“On an average we serve food to 100,000 people,” a manager of the langar at the Golden Temple in Amritsar told Al Jazeera in 2013. The kitchen used “7,000 kg of wheat flour, 1,200 kg of rice, 1,300 kg of lentils” a day.
In 2023 The National described “huge gas and wood-powered woks” and “ladles the size of boat oars.”