Cucumber (cucumis sativus) Slicing Through Multipurpose Vegetable Slicer cum Shredder

Existing slicers and shredders were reviewed and the multipurpose vegetable slicer cum shredder was developed based on appropriate technology. Locally available materials like Stainless steel, Mild steel, Plastic and Wood were used in the fabrication. The machine can be adjusted to slice or shred vegetables at varying speed. For the processing of vegetables cutting of them in uniform manner is an important unit operation. Hence, a multipurpose vegetable slicer cum shredder was designed and developed. Manual slicing is traditional in India and is tedious and time consuming. Moreover, the ununiformed of the final product is very high. Therefore, keeping the above fact in mind, the Department of Processing and Food Engineering, College of Technology and Engineering, M.P.U.A.T., designed and developed a multipurpose vegetable slicer cum shredder machine. The present study was undertaken with the following objectives: to slicing of cucumber by newly developed multipurpose vegetable slicer cum shredder.