And instead of all things mentioned above the latest methods of hustling and scrapings are added further. KR IRs 51024
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: APS Mani <m...@manijpn.in> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 at 11:52 Subject: Re: [iyer123] COCONUT SCRAPPER-CHIRAVA To: <iyer...@googlegroups.com> Your time pass is irritating me. The following facts are to be added Anything connected to an Iyer (Brahmin) feast (which we are talking about in this forum), the Varier community does not come into the picture. They are 'Ambalavasis' only and not allowed to grate coconuts for Iyer feasts. Iyers do the job. Your memory is falling as Variers are allowed to have the food after all the Brahmins have the food. This is the old custom where you mentioned Variers carrying the chirava. The grating machine is an invention before 2020 as I came back to India in 2011 and the machine was in vogue for grating coconut much before that time. It was used in a remote village like mine much before 2010. It is coconut meat and not meet. An example of breaking a coconut in to two equal parts done in a perfect way is in Kadambuzha Temple, where tens of thousands of coconuts are broken by four members of the Priest family daily. Thus in Kerala, it is not a major feat to break coconuts evenly. Lastly, it is not coconut meet but MEAT (kennel). My submission. Mani On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 10:46 AM 'gopala krishnan' via iyer123 < iyer...@googlegroups.com> wrote: > COCONUT SCRAPPER-CHIRAVA > > Dear friends, > > Today’s posting is about Chirava (coconut scrapper). Nothing serious, a > time pass or nostalgic reading. > > Gopalakrishnan 5-10-2024 > > Old model chirava > > It was a heavy item, a slanting wooden block to the size of about 1.5 feet > length and 0.75 feet wide, top portion smooth .On the slanting upper side a > tongue was fitted in metal with teeth on all the three sides except fitting > side. It was carried on shoulder and in central Kerala a Hindu community > called warier, who do temple jobs, used to scrap coconuts for feasts. A > person will break the coconuts to approximately two equal parts. The warier > will be told the quantity of grated coconut meat required by the head cook. > He will place the coconut scrapper on a newspaper, place plantain leaf > below the shredding/scrapping area. He will measure with eyes approximate > quantity for each item in small plantain leafs after shredding. For most of > the food items it had to be grinded in a grinder. This also will be done by > another warrier. > > The heavy item chirava was carried on shoulder the best method of carrying > for short distance. If somebody quarrels, warrier having scrapper with > him will say- I will give a blow with my coconut scrapper. Normally for > threatening. > > Initially the scrapping end was covered with paper and tied with a thread; > later a plastic cover appeared to cover the tongue. > > In houses it was kept in a convenient corner, the tongue covered suitably. > Normally made of jack wood chirava was available in most homes. It was > handled only by elders. In homes were servants were employed the scrapping > was done by them. Otherwise one healthy member of the family will scrap the > coconut meat. > > Gradually size of the scrapper got slightly reduced. > > Metal coconut scrapper > > With wider use of iron sheets, coconut scrapper appeared with lesser > weight, still having enough strength for a person to sit and scrap without > bending the body. The iron scrapper was painted outside and inside. They > had a flat smooth upper portion fitted with a tongue, four legs to keep the > height, slanting was much reduced, later became flat. In most homes the > wooden one got replaced with light weight iron sheet scrapper, with > covering for tongue. > > Appearance of manual and semi mechanical scrapper. > > By about 1980, scrappers appeared which could be fitted on a floor using > vacuum method. It had two ends, one a handle to rotate and other end four > tongues. These tongues were not a proper tongues, a tongue dived vertically > to two parts. With one hand the handle was rotated, the halved coconut was > held at other end to shred the coconut meat. For domestic use it was very > helpful to shred the coconut meat. A company by name “Anjali” is still > producing this and widely in use. For feasts still the old type is used. > Cap is available to cover the tongue in plastic. > > Electrical coconut scrapper. > > BY 2020 electric scrapper came in the market. It is also filled to a > convenient plane surface, mostly kitchen table. The equipment is connected > to electric supply with a 2 pin circuit and switched ON. The scrapping > tongue will rotate. But halved coconut has to be held in position so that > the rotating tongue will shred the coconut meet to the plate or leaf placed > below. > > I am not sure whether a machine has come to hold the coconut also. If such > a machine appears with a timer, for a fixed time the halved coconut can be > scrapped and the shell can be placed away from the scraped coconut meet by > rotating the halved coconut holder. > > -- > To go to your groups page on the web, login to your gmail account and then > click on https://groups.google.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iyer123" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to iyer123+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/1967075423.10273173.1728105353289%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/iyer123/1967075423.10273173.1728105353289%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- To go to your groups page on the web, login to your gmail account and then click on https://groups.google.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iyer123" group. 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