Making perfect rotis in the kitchen is no easy task unless you have lots of practice under your belt. Which is why a lot of rookie cooks are on the lookout for hacks that make this task easier. For example, using a bowl or plate to cut the rolled-out dough into a perfect circle or even making a liquid dough that can be ladled onto a tawa/pan to avoid kneading.
Now, another such hack is going viral online which shows a woman rolling out 3 chapatis and placing them in a pressure cooker. After about 2 minutes (or is it 2 whistles?) they come out fully cooked and ready to eat. Take a look:
While people admitted that pressure cookers are often used as a makeshift tandoor to make naan, they seemed unconvinced that this would work for rotis. A few even called it a fake video.
WATCH: How to Make Chapati in Pressure Cooker, Cooking Hack is Going Viral https://t.co/BLKzOmaXnu
Seen this? Tried it? I'm not convinced it's possible. How did she achieve the brown spots? #bs
— Kaveri 🇮🇳 (@ikaveri) May 21, 2021
Doesn’t look legit. You can use an empty pressure cooker to make a jugaad tandoor for naan etc, but making 3 perfectly browned chapathis at once seems like a stretch. And does she say 2 whistles or 2 minutes? Not clear
— Krish Ashok (@krishashok) May 21, 2021
Like Tandoori concept.
We can do with other broad vessels too instead of steel tawa— YoganandVellaiswamy (@vyoganand99) May 21, 2021
Others wondered if it was safe to use a pressure cooker in this manner and advised caution.
What’s the point of this? The harder parts of making a good ‘chapati’ are the dough and the rolling not the cooking on the tava.
— I.Rathi 🍕☸🦚🇮🇳 (@laajardni) May 21, 2021
be careful. a dry pressure cooker with pressure buildup can be dangerous
— peeleraja (@peeleraja) May 21, 2021
Very dangerous.
— Srinivasan Iyer (@sciyer) May 21, 2021
Does this jugaad look safe and doable? Tell us.