Given the size of lamb carcasses,
the risk of cold-shortening is
considered to be greater
than the risk of heat-toughening.
Yet Pearce et al. (2010) and Thompson et al. (2005)
in Australia and
Matthews (2011) in the UK,
have quite clearly shown that lamb
carcasses can have a high temperature at rigor (temperature at pH 6 >35C).