Cottage Cheese


Industry:

Food

Dairy

Attributes measured:

extrusion

hardness

toughness

firmness

shear testing

Background

In this application study the TA-93WST wire screen forward extrusion fixture was used to analyze two different types of cottage cheese. The TA-93WST uniformly shears samples as they are extruded across the screen. This test method typically excels at differentiating the firmness characteristics of non-uniform samples like cottage cheese.