IRCTCKitchen

One of the largest kitchen of the country named as, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Ltd. (IRCTC), which catering not only rail passengers, but to corporate clients too. For providing lots of food to the people, number of modern and advanced machines are used by the kitchen members like a massive machine to prepare chapatti that roll out in proper shaped in less than 80 seconds, for cooking rice, steam kettles are used, and for chopping the veggies, a cutting machine is used that chops up about 400 kg of veggies in an hour.

Now, talking about the IRCTC kitchen, it’s fully automated having latest equipments from the best manufactures in India and abroad. All the perishable items come regularly in the morning and also washed and sanitized before being moved to be chopped. And, this time, it planning to serve 25,000 meals by the end of this year.

All the raw materials are stored having with pulses, rice, vermicelli, spice, and other dry fruits. These all items separate neatly with indicating labels. The vegetables, which are used are purchased from the Mother Dairy and remaining non-perishable food items bought from the Metro Cash and Carry outlet near Karkardooma Court.

The kitchen has just installed a plant called Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) that separate many different forms of waste into reusable air and water.