Culinary vision

They can win the world when it comes to academics or art, but the painful moment for a visually impaired mother is that when her child demands a homemade dish and she finds herself dependant on somebody else.

With special kitchen for visually-challenged, life might just become a bit easier for them

They can win the world when it comes to academics or art, but the painful moment for a visually impaired mother is that when her child demands a homemade dish and she finds herself dependant on somebody else. However, needs begets invention, and here is a kitchen that8217;s made to bring smile on a child face and content to a visually challenged mother.

After Louis Braille invented the unique writing for visually impaired in 1821, life had become much more than a dark world for them. However, with time, grew the expectation and after achieving in the campus, they also want to experience the joys of taking care of all their needs themselves- be it housekeeping or cooking.

While kitchen was always considered not-so-safe place for them, Concepts, an interior solution business and Amar Rane, a celebrity chef, have come together to make kitchen for visually challenged a reality. Rane has been running a cookery course for visually challenged but their students did face a problem in experimenting the recipes in the kitchen without aid. From there came the idea of kitchen for visually impaired. Rane is the official brand ambassador of Concepts.

8220;Visually challenged girls are no different from other girls, who want to cook and win appreciation from their family members. And despite knowing the recipes, they have to depend on others to cook, which again involves danger given the fire and sharp objects in the kitchen. When I came to know about this kitchen for visually challenged, I couldn8217;t stop myself from associating with it, as this gives me another opportunity to help visually impaired people,8221; says Rane, who explained the nitty-gritty of cooking so that a model kitchen could be developed.

While the jars would have stickers on which name of content would be written in Braille, the drawers would also have aluminum labels that will read the types of content that drawer has. Also they have pasted signs that can be sensed by touching.

8220;We have put three button-like signs in front of the gas burner to suggest that that is the high pressure burner and two signs for a medium pressure burner and so on. Similar signs are put on the drawers to suggest the size of container, three signs for bigger vessel and one for smaller,8221; explains Rane.

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Mandar Vilas Thakur, partner, Concepts, says, 8220;Apart from the signs we are also developing sinks and chopping board in the drawer itself. This is done for physically challenged persons who work on wheelchairs. They can pull the drawer that come with adjustable level and do the cutting and grating there. Even the electric points are placed within their reach in the kitchen that we would develop.8221;