DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A MANUALLY OPERATED DOUGH KNEADING MACHINE FOR DOMESTIC USE

Kneading is the process of working into dough by pummeling, massaging and stretching. The work presented here is the Design, Construction and Performance Evaluation of a manually operated Dough Kneading Machine for Domestic use and small scale bakeries to obtain a good quality pastry to replace the crude and cumbersome method of using rolling pins, bottles, tray and troughs. The Rollers, Worktable, Frame and Gears assembled together make up the Machine. The machine was constructed from locally sourced materials and tested. The result obtained gave a kneading efficiency of 78% with a kneading capacity of 33.3cm3/Sec