Paya and Boti

Boti and Paya

Bangalore has a lot of people who love what we call "spare parts".  These generally refer to tripe, brain, kidneys, liver, trotters etc.  Whereas brain, liver etc do not require any specialized cleaning, tripe and paya do and believe me it is quite a hassle to do the cleaning at home particularly in case of tripe. I remember my Grandmother cleaning the tripe with lime and hot water for hours. The effort was well worth the tasty dish usually a curry.  Trotters are usually cleaned by burning off the hair and skin and scraping th resultant product till it is cleaned to your satisfaction.

When I was posted to Middle East shops there used to sell cleaned trotters and tripe which you could straightaway cook. 

Even in Crawford Market, Bombay cleaned paya is available which can be cooked straight away

In Bangalore till very recently paya was available only half cleaned and tripe as it is.  With Grandmothers disappearing and modern women loath to dirty their hands with cleaning this stuff the pleasure of eating these delicacies has become rarer and rarer.

Of late many online meat suppliers have come into the market.  Some of them sell trotters.

Brown Apron (https://brownapron.com/fresh-mutton.html) sell trotters @ Rs.280 for 6 but the cleaning is not as good as the one you get in Bombay / Middle East most probably because it is done manually.

http://onlinemeat.in/product-category/lamb/ sell booti @ Rs. 280 and paya @ Rs.150 per kilo but their service is limited to Electronic city area.

All online sellers sell their products at prices which are substantially higher than the market.  The market segment they cater to consists of weekend meat eaters, non-locals who do not know where to buy meat and people who cannot go to meat shops. Regular meat eaters in Bangalore usually source their needs easily with the friendly neighborhood butcher. This segment of the population is the major consumer in retail as they eat meat regularly and not only on weekends and occasions. These people  will never buy online unless someone can give them something which the traditional supplier does not.

I understand that tripe and trotter cleaning equipment is easily available.  I also understand that this is not very expensive and does not need special skills to operate. Lots of Chinese suppliers on Alibaba.com supply this equipment. Here is an opportunity for some enterprising start up who can install this equipment, buy trotters and tripe in bulk from Tannery Road where there is a spare parts market and supply ready to cook trotters and tripe either directly online to customers or to other online suppliers.