Wooden Chapati Maker at Home

Intro: 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.

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.

Comments

[BakerBoy7]

How to you connect this safely to electrical power? this is 230V!

[yohant1]

The repurposed electric engine wasn't tampered at all, the main structure is wooden and pvc. You shouldn't have problems, the only concern is that not liquid get down the hole to the electric motor

[Saritush]

Sounds like you're american?
you'll need a step-uptransformer or just buy a 110v AC motor.

[hmangal]

Hey, I am only able to find fans that run at 2300 rpm or higher. I know nothing about electrical. How do I reduce the rpm to 800?

[BakerBoy7]

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.

[Saritush]

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.

[akashv44]

Directly connect Home power supply of 230 Volt .

[tlebsack]

Why is it necessary that the pvc roller be two pieces ??

[mpatel207]

What is the RPM of the motor?

[AndyB145]

How do you clean this? It NEEDS to be sterelised before your first use if you use it for anyone apart from yourself!

[charlessenf-gm]

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!

[Saritush]

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.

[wjgp]

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.

[AndyB145]

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!

[wjgp]

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.

[AndyB145]

feces on the down pipe and yellow waste oil on the fan motor

[wjgp]

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.

[akashv44]

Yes you can clean using oil after use.

[farescherer]

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.

[PhilTilson]

Presumably the same way you clean a wooden rolling pin, or a chopping board, or a steak mallet, or ... !