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Pork, often with some beef and fat, is minced, mixed with nitrite curing salt and a little sugar, stuffed into casings and ripened warm for about a day while lactic bacteria sour it. The spreadable kind is usually smoked, dried only a little and kept chilled; firm kinds are dried longer until they slice. Made in 6 steps over 28 h. The longest step, ripen warm and humid, takes 28 h (Tönz A 2024) and runs at 24 °C (Tönz A 2024). Salt is 2.4 % (Tönz A 2024). Latilactobacillus sakei and Latilactobacillus curvatus, Lactiplantibacillus plantarum, Pediococcus acidilactici and P. pentosaceus do most of the fermenting.
Amounts from a sourceAmounts are percent of the batter for the spreadable Mettwurst made in a Swiss challenge study. German guidelines set the meat cuts and minimum meat protein, not a recipe.
Starter culture · Optional in practice; starters are common in industry[toenz2024][sff2022]
Pepper and other spices · Spreadable types are often seasoned with paprika; coarse Braunschweiger is flavoured with rum[wp-de]
Starter
defined culture (most industrial) or spontaneous
Total time across the recorded steps: 28 h
Start
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What changes:Cold pork and fat are minced fine
Step 1 of 6
Chill and mince the meat
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
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Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria
Latilactobacillus sakei
L. curvatus
L. plantarum
Pediococcus acidilactici
German guidelines call for fine mincing in spreadable Mettwurst. Output: finely minced meat and fat for spreadable types; medium to coarse for firm types.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
Spreadable Mettwurst ripens for only about a day and dries very little, so fat coats the meat and it spreads; it must be kept chilled. Firm Mettwurst is ripened and dried longer, like salami.
Braunschweiger MettwurstSpreadable Mettwurst; the coarse Braunschweiger type is flavoured with rum.
Westfälische grobe MettwurstCoarse-grained firm Mettwurst of pork, beef and bacon.
Luftgetrocknete MettwurstAir-dried, coarse to medium grain, usually in pork small intestine.
Zwiebelmettwurst and Frische MettwurstCoarse and unsmoked, made to be eaten soon after making.
Safety
Mettwurst is eaten raw. Spreadable types are only lightly dried and must be kept chilled. In a challenge study, a cold-smoking and ripening process left most of a norovirus model active in the sausage, so viruses such as hepatitis E from raw pork may survive.
Hazards the sources name: Listeria monocytogenes; Hepatitis E virus and noroviruses (cold smoking did not inactivate a norovirus model in the sausage).