TriniTuner.com | Latest Event:
Moderator: 3ne2nr Mods
Trini invents ‘wonton machine’
family success: Wonton Crunch’s Prim, Grace and Dean Singh are set to move out of the Galipeau Centre and into a new purpose-built food-processing plant in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada.
A former Smiths Falls Hershey factory worker has struck it rich in the wonton business, with his Wonton Crunch products flying off the shelves—and his family business set to expand.
Prim Singh used knowledge of food processing gained at the former chocolate plant to design a computerised machine that fills and folds 5,000 wontons every hour.
As a young man, Singh worked in a bar in Trinidad and Tobago where he learned the elaborate folding technique behind the boat-shaped wonton. Singh said the crispy, Chinese dumplings were so popular, they often outsold liquor.
Singh left the island nearly 30 years ago, settled in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada, and got a job cleaning food-processing equipment on the production floor at the Hershey’s plant.
Always a tinkerer, Singh studied the machinery, noting how electronics and mechanics were married together in a way that allowed for the creation of elaborately constructed snack foods. In the late 1990s, he took a three-year leave from Hershey's to study computers, eventually setting up a sales and repair shop in his home.
To supplement the family income while he was away from Hershey's, he and his wife Grace, along with their two children, spent their weekends in the kitchen, hand-folding thousands of wontons to sell at local businesses.
Then he told his family that he wanted to try to build a machine that could master the complex, origami-like folds of the boat-shaped wonton.
But after seven years of tinkering in the family garage, and a eureka! moment, Singh solved the puzzle of how to get a machine to fill and fold a boat-shaped wonton.
"Movement and machinery, they're all pretty much based on the same principles, and if you understand the principle of the movement, you can apply it to pretty much any machine," he said.
New facility to open in January
With assistance from the Business Development Bank of Canada, and a helpful push by a successful appearance on Dragons' Den, Wonton Crunch is now selling more than 250,000 crispy jalapeno cream cheese wontons to Farm Boy stores every month — with new flavours on the way.
The machine developed by Prim Singh can produce 5,000 wontons every hour.
paid_influencer wrote:sometimes i read these articles and it just confirms that i made poor life choices
that fella lucky he in canada. so much more opportunities there, and if you do good, you won't have to worry about being robbed or killed like over here
paid_influencer wrote:sometimes i read these articles and it just confirms that i made poor life choices
that fella lucky he in canada. so much more opportunities there, and if you do good, you won't have to worry about being robbed or killed like over here
Numb3r4 wrote:paid_influencer wrote:sometimes i read these articles and it just confirms that i made poor life choices
that fella lucky he in canada. so much more opportunities there, and if you do good, you won't have to worry about being robbed or killed like over here
Consider this what if you never had a choice? A lot of folks in Trinidad and Tobago never had the opportunity.
But you are right there is far more opportunity over there than here, it didn't have to be that way...but......
True there is a greater reward for those who do the right thing abroad.
As was mentioned before the real goal is to maximize the use of technology time and time again it has been proven that societies that have embraced technology and used to give its citizens a better way of life have enjoyed the fruits of this endeavour.
A DOUBLES factory operator in San Juan says the company has invented a doubles-making machine and a pholourie machine, which can cut production times of the local culinary delights by 40 per cent.
The doubles machine can produce up to 1,000 doubles an hour while the pholourie machine can make 12,000 pholouries in an eight-hour shift.
The machines are the brainchild of Toddy Ramsahai of Radha Swami Industries Ltd, the company which owns and operates supermarket-based doubles outlets branded as “Doubles King”.
For the past three years, the Boundary Road, San Juan factory has been using the machines to mass-produce barra and pholourie which are then sold to local vendors.
Numb3r4 wrote:paid_influencer wrote:sometimes i read these articles and it just confirms that i made poor life choices
that fella lucky he in canada. so much more opportunities there, and if you do good, you won't have to worry about being robbed or killed like over here
Consider this what if you never had a choice? A lot of folks in Trinidad and Tobago never had the opportunity.
But you are right there is far more opportunity over there than here, it didn't have to be that way...but......
True there is a greater reward for those who do the right thing abroad.
As was mentioned before the real goal is to maximize the use of technology time and time again it has been proven that societies that have embraced technology and used to give its citizens a better way of life have enjoyed the fruits of this endeavour.
basicosenso wrote:Actually they bought parts from india and tweaked it with their designs and blueprints to create the machine.
basicosenso wrote:Numb3r4 wrote:paid_influencer wrote:sometimes i read these articles and it just confirms that i made poor life choices
that fella lucky he in canada. so much more opportunities there, and if you do good, you won't have to worry about being robbed or killed like over here
Consider this what if you never had a choice? A lot of folks in Trinidad and Tobago never had the opportunity.
But you are right there is far more opportunity over there than here, it didn't have to be that way...but......
True there is a greater reward for those who do the right thing abroad.
As was mentioned before the real goal is to maximize the use of technology time and time again it has been proven that societies that have embraced technology and used to give its citizens a better way of life have enjoyed the fruits of this endeavour.
However, not everyone has an interest in the tech field.
Redman wrote:With 1.3m people we will always be a less fertile place for new ideas to catch on.
Which is different from the conception of the idea itself.
in that respect UWI has failed us and the region totally
pugboy wrote:Sad that we are always clamouring for
"Trini achieves....."
When it is usually somebody who has long moved on from these shores.
Are really so starved of hope and self esteem ?
Numb3r4 wrote:Redman wrote:With 1.3m people we will always be a less fertile place for new ideas to catch on.
Which is different from the conception of the idea itself.
in that respect UWI has failed us and the region totally
I do agree the amount of independent research carried out probably is an issue, efforts should be made to increase the research and development infrastructure at the campuses....especially with regards to alternative and eco-friendly energy and resource management.
However could it also be because we are not by nature a risk taking people, as we lack basic infrastructure it makes it difficult for citizens to take the chance and follow an idea from conception to reality? In other countries they have a social safety net that removes some of the risk of product development, which frees people up tremendously.
Personally our attitude to failure is terrible, failure is to be feared and ridiculed, not ideal for a culture that wants to promote innovation or such.
paid_influencer wrote:little known fact: wontons were invented in Trinidad
holo wrote:China has automatic wonton machine longtime ago, small machine sold for 900USD and can make 4800 wantons/hour, big commercial machine can make 20000/hour, price is 2500usd.
Return to “Ole talk and more Ole talk”
Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot], m@x and 24 guests
