Microwave Meat Roasting^*

Microwave Heating Distributions in Slabs, Spheres and Cylinders with Relation to Food Processing

“…Lambert's law has been applied in many studies to predict temperature profiles (Ohlsson and Bengtsson, 1971;Stuchly and Hamid, 1972;Chan et al, 1972;Nykvist and Decareau, 1976;Taoukis et al, 1987). However, Lambert's law is only valid for samples that can be regarded as infinitely thick, which usually does not hold for food applications.…”

Effects of Dielectric Properties on Temperature Distributions in Food Model during Microwave Heating.

“…Padua developed a mathematical model for predicting the temperature profiles of cylindrical samples of agar gels containing sucrose heated by microwaves (Padua, 1993). Nykvist and Decareau (1978) developed a two-dimensional mathematical model to simulate microwave cooking of cylindrical meat roasts and have demonstrated good agreement with limited experimental data. Ohlsson and Risman ( 1978) studied the temperature distribution with hot and cold spot in spheres and cylinders using an infrared thernrograph technique and using computer simulations in calculations .…”

Microwave processing of meat

“…Microwave heating was primly applied in agriculture, in grain drying and insect control. In addition, it was used for food drying, blanching, pasteurization and cooking (Chen et al, 1971;Lin & Li, 1971;Maurer et al, 1971;Bhartia et al, 1973;Nelson, 1973;Jaynes, 1975;Avisse & Varaquaux, 1977;Nykvist & Decareau, 1976;Sobiech, 1980;Shivhare et al, 1994;Tulasidas et al, 1995;Begum & Brewer, 2001;Hong et al, 2001;Sumnu, 2001;Ramesh et al, 2002;Beaudry et al, 2003;Severini et al, 2004;Williams et al, 2004;Zhang et al, 2004). Frozen materials are usually thawed or tempered before further processing in food industry.…”