FOOD PROCESSING AND PRESERVATION
FOOD PRESERVATION METHODS
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Fumigation
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Smoking
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Drying
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Marination
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Detailed explanation-1: -Smoking is the process of cooking, flavoring, or preserving the food by exposing it to the smoke from burning or smoldering plant materials, most often wood. From the engineering point of view there is no such process as smoking.
Detailed explanation-2: -smoking, in food processing, the exposure of cured meat and fish products to smoke for the purposes of preserving them and increasing their palatability by adding flavour and imparting a rich brown colour.
Detailed explanation-3: -Smoking is the process of flavouring, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to the smoke from burning or smouldering plant materials like wood and that too hardwood. Smoking of food is done at the commercial as well as the home level.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hot Smoking. Hot smoking is done in the smokehouse or more modern electric kilns, usually over a short period of time, just until the meat is cooked. Cold Smoking. Liquid Smoke.