Repairs to the buildings; heating the autoclaves
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Sawmill waste wood, readily available in the region, fed the autoclaves, the steam for scalding the tomatoes and the backup steam engine; the old buildings needed major structural repairs.
Written in French by Alain Manset, October 27, 2015. Quotations from period documents are left in the original. Lire l’original en français.
The old buildings required serious structural repairs; the heat source for the autoclaves, the steam that scalded the tomatoes to be peeled, and even the steam engine that took over from electricity during power failures came from sawmill waste wood and second-grade lumber, readily available in the region.
In this series
- The Tomato: Its History
- Jean-Baptiste Lelaidier
- The Tomaterie (Tomato Cannery)
- Baskets for the Tomatoes
- Repairs to the buildings; heating the autoclaves
- A Tomato Worker, Cécile Spénard-Poisson
- Secretary of the Tomato Cannery
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