NEW FOOD PROCESS

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29748, 15 February 1962, Page 2

NEW FOOD PROCESS

A sample of beef mince which was dehydrated by the new accelerated freeze drying process at the freezing works of the Alliance Freezing Company (Southland! Ltd., on Monday arrived by air in Christchurch on Tuesday and was reconstituted and cooked in the kitchen of a Christchurch home

A note with the sample said that it was originally three-quarters of a pound of mince. In its aluminium foil packet with polythene lining it weighed 3oz when put on the scales tn the kitchen. The housewife who opened the sample described it as a “deep pink wafer biscuit” measuring about 4}in square and about Jin thick It was odourless.

When it was put tn a pot containing about 9oz of water —the weight of water which had been extracted from the meat—it quickly began to soften up and in a minute or two minutes with the aid of a fork it broke up into what looked like ordinary mince After being cooked for a few minutes with salt and some onion the housewife and her husband who sampled it commented that it tasted “just like ordinary mince ”