Kitchen Tool Design Challenge

9 years ago

Hello! I am a student in a high school design class and we have been tasked to design a product that saves people room in the kitchen. I have been thinking about creating a multi-tool or something that does several different cooking jobs. What do you guys think takes up the most space in the kitchen or what do you think could be made more efficient? Thanks for your help!

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writersblock (9b/10a)

9 years ago

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I think there would be a demand for something along these lines

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0043YSM0E/ref=strm_fn_79_nad_56_2?tag=kitchn-20

if it:

A. Included useful tools (who needs an egg smasher unless they don't have a fork?)

B. Weren't a piece of junk

but there's always a demand for stacking/combining tools. Look at how popular Joseph Joseph is.

ETA Of course, I'd really like something that's a high speed blender (vitamix type), a food processor, a stick blender, and a stand mixer all in one that takes no more counter space than a regular blender.

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bossyvossy
9 years ago
I'm w/ writersblock--a combo blender/stick blender/mixer/processor appliance
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plllog
9 years ago
Finding something that doesn't already exist is hard. I don't know how you'd do it, because neither folding nor silicone/flattening are a good solution, but soup ladles (8 fl. oz. bowl) are particularly bothersome to store. I have one that's oblong in the bowl, rather than round, and has a built in strainer, but it's still hard to store. If you could figure out how to make it--just the bowl of the ladle--so it was easy to store, but still rigid for dishing up, that would be fantastic.
Compumom
9 years ago
I love that idea and second it!
dcarch7 d c f l a s h 7 @ y a h o o . c o m
9 years ago
There may already be a machine that can be your design.

Sanyo GOPAN makes a machine that will turn grains of rice directly into bread.

You save room not to have to store flour.

The same machine can be slightly modified to be used as a rice cooker, a blender, soup maker, slow cooker ----.

dcarch
Gooster
9 years ago
The Breville all in one is a combo food processor, mixer, immersion blender, ricer, etc i have one

Maybe find a material that gets more rigid with heat and then can be folded when put away

Tupperware and storage container all seem to waste a lot of space and covers are the worst. I'vee seen many attempts and no great solution
writersblock (9b/10a)
9 years ago
Hi, Gooster. Can you make bread dough in the Breville?
sheilajoyce_gw
9 years ago
How about making a basic rolling pin. Then making a firm silicone sleeve that would fit over it and stay put to let you roll out springerle cookies and another sleeve that would let you make ravoli squares from pasta.
plllog
9 years ago
I have no trouble at all with covers. I put them on end in baskets, sorted by type/size, with one for miscellaneous. Maybe you could make a dedicated system like that.
Gooster
9 years ago
@writersblock -- definitely not.

@pillog. I find I spend too much time grouping by size and type. I have dividers but I still find they get all over the place and not everyone (ahem) cooperates with the system. Maybe something as simple as easily identifiable letter coding or symbols on one edge.
plllog
9 years ago
I dunno....putting the lids right isn't exactly taxing. You probably need to work more on the cooperation. :) I've tried dividers but ended up with a mess even when there weren't uncooperatives getting into them. The baskets are fab! I have the kind that are meant to be shower caddies. I also have a lot of polypropylene containers whose same sized lids nest. I have short drawer organizers in the bottom of the drawer that they stand up in, all in ranks like good soldiers. :) It really works well. But, erm, certain people aren't allowed to put things away or I'll find the lids in a whole different part of the kitchen!
writersblock (9b/10a)
9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Gooster, thanks. To me, the whiskish thing doesn't make the all-in-one a mixer, not in the sense I meant in my post above. My KA immersion blender has a whisk, but I'd never consider it a mixer in any sense.

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