FOOD PROCESSING AND PRESERVATION
FOOD PRESERVATION METHODS
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Curing
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Salting
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Drying
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Jam-making
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Detailed explanation-1: -Curing Foods. Curing is the addition to meats of some combination of salt, sugar, nitrite and/or nitrate for the purposes of preservation, flavor and color.
Detailed explanation-2: -Curing is a method of preserving food (usually meat or fish) to prevent spoilage. Food can be cured by brining (soaking food in a saltwater solution), smoking, or salting (packing food in salt)―we focus on salting here, which is easy to do at home.
Detailed explanation-3: -Salting is the preservation of food with dry edible salt. It is related to pickling in general and more specifically to brining also known as fermenting (preparing food with brine, that is, salty water) and is one form of curing.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dry Curing. Best used to cure hams, bacon and smaller cuts of meat, dry curing involves applying the cure mix directly on the meat. Brine Curing. Combination Curing. Sausage Curing.