he from the use of frozen meats. Such organizations
gxount for about 20 percent of the meat consumed. The fact
that frozen pre-portioncd meat with known price per unit
could be supplied by the packers had strong appeal to the
institutional buyers. The portions could be supplied in dif
ferent weights, in any grade or cut or degree of trim desired.
Meat
had been a costly and troublesome operation
vhea performed by the institutions themselves, so there was
tittle incentive to continue it.
The retail customer also came to recognize the convenience
offered by frozen meat in prepared form. Surveys show that
this factor of convenience is of prime importance. A majority
of consumers buy meat for use two or three days after pur
chase, and not for longer storage. Meat in stable-form gives
desired flexibility in meal planning. Many consumers who lack
confidence in their ability to select good quality meat find a
branded product of known quality answers this problem.
A partial list of uncooked frozen meat products includes:
various types of steaks (boneless or with bone in); chops (veal
lamb, and pork); cutlets of veal or pork (regular or breaded);
chip steaks (laminated thin slices of meat); ground meat as
patties or in chop shape (regular or breaded); roasts of many
types; stew meat; and variety meats such as oxtails, kidneys,
Ever, and sweetbreads. Precooked meat dishes vary widely
Tcble 1 .... Total Meat, Frozen Meat, Precooked Prepared Meat, Fish and Fowl, and Total Frozen Food Produced 1946-1959
MSUons of Pouadi
Tear Total Moat
1946 22,934 1947 23,338 1948 21,300
21,662
22,075
1951 21,898
22,994
24,688
1955
' 25,214 26,896
1956 27,576
27,794 26,052
27,925
Frozen Moat
20 15 25 27 35
55 80 125 175 250
325 365 340 325
Proeookod Prepared
Moot, Fuh, Fowl
51 50 40 60 75
135 200 325 450 625
750 840 920 1040
Total Frozen Food
1,900 1,533 1,793 2,380 3,317
4,349 5,449 6,299 7,249 7,882
9,007 9,044 8,767 10,276
and include beef, lamb, veal, pork, and kidney stews, ham sticks, Swiss and Salisbury steaks, beef, veal and lamb gou lash, corned beef, corned beef hash, roast pork and dressing, pot roast and roast beef in gravy, veal and pork sausage pat ties, meat balls and spaghetti, meat loaf, stuffed peppers, and others. Various types of pies available are beef, lamb, veal, pork, ham and chili pot pies. Entire dinners are frozen on metal foil plates and include as entrees ham steak, meat loaf, roast or pot roast of beef, spareribs, steak, Swiss steak or veal cutlet.
The statistics of production for frozen meats and prepared foods containing meats, fish, or fowl show extremely rapid growth rates in the last 13 years (Table 1). Although frozen meat accounts for only a small percentage of the total meat used, the steady growth indicates that an increasingly more important amount of meat will be converted into these more convenient forms. The rate of growth of frozen meats in the more convenient forms for the period from 1950 to 1959 is more rapid than that of all frozen foods (Table 2).
TYPES OF PRODUCTS AND METHOD OF PREPARATION
The feature of convenience is the most obvious one to the consumer, and the retailer as well will concur on this point. To the latter, other advantages are: saving of space and cost of doing his own meat cutting, better by-product utilization by the packer, saving of freight cost, storage space, and display space.
Fresh Meats
In addition to the familiar methods of meat handling, special processing steps and equipment have been developed for the production of frozen meats. The basic steps are cutting or sawing, chipping, grinding and forming, pressing and slicing.
Steaks and chops may be prepared either-with the bone left
Table 2 .... Increase of Consumption of Frozen Meat and Precooked Prepared Meat, Fish, and Fowl over Total Frozen Food Consumption of 1949
Year
1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Percent of 1949 Total Consumption
Meat
Prepared Preeookec
Total
Meat, ftdt. Fowl Frozen Food
130% 204
296
463 648
926 1202
1352 1259
1202
125 225
333 542
750 1042
1250
1400 1533
1733
139 184
229 265
304 331
378
380 368 432