Razor-sharp success

Texture analysis firm Stable Micro Systems has announced the launch of the Meullenet-Owens Razor Shear (MORS) blade, declaring it ‘the quickest, most accurate and simplest tool for measuring poultry tenderness’.

The Meullenet-Owens Razor Shear method uses a sharp craft knife blade of defined dimensions, attached to a TA.XTPlus texture analyser, to conduct a cutting/shearing test.

As the blade is narrow and penetrates to just 20mm, the MORS test makes only a small incision into the sample, causing far less damage to it than traditional instrumental or human cutting tests, says a spokesman for the firm.

“Repeatability is also optimised because the blade can be removed and replaced regularly to ensure edge sharpness,” adds the spokesman. “Trials of the blade show it can perform 60 measurements per hour – double the number that can be achieved with an Allo-Kramer shear test, one of the better-known instrumental poultry testing methods.”