Whale Oil and Other Products of the Whaling Industry
The extraction of oil from whales is a very ancient process, but no regular oil production existed until the Basques started the whaling industry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. With their primitive equipment, they only made use of the blubber, the part of the whale richest in oil. The blub...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400038535 2024-03-03T08:48:17+00:00 Whale Oil and Other Products of the Whaling Industry Roberts, Brian 1939 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400038535 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400038535 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 3, issue 17, page 80-86 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1939 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400038535 2024-02-08T08:41:09Z The extraction of oil from whales is a very ancient process, but no regular oil production existed until the Basques started the whaling industry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. With their primitive equipment, they only made use of the blubber, the part of the whale richest in oil. The blubber was cut up into small pieces which were cooked in open iron cauldrons. This method was in use until the beginning of the present century, when less wasteful methods were introduced in order to utilise as much as possible of the carcass. Flesh, entrails and bones are now cooked in closed boilers under increased pressure and temperature, and since about 1925 a combined steam and mechanical treatment of the material, known as “apparatus cooking”, has resulted in still more efficient extraction. Article in Journal/Newspaper Polar Record Cambridge University Press Polar Record 3 17 80 86 |
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The extraction of oil from whales is a very ancient process, but no regular oil production existed until the Basques started the whaling industry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. With their primitive equipment, they only made use of the blubber, the part of the whale richest in oil. The blubber was cut up into small pieces which were cooked in open iron cauldrons. This method was in use until the beginning of the present century, when less wasteful methods were introduced in order to utilise as much as possible of the carcass. Flesh, entrails and bones are now cooked in closed boilers under increased pressure and temperature, and since about 1925 a combined steam and mechanical treatment of the material, known as “apparatus cooking”, has resulted in still more efficient extraction. |
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