Complaints about adulterated food are only growing, and everyday items like roasted gram sattu haven't been spared. A man in Jharkhand's Kodarma district has come up with an inventive fix for exactly this problem, he's fitted a small flour-grinding machine onto his own motorcycle and now rides through lanes and neighbourhoods grinding fresh sattu right where his customers can watch.
A shop on two wheels
The man behind this idea is Pintu Kumar. Every morning he sets out on his bike carrying the compact mill with him, stopping in one locality after another. The moment a customer hands over roasted gram, the machine is switched on right there, and within minutes hot, freshly ground sattu is ready in hand. He charges Rs 130 per kilogram for it.
A business built for just Rs 30,000
Putting together the whole rig, bike and mill combined, cost Pintu roughly Rs 30,000. The machine may look small, but its output says otherwise: it can grind between 15 and 20 kilograms of sattu within a single hour, enough to keep up with a steady stream of customers through the day.
No more standing in line
Pintu explains that people earlier had to carry their gram all the way to a mill, then wait for hours in long queues, a wait that only got worse whenever the power went out. His mobile setup has done away with all of that, since the mill now comes straight to people's doorsteps instead of the other way round.
Purity you can watch happen
What really sells this to customers, Pintu says, is that they see every step for themselves, from the raw roasted gram going in to the finished sattu coming out. With nothing hidden from view, there's no room left for adulteration, and that visible trust has turned his modest roadside venture into a steady earner.
