VACUUM COOKED MEAT.

West Coast Times, Issue 1661, 26 January 1871, Page 2

VACUUM COOKED MEAT.

(Melbourne Daily Telegraph)

A number of gsntlemen met at the photographic rooms of Mr G. "W. Perry, Elizabeth-street, to taste some meat preserved in the colony according to Jones's patent. This patent was taken out in England, and Mr Perry, who has been appointed agent in this colony, has received from the patentee an apparatus for tbe preserving of meat here. Tht- modus operandi may be thus briefly described. The bones having been n moved, the meat is placed in sealed tins, which are put in a saline bath at a temperature of 225deg,, and allowed to remain there fqr three hours, when the rnev>| '^ thf^oiighly

cooked. In tbe top of the*tin is inserted a small tube, winch is connected with the apparatus, and througb this the air is pumped oiit, instead of, as in other systems, being forced out b)' a high steam pressure. The great .value attached to this system is said to.be that wlijle.the air is entirely drawn- , out from tin v the aronia aud full tfavor of the meat,rpmuin, and there is no over-coo"king, What we tasted yesterday bad been preserved about a week a«o by Mr Perry, and it certainly was a great improvement on most other preserves of the kind. Legs of mutton and sirloins of beef came out of the tin as solid as ordinary cold Joints, and retained the full flavor of fresh meat. Those present spoke of the meat in very favorable terms, and a wish being expressed that a further test should be made, when the meat had been kept for a greater length of time, Mr Terry promised to keep some tins to open a month hence. Mr Perry's apparatus will enable him to preserve a ton of meat per week, and to supply the article at 6id per lb. wholesale price. It may be mentioned that a sample preserved according to this process in England, and sent out to Sydney, was ?o highly approted of that it secured a medal at the Intercolonial Exhibition of the Agricultural Society there. This is the same patent Avhich the Victoria, Twofold Bay, and London Meatpreserving Company has purchased a license for the balance of the fourteen years.