Preparing Equipment, Tools

for Salting, Curing and

Smoking
1. Identify equipment, tools and
materials used in food processing
2. Follow procedures on checking,
sanitizing, and calibration of
equipment
3. Familiarize the equipment,
tools and materials used in food
processing.
Let’s have first the pre-test. Get 1/4
sheet of paper and answer the
following question.
Write T if the statement is True, and
write F if the statement is False.
____ 1. Rake is used for cleaning
the ground and leveling the topsoil.
____2. Hand tools are mounted in
the machinery.
____3. The tool used for cutting of
weeds especially in tall shrubs and
grasses is called Bolo.
____4. Equipment are machinery
used in farm operations especially in
rice production.
____5. Water Pump is used to draw
irrigation water from a source such
as deep well, river, lakes.
Food Processing

is the transformation of agricultural

products into food, or of one form of
food into other forms.
✔ SALTING ✔ CURING ✔ SMOKING
TOOLS AND UTENSI
LS IN FOOD PROCE
SSING
These are objects that are
usually light and are used
without the help of animals and
machineries.

Farm Equipment
These are machineries used to save
time and the productivity of the farm
 Hand Tools
• Bolo is used
for cutting tall
grasses and
weeds and
chopping
branches of
trees.
 Hand Tools
• Crowbar is
used for
digging big
holes and for
digging out big
stones and
stumps.
 Hand Tools
• Pick-mattock is
used for digging
canals, breaking
hard topsoil and for
digging up stones
and tree stumps.
 Hand Tools
• Grab-hoe is
used for
breaking hard
topsoil and
pulverizing soil.
 Hand Tools
Spade is used for
removing trash
or soil, digging
canals or ditches
and mixing soil
media.
 Hand Tools
• Shovel is used in
removing trash,
digging, loose
soil, moving soil
from one place to
another and for
mixing soil media.
 Hand Tools

• Rake is used
for cleaning
the ground
and leveling
the topsoil.
 Hand Tools
• Spading fork is
used for loosening
the soil,digging
out root crops and
turning over the
materials in a
compost heap.
 Hand Tools
• Light hoe is
used for
loosening and
leveling soil
and digging
out furrows
for planting
 Hand Tools
• Hand trowel
used to loosen
the soil and
putting small
amount of
fertilizer in the
soil.
 Hand Tools
• Hand cultivator
is used for
cultivating the
garden plot by
loosening the soil
and removing
weeds around the
plant.
 Hand Tools

• Hand fork
is used for
inter row
cultivation.
 Hand Tools
• Pruning shears
is for cutting
branches of
planting materials
and unnecessary
branches of
plants.
 Hand Tools
• Axe is for
cutting
bigger
size post.
 Hand Tools
• Sprinklers –
used for
watering
seedlings
and young
plants
 Hand Tools
• Sickle is a hand-
held agricultural
tool with a
variously curved
blade typically
used for cutting
weeds.
 Hand Tools
• Wheel barrow
used for hauling
trash, manures,
fertilizers,
planting
materials and
other equipment
 Farm Implements
• Native harrow
Made of wood
with a metal
tooth and pulled
by a carabao
 Farm Implements
• Native
Plows
These are farm
implements used in
rice production
operations either
pulled by a working
animal or a tractor
• Disc harrow
It is used to
pulverize and
dig deeper soil
 Farm Implements
• Disc plow
It is used to till
uncultivated
lands
 Farm Implements
• Rotavator
It is mounted to tractors to
till and pulverize the soil
 Farm Equipment

• Hand tractor
It is used to pull
a plow and
harrow in
preparing a large
area
 Farm Equipment
• Four wheel
tractor
It used to pull
disc plow and
disc harrow in
preparing much
bigger area
 Farm Equipment
• Thresher
It is used to
remove the
seeds from the
stalks and
husks
 Farm Equipment
• Corn dehusker
It can peel off dry/wet
corn husk with a strong
air blowing
 Farm Equipment
• Rice harvester
It makes harvesting
easier by combining
six operations such as
gathering,
transporting, and
bagging into one
machine
 Farm Equipment
• Water pump
It is used to
draw irrigation
water from a
source
Let’s have Quiz
Write T if the statement is True, and
write F if the statement is False.
____6. Hand tools are mounted in
the machinery.
____7. Equipment are machinery
used in farm operations especially in
rice production.
____8. Four-wheel tractor is used to
push disc plow, disc harrow, and
rotavator in preparing much area of
the land.
____9. Water Pump is used to draw
irrigation water from a source such
as deep well, river, lakes.
___10. Combine Harvester performs
the harvesting and trashing at the
same time.
 Question

Do you think using of

appropriate tools and
equipment makes the
work easier? Why or
Why Not?
Draw / Sketch a Hand
Tool/s that you used
in gardening.