OPOS as an entity is incorporated out of India with a global focus to redefine cooking.
OPOS techniques and concepts have already been applied and practiced in cooking multiple global cuisines.
Among the OPOS users, OPOS is already a “verb” and our goal is to make it the way of cooking for the current and future generations.
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Ramki Biography
Ramki, a mechanical Engineer from PSG tech and an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur has been always trying to change the way people live.
In his avatar as a garment manufacturer, he invented acron, a two layered fabric with acrylic outer layer and cotton inner layer, to change the way people dress. Nothing much happened.
Then, riding the dotcom wave, he founded Schooling India making all students a part of the same virtual platform, trying to change the way school kids learn. He ran out of cash before he could realise his dream.
Then he tried changing the way people cook. It took him over 15 years to perfect OPOS.
8 years back he started talking about OPOS in Chennai Food Guide. A few listened and most mocked. The discussions soon split the forum.
He then started started another group, United By Food, 5 years back. The community managed to remain united by food and saw magic happening. Recipes crossed community barriers. Usili appeared in Muslim homes, Nombu Kanji & and Biriyani gopt cooked in Brahmin homes.
He started the OPOS project with Paneer Makhni in 2014, vowing to create the simplest cookbook ever written. With recipes that would work for anyone, anywhere, anytime. The Paneer Makhni recipe derived its punch by using the no water pressure cooking technique on which the group working on for a couple of years.
A clone of this recipe was posted in 2016 as Butter Chicken for the Instant Pot and went viral.
For the next 4 years, heI would spend an insane amount of time on UBF. Every day he would track a recipe to its roots, uncovering its key building blocks, showing how it has changed over time. This was necessary to demolish bad recipes hiding under the 'traditional & authentic' cover.
Not all were happy. Some mocked, some left and some became serious students. A core group of homemakers were the first converts and were instrumental in making OPOS techniques respectable, getting more people to try them out.
Soon, magic started happening. With Flashcooking, a key milestone was crossed. He realised how traditional recipes can be dramatically improved. He spent the next year finetuning the recipes
Slowly the OPOS structured lessons took shape. When he were convinced these techniques can work flawlessly for everyone, he opened the OPOS School. The initial few months were tough, as not everyone liked the discipline OPOS demanded. Slowly, the group culture formed. A core group of volunteers emerged and took up the burden of interacting with hundreds of members every single day.
Magic started happening again. Marathis, Gujarathis, Bengalis and many others used OPOS to dramatically simplify their own cuisines, making even more people try out OPOS.
He now is on a mission to take OPOS to the world. To cover all cuisines and cultures.
He believes he has been given a great gift and that it is a sin to hold it back from those who need it. He strongly believes it is his duty to share the OPOS magic with everyone. To ensure blood, sweat or tears have no place in the kitchen. He is confident it will happen in his lifetime!
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