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.
Two Centimetres of Overhang: The Tray Sizing Error That Wicks Drip Into the Stack
A pork plant in Denmark cut its pads from a 1,000 mm master roll to 620 by 420 mm for a 600 by 400 mm Euro tray, because the extra 20 mm on each side looked like good coverage. Six weeks later, the bottom tray of every stack had a wet rim and the pallet underneath was stained. Nothing was wrong with…
GN 1/1, Half Pan or Full Sheet: Cutting Pads to Fit Standard Pans
Most complaints about pads not fitting come down to measuring the outside of a pan instead of the inside. A GN 1/1 pan is 530 × 325 mm across the rim, but the usable floor inside the lip is nearer 505 × 300 mm, and the difference is exactly where a pad either lies flat or curls up at one…
