
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