| Grinding: | Wooden mortar and pestle (lumpang and penunbuk) | Cost Rhs. | |
| 38 cm. diameter bowl, teak wood | 7 000 | ||
| common wood | 500 | ||
| Sifting: | Bamboo screens commonly used for texturizing ground rice, soybean, and peanuts, home made or purchased at the market. Market cost of several | 500 | |
| Steaming: | Cylindrical kettle with perforated bottom to hold cakes and allow passage of steam | ||
| 2 kilogram capacity | 0.8 mm thick aluminum | 2 000 | |
| 5 kilogram capacity | 1.0 mm thick aluminum | 2 800 | |
| 10 kilogram capacity | 1.8 mm thick aluminum | 8 000 | |
| Hour-glass type steamer (bamboo screen over restricted section) | |||
| 2 kilogram capacity | 0.4 mm thickness aluminum | 800 | |
| 5 kilogram capacity | 1.0 mm thickness aluminum | 2 000 | |
| 10 kilogram capacity | 1.8 mm thickness aluminum | 7 000 | |
Hand-formed feed cakes are placed directly into the steamer or wrapped in banana leaves. Estimated total cost of equipment for a 5 kilogram batch of cakes, using aluminum steamer, teak grinder and several bamboo sifters: 10 800 Rhs. Feeding trays are recommended to allow more complete recovery of feed cakes in tambaks. Bamboo trays of 0.5 to 1.0 metre diameter cost 100 and 400 Rhs. respectively.
