PRESERVING MEAT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2285, 20 October 1914, Page 8

PRESERVING MEAT

SYDNEY CHEMIST'S INVENTION. ICE DISPENSED WITH. Suspended from the ceiling in a laboratory in. Morphett Buildings, Haymarket, Sydney, are a number of carcasses of sheep, rabbits, poultry, etc. Some of them (states tho "Sunday Times,"/ of Sydney) have been there for almost a. year. Others ivere treated on March 28 last, and are claimed to bo as good as the' clay they wero killed; and ill not a single instances has ice been used in their, preservation. The inventor is Mr.' F. Easson, of the Sydney Erection Co., and it has taken him only twelve mouths to perfect an idea that promises to revolutionise the meat preserving industry. His process is as simple, as ii is effective, and consists solely of generating the gasos contained ill'salt, and putting them into concentrated form. ■ The articles to be preserved are then placed in a room, and subjected to the fumes from the mixture -

The length' of timo the carcasses remain in the chamber depends on the length of the, period they are intended to bo preserved. . The gases arc generated by :i retort, and -while preserving the meat, kill all the' bacteria. They penetrate every portion of the carcass, including bone, tissue, and fat. They are -also harmless. Carcasses which Mr. Easson has had in preservation for some months arc, of course, slightly affected by atmospheric conditions; though they niay be'restored to their normal state by being immersed in salt and.water; but apart from this tlie mcatis'as fresh and as succulent to the taste as the day it was killed. The new-process, which is to be known-as the Commonwealth Meat Preserving Process, does not affect tho flavour of the meat preserved in tho slightest, and its. possibilities are certainly enorinon's. •'■■';■ ■''.■■ •

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