How 20,000 Kilograms Of Traditional Jaggery (Gur) Are Produced In Iqbalpura, India, Every Day
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- India is the world's largest producer and consumer of jaggery, a type of unrefined sugar that's used for making desserts, drinks, and offerings to gods across the country.
In the Indian state of Uttarakhand, small factories that use traditional methods produce up to 20,000 kilograms of jaggery a day.
We visited Iqbalpura, India, to see how jaggery is made in such big batches.
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My grandfather used to own one of those mills, thought we only processed the sugarcane from our fields. One of my fondest childhood memories was that we used to wait for the jaggery with banana leaves at the end.
Thanks for sharing!
LOVE this series, Big Batches might be the pinnacle of food related content, the jury is still deliberating lol, Dan Does is dope AF.
Thanks for watching!
Seeing the process is interesting, but concerns about sanitation will always be on my mind.
Yeah same here, fortunately for me I have zero desire to leave America lol.
@@jeffb321 see, not that many people here get sick because of this, i have never gotten sick because of jaggery atleast. this is because we are used to it, and we have developed a bit of immunity. I have never had food poisoning in my life outside of India.
Its pure sugar nothing can live in it, it's like honey in that regard, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal.
@@OnlySlightyRadioactive 5:17 says otherwise
@@jeffb321you mean the country where sanitation is also questionable? Wow 🙄
I just can’t help but wish these people had a better system in place to have higher food safety standards, working, and living conditions when I see this. Everyone is just trying to make a living in a system that doesn’t seem to support basic things like infrastructure and industry
INDIAN SYSTEM FEEDS ON THEM AND REQUIRES PEOPLE SURRENDER TO IT?
@JosePerez don't worry most of the people in power are old heads and will be replaced by the next generation. At least we have toilets now✌️😂
Yeah, also the lack of machinery and over reliance on manual labor at every step. I understand the needed equipment hasn't been invented but necessity is the mother of invention.
@@BkNy02 lmao if machines come these guys would be the first one to lose their jobs😂😂
they do not need system, but money to implement higher food safety standards, working and living conditions along with first world wages for the employees.
India...the only place in the world were they still by the moto "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"
Hygiene is illegal there 😂
Plenty of other places...central america has that one super polluted river...china, and just look at how much random crap theyre pulling out of the seine trying to get it clean for the olympics (itll never happen)
😂😂
Ultron said it to natasha 😂
Natural selection
That is as real as it gets, great job!
disgusting hygiene
Their use of the byproduct as a fuel source is nice. It might help the shelf life to use gloves.
It probably generates insane amounts of air pollution, net negative for everyone.
The making of it has added in many many flavours 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
In South and central America they burn the cane before harvesting. Jaggery (gur) cookies are freaking amazing, especially with my coffee
Never knew about this. Every day is a school day 🧡🤷♀️
i accept..
So clean work
ocra roots and water is not a good thing anymore for clarification because of the heavy use of pesticides and other chemicals, when making tea and use jaggery made from this it spoils it, in Punjab we mostly use Bicarbonate of Soda to clarify it and it has no bad side affects too. :)
Now i know where the jaggery i buy in Mombasa comes from
ON THE FLOOR aaahh
Indian kryptonite: Hygenes and automations.
I bet you're just the most fun at parties, aren't you? Why mock people in another country for having different standards than you? It makes you look like an ignorant person.
They don't know these words.
They're getting there chief. Calm down. A lot of stuff is automated and the hygiene is getting better. It's not the best yet, but they've only started property developing in the last decade.
East Asia, where I assume you're from, is also not known for their hygiene. How are those meat markets btw?
They can't afford it, because of terrible government. If they had a chance, pretty sure they would.
American Kryptonite:-WHAT IS A WOMAN ???
Sugar always tastes better when it's been man-handled. Nothing like it
Cuz they don't wash their hands .
+ they use their hands instead of toilet paper, adds an special layer of flavor.@@ashash8026
@@ashash8026 Of course not its India. Even centuries of British rule and they all they have left is the trains. Morons
Sugar was invented in India actually.
Tastes like shit
how are there not tens of thousands of flies swarming this place, it's pure sugar.
Heat
my family used to make it in our village
I am never eating Gur again😅
If you haven't fallen ill till now,you won't be
This is the most hygienic factory Insider Food could find, in all of India, think about that.
that's what you think unless your a bot
@1:57 the truck driver intentionally swerved to educate the man at the side of the road.
Please maintain hygiene in manufacturing process
It's true
big meal for many people coming home on Eid al-Fitr
The high water content makes it attractive to micro organisms, so we dry it for 20 minutes 🤣. Yep, that'll do it.
It actually does. That stuff has shelf life like honey. The video focused on a rustic production process. Modern factories that follow a higher standards are far more common.
Contrary to belief, the world outside your bubble isn't living in the middle ages. It's not like the rest of the world discovered fire yesterday lol.
Sanitation in these places is just down right criminal 😅
You don't get it. An ashy foot with figure funk is the secret ingredient
Cleaner than ass licked dogs handling in homes
That’s part of why the FDA allows for a certain amount of foreign material (up to 10% 🤢) including bugs and sht to be included in food. A lot of the places where our food products are grown do not have the infrastructure to have sophisticated processing facilities or just by the nature of the processing, certain ‘inclusions’ will be introduced.
That’s why you’re not supposed to eat raw cookie dough or flour. Not just because of the eggs but because birds inevitably sht in the wheat fields and there’s not really a way to effectively eliminate the chances of certain contamination unless you bake it. I agree it looks pretty sus but if you think about stuff like chocolate, cocoa beans are usually just laid out to dry in the sun. A certain number of critters are bound to get in there. It’s gross but after processing is ultimately harmless to us. I just try not to think about it too much or I’ll just become neurotic about it. 😂
Pork eating people talking about sanitization 🤔🤔😃🤣
@@toxichammertoe8696
Cheesey toe-jam is the secret ingredient 😂
@emdee31
I understand your concerns but a majority of people wearing gloves is mostly for placebo. Think about it, you wash your hands and over time they get dirty and sweaty and you wash them again, however, people wearing gloves just keep wearing the same pair many a times. The policies are generally to change gloves after every single order (in fast food industry) and wash your hands before wearing new gloves, but do you really think that people follow this during rush hour? Some places here in India have banned gloves as they make your hands sweaty faster and the climate being warmer leads to more bacterial growth. It's better to just let people use their hands and let them wash them more frequently which most people do. Imagine you make something which is sticky with bare hands, as soon as you're done you would want to wash your hands, even if it is not with soap you'll flush most of the things stuck to your hands. You can read research articles, wearing gloves improperly is far worse than just washing your hands regularly. Also in the case of this particular video, the jaggery balls are made when the jaggery is well over 60 celcius so it's really fine.
Sanitation and Hygiene left India a long time ago. Legend says it hasn't returned yet.
yes! hygiene left India starting from 1757 AD when colonists destroyed local economy to sell manchester goods for huge profit, and in process made these people ancestors not only poor but snatched and destroyed the sense of any pride and dignity in the psyche of the masses. further, glorification and romanticization of poverty by the communists/socialists had played huge role in continuance of the same in 21st century.
May be one day
Very hygienic 😂
The best jagger and all natural is produced in punjab
Something tells me it would relieve constipation!
Yes. It is good for digestion.
what language do they use?
Hindi
I have seen so many jaggery production houses and one ting for sure, if it is pure organic jaggery made in the traditional way without any chemicals the jaggery is brown not Golden or Orange like this. In Karnataka, the jaggery making is far cleaner than this and mostly machines are used for all the production.
There are many jaggary producers much cleaner and hygienic than these guys. Why you went to the worst.one😂
Jaggery is good for the health, says the man without any teeth. 😂
Its also made in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 but we use various syrup not just sugar cane, palm syrup, date syrup and are more pronounced and defined in taste. Its also a bit different process and deep colored.
You're deluding yourself. Not only is it harmful what you're eating but also defeats the purpose
exactly in WB too, people prefer the date palm jaggery. It gives the distinct taste in our sweets.
Please make sure for food and hygiene and safety for others health
I still like *big foody batches*
how many of you got: chet k means beating hard @ 2:55
I just can’t watch these without being grossed out. Like yes let’s process this food on a muddy floor. Barf
El Pueblo est clean à côté d'eux !
Wow I've seen hundreds of videos of cooking in India is it illegal in India to practice good sanitation to cook clean.
How is it dirty? The bowls are just rusty, everything is cleaned and washes
Here the jaggery we buy is brown in colour
India: Hygiene be damn
all they have to do is not install the pots into the damn floor 😩 theres so much dirt and grime from them just walking around wth
I am from India... why people don't maintain clean... :( the shop person maintained well clean. The person who is making needs to learn to keep clean...
not really. shop people don't maintain the hygiene too. this is why I never eat or drink from any street vendors, but from proper shops even though they are expensive.
Get me some of dat goop scoop goop scoop, mix it with da struggle, bubble struggle bubble
Jaggery some of it is sharp like glass shards
Mick Jaggery!!
Yeaahh... Goop scoop 😂
That's how jaggery is made...
Average Mom's basement resident seeing the world outside 😂😂😂
I know sanitation looks like shit, but in my experience regional doctors suggest jaggery vs sugar even for babies, due to nutrition and other factors, processed sugar no one recommends, even in my family we are slowly removing processed sugar,
it really speaks volumes about modern food marketing
Jaggery was considered the desert maker for the poor and the peasants. As food of the plebian, elites didn't use it. The cheapness and constant availability of it made it almost universal in bengali confectionery.
During the war of independence, Jaggery and Roti were the form and source of food for revolutionary underground fighters who had little money to get food.
Times have changed. Now, Jaggery is an industrialised factory. This vedio doesnt shows it. And it's getting costly.
Is there anyone like me who used to use sugar cane stalks to make a bich for fighting like Bruce Lee when I was a kid?
This is how traditionally jaggery is made from age's in this region. Though it looks dirty but it doesn't uses any chemicals. Bristish came in, they disdain it calling it unhygienic and built sugar mills which uses chemicals to make white sugar. Now we all are fighting against white sugar
yeah I'd rather have the chemicals than whatever diseases are being spread around here. I mean the chemicals used in making sugar are pretty well known, and none of them are dangerous. Getting chlorea because some guy stepped in feces before coming to work and stepping where they make the jaggery... that sounds far worse.
got ads.
The dude feeding the fire looked so dry, get that man a pepsi!
"How modern slaves work to make in a year what some make in an hour or less."
They don’t burn the fields to harvest the cane?
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Aww man what a hell is that 😂
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My ancestors used to make this thing, I don't know how many generations before but they used to make this. How do I know you ask, because my last name is based on the product
🍻🍻🍻🍻
At least they are wearing shoes.
I’d like to know how many snakebites occur in the sugarcane fields.
Sugar was invented in India when the world didn`t was hunting animal with stones.
Huh?!
In Brazil we have a peanut sweet exactly like that, we call it pé de moleque, it means foot of boy 😅
Cause all the Indian boys who make it jump all over it with their bare feet
Nah..💀👍
One of the beautiful things I can take away from this culture is atleast the factory owner knew how to work actual process’ in his factory.
I work in an automobile factory and it would be hilarious to see some of the office workers do some of the process’
most automobile factories are public traded gigant companies. where most owners own a very small part of it. and in case you mean the CEO or other c suit people. ofc they dont need to know how to make a car. that is why they hire engineers to design them and workers to make them.
now if you go to the origin years of each of those companies ofc you can bet you ass the founders knew how to make a car.
@@lucaskp16 oh wow thanks for stating the obvious. Had no idea about any of that🤣🔥🔥
5:20 wrong info tht jaggery is perishable rather it can be kept for over years like honey if the moisture is less than 10% and as per Indian Govt Quality Standards jaggery should not have more than 7% moisture
I dont think i have been to an Insider Food video in 1 hour, and it was so close(53 min)
sugarcane was first cultivated in india.
It looks like caramel taffy
what a sad payment $3 to $5 a day.. not enough for 1 day food..
The beginning is already frustrating. Some farmworker harvests up to 6 tons of sugar cane, gets paid 5$ while the mill will pay 300$ for these 6 tons. Ya'll need workers unions.
these workers had EXPENSIVE shoes during their work.... but i saw other videos these workers are working without it and wearing pants at groin level🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@RubiaStorm i think you didn't catch up... that worker was asked to wear 'new' shoes by the crew for hygiene purpose... but on regular days of work they are working bare feet
@@greyson042290exactly 😩
This industry seems ripe for mechanization. I'm sure that will come over the next 10 years.
Yes actually jaggery got abandoned by masses and only village people used it by early 2000s since it was seen as orthodox and eaten by poor people. So the demand just died out and only remote villages used to make it. Its production halted. This must be one of the remote factories which survived the whole jaggery bycott.
But now due to the whole organic moment and Jaggery being much better for diabetic patient than sugar. Its again started getting popular and now its actually costlier than sugar. Which was not the case earlier. So probably we will see factories for the same soon.
@@Richdadful And I imagine it has a unique taste, richer and deeper flavor than regular, white sugar.
Countryside druglab have better hygiene standards Omg
Jaggery is good for health
- old jaggery factory owner
India... ☕
Guaranteed food poisoning right here. Delhi belly ain’t a joke
No thx..
People who eat pesticides produces are saying this is bio hazard. Being "clean " and looks "clean" is not same, but what do you know, probably eating mac donalds fries, fried in plam oil. Btw search about potato used in macD fries.😂
Palm jaggery is best
First time I'm hearing about it
@@cavineowaka6749 it's made from sap of the date palm
It sounds delicious, I hope to try it out
Sorry to say that it’s crazy this place make anything for consumption let alone for human consumption, I guess dirty conditions and dirty environment make for a better product lol.
What about the rats and the snakes that eat the rats? Cobras? This seems like it could be really dangerous?
Welcome to the diarrhea capital of the world
Man, so many people concerned about sanitation. This is how humans were living for centuries before the American sanitation standards. Embrace it
This is disgusting
Why ? Why India why ? Sanitation and hygiene will not harm y'all
How is it produced?
Ans: Unhygienicaly
that place is nasty
Very sanitary.....
What accent is that 🤔
I would rather eat a steak off my toilet. Why is everything done around their feet? Lol.
Not properly cooked they under cooked it to increase weight
Ladoos, in this case, balls?
Those who concern about sanitation, at first they need learn to wash their a** with water... ✌🏻
Humidity is not high in these region
The average humidity in Uttarakhand is 61%. In Aug is 86%. Today it's 68%. I live in Mobile, we have a subtropical climate here, our average humidity is 85.7%. It's like walking around with a wet blanket over you. Over 60% is high humidity, so yeah, Uttarakhand has high humidity.
@@magpie92766 thanks for reply...........but I live in Maharashtra state of India where sugarcane and jaggery production is top...........and here humidity is less only coastal region has high humidity. So in less humidity areas also people grow sugarcane and are among top producer in country
@@magpie92766 in sri lanka it goes up to 90%.
@@AsokaTw-mz3lr I'm not surprised, we do too. Cities w humidity averages in the high 80's don't have far to go to get to 90% on a good day. One of the problems with living in sub-tropical & tropical areas. Here many people who come South to visit are surprised at how hot & humid our area is.
@@arvinthemindfreak Here in the US our sugar cane is grown in the more humid states. We produce over 32.9 million net tons, slightly less than India's 33.7 million tons. Looking online I was surprised to see that Brazil grows over 677 million tons. That is a serious amount of sugarcane. Does jaggery taste similar to dark brown sugar or molasses?
Sounds interesting! Next time I am in the market to contract Botulism I will look for this product.