Crave hot Rotli?

How many of you would be willing to buy something like this?

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13 Comments:

  1. Manish
    June 11, 2013 at 8:11 pm

    Nice! These guys won the audience choice award in Berkeley’s business plan competition in 2010. I actually attended and heard their pitch. It was pretty cool. The founders are desis living in Singapore. Good to see that this is becoming a reality. They already had a working prototype back then. I guess it took some few more years to perfect it i guess.

  2. Prashant
    June 12, 2013 at 12:21 am

    Ideally Roti making should become automatic in future since its a repetitive task. If this succeeds, nothing like it. Cooks in the house will be thrilled. 🙂

    Sabji making is harder to automate of course.

  3. rashmi
    June 12, 2013 at 9:17 am

    Great Graduation gift for my kids:). I saw this at Tie Conference.

  4. Bhavini
    June 12, 2013 at 10:19 am

    Interesting Manish, if you saw it in 2010, then they must have refined quite a lot in last 3 years .
    Rashmi, I can see that you are planning for the comfort in undergrad years :-).

  6. Manish
    June 12, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    well actually I realized that I saw them in Nov 2009 and not 2010. So it has been more than 4 years now! :). Note that I didn’t see the actual demo of the product. Only the judges saw it. We saw their final presentation.

    Its a hard problem to solve mainly because it can’t be super expensive, it cannot be too big while at the same time it should atleast be able to feed 3-4 people in one feed and it should be easy enough to clean. If any of these are not solved properly, no one will buy it. In other words, technically it may not be that big of a deal but making this into a product that normal people would buy is a very big deal!

  7. Bhavini
    June 12, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    Minati, the one you posted is a bigger scale, professional one. I’ve heard that Sunnyvale temple also has something similar ..

    Manish, Yup you said it right – making it into a regular kitchen appliance is really great. Definitely will be useful for folks who don’t make rotli’s or buy it from outside or for students etc, am not sure if folks who make rotli’s regularly will be buying it …

  8. bhanik
    June 12, 2013 at 10:52 pm

    I have seen a similar machine in JCNC which they use to make theplas. I am sure it must be scalable for Rotis as well.

  9. neelamdharod
    June 13, 2013 at 6:22 am

    Bhanik, In JCNC did you see a machine that does all the steps? I think the temple has the one where you do not have to roll the rotli from the dough. But I am not sure if it can do all the steps.

  10. bhanik
    June 13, 2013 at 11:17 am

    @Neelam – I think in the machine that I saw, you just need to put in the dough and you get fully cooked theplas out.

  12. Kunjal
    October 18, 2013 at 4:29 pm

    Here is a video of rotimatic in action.

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