Cleaning that would take some doing. By the way, nice looking summer sausage you just made!
Can you imagine how long it takes to wash that place downand clean it every day.
Interesting video, Woodcutter, but some of the equipment and technology shown is somewhat crude compared to current and emerging technology. One company I'm familiar with, Mayekawa of Japan, has adapted the robotics of auto manufacturing and significantly refined them for meat processing. Their equipment uses pressure sensors, 3D, and X Ray technology simultaneously on devices that debone chicken and turkey breasts and legs as well as ham and pork shoulder deboners with an efficiency that would equal a highly skilled butcher, especially when considering that they operate at a significantly higher volume and do so continuously.
Pretty amazing! Doesn't get tired.
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They don't care about QA anymore, oh they like to say it, but they are not willing to pay for it. I hate to say this after all the bragging I have done on my butcher but I am moving to the Sam's/Walmart butchers. No not because of the price, because of the product. Seems I get rotten meat every other week these days in factory cryopacs. Butcher says she doesn't buy the food, and the owners shop for the "Good Deals". So this week I am going to start ordering from Walmart. If I am leaving and I know them, they have got to be seeing a lose of sales.
Amazing piece of technology but I really question how you get proper quality control.
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Don't hold back, Foamheart, tell us how you feel! I have to agree though. When I was growing up we were on the lower end of the economic scale. However, my parents paid a bit more to buy from the local butcher who sold quality meat. Of course, so did everyone else in the neighborhood so the prices were only slightly higher than the supermarkets. Oh well. I learned young, you can't go back.
They don't care about QA anymore, oh they like to say it, but they are not willing to pay for it. I hate to say this after all the bragging I have done on my butcher but I am moving to the Sam's/Walmart butchers. No not because of the price, because of the product. Seems I get rotten meat every other week these days in factory cryopacs. Butcher says she doesn't buy the food, and the owners shop for the "Good Deals". So this week I am going to start ordering from Walmart. If I am leaving and I know them, they have got to be seeing a lose of sales.
Its a shame, I know the owners of the store, they now have two more stores in 10 years and are presently building another one. I guess Sh*t sells and people today come and go in a transient world and that is their target marketplace. <Shrugs> I know it wasn't my philosophy when in business, I'd rather sell one perfect item at a 100% mark-up w/ parts and service, than to sell 10 at a 10% mark-up POS (think about men in Black), out the door.
Walmart/Sams can give a 6 week due date and the IGA gives 1 day off the shelf and you can see the blood standing already?
Sorry I'll get off my soapbox, its just a different world this day! (Its a damn shame too!)
PS:: Ya gotta love the new Google delivery system.....LOL
Yeah, because if there's something that 3rd world countries can't do is raise chickens.They are successful with chicken - indistinguishable with real chicken, and working on other products as well.