Karakterisasi Mutu Surimi Segar Ikan Lele Dumbo ( Clarias gariepinus) dan Aplikasinya Untuk Pembuatan Kamaboko

Abstract

Catfish is one of the flagship products of aquaculture. It is estimated that the production of catfish will continue to increase along with the increase in commodity production of freshwater seed. The increasment of catfish production needs to be balanced with the diversification of the use of catfish products, especially for oversized catfish (10% for every production cycle) which are normally less marketable. One of the alternatives that can be applied is by manufacturing surimi catfish. This study aimed to characterize the quality of catfish based surimi and determine its class in quality standards of surimi-based testing kamaboko with or without the addition of starch. This experiment used four types of washing treatment, which were: Treatment A (without the addition of NaCl and NaHCO3), Treatment B (addition of NaHCO3 0.5%), Treatment C (addition of NaCl 0.3%) and Treatment D (combination NaHCO3 0.5 % and 0.3% NaCl) to obtain the best washing treatment. The results of the experiment showed that treatment D (a combination of 0.5% NaHCO3 and NaCl 0.3%) possessed the best results with a yield of 34.92% (p>0.05), the pH of 6.86 (p>0.05), whiteness 78.97% (p<0.05), gel strength of 505.43 g.cm (p<0.05), and salt-soluble proteins 5.41% (p<0.05). Application of catfish based surimi in kamaboko showed that the score for folding test was 4.67 that was interpreted as "not crack when folded quarter circle", bite test was 7.03 that was considered as "strong enough" and rating hedonic test showed of 5.9 value that was categorized as "somewhat like". Pursuant to the data obtained in this study, surimi catfish was categorized in the fifth grade "5" on the quality standards of surimi-based testing kamaboko with or without the addition of starch.