Bread Breaking Device for Pudding
Researcher: Janette T. Rañeses
Before the discovery of bread as the main ingredients for pudding, there were puddings made of cereals. The process of making such bakery products were mainly mixing the dough using a mixer with the other ingredients and simply baked in ovens. Bread pudding is different from other puddings because the main ingredients are unsold or stale, but not ruined breads. These breads are then broken into small pieces before they are mixed with other ingredients. The process of breaking them is manual or by hand because there was no device invented to do the breaking. The work is laborious and it takes time; the demand for bread pudding is not met. In order to solve the issue, the researcher came up with an idea, innovating a device that could break at least a kilo, 20 pieces approximate of unsold bread to make the main ingredient.
The project study/thesis entitled “Design and Development of Bread Breaking Device for Bread Pudding” is conducted to break a bread to become an ingredient for pudding. It was practiced that bread breaking is done by hands. The project is composed of six parts like the feeder, main breaker, stationary breaker, arm and handle, slide and the base. All these parts are interconnected to perform the task of breaking the bread. The project was conducted at Lupon School of Fisheries, Davao Oriental. It was tried, tested and evaluated by students, teachers as well as experts in the industry. During the testing it was found out that it is functional having a rate of highly functional. There where revisions made but all of these have already been answered. It was recommended to alter or improve some of the parts such as the design of the teeth that would break the bread. The teeth should be made a little bit longer in order to make the breaking faster. Hinges were also advised to be installed on the lid so opening and closing will be more convenient. Further study was also recommended to be conducted to enhance the project in terms of its design and functionality like adding an electric motor to drive the main breaker to speed up the product manufacturing.
Keywords: bread breaker, grinder, descriptive evaluation research, Lupon, Davao Oriental
