S OF PAPERS 199 shallow Al pan using a standard oven (163C) to an 85C internal breast. Prior to freezing, all crop and body cavities had been filled with bread cubes having 50% added water by weight to increase RTW by 20%. Each of 4 treatments involved 7 RTC carcasses: 7 thawed to +5C when cooking was initiated with frozen repetitions at -5, -15 and -25 to enable regression analysis. Time to at...

to introduce a new rice cultivar with high grain yield and desirable cooking characteristics for the warm regions of kohgilouyeh-ve-boyrahmad province, 203 lines of rice originated form irri breeding program were evaluated in preliminary and advanced yield trials from 1993 to 2000 in choram agricultural research station. in each year, data were recorded from different agronomical and morpho-phy...

abstract in order to study the effects of quantitative and qualitative traits on cooking characteristics and protein percentage of 15 red bean genotypes, a randomized complete block design was conducted with three replications in normal irrigation and drought stress. these traits were measured in farm and nutrition laboratory employing international standard of ciat. analyses of variance showed...

Our objectives were to examine the effects of prerigor excision and rapid chilling vs. conventional carcass chilling of two muscles on proteolysis and tenderness during the postmortem storage, as well as the effects of fast and slow rates of cooking on myofibrillar characteristics and tenderness. The longissimus thoracis (LT) and triceps brachii (TB), long head muscles were removed 45 min after...

introduction: frying is one of the most popular cooking methods. however, harmful substances are created during the frying process, with the stability of oil negatively affected. this study evaluates the stability of fatty acid content of several cooking and frying oils available on the iranian market during the process of frying. materials and methods: samples from 5 different frying oils and ...

Cereal Chem. 87(5):403–408 This research studied developing quick cooking brown rice by investigating the effect of ultrasonic treatment at different temperatures on cooking time and quality. The medium grain brown rice was ultrasonically treated in water at temperatures of 25, 40, and 55°C for 30 min and then dried by air at 25°C to its initial moisture content (11.0 ± 0.6%, wb) before cooking...

Cooking is a common and an information-intensive activity. We analyze a set of 678 cooking-related queries to identify the attributes that cooks provide in their queries to the Google Answers TM ‘ask an expert’ online reference system. The results suggest directions to take in developing an effective organization and improved functionality for a cooking-focused digital library.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Ministry of Food (MoF) cooking programme on self-reported food consumption and confidence within cooking. Design: A quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the MoF 8 week cooking course, using a pre-test/post-test study. Pre, post and 6 month follow-up quantitative outcomes were measured using self-administered questionnaires to record number o...

OBJECTIVE The ready-meal market has grown considerably in recent years. At the same time, a degradation of traditional cooking skills has been observed. Ready meals are often rich in energy, fat and sugar and lack vegetables; however, studies investigating associations between ready-meal consumption, overweight and cooking skills are lacking. The present study examines whether demographic facto...