Formed hams?

[redzed]

Well we do see these football sized formations of cooked "chicken breast" meat in the supermarket delis. Wonder how the big boys produce these things?

[w1sby]

I saw an episode of "How Do They Do It" or "Modern Marvels" that dealt with formed turkey breast deli meat.
They tumble them in a drum for a while, that gets the proteins jazzed up so when it is pressed it essentially becomes a single mass or meat. They did not mention the addition of any of the "molecular gastronomy" chemicals to assist the process.