Second week of FPD : Creating Gold Standards a.k.a GS

     Bob says he wants to join the research, so there he is! Ok, random stuff... 

     Anyways, back to topic, second week of FPD. The story starts with the formulation of GS. After the first week's class, we did some discussions on our own to formulate 5 different formulas for the test out. Why do we need so MANY GS? According to Dr. Chong, the purpose is for us to find the perfect GS. With more formulations, we can compare each and everyone of it and choose the best out of it. Well, seems legit though. Discussions over pens and papers are whole lot of different when it comes to the practical work. All of us immediately realize that while testing out our formulations. We only manage to use TWO formulations out of the four we did. The others hardly form a dough. It's tough for us and at the same time its depressing.  

Our Initial GS Formulations is available in this link. 

     Throughout the session, we did a lot of changes to our initial formulations in order to get at least 2 use-able formulations. Fortunately we did. That is roughly all about week 2. Let the pictures tell the stories which i believe would be more interesting. 

All the gold standard was put into test in the kitchen to find out the best formulation

Some of the formulation failed miserably, unfortunately. We are not master in predicting the outcome of the formulation anyways. Yeah and this GS2 is unable to form dough.

GS1 was able to form dough, and so we wrapped in on a copper rod and ready to be baked! (The dough was not very ideal though)

GS5 after baking. The problem is the dough unable to form a nice rod shape. and it is really hard to be removed from the copper rod. 

Change of plans! we bake the dough in a piece and fry it on the pan, and cut it into these shapes.

Time for some sensory test. to test out how good our paratha is.... hmmmm

Failure don't stop us. All of us cracking our heads real hard to figure out a good formulation. 

Doing sensory test with a bunch of...... **** lui ;) 

Ok, time for some sensory test with professionals 

My groupmate Suhaila conducting the sensory test!

That pretty much sums up this week. A lot of failed formula, but i'm confident that we will find the right one sooner or later. Just the matter of time ;)

First Week of FPD

   After an awesome three months break, i was forced back to reality, Food Product Development 2, continued from the previous semester ages ago. During the first lesson, my lecturer, Dr Chong briefed us about the course layout, giving us idea about what will we be doing this semester for her subject. After that, we were given a task, which requires us to form our very own organisation chart, our company's name, and of course, our product's name. After a round of discussion, my group came to a final decision where Lee Boon Wah will be our director. Elyza Wong as our food safety manager, Jarrell Lim as our marketing manager, Suhaila as food product development manager and i hold the post as a R&D manager. With each and everyone in the group assigned to a post, our final year project's workload are divided equally as well. 

   Besides that, we also have a several discussion on the preparation for the following week's product test out. During last semester, all we did was just on the paper. This final semester, we get to put all out paper work into practise. We discussed about the gold standard formula, which we need to test out on the following class. Also, we drawn out a process flow diagram so that our product test out can be done smoothly. Most importantly, we did a simple sensorial test survey form for out product testing. A food product needs to be well acceptable by the consumer, or else it won't sell in the market.

   After everything is done, each of the groups were required to present their organisation chart and their products. With all that done, Dr Chong called it a day as our tasks are done for that lesson.