Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-27 | Page 7 | Cotton Gown for Hotdogs Proves More Eible and More Sanitary

Cotton Gown for Proves More Edible and More Sanitary By ISRAEL KLEIN Science Editor NEA Service The South will find a new and growing market for Its overabundant over dant ant cotton crop in the prosaic but popular manufacture of or sausage casings Sausage casings out of cotton more sanitary much more edible more uniform cheaper and b better than the casings now in use are promised this delicatessen age through researches just completed by scientists of ot the Mellon Institute for Industrial Research Research- at at Pittsburg Pittsburg Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg Pa After ACter ten years of investigation and chemical experimenting a method has been devised for makIng making making mak mak- ing the casings needed for the millions mil mU- lions of wieners and other sausages consumed In this country For Its manufacture the chemists have gone so far from their own line of ot endeavor as to invent a machine ANIMAL CASINGS For the last six years ears William Henderson has been w working on thi subject with the aid of ot Harold E. E Dietrich Before him C. C L L. and Frank W. W Stockton studied the I types of ot casings then In use and still popular Sheep casings from China Russia the Levant and other foreign countries and casings from native or Chinese hogs were in general general general gen gen- eral use These Came in all sizes none any too long many with holes from the work worl of scraping them clean others with weak spots still others in the process of ot deterioration and with other defects Research fInaly solved the cellulose cellulose cellulose lose sausage casings from cotton and the special machine which forces the syrupy cellulose through circular holes slowly and evenly so that casings of any sizes and any lengths uniform and perfect perfect per per- feet may be obtained CHEAPNESS AND EFFICIENCY The cheapness ss of these casings goes even beyond Its manufacture In the cheapness of the native cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton product and the facility of ot its production For even In the act of ot stuffing them an important step can be bo abolished That Is of soaking the casings be before before before be- be fore i filling them a slow process process required by the ordinary casings but eliminated with the new The Thes s synthetic casings can b bd 2 stuffed with the meat while dry and the stuffing operation can be le done mud much more quickly Immediately after atter the stuffing the case acquires moisture from the meat filler and becomes soft sort and nd pliable Tho The casing is extremely thin only thousandths ten of ot an inch thick thIele and has much less of ot the crude fiber content than many of ot our common foods says Henderson For the average weiner the cellulose cellulose cel cei- cel- cel casing weighs less than two- two tenths of a gram and c comprises only about tenths four-tenths per cent of ot the total weight he adds