A SUCCESSFUL INVENTION.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume VII, Issue 68, 19 September 1901, Page 3

A SUCCESSFUL INVENTION.

TREATMENT OF ESOZEN MEAT. Mr. A. H. Chapman, a sheep farmer of Kurow, New Zealand, claims to have discovered an improved method of treating frozen meat of all kinds whilst in the operation of thawing. He states that by the use of coverings or envelopments of a material which is waterproof and airtight, or semiairtight, the process of defrosting is accomplished without discolouration of the meat or the meat becoming flabby in appearance. Believing that the moisture on the thawing carcases came from the atmosphere, and not from the meat, he tried the plan of covering the carcase in a waterproof material. The result proved very successful, and further trials went to demonstrate the correctness of his theory. A number of trials were made with various kinds of frozen meat, and the inventor claims that the meat can, by his process of thawing, be placed on the English market with very little to distinguish it from meat that has been freshly killed.

An experiment of the process was made recently, under the supervision of Mr. Stephenson, the secretary of the board of exports. A number of ducks, fowls, and hearts were placed in one of the watertight bags, and deposited in Mr. Stephenson's office. After a couple of days and nights in the bags they were opened in the presence of Mr. Critchett Walker, the Principal Under-Secretary, and Mr. Gibson, of the Under-Secretary's office. The experiment proved highly successful, and when the contents of the bag were examined they had the appearance of birds that had been only freshly killed.