Textural Changes of Cooked-Rice during Warm Keeping in Electrical Rice Cooker

전기밥솥에서 보온중인 밥의 조직감 변화

In order to investigate the textural changes of cooked rice in a home electrical rice cooker during warm keeping period, rice was cooked and stored at $73^{\circ}C$ for 42 hours. The time course changes of hardness and adhesiveness of cooked rice were measured with the specimen prepared as a cylindrical rice block(H/D= 15 mm/20 mm). At the initial stage of warm keeping period the hardness was 1.61 kg and it was increased steadily to 1.95 kg up to 12 hours. And it was rapidly dropped to 1.57 kg within 3 hours, and thereafter gradually decreased to 1.44 kg. The adhesiveness was steadily declined with warm keeping period from 0.51 to 0.323kg set The cohesiveness and chewiness were also changed in the similar pattern to that of hardness while the springiness remained unchanged throughout the whole warm keeping period.

밥의 보온저장중 조직감변화를 조사하기 위하여 밥솥의 보온 온도를 $73^{\circ}C$ 로하여 42시간동안 저장하였다. 보온 기간중 경시적으로 밥을 채취하여 원통형 블록으로 시료를 만든 후 경도와 점착성을 측정하였다. 보온 초기에는 밥의 경도는 1.61kg이었으며 12시간 후에는 1.95kg까지 증가하였다. 그 이후 3시간 이내에 1.57kg으로 감소한 후 서서히 감소하여 42시간에는 1.44kg에 이르렀다. 밥의 점착성은 0.51kg에서 0.32kg로 서서히 감소하였으며 탄력성과 씹힘성은 경도의 양상과 유사하게 변화하였다. 한편 응집성은 뚜렷한 변화를 보이지 않았다.