Penggunaan Restraining Box Dalam Pemotongan Sapi Di RPH Dan Karakteristik Fisik Daging:

Abstract

This study is aimed to observe the differences of meat quality especially the pH, cooking loss and drip loss, and meat tenderness changes of postmortem beef meat slaughtered with and without using of restraining box. Restraining box is an equipment to fix or restrain cattle before slaughtering in order to lay down and handle the cattle safely. This study used 60 beef meat samples (30 samples of restraining and 30 samples of non-restraining) from the slaughterhouse of Bogor City and Bogor District. This research used the Musculus gluteus medius of Brahman Cross . The pH value of the samples was measured at 1, 6, 8, and 10 hours (h) after slaughtering. The water holding capacity was examined through cooking loss and drip loss which were conducted three times at 6, 8, and 10 hours postmortem and the meat tenderness was measured with Warner Bratzler shear force (WBSF). The result of study showed that the pH value of the both treatments.