Bowser, TimothyWynn, Calvin Leon2024-05-152024-05-152023-12https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14446/344300The Design and Development of an Economic Texturometer is meant to provide concept, proof, and design of a cheap, easy-to-build, and easy-to-use texturometer. The target users of this thesis are small businesses and entrepreneurs within the food sector, when obtaining a commercial texturometer is prohibitive. This thesis first establishes a need for texture reading machines, and how they have improved traditional texture measurement methods. Then, instructions on the creation of the Economic Texturometer are given in enough detail to recreate the texturometer. Included as supplementary files are three AutoCAD templates, each one meant to be printed out and used during the construction of the texturometer. The Economic Texturometer is then compared to a commercial texturometer to determine viability of the texture testing process. Those tests were then found to be similar in outcome, with the economic texturometer performing slightly more consistently during the hardness testing performed on the two sample types. The Economic Texturometer was found to be consistent with hardness testing, cheap compared to commercial alternatives, and accessible to both build and use.application/pdfCopyright is held by the author who has granted the Oklahoma State University Library the non-exclusive right to share this material in its institutional repository. Contact Digital Library Services at lib-dls@okstate.edu or 405-744-9161 for the permission policy on the use, reproduction or distribution of this material.ThesischeapDIYeconomictestingtexturetexturometer