Show steam to preserve meat Ilee keeping meats meals sweet and pure in a refrigerator by means of 0 steam soup sounds its a bit queer it I 1 mas asked by george L U cameron Came roii superintendent up erin ot a moat aching establishment who continued in if on without aanal tida my answer says bays a writer in the st SL louis clolie demo erat yet that la is a method now flow in vogue on the big steamers which abich carry meats from this country and from australia to europe meat placed in refrigerators where the atmosphere Is kept continually rt al an average temperature from ag to 10 40 degrees degrees mill remain fresh but not entirely untainted tor for an indefinite period 1 I think the australians holved the problem first they worried over the matter for a long long time and vid adopted opted expedient after expedient tried experiment after experiment but bul all witti without ont avail until someone thought of cf using steam to volatilize the gases which caused these annoy lug ing conditions ind and draw thorn them off A steam pipe p e w was a placed in a wee wooden den alpi bostom duct at t the h e b bottom of a r refrigerator chamber stored with meat the gases of this kind are arc low lying anil and tho the duct led directly to the brine tanks this experiment occurred at sidney sedney and for clarty nine days the refrigerator compartment was kept closed at the end of w which b th t lime i m e i it t 1 was l a s 0 opened p e n e d the meat dr drawn a A n fo forth r t h a and n d c every v er y 1 filacc n e e thoroughly tested it was WAR as fresh and pure without the slightest suggestion of bone odor or mold as on the iho day it was packed the gases basei had been vola tilled by the steam carried OH off by the wooden duct and the entire noxious condition purified purl flod by tho the brine tanks with this aid to the refrigeration process provided care bo be taken that the temperature never falls bolow below freezing point as save ve occasionally sio nally so that tho the meat mill not become frozen meat may now BOW be kept hept tor for years and be perfectly fresh when taken forth tor for con consumption |