https://www.desidime.com/discussions/thoughts-on-roti-maker?post_id=7705886#post_7705886
Hiiiiiii. Hey, I have had very bad experience with Roti makers. Rotis were like burnt crackers. Actually I won that roti maker via a contest, which happened at a local mall.
These days I trust my trusted Tawa and roti airer( just made this word up. The instrument is made of loosely spaced iron mesh. You first bake rotis on tawa. Then you place them on mesh. Then you show the roti carrying mesh to open flame. Rotis become fluffier. 🙂🙂🙂). I have learnt to make pre bake a roti while making rotis fluffy. So, that’s the tip I want to give to you. 🙏🙏
Roti makers failed.. Dony go for them
aajtak ek time pr bhi aacha roti nahi ban paya roti maker se … 7th class se apne hathon se hi ekdm best roti , bhakari banata hu 🍝🍲
𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝐣𝐚𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐤𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐝 पेङ 𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐚 गुड 𝐠𝐮𝐝
बंगाल ki speciality: सर्दियों में बनने वाला Nolen गुड
https://youtube.com/watch?t=0s&v=yT56gQAoLuA
@nofpd @alekhyadas @rehan123saj664 @little_jerry @bikidas2060 @total_fun @archie @rickybahl @sabbir.t @simbha3 @blueflash @saymyname78 @siddhartha07 @chandler_bing @vish @g33kboyravi @shuvamgayen @s.thawait @leonidass @shubzdeals @agni007 @bumblefoot Finding even normal khajoor gud, palm jaggery.. outside of Bengal (in the non neighbouring states) is not easy though.
even when one does find, it is hardly (if ever) the premier quality.. unless one is specifically procuring it from Bengal.
and obviously it could be four to five times the price of cane jaggery.
[when doing UPI scams, fake customer support scams are that much more profitable, not many want to go through the hassle of climbing those straight (almost 90° to the ground) trees.. .. at odd hours in the morning and laboriously preparing the jaggery.]
like many other dwindling art forms, skills.. this too may be fading away with time.
I don't know if you are bengali or from Bengal or not but it is absolutely a unique flavour of sweetness that I think going slowly extinct.
As someone who has tasted both the raw rass ( sweet sap) collected from khajoor tree and the Nolen gur ( which you get after slow cooking the sap) I can't accept the adulterated fake Stuff most people think as Nolen Gur.
Ranveer Brar didn't mention Why Nolen gur is called that.
The Shiuli cuts certain parts of the khajoor tree and puts a small pipe like structure called "Noll", made from bamboo branches ( konchi) into the khajoor tree, through which liquid sap flows into earthen pots.
It is not just hard work but very pain enduring, and requires tremendous amount of decipline.
1) You have to wakeup long before sunrise in the winter months. Day after day.
2) you have to have the skills and knowledge to cut and shave off the khajoor trees.
3) You easily get cuts and bruses from scale like structures on khajoor tree stem.
4) Amount of fuel needed to make boiled down the sap into liquid Nolen gur is also a Major contributing factor in its price. Generally dry dead tree branches and dry khajoor leaves were used as fuel for cooking fire. To keep the costs down. But that method isn't feasible for large scale product.
You also need to have good experience and skills to boil down the sap to make Nolen gur. Generally around 2-3.5 liters of liquid sap need to make 1 liter of liquid Nolen gur ( also known as 'Jhola Gur'). More sugar content the SAP has less you need to boil down. You need to add little sugar ( for starting crystallization process) and boil down further to make solid 'Patali' Nolen gur.
5) The invention and easy availability of synthetic Nolen gur smell has devaluate the real unadulterated Nolen gur to a certain extent. And unless people know the smell and texture of the real stuff it's absolutely not possible to distinguish the artificial smelling adulterated Nolen gur from real one.
Most of the Nolen gur based sweets made in Kolkata uses such smell mixed normal sugarcane jaggery.
==================
If you want to get the real stuff, best way is to contact people who make these stuff, the Shiuli. Which is not feasible for everyone.
2nd best option is to contact shops in whole sale gur market (with a reputation to protect)
=================
*PS: Nolen Gur is like fine wine of Sweet Substances. You need to have good sense taste and smell, along with experience to truly appreciate it.
But even without heightened senses or previous experience of real Nolen Gur,one can still enjoy its intoxicating sweet flavour.