Tamil Kitchen Tools III

This attukkal or ural is a hand mill for grinding idli, dosa or aappam batter.







Aappak kadai is a shallow kadai more like a concave tawa for making aappam, a dish made with rice and urad gram like dosa.Aappam is spongy, while dosa is flat.





This puttu kudam or puttu maker is designed for steaming kuzhayp puttu, a breakfast dish containing alternating layers of rice flour and coconut shavings.










This is the pounding mill in which rice is dehusked by pounding with ulakkai, a flail or club.The rice thus obtained is called Kaikutthal arisi.

Tamil Kitchen Tools Part II

This is the traditional nazhi or murukku acchu or chakli press through which murukku or rice crisps are squeezed. Thenkuzhal, manangombu, omap podi and nadap pakkoda are the other deep-fried snack items that can be made with this mould.





This is the traditional knife mounted on a wooden plank for cutting vegetables called arival manai.








This filter with "umbrella" is for brewing coffee decoction as coffee is a must with breakfast





This is the traditional ammi or hand quern for grinding spices. This is a mini grinding stone with pestle on top for crushing or grinding spices

This is the traditional spice box called anjanap petti. It contains seasonings like mustard, urad gram, bengal gram, red chilies dried, cumin, whole peppercorns and fenugreek.





This is the mould for idli or rice cakes steamed and served for breakfast.







This is the plate for steaming idiyappam or rice noodles served for breakfast.







This "acchu" or idiyappam press can be used for squeezing out idiyappam or rice noodles.