Power Level and Time Influence of Microwave on Dog Treat Baking
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2021-12
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The Ohio State University
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As the demand for dog food increases, the pet industry utilizes ovens to produce more to satisfy the market, which causes more serious air pollution and other environmental problems. Microwave oven is a better cooking equipment to alternate the traditional oven. Microwave ovens require less time and energy to heat up the food. Using Microwaves to bake dog treats can reduce time, money, energy and pollution. In this project, the Peanut Butter Dog Treat recipe produced by Becky Hardin, would be baked in a microwave oven at different power levels at different times. The specific aim of the project is to find out the best baking time and power level set to ensure the water activity in the sample to be below .4 aw. For each power level, three sets of time were applied. In this study, power level 8 in 1 minute was found to be the best parameter setting for baking dog treats with the water activity below .4 aw. In addition, dog treats after baking at this parameter setting have less water activity difference between the inside and the outside. The hardness is 10808 force (g), which was in the acceptable range of 6283-11643 force(g).