An Important Discovery.

Manawatu Herald, 31 March 1894, Page 3

An Important Discovery.

The New Zealand Government | Dairy Expert in London, Mr S. Lowe, has had his attention directed to the frozen meat trade, and the neoessifcy for better methods of thawing if the meat is to realise better prices. Mr Washington, engineer to the Well's Cold Stores at Port Said, has discovered a method, and with Mr Litchenberg, of the same firm, has been making a series of experiments (Mr Lowe, writes under date 26th January).: One of the best Smithfield butchers ; called upon to examine, froizen^ beef treated by the new method* declared • before cutting it that it would,! "weep" under the knife— that is, that as under the ordinary thawing ' processes, it would exude, more jiiiqe than fresh meat would, but when he made the incision. ; it was . found , to his astonishment that it- cut up freely, and no more juice ran out than in the case of fresh beef. When first cut beef under the new treatment is blue, but in about five minutes it attains a beautiful ruby colour, and remains exactly like fresh meat. The . process is at present a secret, and a patent has been applied for, but the thawing is carried on by electricity in connection with a series of fans to carry off the moisture, and extends over four or five days. The cost is infinitesimal when carried out in a large freezing store where there ia an electrical installation. It was proposed to hold an exhibition of a quantity of beef so treated before the chief Smithfield butchers, and .. it was the opinion of experts that it would render frozen meat equal to chilled, and result in an advance of $d to Id in the price of mutton when put into general use. — Post.