September 7: If a restaurant serves cuisines like Indian, Chinese, or fast foods, then cooking oil constitutes an integral part of food costs. Additionally, it becomes crucial for a restaurant to maintain oil quality because repeated cooking cycles can cause the oil to oxidize, which shortens the oil's shelf life. 

Matter of fact repeated cooking cycles also impact the flavour and colour of used oil to a great extent, and it may transfer these flavours to the next batch of cooking, which literary means compromised food quality and lesser good reviews. 

While resolving such concerns for oil quality and cooking cycles, Mukunda Foods, the Indian market leader for kitchen robotics and automation, has introduced a new product to fulfil the rising need for high-quality and easy-to-use oil filtration systems: Filtro - The Automatic Oil Filter. The product is being touted as a big boon for the restaurant industry.

'Filtro', a first-of-its-kind automatic oil filter in India, defines a supreme innovation tailored for restaurants and the kitchen industry where cooking oil significantly adds to high operational costs. For restaurants, the automatic oil filter can be an effective cost ­saving measure and profit-making implication simultaneously. 

The majority of oil filters available in the market are not very convenient and practical as they need a drain valve or manual transfer of oil from the vessel to the filter tank before adding the appropriate amount of chemicals- not the most efficient or safe method. Additionally, since these options aren't made in India, they are primarily designed and built for the cooking oils utilized in the international market.

Being a vertical filtration system, Filtro improves the oil colour, viscosity, taste, and transparency  

by removing impurities, cooked and burnt residues, and solid particles from used oil. While reducing oil usage and oil spending and lowering the amount of cardboard and plastic packaging overcrowding landfills, this turnkey technology can improve oil life by up to 30 - 50%.  

The made-in-India oil filter is effortless to operate and requires no manual interventions in between operations. In the QSR industry, where speed and profit margins are interdependent, this automatic system can filter higher volumes of oil within 10 minutes while reducing oil filtering costs to as low as Rs. 1.25/- per litre. 

Though the product has no direct competition in the market, still Mukunda Foods has priced 'Filtro' very reasonably to attract more buyers and bring this technology into the mainstream business on a large scale. Restaurateurs who strive to keep fundamental values of taste and quality intact with their brand image can leverage this modern-day technology to save manpower, money, and time. 

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