Lamb Display Test For Window Dressers

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30998, 2 March 1966, Page 23

Lamb Display Test For Window Dressers

The ingenuity of a Cashel street department store’s window dressers was fully tested earlier this week in order that the store could hold an over-flat lamb display. So as to keep the meat in the window at a sufficiently low temperature to prevent it from going bad, the window dressing staff had to devise a sort of improvised refrigertor. A false ceiling had to be put in and the wails of the window were then lined with thick plastic foam sheeting. The cooling system was provided by an air conditioning plant which seven or eight times a day has to be defrosted. The average temperature of the temporary refrigerator is about 48deg. At first condensation formed on the outside of the glass windows and anyone looking to see the earcases had first to wipe the window. This problem was eventually solved by the application of a windscreen demisting agent. Each night the meat is taken from the window and deep frozen before being put back on display the next morning. The display i« meant to

show to the public, and more | particularly the farming cornel muniity, what the country is § losing in the production of b overfat rather than the ideal s export type of lamb.

Exhibited is an overfat carcase and side, and an ideal carcase and slide. Beneath both specimens are various cuts showing their respective fat content. In the overfat carcase the meat content is 46.48 per cent, as against 57.38 per cent in the ideal one.

The display l« a co-opera-tive effort by the Primary Producers’ Co-operative Society, the New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Society, the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company (which supplied the exhibits) and the Meat Board.