The Pad That Dried the Product: Over-Absorption at the Surface
Oversized pads can pull 0.5-1.5 percent of weight out of a fillet. How to tell drip absorption from surface drying, and how to size for the load.
Beef at 1.8 Percent, Cod at 6: One Pad Spec Cannot Cover Both
Thaw drip ranges from 1.2 percent in beef to 9 percent in squid. How to convert litres per tonne into pad bands and stop over- or under-specifying.
Ice Glaze Is Not Drip: Counting Water That Was Never Fish
Glaze is 5-12 percent of frozen fish weight and floods pads in the first 90 minutes. How to separate meltwater from protein drip and size correctly.
