Garlic Peeler

Project By Stephanie

Problem Statement

Every summer, NEHIR, an NGO in the Himalayas of India, harvests its garlic for production. The garlic is dried, peeled, and turned into various products such as dried garlic and garlic powder. To dry the garlic after peeling and produce ready products, intact garlic cloves are placed in a dehydrator for several hours. Once out of the dehydrator, they are packaged and sold.

Every year following the garlic harvest at NEHIR, the organization relies entirely on workers to manually hand-peel every clove of garlic for production. This hand peeling takes a long time and causes severe muscle aches due to the repetitive motion. Past attempts to buy automated infrastructure for this issue resulted in product loss because the machine was tearing up the garlic. It also uses energy and produces emissions, which contribute to climate change and render the garlic peels useless for fertilizer. NEHIR needs a non-destructive, efficient, and simple solution to peel garlic to boost production. 

Design 

After completing a lot of research on various areas, such as past garlic peelers, their efficiencies, as well as garlic itself, I headed into brainstorming.

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