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The material
Groundnut
/01 — The Seed · KGF · Since 2021

Where the oil begins.

Groundnuts, whole and unhusked. Everything in the bottle starts here, and nothing is added after.

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/02 — The Press
Wood takes the heat.

A wooden pestle turns slowly in a wooden mortar. Wood absorbs the friction heat, so the oil is never cooked before it reaches the bottle.

/03 — The Oil
Cloudy, gold, alive.

What runs out is the whole seed. The cloudiness is everything a refinery would have stripped away. We let it settle, nothing more.

/04 — The Settling
Then, nothing.

The fresh press stands in steel drums for days while the sediment sinks on its own. No filters, no heat, no hurry. Slow is the point.

/05 — The Bottle
Pressed this week.
Not this year.

Small batches, bottled and sold nearby. Oil is fresh produce, and we treat it that way.

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Harvest
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Placeholder film · final groundnut film in production
What we sell

Twenty-three things,
pressed or gathered.

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What people say
5.0from 48 reviews on Google
“Oil is freshly crushed,
will not be old stock.”

A customer, on Google · KGF

Anil started asking where
his oil came from.

He did not like the answer. In 2021 he put a wooden press in a room in Mel Krishnapura and started making his own. People from the next street started buying it. That is still most of who we sell to.

The difference

Two bottles of oil.
Only one is still oil.

Anshi

Nothing added.
Nothing taken out.

Supermarket refined
  1. HexaneA solvent, to wash the oil out
  2. 200°CHeated past it
  3. BleachedUntil it runs clear
  4. DeodorisedUntil it smells of nothing

One of these is a process.
The other is a recipe.

Come and see

The press is in KGF.
So is the shop.

Bangalore2 hoursKGF
Where

Survey No. 20/6, Mel Krishnapura
KGF, Karnataka 563122

Behind Jain International School, next to the Munieshwaran temple. The temple is the easier landmark to find first.

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When
Mon–Fri10am – 7pm
Saturday10am – 1pm
SundayClosed
Call

97405 37535
89040 77221
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Pin shows Mel Krishnapura — ask us for the turning if you are close

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