The physical and chemical changes in sweet peppers sauteed with high (4,600 kcal/h) and low (2,300 kcal/h) calories cooking burners were determined.
The pericarp tissues of sweet pepper cut into square pieces of 3×3cm weighed 200g and ten grams of vegetable oil were added, and then sauteed on the flying pan at 200°C for 4min.
These results were as follows:
During sauteeing it was found not only more loss in their weight, attached oil contents, green color and hardness, but also more increase in penetrated oil contents were found in the case of the high calorie cooking burner than those of the low calorie cooking burner. The content of vitamine C was stable during sauteeing up to 3 min. on the both heating powers.
The appearance, weight loss, green color, penetrated oil contents, and vitamine C content of the sauteed sweet peppers in the optimum sauteeing periods (high calorie cooking burner: 1.5-2.5min., low calorie cooking burner: 2.5-3min. ) were not noticeable differences between the sweet peppers sauteed with the two types of heating powers.
