Pig Faced Cooking Lid
If your cooking lid doesn't have a pig face on it, it's too boring. Get a pig cooking lid from the MoMA Store's collection of Japanese products, available for a limited time. The steam comes up through the pig's nostrils! That's awesome!
Even if you don't use it as a cooking lid, it would make an interesting centerpiece on a table. I'd call it, "Melting Pig Head."
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9 Comments:
Too bad it doesn't oink when the steam rises. Reminds me of those cow-resembling kettles that mooo when the water boils.
Erin Zimmer at 12:28PM on 05/06/08
Erin, I think you need to invent an oinking version.
roboppy at 12:47PM on 05/06/08
As a mother of two toddlers, I feel perfectly justified in saying that I am often mortified and mystified by the cutesy sexualization of everyday objects inherent to many Japanese art products (um, see the Risque Japanese Boob Pudding post...)...but this is just plain fantastic. It's not cute or trite--it's just fun, but not in a way that cheapens it or will date the piece in your kitchen.
HappyHoarfrost at 2:38PM on 05/06/08
ah-mazing! one of the cutest practical things i've seen in a bit =p
onedaylingers at 2:59PM on 05/06/08
Love it! But how the heck do you lift it off/out without getting burned?!?
Curlz at 7:03PM on 05/06/08
I wonder when this came out because I bought one that has the same idea/look and same pigginess, but it's made of a transluscent pink plastic and I bought it at a Target-like store in Seoul, Korea last August. It was marketed as a lid to cover food before microwaving.
Anyway, I wouldn't recommend this because the area under the pig is pretty shallow, so unless you're covering a bowl and the food is nowhere near the top, the covering is going to touch the food.
Myszka at 11:41PM on 05/06/08
Oh, and to Curlz...
You lift the thing by the ears...the thumb on one ear and the index finger on the other ear.
Myszka at 11:43PM on 05/06/08
OK, I just checked my pigs (they came in a two-pack: plate size and tiny bowl size) and there's a Marna stamp on them.
Here's a picture of them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/myszka/2472991296/
They're cute but too shallow to use in the microwave for most of my purposes.
Myszka at 12:18AM on 05/07/08
I bought one of these for my mom. You lift the lid off by sticking chopsticks in the nostrils.
athena0711 at 1:41PM on 12/04/08