This 'Dhobipachad Imarti' Video Brings Back The Hygiene Question

When talking about street food, India is known for serving a variety of delicious and traditional items that too at affordable prices across the country. Street food has become an important business nowadays as people love and admire the taste of snacks, prepared at the local markets. However, the food enthusiasts have often raised hygiene concerns about street food and the way vendors prepare their dishes in the makeshift stalls.

One such video has recently caught the internet’s attention where a street vendor was seen preparing the popular Indian delicacy called ‘Imarti’. The video shared by a food blogging account on Instagram shows how a Patna street vendor prepares the popular ‘dhobipachad imarti’. However, his way of preparing the sweet dish has raised a lot of questions on social media.

As the video plays, the vendor can be seen using his bare hands to prepare the batter. Following this, the vendor goes on to set up the wok with the help of coal and then uses generous portions of the batter to craft the imarti shape into the piping hot oil. The video also shows how the batter is transformed into golden-brown imartis, which are finally dipped into sugar syrup before serving.

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The video clearly left the internet divided over the vendor’s unhygienic way of preparing the imartis. Some were also impressed with his cooking skills.

A user wrote, “Don’t worry the hot oil kills anything that came from his hand”, while another one wrote, “if khoon PASEENE ki kamai had a face.”

“U can literally taste his mehnat..”, another commented. A foodie shared a piece of suggestion and wrote, “he can wear plastic gloves right? Like all the pani-puri bhaiya do..”

Unhygienic making of gulab jamun

A similar kind of video went viral a few weeks back. The video which was taken from a Gulab Jamun shop in Delhi shows how two people prepared the base mixture for the dessert with their bare hands. As the video further played, the men prepared the dough with their hands and later crafted the dish with the help of a machine.

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While the video had a caption that reads, “Most Hygienic Gulab Jamun in India,” the post left internet users divided. A user wrote, “What hygiene.. In the beginning they used their hands… Even at that time they could have used gloves”, while another commented, “Gloves contain more bacteria than hands. Washing hands is fine.”