... fish.
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Whole fish, fish fillets or meat can also be dried on drying racks made
of chicken wire or bamboo poles (Figure 12). The disadvantage of this
method ... fish needs about 3-1 0 days to
dry. After drying, the dried fish is difficult to bend. Some of the dried
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5 Drying
5. 1 General information on natural...
... following preservation methods are discussed: salting, drying and
smoking of fish and meat, fermenting of fish, canning of fish and
meat, and cooling and freezing of fish and meat.
Contents
5
6.2 ... drying 37
5. 2 Preparation 38
5. 3 Hanging fish and meat up to dry 38
5. 4 The drying process 40
5. 5 Dried fish and meat: storage and use...
... acidity of a product is indicated by its pH. Fish and meat have a
neutral pH, i.e. 7. Bacteria only grow between a minimum pH of 4 .5
and a maximum of 8-9 with an optimum of 6. 5- 7 .5. As a result, fish ... can be made. These often have a very special
odour and taste, such as smoked fish and many local fermented prod-
ucts.
Preservation of fish and...
... pieces of meat.
Examples of different thicknesses which are used are:
? strips of 1 × 1 cm
? flat strips of 0 .5 × (3, 4 or 5 cm)
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The exact shape of the ... of fish
3.2 Butchering
Only a brief description of how to butcher livestock is given here. The
storage life of consumer meat and meat products depends on t...
... Put the meat on top of this layer of salt. Put another 1-2 cm layer of
salt on top of the layer of meat. Alternate one layer of meat, one
layer of salt, etc., until the pile is about 1-1 .5 metres ... If the fish sink, add more salt.
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You will need:
? Fresh, raw meat in long strips of about 1 cm thick
? Salt. Use...
...
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would no longer allow moisture to pass through and therefore the in-
side of the fish would not be able to dry properly. Insufficiently dried
fish or meat ... uni-
formly smoked. The ovens are sensitive to the influence of rain and
wind. An advantage is, of course, the low cost of materials to make
these ovens.
Preservati...
... added to the fish- salt mix-
ture.
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There are three kinds of fermented fish products:
1 the fish flesh is converted into a liquid fish sauce;
2 the fish is converted ... prepara-
tion of nuoc-mam
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On a larger scale the fresh, not cleaned fish are mixed with salt and
put in bambo...
... 31
5. 1 Quality of the fresh product 32
5. 2 Preparation 32
5. 3 Drying methods 34
5. 4 When is the drying process finished? 40
5. 5 Packing and storage 40
5. 6 Consuming dried products 41
5. 7 ... are micro-organisms, and what factors affect their
growth? 10
2.3 What do micro-organisms do to fruits and vegetables? 12
3 Preparation 15
3.1 Cleaning and washing 15
3.2 L...