The aim of this study was to determine the effect of two carcass
chilling methods on the technological and sensory pork qualities
with high intramuscular fat content (4.94% ± 1.27). This experiment
was conducted on 32 pig carcasses, with the right half-carcasses
chilled for 70 minutes at –24 °C, then for 22 hours 50 minutes at 1 °C,
and the left half-carcasses chilled using the conventional method,
i.e. for 24 hours at 1 °C. The longissimus lumborum muscle showed
no significant differences in the share of normal and defective meat,
as well as in sensory properties of meat between the two methods,
except for electrical conductivity and yellowness. Rapid chilling of
carcasses, which included blast chilling, resulted in lower electrical
conductivity (EC2) and meat yellowness (b*) compared to conventional
carcass chilling.