Electric Roti Maker
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I am thinking to by one Electric Roti Maker. If any user please share experience and suggest any particular model of electric roti maker.
We equally eat rice and rotis. But many a times I end up making rice as its easier to make
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Prestige roti maker bought several years ago was good for making parathas but not so much when it came to rotis(phulkas). Didn't see much use.
Is that lever locked/snaps in place
or can the roti pop out on its own when done?
The device understands when to cut off heat?
prestige but try to make roti on tawa
Somewhat unrelated but for anyone looking for a roti toaster (aka khakra maker) I highly recommend the one made by a company named Sanghvi. The product is simple in design yet high quality. Their factory is in Chennai and their product lasts if used properly. We have been using 2 for the last 20 years or so.
Rotimatic is also good
my experience is different ..it was useless product..usually we roll roti but this device will stretch the dough with pressure..this difference is visible on roti
then
the portable (retail use) machines/appliances launched in recent years are a failure.
One which I remember, had a relatively small footprint. Maybe about the size of a medium sized laser printer cum scanner.
It cost about 118 thousand in Indian currency, 8f converted.
Couple of weeks of regular use and users reportec the precooking stage of dough making was jamming.
The supposed to be 'baked' chapati/roti eventually turning out raw or unevenly cooked, in just 4-5 months of use.
Not to mention that getting such things serviced from a 'start up' is a headache. They never invest enough in aftersales.
The industrial use products, as used in the backed kitchens of businesses are reasonably good, but not portable.
Ones which I have seen, require human intervention in deciding the ratios (water, flour, oil if needed) and the unit mixes everything throughly to form the dough and flattened it into shape.
Then the raw dough/chapati moves on a conveyor belt within a kiln type mechanism. Either actual fire or electrical heat bikes the chapatis evenly. Maybe they are automatically flipped if the conveyor belt has a duplex mechanism.
What is often sold as a 'roti maker' for average users is actually a tortilla maker.
(They copied the product and renamed it.)
It is a simple hand-cranked sandwich style hotplate.
In this, everything.. almost everything is user driven.
Whether the flour is finely ground or more coarse type (including whole wheat shell) and the softness or harness of the dough matters a lot.
So ratio of water in the dough needs to be figured out by trial and error.
The user has to press the dough-ball into shape by cranking the close Lever and then if the heating is right and the timings are right.. the chapati gets somewhat evenly baked.
Again, the only way to get it right is by trial and error. The demonstration people even show how it fluff up and gets puffed like a normal tara made roti. But for that they have practiced the lot on how much heat is just enough and when to crank the level open and let the roti (sort of) slide out with happy ohhs ahhs from the onlookers.
We have only used the steel surface tortilla makers/roti makers. But I heard that even in that, people now try to sell non-stick coatings.🙄.
No specific recommendation of a 'brand' or model.
For the few times we used it, these things turned out to be a novelty item. Local made ones were good enough. Why buy China made items when Delhi Punjab Gujarat made ones are similar too (or even better customised).
Now we only have a non electric metal device, just to hand crank the dough into the shape of a puri (or roti) for when meals for 20-30 people or a large gathering have to be made. The dough is flattened into shape using that device and puris are fried as usual or chapatis made on tawa thereafter.