Bennie L Legaux

US Patent:

45797412, Apr 1, 1986

Filed:

Jul 23, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/633548

Inventors:

Marc C. Hanson - St. Louis Park MN
Bennie L. Legaux - Minneapolis MN
Thomas A. Renshaw - St. Paul MN
Sidney F. Sapakie - Plymouth MN

Assignee:

General Mills, Inc. - Minneapolis MN

International Classification:

A23L 1325
A23P 112

US Classification:

426 92

Abstract:

Disclosed are fabricated seafoods, such as analogue shrimp meats, and their methods of preparation. A fish paste is provided comprising about 60% to 95% surimi, 0% to 5% starch, 0% to 25% water and 0% to 4% vegetable or marine oil. The paste is blended without aeration and kept at less than 10. degree. C. The paste is extruded as a rope to a first heating zone to heat set the exterior to form a skin. The rope is then fed to an in-line static mixture, preferably free floating, to texturize the still soft rope core. The textured rope is then heated again to firm the texturized core. The rope is then shaped into pieces of predetermined size and shape and then coagulated by heat application thereto. The fabricated seafoods so prepared are characterized by the "bite," an aligned or braided fibrous interior, and the skin of real shrimp.