New Thawing Process.

Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 54, 8 January 1895, Page 2

New Thawing Process.

A Loudon correspondence writes: — " Though Mr Montague Nelsou has the Agents-General and others into his confidence as regards the ins and outs of his thawing process, no members of the press fraternity proper have aa yet been invited to look upon the modus operandi of the patent. But, of course the details could not be kept dark ve,ry long, and this week Mr Mennell gives in the British Australian a few * secondhand ' particulars. Like most successful inventions, Mr Nelson's process is simplicity itself, aud one wonders why somebody did not think of it before. Imagine a chamber with a.grated flooring and steam pipes running underneath, from the ceiling of which are hung carcases of mutton or quarters of beef. It will be plain that the heat rising from the steam pipes will rapidly thaw the suspended meat. Well, that is the first part of Mr Nelson's scheme. The second portion of the process consists of pipes arranged along the walls of the chamber through which freezing brine passes. These pipes annex all particles of moisture in the air and take up and condense the dampness drawn out of the meat by the heat. Were it not for these brine pipes the meat would act as a condenser as in the case of ordinary thawing. Simple, isn't it?"