MADURAI: A Madurai woman used her cooking skill to set a record by making 134 dishes in just half-an-hour and registering her name in the Asia Book of Records and India Book of Records. Indira Ravichandran, 41, of Thirumangalam, on Monday, broke the record of a 17-year-old Kerala boy, who had prepared 172 dishes in one hour.
Indira Ravichandran, who lives in Visakhapatnam with her family, is a homemaker and her husband is a naval officer. She said that she has a knack for cooking and could cook many meals within minutes. “My husband encouraged me to attempt at setting a record with my talent. I started practising from June 10,” she said.
She informed the officials of the Indian Book of Records about a month ago and they fixed the date for August 23. As Thirumangalam is her native, she decided to do it here. The record for cooking the most number of dishes in the least time was set by a Kerala boy. “I hoped to cook 86 dishes in half-an-hour, which would help me break this record but ended up making almost double of that,” she said.
According to the rules of the book of records, only cooking has to be done during the given time and all the preparations including chopping can be done in advance. The items she had cooked included 16 varieties of cupcakes, 15 types of idlies, 15 kozhukattais, chicken biryani, sambar, a variety of pakodas, fish curry, chutneys and raitas. Then she whipped up about 16 types of lassies, masala dosa, podi dosa, egg dosa and others. She began at 10.25am and completed 134 dishes by 10.55am. The cost of the ingredients came up to about Rs 15,000.
Cooking was done with the help of three gas stoves and an oven. Asia Book for Records and India Book of Records adjudicator Vivek Nair, who was present, certified Indira Ravichandran’s achievement.
