- Agnisumukh’s designed energy-saving cook stoves save 70% fuel than LPG with zero carbon soot
- Brainchild of I-T Officer Hari Rao, Agnisumukh was launched in 2014 after prolonged research into R& D
- Recipient of several accolades, Agnisumukh stoves aim to foster cooking using sustainable energy
'Agnisumukh' a Bangalore-based start-up, launched in 2014 by Mr Hari Rao Sanghi who is CEO and the innovator of its flagship product Agnisumukh burners. Besides being an innovative alternative to LPG, the burners ensure higher thermal efficiency and no zero emission of carbon soot.
Agnisumukh is a product of Mr Rao’s love for cooking and concern for about the LPG fuel we use today. While the LPG uses low thermal efficiency, high consumption of gas along with high ambient heat and that emits carbon soot, The Agnisumukh ensures higher thermal efficiency and no emission of carbon soot.
Mr Rao feels, heat is the backbone of every industry and is a vital aspect for manufacturing purposes. Thus, he took a challenge to reform the cooking system by modifying the technology which is easily adaptable to the environment.
Initial Setbacks Towards Green Kitchen
The story starts from the day when Mr Rao inaugurated his restaurant Dakhani Degh in Jaynagar, Bangalore, in 2006 where he decided to cook on uniform convection cum radiant heat of charcoal. The cooking mechanism ensured uniform heat across the vessels, without burning of or depleting moisture in from the food.
The launch flagged off Rao’s journey of processing equipment to produce charcoal-like heat started. He designed a unique stove assembling a wine glass with two chambers so that it can be heated from both sides, i.e., top and bottom. The process was known as 'Dum', a century-old tradition of cooking practise. The invention resulted was partially positive because the cooked food was of top-notch quality. And majorly negative because the preparation was time consuming. Smoke, fly ash, carbon soot, controllable heat, and increased ambient heat led to burning calories and may create possible mishaps.
After switching to the modern fuel, the centric fire in the form of blue flame touched and heated the cooking vessel thereby transferring the heat inside the vessel, and burning the pot, and depleting moisture. Furthermore, the cooks were prone to develop hernia after constant proximity to the blue flame. After months of research, a burner was prepared by laying three stones on the ground, relying on the size of the cooking vessel. There was Rao who maintained a gap between the burnt charcoal and the vessel having “super heated air”, which ensured uniformly spread the heat across the bottom rim of the vessel cooking the food successfully and without any burns. .
Agnisumukh Billowing Sustainable Energy Development
On 2008, under the supervision of Dr Supriya Chellappan, a PhD in Economics, the research on the stove was renewed for innovating the first energy-efficient burner system on gas fuel. In October 2014, Agnisumukh finally got a received recognition as a brand. Following the Next year, a cooking range and hot plate was launched too. Eventually, mere startup culminated into a well-known brand: Agnisumukh.
Agnisumukh is an innovative venture that incorporates methane technology to harness higher thermal efficiency by which food is cooked promptly and without any hassle.Agnisumukh produces far infra-red rays to cook the food without immediately heating the vessel. The thermal efficiency of Agnisumukh burners under IS 14612 is at 69% compared to other commercial burners whose efficiency is around 35 to 40%. The far infra-red rays heat the water molecule across the cooking vessel instead of forging the tension in the center. The Agnisumukh produces the exact flame like charcoal burners.
The product can be used as a commercial as well as a domestic kitchen appliance and ranges from the clean stoves to the steam boilers. The product is comparatively safer to use as the surface of the stove is colder than the surface of the LPG stove burner. It is a flameless, smokeless and noiseless innovation. Agnisumukh product range’s durability entirely relies on its manoeuvring, because the application of the machine ensures its lifespan. Agnisumukh is successfully driving towards sustainable development, claiming to use approximately 30 less fuel than LPG fuel. Today, Agnisumukh is synonymous with clean energy at an affordable price.
Instead of submitting to his destiny Mr. Rao, an I-T officer turned into an entrepreneur, decided to follow his dream of providing decent quality of food by sustainable energy. Mr. Rao istarted his career by serving the country as a civil servant. Later, he was promoted to the post of income tax official. Rao’s responsibilities never deterred him from becoming an entrepreneur. Hebelieves one can get to bed on an empty stomach but going to bed with an empty heart is unbearable.
