Hanna Instruments digital refractometer for Brix in foods and food solutions generally, one model.
HI96801
This Hanna Instruments digital refractometer measures Brix in foods and food solutions generally.
Brix stands in for concentration across an enormous range of food work: jam set, sauce reduction, syrup strength, tomato paste, dilution ratios in a dispenser. It is fast, it needs a drop, and it correlates with what the product will be like.
Light bends by a different amount depending on how much is dissolved in a liquid. A refractometer measures that bend and converts it to a concentration scale. It needs one or two drops, gives an answer in seconds, and has no reagents and nothing to consume.
A digital instrument compensates for temperature automatically, which is the difference that matters: refractive index shifts with temperature enough that an uncompensated reading in a warm room is simply wrong.
Clean the prism between samples with water and dry it; a sugar film left from the previous reading biases every one after it.
Supplied as one model.