Mumbai: An Instagram user with the handle @sarthaksachdevva visited a few upscale celebrity restaurants in Mumbai and carried out iodine test to check the authenticity of paneer being served there.
After testing the panner served at Virat Kohli’s One8 Commune in Juhu, Shilpa Shetty Kundra’s Bastian in Bandra and Bobby Deol’s Someplace Else in Bandra, Sarthak walked into Gauri Khan’s Torii to carry out the iodine test.
To his surprise, paneer at Gauri’s restaurant failed the iodine test and changed colour.
As soon as Sarthak shared the video on his Instagram handle, Gauri’s restaurant quickly took to the comments section to issue their clarification.
“The iodine test reflects the presence of starch, not the authenticity of the paneer. As the dish contains soy-based ingredients, this reaction is expected. We stand by the purity of our paneer and the integrity of our ingredients at Torii,” the restaurant explained.
To this, Sarthak gave a witty reply, “So am I banned now?😵💫btw your food is amazing👀”.
An iodine test is a quick method of checking if the paneer is genuine or synthetic. On putting a few drops of iodine on a piece of paneer, if the colour doesn’t change, then it’s authentic. But if it turns blue or black, then it’s synthetic.
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