Posted by Amanda Clarke, April 10, 2008 at 10:45 AM
For those who may not be receiving returns this year, a few tips for squeezing extra value out of ordinary kitchen items:
In addition to their overt purpose, standard issue rounded stainless steel measuring spoons are also excellent for neatly removing cores from halved apples and pears, balling melon and making small, perfectly round ice cream scoops (to make ice cream orbs come out easily, dip the spoon in warm water before scooping, and after scooping rub the back of the spoon back and forth across the palm of your hand a few times to warm the metal slightly).
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Posted by Robyn Lee, February 29, 2008 at 11:00 AM
Can't decide between using chopsticks or a fork? Choplery from Brooklyn-based design group design GO! erases the decision by making one end of their utensil in the form of a pair of chopsticks and the other end a fork, knife or spoon. You can start with the non-chopstick end and switch to using chopsticks, but not so much the other way around. [via Boing Boing Gadgets]
Posted by Amanda Clarke, January 31, 2008 at 11:00 AM
From General Tso’s on the go to Colonel Sanders at your office desk, forward-thinking designers are devising novel ideas to ensure that you’ll never miss a bite.
Roll n Roll is an unfortunately named but nonetheless stylish set of portable chopsticks. Winning a bronze medal in the 2007 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), the set of hollow chopsticks can be rolled open and then rolled up to make an attractive metal cuff-like bracelet.
Din-Ink cutlery caps transform everyday ballpoint pens into implements of consumption. The three-piece set, a first-prize winner in Design Boom’s Dining in 2015 competition, includes a fork-, knife- and spoon-cap made out of biodegradable materials for environmentally conscious desktop dining.
While neither of these designs appear to have made it into mass-production yet, if they do the spork won’t stand a chance.
Posted by Adam Kuban, May 7, 2007 at 3:00 PM
There are only so many ways you can eat food. Ancient China gave us chopsticks (which, everyone knows, are also great for catching flies), and sometime before 1000 A.D. the Middle East gave us the fork, which was apparently met with resistance in 12th century Europe ("God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks—his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating.")
Since then there's been little innovation. And when you look at something like this contraption, you see why. Fun to look at as a novelty but impossible to eat with, I'm sure. $25 for six, from Charles & Marie. (See also: Chindogu)
