Innovative kitchen of Akshay Patra
Akshaya patra, Guwahati, the central kitchen that daily caters to 40000 children studying in school amongst the various government schools in the vicinity of Guwahati city.
Akshaya patra has to standardize the process of cooking, as they have to deliver 40000 meals on a daily basis. They have to use the most efficient methods to cook to reduce the time while keeping the quality. Akshaya patra use modern techniques and equipments so that they have more efficient and faster method of cooking.
One of the major hurdle Akshaya patra solves is very interesting. How Akshaya patra is dealing with the boredom of routine food being served in schools. Thats where their experimental sensory kitchen shines.
Experimental kitchen:
Experimental kitchen in akshaya patra creates new recipes regularly with help of chefs, nutritionists where they utilize steam cooking into its full potential. New recipes are tested and evaluated in small groups , then based on evaluations and feedback they scale it up after peer approval from the team, through which new recipe is served in schools.
Steam being the heat source is our limitation. Any new recipe should be only made by steam.
End of the day beautiful smiles on students are the profit of Akshaya patra for the service they provide.