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Pieces of meat are tumbled with a marinade in a tumbler that has a smoothly continuous surrounding side wall with no protrusions or baffles or other protrusions contacting the pieces of meat. The tumbler is rotated about the axis of the side wall and gas is pumped from the tumbler during the tumblin

Pieces of meat are tumbled with a marinade in a tumbler that has a smoothly continuous surrounding side wall with no protrusions or baffles or other protrusions contacting the pieces of meat. The tumbler is rotated about the axis of the side wall and gas is pumped from the tumbler during the tumbling to maintain a reduced pressure. The gas may be pumped to maintain a lower reduced pressure for a first time interval and to permit a higher pressure, still below atmospheric pressure, for a second period of time during a rest period. These two pressure levels are alternated during the alternate tumbling and rest periods.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A method for treating pieces of food by tumbling in a marinade, the method comprising:(a) tumbling the pieces of food with a marinade in a gentle kneading action so the pieces simply roll over each other, said pieces being tumbled in a sealed tumbler having a smoothly continuous, su

[ I claim:] [1.] A method for treating pieces of food by tumbling in a marinade, the method comprising:(a) tumbling the pieces of food with a marinade in a gentle kneading action so the pieces simply roll over each other, said pieces being tumbled in a sealed tumbler having a smoothly continuous, surrounding interior longitudinal side wall having a central axis parallel to the longitudinal sidewall and having no protrusions contacting the pieces of food to avoid impacting the food against a solid surface, the tumbler being rotated about the axis of the side wall; and(b) pumping gas from the tumbler to attain a reduced pressure at a first pressure value and then subsequently pumping gas from the tumbler during the tumbling to maintain a reduced, subatmospheric pressure during rotation until the pressure is returned to atmospheric pressure for removing the pieces of food from the tumbler; rein rotation is such as to avoid lifting the product higher than the axis of rotation and dropping the product while being rotated.