Identification of important tools/equipment/ machines and chemicals required for PHT laboratory

Horticulture Guruji

Exercise 3

Identification of important tools/equipment/ machines and chemicals required for PHT laboratory

HORT 321

1. Ladders:- It is used for harvesting fruits and also for shaping the large standard trees.

2. Hydrometer:- It is used for measuring the strength of sugar syrup as well as brine.

3. Cutting Knife:- Used for cutting fruits and vegetables.

4. Peeling Knife:- Used for removing outer covering of fruits and vegetables.

5. Coring Knife:- Some fruits have hardcore inside them which is known as core e.g. apple, pear, etc. The core of the fruit is removing by a coring knife.

6. Pitting knife:- Removal of a stone from the fruit is termed pitting and it is practiced using a pitting knife.

7. Can Sealer:- It is used for sealing of can.

8. Can Opener:- It is used the opening the sealed can.

9. Dehydrator:- It is used for removing moisture from a particular product.

10 Crown Corking Machine:- It is used for sealing bottles and containing beverages.

11. Hand Rotary Sieve:- It is used for obtaining homogenized pulp of cooked fruits/ vegetables.

12. Forking Machine:- Used for forking fruits/vegetables needed for preservation preparation.

 

13. Jelly Thermometer:- It is used for measuring the temperature of cooking jelly.

14. Hand Refractometer:- It is used for measuring the sugar content of the produce.

        

15. Basket Press:- It is used for extracting juice from fruit pulp. Fruit juices except that of citrus are extracting basket press.

16. Screw Type Juice Extractor:- This is used for extracting juice from citrus.

17. Lime Juice Squeezer:- It is used for obtaining juice from individual fruits of lime.

18. Lime Juice Extractor:- It is used for extracting juice from lime commercially.

19. Mango Harvester:- It consists of two blades, a net basket, and a long handle. The blade is spring-operated. The harvested mango is collected in the net basket. Due to the long handle, the fruit is harvested easily.

20. Jelmeter:- It is used for measuring pectin contain fruit extract.

 

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