Banana Chip Making Machine in Kerala

This is a locally made machine which slices bananas and drops them directly into the hot oil. A peeled banana is pushed into a hole and comes out sliced on a tray. They fall into boiling hot smoking oil where the banana chips are fried.

Another view of how the machine works.  Chips roll off the steel tray into the hot boiling oil

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Beef Steak Barbecue

And image of beef steaks cooking on a home-made barbecue. The barbecue is of red brick and the steaks have turned a caramel brown over the hot coals.

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Cooking on pavements in India

Cooking spilling out onto pavements is common all over India.These are photographs of people cooking on the streets and pavements in India.

The first two pictures are shot in Rajasthan, a state in North India. In this first one there are people with open stoves on the pavements. The eatery or shop has encroached upon the pavement and hot oil is boiling out there as people pass by.  A gas cylinder is casually attached to the gas stove.

Something is frying here in the hot oil, outdoors on the side of the road. The clutter around the stove is dangerous for passers-by.

Cooking outdoors is now banned in Mumbai,  but continues nevertheless. The old man is stirring a small black kadhai or pot on a mini gas stove. This photo has been taken on Mumbai streets.

Not just commercial establishments, but also individuals cook on pavements. One is used to seeing slum-dwellers cook on pavements outside their huts, but this picture is of a homeless person family cooking in the middle of the day in a posh locality near Churchgate in South Mumbai. Slums are nowhere in sight. Wood is being used to light up a small makeshift stove made with bricks. The girls was (not surprisingly) upset that the photograph was being clicked as this area is regularly policed as it is a posh area. 

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Photos of frying in hot oil

Photographs of the process of frying in hot oil in a small kadhai or girdle.
Something is being fried in the hot oil (placed in a kadhai or frying pan on a stove) and the hot oil is smoking. This is not healthy as smoking oil releases toxins.The oil is too hot.

This is a cut-out against a white background and you can see papad (Indian fried snack) being fried in the hot smoking oil on a gas stove.

Another cut-out of snack food being fried, against a white background.

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Chinese cook making barbecued meat

A Chinese man making some barbecued meat at a small roadside eatery. However what meat he is cooking is unclear.

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Tandoor Oven, tandoori rotis and cooks

These are photographs of people cooking tandoori rotis (roasted Indian bread from North India) in the typical Indian clay tandoori oven in New Delhi, India. The men in the small kitchen are from Kashmir who have set up shop in Delhi. They also appear to be living in the same place.

Here you can see how the cook is making the rotis out of white refined flour (maida). He is flattening/rolling the soft white dough on a tava or bridle and then pressing it down with a wooden object (with a design) before putting it in the hot oven.

This is what the final product looks like. The tandoori rotis, typical of North India, are eaten with vegetables or non-vegetarian food.

This is a photo of a close-up of the tandoori clay oven. A bottle which is used to spray fat on the food can be seen on the side.

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