Finally, sodium nitrate is added to prevent botulism and acts as a preservative as well. It is the sodium nitrite that gives Spam its bright pink color—without it, Spam would discolor and become brown. Hormel would likely agree that Spam begins with quality pork and ham. Hornel no longer supplies its own meat for Spam, but the company chooses the meat carefully.
Meat-cutters who cut the meat from the ham carefully perform their tasks and throw the pieces into the appropriate gondola. Also, the huge hydrostatic cooker has an alarm that trips if the computer detects there is any problem with the batch.
The workers must fix that problem within three minutes. If they don't, the entire batch's viability is in question. Portions of each batch are examined to make sure the batch has the right amount of pork shoulder to ham. Department of Agriculture does not permit any Spam cans to leave the processing plant for 10 days. The bacteria content is also tested. Finally, taste tests are routine at Hormel Foods Corporation.
Every Friday all executives involved in Spam production meet to visually inspect and sometimes taste several different batches of Spam produced during the week. Since Spam was first released it has undergone many transformations. People are coming up with endless recipes that call for Spam, and Hormel is trying to incorporate every consumer's need into their product development.
Spam with less sodium is now available. The launch of Hormel's website dedicated to Spain now provides consumers with a catalog devoted to Spam and Spam labeled products. Wyman, Carol. Spam: A Biography. Hormel Foods, Toggle navigation. Made How Volume 6 Spam Spam. Spam is a mixture of ground pork meats, seasonings, and other ingredients that have been cooked under vacuum pressure.
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When it comes to international Spam, though, that's made overseas in factories in South Korea, the Philippines, and Denmark via the Austin Daily Herald. The plant hasn't been without its issues, as they report workers had a tendency to develop autoimmune disorders, particularly those working with the pigs' heads. It's an almost mind-numbingly efficient assembly line where the slaughtered pigs are broken down one piece at a time, and we're talking about a lot of pigs.
According to Bloomberg via Marketplace , 20, pigs are processed into Spam each and every day. Spam has an image of being mostly a weird sort of mystery meat, but there's only six ingredients : pork with ham , salt , water, potato starch, sugar , and sodium nitrite. That's it! There's also nothing that sounds weird or unfamiliar, as even if you're not sure what some of these things do, you've undoubtedly seen them in other foods.
According to How Products are Made , Spam starts looking less like pigs and more like Spam when the meat is sliced from the bone — a process done by hand — and ground into 8,pound batches. A metal detector is used to make sure nothing has gotten into the batch in any part of the process, and then it's transferred to a series of vacuum mixers that are capable of super-chilling the batch to freezing. The rest of the ingredients are dumped in, the mixer is sealed to be airtight, and it's mixed.
Why the cold and the vacuum? It's to help prevent a huge amount of liquid from being released when the meat is cooked. You're familiar enough with the basics, like salt and sugar. But what is the point of some of the other stuff? First, sodium nitrite. You may have heard that condemned in popular media as carcinogenic, but according to the World Cancer Research Fund via the BBC , it's not so much the compounds as it is the prep and cooking methods.
When nitrites are mixed into something high in amino acids then cooked, that's when nitrosamines form and that's what has been linked to cancer. So, why include them? They prevent the growth of bacteria that can cause food poisoning if it's ingested, and no one wants their Spam with a side of botulism. They're also what gives Spam that distinctive pink color, thanks to a chemical reaction that happens between the nitrites and the protein in the meat.
What about potato starch? Wired says that's included because the long cooking time of Spam would otherwise leave the contents incredibly dry, and the potato starch helps preserve moisture as well as, LiveScience says, hold the whole thing together. And that's a recent addition to the recipe, only showing up in to also help get rid of that unappetizing layer of gelatin via Smithsonian.
And why do they describe it as "pork, with ham"? That describes the two cuts of meat used: pork shoulder and ham, which is the preserved and cured leg of the pig.
Here's where things get a little weird. The still-raw pork mixture is funneled through a few filling machines until it gets to the cans. According to How Products are Made , a machine scoops up the raw Spam and pushes it into the can from the bottom. It's sealed, stamped, and sent on its way.
Clearly, they're not raw when you get them, so what gives? According to Wired , vacuum-sealing the raw pork product first and cooking it in the cans is what gives Spam that super-long shelf life and makes it pretty much perfect for keeping on the shelf until you get that once-every-few-years craving.
Or, you know, until the world ends and civilization as we know it crumbles around us. And it took a long time to get that canning process right. Before Hormel's extensive experimentation, canned meat would end up as dry inside but still surrounded in water.
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