Just cannot imagine
The kitchen from the outside - a three-storey building which uses Gravity Flow Mechanism developed.
Each kitchen has the capacity to cook between 50 000 to 100 000
mid-day meals per day. Costing approximately 9 crores [Million] to set up, they are built with funds from public donations.
mid-day meals per day. Costing approximately 9 crores [Million] to set up, they are built with funds from public donations.
The kitchen from the inside, consisting of rice cauldrons each of which cooks up to 110kg of rice in 20 minutes. Sambar cauldrons cook up to 1200 liters of sambar in two hours.
It is washed thoroughly on the 2nd floor.
Washed rice is sent down the chute to the 1st floor.
Rice pours down into steam heated cauldrons for cooking. The entire cooking process takes place on the 1st floor.
Super heated steam is used to cook food instead of flame.
When cooking is finished, it is loaded into trolleys.
Cooked rice is sent down the chute to the ground floor.
It flows down the pipe into containers.
Piping hot rice on its way to being loaded into food vans. Around 6000 kilos of rice are cooked daily in each kitchen.
Food materials in Kitchen.
Stock in the kitchen.
Washed dhal and vegetables flows down the chute into sambar cauldron on the 1st floor.
Vegetables and dal ready to be cooked.
Sambar being cooked on the first floor.
Cooked sambar is packed and sent to the food vans to be loaded.
Chapatti dough is mixed.
Heavy rollers flatten the dough into thin sheets.
Dough is cut into the classic round shape.
Making chapathi.
Collecting all the chapathis.
Transporting Akshayapatra food through bus, for Students.
Note that this is fresh food prepared daily with no chemicals, preservatives or artificial flavourings used in the process, there is no leftover food, and no refrigerators are used for storing stale food.
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Wow... nice... cool concept.
yes it is..