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Wooden-ghani oil from our hometown — pressed slowly, never refined.

Shuchi Ghani
A sunlit white swan on bright blue water

Wooden-ghani oil · Pressed in our hometown

Shuchi Ghani

Know exactly
what you bring home.

Premium kachi ghani oil from our own press — pure groundnut, sunflower and safflower. Two wooden ghanis, pressed slowly, never refined.

अन्नं ब्रह्म

Food is sacred.

If the food is sacred, the oil should be worthy of the people you cook for.

Why it matters

Most oil is made to last on a shelf. Ours is made to taste of the seed.

You cook with oil every single day — in the tadka, the sabzi, the tiffin you pack for someone else. It is the one ingredient in almost every meal. So it is worth knowing what happened to it before it reached you.

  1. 01

    Pressed, not rushed

    Usually: Fast steel expellers push for volume.

    A wooden ghani turns slowly, at the pace of the kolhu. The seed is pressed — not hurried.

  2. 02

    Nothing taken away

    Usually: Refined oil is usually bleached and deodorised.

    We only rest and filter. The colour, aroma and taste of the seed stay in the bottle.

  3. 03

    A bottle you can trace

    Usually: Most bottles cannot tell you where they were pressed.

    Ours comes from our own press, two ghanis, and a ledger with the day it was made.

The philosophy

शुचि

Sanskrit — pure, clean, bright. The name is the standard: keep what is real, leave the rest.

The swan knows the difference.

There’s an old story that the swan can tell milk from water, and drinks only the milk. We don’t treat that as science. We treat it as the job: know the difference, and don’t sell the rest.

The oils

Three seeds. One slow way of making.

Each named for something we want you to feel — earth, dawn, bloom — and pressed the same patient way.

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  • Our own press

    Made by us, in our hometown — never outsourced.

  • Two wooden ghanis

    Pressed slowly, at the pace of the kolhu.

  • Never refined

    No bleaching, no deodorising. Just filtered.

  • Every batch recorded

    Traceable to the day it was pressed.

  • Real people

    Ask us anything — we answer personally.

Letters from the press

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