Pengembangan Kemasan Produk Pindang Ikan Tongkol (Euthynnus affinis)

Abstract

Pemindangan is one of the preservation techniques that combines salting and boiling processes. Until recent days, these method has been applied traditionally without concerning of its hygiene, which causes low quality product. Some improvement was introduced starting from raw material handling, processing and up to packaging, storage and distribution, and produced high quality product according to the SNI 2717.1: 2009 standard. Application of vacuum plastic in packaging technology indicated less damage level of products compared to besek (traditional basket) container. Besek is a bamboo woven that is used as a container for boiling process and as end consumer packaging. It was not able to protect the product then caused shorten it shelf life. Storage in low temperature also implied that besek container was unable to avoid the evaporation process or desiccation occured on the fish surface. Fish appeared to be dried, broken, and even high loss weight. On the storage temperature of 4 C the fungi began to grow after the seventh day. Boiled fish packaged with vacuum plastics was capable to inhibit the evaporation at the surface of the products until 13 days storage. Vacuum plastic packaging also improved the consumer preference since the product deterioration occurred after the fifth week in 4 C of storage temperature and sixth week in -11 C. Development on the processing and packaging technology improved the product quality but consequently also increased the production costs. Based on production cost analysis, traditional salted boiled fish had lower production cost (Rp 3 812 per package), while modern manufactured salted boiled fish increased the production cost to Rp 4 955 per package.