Karakteristik Ikan Asin Kering Dengan Berbagai Metode Penggaraman

Abstract

There are two ways of salting methods in dried fish processing: wet and dry salting method. In wet salting method, fish is soaked into a brine solution at a certain concentration. Whereas, the dry salting method is made by spreading the salt over the fish body in a certain concentration. The goal of this research was to determine the chemical, physic, and microbiology characteristic of the product. Giant trevally (Caranx ignobilis) was the fish species used in this research as the raw material. There were two treatments: wet and dry salting methods (each with three different brine concentration; 10,15, and 20%). The salting process was 12 hours and the drying process took 4 days. The result of this research showed that initial weight loss, initial moisture content, salt concentration, and total microbial load of the product were affected by salt concentration. The moisture content declining rate was affected by salt concentration, the product that made by wet salting method with 10% salt concentration had the highest rate. The study also showed that salt concentration and salting methods had no interaction against product characteristic.