DEVELOPMENT OF KAMABOKO-FOLDING TESTER

Kamaboko-folding tester was designed to evaluate elasticity of kamabok o gel by an objective folding test. In the folding tester developed he re, a sample of disk type (3 cm diameter, 3 mm thickness) was first on ce-folded to 6 approximately 7 mm thickness, and after a prescribed ti me (1, 5 or 10 s), twice-folded to 6.5 approximately 8.5 mm thickness. The tester was reliable and sufficiently utilizable for quality contr ol of kamaboko manufacturing. The force required to fold a sample, how ever, was remarkably influenced by the thickness of the sample, theref ore, it should be needed to make its thickness accurate to obtain good correlation between quality of the sample and time-force curve during folding.