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Taco Meat Production Process

Taco meat production involves preparing high-quality meat, which is finely ground and seasoned with a proprietary blend of spices and water. This mixture is thoroughly cooked to ensure even cooking. Following cooking and processing, taco meat can be chilled or frozen and packaged under controlled conditions for distribution to foodservice, restaurants and ready-meal applications.

Natec Network provides a continuous processing solution that optimises space, reduces processing time, and automates the production process.

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1. Grinding

The beef is finely ground ensuring a consistent size for even cooking and flavor absorption as done by Grinders.

Natec Network Grinders

 

2. Blending / Mixing

The ground beef is mixed with a specific blend of seasonings, spices and water to create the taco meat's signature flavor, texture and moisture. This step can be performed using a Blending Cell.

Natec Network Blending Cell

 

3. Cooking

The ground beef is cooked with continuous stirring to prevent clumping and ensure thorough cooking. To make this process continuous and to eliminate batch to batch deviation the RotaTherm is the best solution.

Natec Network RotaTherm

 

4. Freezing

After cooking the beef is quickly frozen to preserve its flavor and freshness.

 

5. Packaging

The frozen, seasoned beef is then packed into temperature-controlled containers for shipping.

Benefits with the Natec Network

  • Consistent product quality: the continuous process eliminates batch to batch deviation
  • time & space savings: continuous cooking speeds up process and eliminates space requirements for large kettles 
  • Non-stop production: up to 156h between fast CIP
  • High processing capacity: up to 20,000kg/h (44,000lb/h)

Test the process

  • We have R&D spaces at our locations. You can come in and test the process on our machines.

Innovation Space R&D Center

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