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|  De-frozen |  Heding process is done by head cutter |  Headed bonito |  Knives | |||
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|  Fillet into three parts |  "Kame Bushi" from fillet |  Cut into two pieces |  Four pcs. of fillet from one bonito for "katsuo bushi" | |||
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|  Place the fillet into boiling tray |  Put into boiling pool |  Boiling process |  Control panel | |||
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|  Cooling down |  Soaked in water and remove unnecessary skin, scall |  Keep most of skin on |  Drying process | |||
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|  Keep the stable temperature |  Inside the dryer |  Oak, Cherry for smoking |  Making up by paste | |||
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|  Preparing paste by mixing cooked meat with raw meat |  Smoking process |  Preparing for smoking |  Inside of the smoker | |||
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|  Control panel |  After being smoked |  Making up by grinder |  Knives fot making up | |||
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|  Making up and shaping |  Shaping |  Shaping |  Now called "Ara bushi" | |||
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|  Fermentation |  Eurotium herbariorum |  "Katsuo Bushi" |  Yield is Approx. one sixth | |||
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| Satsuma bushi or Ara bushi | Katsuo bushi | Traditional way of Katsuo Bushi process | ||||
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