Introduction: Wooden Chapati Maker at Home
What purposes does a roti maker serve?
Using a chapati maker, you can quickly turn your dough into a spherical roti or chapati. Because the dough doesn't need to be rolled, electric roti makers make it simpler to manufacture round chapati.
What is the Chapati maker's guiding principle?
Expansive force: The machine's force transforms the dough balls into flat, spherical chapatis. when a result, the dough ball expands when power is used to flatten and round it out into the shape of a chapati. Thus, expansion force is the force effect at work in this process.
Supplies
We need basic materials for making chapati maker at home.
1) Exhaust Fan
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2) Wooden beading strip
3) Bearings
4) L Joint Strip
5) PVC Pipe
6) Drill Machine
Step 1: Open Exhaust Fan
We need one working small 30 watt exhaust fan for motor. You can also find this AC or DC motor in other appliances. But I use an exhaust fan for a 30-watt AC motor because I need to run this machine on my home power supply.
Open the exhaust fan's cover first, then remove it. Next, separate the motor from the blades and take it out.
Step 2: Build a Wooden Frame.
To create chapati, I need a wooden frame to which I can attach an AC motor and a handle. Steel or plastic frames are also options.
To create a frame, I cut wooden strips measuring 7 cm x 3 cm each at a 45-degree angle and measuring two 35 cm long and two 25 cm long. Merge two strips measuring 35 cm and 25 cm. Drill the L-joint after marking the holes, then insert the screws. then use this way to create the entire frame.
Step 3: Attach Top Platform
Cut a piece of wood ply to 25 cm × 35 cm in size, then add some glue to the border. Place this wooden ply on a frame that measures 25 x 35 cm.
Step 4: Joint Motor
After this, make a 12mm hole in the middle of the frame and make three holes around this for attaching the AC motor. After making holes, place the motor and screw it in.
Step 5: Make Handle
To make a handle, drill 12mm holes in wooden blocks (7cm x 3 cm x 25 cm). Then insert a nut inside these holes.
Step 6: Joint Handle
Take a wooden strip that is 4 cm long by 1 cm wide next. After that, drill the holes as shown in the image and assemble the wooden blocks as shown in the final image.
Step 7: Rollers
Create rollers for the chapati maker after that. Take four bearings and two PVC pipes to construct a roller. PVC pipe measuring 11 cm long should be inserted into this. Next, pass both rollers through the rod while travelling on an 8mm steel road. Afterward, fasten this to a wooden handle.
Step 8: Chapati Base
Then drill a hole in the middle of a wooden manual chapati maker. then thread a nut through this and fasten it straight to the motor shaft. Next, secure the handle to the frame.
Step 9: PVC Handle
Then, cut a 23 cm length of PVC tubing, and attach it to the handle.
Step 10: Practical
Watch our full video to make this and watch practical use of this.
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45 Comments
Question 3 months ago on Introduction
What is the RPM of the motor?
5 months ago
How to you connect this safely to electrical power? this is 230V!
Reply 3 months ago
Sounds like you're american?
you'll need a step-uptransformer or just buy a 110v AC motor.
Reply 3 months ago
No i am not American. but my point is the instructable didn't really explain the electrical connection. if this is high voltage it should be safely addressed.
But it is cool idea.
Reply 3 months ago
That's because there's nothing to it.
an AC 220V motor can be connected directly to the mains.
Personally I would put a variable resistor to adjust the speed but you don't need to.
And it's a salvaged motor so all the connections are done. I see he took the plug off but I think it was to get it out of the housing.
Reply 5 months ago
Directly connect Home power supply of 230 Volt .
5 months ago
How do you clean this? It NEEDS to be sterelised before your first use if you use it for anyone apart from yourself!
Reply 5 months ago
My Irish grandmother had a saying my mother shared whenever, as kids, we'd complain about a bit of this or that we complained was in our mashed potatoes, pancakes, etc. etc.
"You'll be eating a peck o' dirt before ya die."
Having shared this very old wives tale and bit of sage advice, the wooden turntable could be replaced with a disc of Teflon (or similar food grade plastic) and the attachment to the motor changed to allow it to be easily removed and put in the dishwasher. A modification of the roller seems feasible that would allow it to be easily removed for cleaning.
This is a really cool device - and this from a fella who learned to toss the pizza dough like a pro (indeed, as I was paid to do it, I musta been a 'pro!').
If I could make a machine to do my Apple Pie Dough as easily . . . No, if someone else could do it and Amazon . . .
Good work Ne te nothi tarde!
Reply 3 months ago
I was thinking of this for shortbread crusts.
If you use a teflon dowel it should have a nice weight for such a hard dough.
Reply 4 months ago
Wait what….sterilised? You do realise that fruit and vegetables grow in dirt, that meat comes from dead animals….in short, almost nothing you eat is ‘sterile’. Without the symbiotic bacteria you have living in your gut you would not be alive. Perhaps you do not understand the difference between ‘clean’ and ‘sterilise’ but very little ‘sterility’ is seen in the final aspects of food and drink preparation and is not actually necessary. Think about cheese, beer, wine, kimchi, yogurt, salads, fresh fruit. Next time you eat out think about the McDonalds Box, the hamburger wrapper, the bag around your fresh bread, the knife and fork on the table and the plate that the food is served on….none of these are either ‘sterilised’ or ‘sterile”. Clean? Hopefully yes but not sterile. And in truth we need to be challenged by micro-organisms….it’s how our immune system develops.
Just a wipe over with a damp cloth and the removal of any obvious lumps of dough is all this machine needs to clean it.
Reply 4 months ago
when I see an item being made for food with part that are covered in feces and waste oil with no cleaning yes I will ask questions like that. and if you do not like it you know where the door is!
Reply 4 months ago
Where are the ‘feces’? What is the origin of the ‘feces’ in this instructable. Do you even know what feces are?
Where is the source of the ‘waste oil’?
I am happy to have a battle of wits but you appear unarmed! Your rudeness and arrogance are forgiven. Your ignorance is your own issue. What is the door you refer to? I do not wish to pass through the door to stupidity.
You have a right to ask questions, but not the right to question from a base of ignorance, to insult from a point of stupidity and to decry from a point of bigotry.
Reply 4 months ago
feces on the down pipe and yellow waste oil on the fan motor
Reply 4 months ago
The pipe is not a ‘down pipe’ and appears unused….ie New. If not, just washing in water would make it fit for purpose. Nowhere in the world would this size and class of pipe be used in the handling of sewage, raw or otherwise.
The fan unit from which the motor is derived is an exhaust fan and is not in contact with the food handling surface and there is no way ‘food’ will touch it during use. It will be no more contaminated than a used food mixer motor. All motors and bearings, whether in an exhaust fan or food mixer, are lubricated during manufacture.
Why you choose to first imply that the author has not created a valid and appropriate instructable and then attack my defence of it with a accusations that do not stand up to even the most casual scrutiny is known only by you - but your willingness to call out ‘danger’ where it does not exist in no way contributes to the creative nature of this forum.
In short, any oil you think you can see is from manufacture and is not ‘waste’ and any faecal matter you believe you can ‘see’ is in your mind only. This instructable is an author creating a clever machine from new materials to solve a food handling problem. They should be lauded, not insulted by ignorance and false assumption.
Reply 5 months ago
Yes you can clean using oil after use.
Reply 5 months ago
Look at you, using big words like NEED.
Dunning- Kruger effect…
Great job on the project! Really simple idea that will help a lot with opening pizza dough at home.
Reply 5 months ago
Presumably the same way you clean a wooden rolling pin, or a chopping board, or a steak mallet, or ... !
4 months ago
really greate idea!!! industrializing pies!!!! dude you re genius!!! just one question: You adjust the motor speed with a limiter circuit, or gears?
4 months ago
Will make some adjustments but will give this a try to make wife happy 😊
4 months ago
Wow I love this project...I'm Indian woman...but very difficult for me to make round shape chapati at my home..this tool or machine design is very impressive and useful for woman like me....