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Kinetics of vacuum and air cooling of chicken breasts arranged in stacks
F C Schmidt1, A C C Silva1, E Zanoelo1
11Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Paraná, DEQ/UFPR, Curitiba, PR 81531-980 Brazil.
Abstract:
The aim of this study was to compare the vacuum and air cooling of cooked chicken breast samples arranged in stacks with one, two and three layers (1 kg per layer). The cooling rate obtained with vacuum cooling was approximately three times faster than that of air cooling. Moreover, a more homogeneous cooling was obtained with vacuum cooling, with similar temperature reductions for samples at different positions of the stack. On the other hand, vacuum cooling led to mass losses of 11-12%, while air cooling led to losses of 7-8%. The counts of mesophiles and psychrophiles of the vacuum-cooled samples were lower than those observed for air-cooled samples after ten days of product storage. Thus, the results presented in this work illustrate the potential benefits and disadvantages of the vacuum cooling technique as compared to the air cooling, especially for the processing of small meat cuts.
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