1. Introduction
At a restaurant called Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Spring, New York, potato chip was invented by a chef named George Crum in 1853. Potato chips are thin slices of potato, fried quickly in oil and then salted. It quickly became popular around the world. Manufacturers depend on their stored supplies of potatoes, which are kept at a constant temperature, until several weeks before they are to be used.
2. GENERAL PROCESSING INFORMATION
2.1 Description of Manufacturing Process:
2.1.1 When potatoes arrive at the plant
The first step in manufacturing starts when the potatoes arrive at the plant. Potatoes must first pass tests before they turned into chips. For example potato chip maker checks for external defects and inspect the gravity or weight of the potatoes. Fresh Potatoes, weight about from 150g to 250g and sugar density less than 1%.Color is also important; whiter potatoes are more preferred.
During various stages of production line potatoes moves along conveyer belt by gentle vibrations in order to control the feeding speed, the quality of potato and to keep breakage to a minimum.
2.1.2 Fresh Potato is ready for washing
Potatoes are dumped into a vertical helical screw conveyer in order to allow small stones to fall to the bottom and push the potatoes up to a conveyer belt.
After a brushing machine removes the dirt, the potatoes travel along a water channel to the peeler. After they have been peeled, the potatoes are washed with cold water.
2.1.3 Peeler for taking off potato skin
The clean potatoes are peeled, most often using cylinder-shaped industrial peelers; skins come off in just seconds. The machine can Peel around 12000 pounds of potatoes per hour. After peeling, the inspection conveyor is ...
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... could have come with the potatoes or been picked up in the frying process.
The bags flow down from a roll. A central processing unit (CPU) code on the bag tells the machine how many chips should be released into the bag. As the bag forms, (heat seals the top of the filled bag and seals the bottom of the next bag simultaneously) gates open and allow the proper amount of chips to fall into the bag.
The filling process must be accomplished without letting an overabundance of air into the bag, while also preventing the chips from breaking. Many manufacturers use nitrogen to fill the space in the bags. The sealed bags are conveyed to a collator and hand-packed into cartons.
Some companies pack potato chips in I O cans of various sizes. The chips flow down a chute into the cans. Workers weigh each can, make any necessary adjustments, and attach a top to the can
way. I will put each piece of potato into the 5 test tubes and add the
So the experiment will be based upon the movement of water. The first potato chip will be placed in a zero percent solution. I believe that this will increase the mass. I believe this because the zero percent solution has a lower concentration than the cell sap inside the potato. The potato takes on the water through osmosis and the cell pushes out from inside the cell making it swell and become more rigid.
In the ruins of ancient Peru and Chili, the remains of potatoes dating back to 500 B.C. have been found. Potatoes were such a part of Incan life that they not only ate them, but they worshiped them. "O Creator! Thou who givest life to all things and hast made men that they may live, and multiply. Multiply also the fruits of the earth, the potatoes and other food that thou hast made, that men may not suffer from hunger and misery."- Incan Prayer used to worship potatoes.
cork borer and a ruler. I will keep the potato chips the same size in
The most common theory to the invention of potato chips is that George was working at his restaurant when a customer complained that his french fried potatos were sliced too thick. George was annoyed at the customer thus he decided to annoy the customer back by slicing the potatos too thin to eat with a fork then his sister accidentally dropped it into the fryer. George served it to the customer but didn't get the reaction he was looking for. Instead, the customer was extremely pleased
Size of potato-will be the same as it will be cut using a cork and borer which cuts them all to the same diameter.
Food is an important factor in the everyday human life. Humans need food to be able to live. But how did the food people eat today come about, no one really knows the in depth explanation. What about more common foods that are a part of everyone’s everyday lives, like potato chips. They are a simple, easy snack food that is commonly in every American household. But does anyone know how they came about, who invented them. Well, let me explain a little about who that person was.
Potatoes have become a staple to the diet of humans.They have become so popular since they come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and tastes. They are also cheap and easy to grow, and they taste delicious! Potatoes have changed the course of history in several ways. Who knew that potatoes, just a starchy vegetable, could have helped shape the world in so many ways. First, the Irish Potato Famine killed a million people and caused another million to move out of Ireland. Second, soldiers in the United States army were able to eat potatoes throughout the war. Third, they prevented a famine from occurring in England after there was not a sufficient amount of crops going to sustain the country's cries for food. Many people wonder if potatoes have
Knife to cut the potato to the correct shape and size for reasons. stated in the method. Tile to not score any school surfaces. Test tubes to hold the potato and solution in. Beaker to alter solution concentration.
Schlosser sets off chapter 5: “Why the Fries Taste Good,” in Aberdeen, Idaho at the J. R. Simplot Plant where he introduces John Richard Simplot, “America’s great potato baron,” (Schlosser 111). Simplot dropped out of school at 15, left home, and found work on a potato farm in Declo, Idaho making 30 cents an hour. Simplot bought and turned profit on some interest-bearing scrip from some school teachers and used the money to at 600 hogs at $1 a head. He feed the hogs horse meat from wild horses he shot himself, later selling them for $12.50 a head. At age 16 Simplot leased 160 acres to begin growing Russet Burbank Potatoes. In the 1920s the potato industry was just picking up as Idaho was discovered to have the ideal soil and conditions for successfully growing potatoes (Schlosser 112). Soon Simplot was the “largest shipper of potatoes in the West, operating 33 warehouses in Oregon and Idaho,” (Schlosser 113). During World War II Simplot sold dehydrated potatoes and onions to the U.S. Army. By the time he was 36 he “was growing his own potatoes, fe...
Domesticated potatoes were once all belong to one botanical species, Solanum tuberosum; it included thousands of varieties that had diversity in size, shape, color and other characteristics. The potato was first domesticated in the South America Andes, then the Puritans who took Mayflower arrived the land and the First Nations taught them about potatoes. Then the sailors went back to Europe and people started to plant potatoes in Spain, England, France, and many other countries in Europe. Later, potatoes were spread into Africa by the colonists. The crop was once believe to be poisonous by the local farmers who refused to plant them. However, the colonists persuaded the farmers and introduced potatoes as a low-price and high-production crop in substitute of wheat and rice.
We then put the stopwatch on and left them for half an hour. After we weighed each potato tube and recorded our results. We did the experiment twice. We did this to make sure our results were correct. Preliminary method: We did everything the same as in our other experiment except we
This means that the height of the froth will increase. Then the sand is sanded. The froth is produced due to the gas as it bubbles from the potato slice. This gas is given off as a waste product from the reaction where H2O2 (substrate) breaks down the enzymes in the potato. If I were to roughly plot a graph for the reaction, it would look like.
When you place a potato chip in a salt or sugar solution, then if the
Equipment Potato, Borer, Beakers, Measuring Cylinder, Stopclocks, Distilled Water, Electronic Balance, Salt solutions of various concentrations. Diagram [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] When we leave the potato in the solution for the allocated time, water