Dry macaroni (10 g) was cooked in 200 ml of boiling water for a
period of 10 min with occasional stirring. Cooking loss of different
macaroni samples was determined according to Bureau of Indian
Standards (BIS, IS, 1485, 1993). After cooking, the gruel was drained
on a Buchner funnel and rinsed with 50 ml of distilled water at room
temperature for 30 s and allowed to drain for 2 min. The gruel and the
rinsed water were pooled and the volume (V) was measured. The
pooled gruelwas shakenwell for even distribution of the solid content
and 20 ml of the above pooled gruel was taken into a petri dish and
dried in a hot air oven maintained at 105±2 °C, dried to constant
weight and the cooking loss (%) was determined. The cooked weight
was determined by weighing the drained and rinsed macaroni.