Watch | No power, clay fridge to store vegetables
The Hindu
A video on an earthen refrigerator that can keep vegetables fresh for up to four days
Meet M. Sivasamy, a potter based in Karumathampatti near Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu . He has built a clay refrigerator that can be used to store vegetables fresh for up to four days. He calls it the ‘earthen refrigerator’.
The earthen refrigerator comes in two sizes - two feet and two-and-a-half feet in length. It is priced at ₹1,600 and ₹1,800 and can be shipped across India.
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