Collagen casings

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Advantages and uses of collagen casings

Collagen casing is a kind of edible breathable casing, which is generally made of the dermis, tendon and bone glue of animal skin, which contains rich collagen
Collagen casings have similar properties to natural casings, but are also easier to produce than natural casings. Because the production of traditional natural casing products is limited, there is a shortage of casings in the market, the emergence of collagen casings solves this problem, and has the advantages of hot casings
The collagen casing is shaped like a seamless tube with no holes or adhesions. The color is translucent beige. The smell has a weak smoky smell or the characteristic smell of collagen.
The advantages of collagen casings
1. Good taste, good transparency, simple production process.
2. High air permeability and moisture permeability. Collagen casings have the ability to "breathe", allowing gaseous moisture to permeate during smoking or cooking without causing loss of contents. Due to its special structure, it can fully inhale the smoked spices into the sausage and retain its aroma (during the shelf life). Products packaged with collagen casings can be fried and will not fall off during storage and cooking.
3. Thermal stability. Protein casings can maintain the same product size during cooling and storage, and no space bubbles appear, thus ensuring product quality.
4. Be flexible. Collagen casings have a certain elasticity and can be filled with 5-7% more content.
5. Aesthetics. First, the natural shrinkage of the protein casing ensures a smooth and beautiful surface of the sausage; Secondly, the use of protein casing in quantitative enema can keep the product shape and size neat and beautiful during enema; Third, the use of colored protein casings can improve the appearance of the final product.
Use of collagen casings
(1) Smoked non-smoked cooking sausages, such as Frankfurt and Vienna sausages.
(2) Sausages that need to be fried and baked (need to be resistant to high temperature), such as breakfast sausage and Taiwan grilled sausage.
(3) Chinese sausage.
(4) Salami fermented sausage.
(5) Fresh sausage, frozen sausage.
(6) Round ham (large diameter casing)
In short, collagen casings are suitable for a variety of edible casings such as crispy sausage, hot dog sausage, Taiwanese grilled sausage, ham sausage, breakfast sausage, air dried sausage, etc. (can replace animal casings).