Desain Pisau Pemotong dan Penambahan Hopper Pada Alat Pemotong Kentang Bentuk French Fries

Abstract

ncreased demand of potato for snack and fast food like french fries is along with extension of market segment. The need of domestic potato for french fries is still imported in the form of freezed potato which have been cut in to square log. For research scale, an electrics french fries potatoes cutter have been design and made before, but some weakness was still found such as the knife was not skaxp, feeder not continiue and irreguler movement of product in cutting chamber. This research was to minimalize the weakness by hopper addition and blade design to increase the equipment performance. The aim of the hopper was to reduce man power. The cutting ability of the blade was calculated. Then cutting power was calculated to find the efficiency of the equipment. It can be concludes that the blade design reduce broken product and the hopper still not able to increase the equipment performance.