FW: Akshaya Patra does in BENGALURU!!!
S N Desai
From: Shivkumar Nair [mailto:shivku...@videoconglass.com]
Sent: 13 May 2011 15:45
To: @videoconglass.com
Subject: Fw: Akshaya Patra does in BENGALURU!!!
Worth a look..... interesting...so mechanised
Akshaya Patra does in BENGALURU!!!
The kitchen from the outside - a three-storey building which uses Gravity Flow Mechanism developed in-house
by our team. Each kitchen has the capacity to cook between 50 000 to 100 000
mid-day meals per day. Costing approximately 9 crores 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
litres 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 kilosof rice are cooked daily in each kitchen. 
Food materials in Kitchen 
Stock in the kitchen 
Washed dal 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. 
Chapati dough is mixed 
Heavy rollers flatten the dough into thin sheets 
Dough is cut into the classic round shape 
Making chapatti 
Collecting all the chapattis 
Transporting akshayapatra food through bus 
Happy Kids 
Students benifited from akshayapatra!!!
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