Do your bit for the credit crunch and shop, shop, shop.
I love the ideas behind these products. Maybe they would make good gifts now wedding season is upon us? I think I have a growing pile of John Lewis gift lists at the mo and don't think I can quite handle buying yet another set of matching cream towels. So apologies to my group of soon-to-be-wed friends, I know you painstakingly chose those items on the list for your new life but you really DO need these salt and pepper maracas. Yes you do.
The Bourgeois Brass Knuckle Screw, designed by Jonathin Sabin. Be a wine badass with one of these. It will be produced in a limited edition of 50 from Cromoly and be around $100. For that price–and I should hope so too–they throw in a beautiful handmade etched box.
Salt and Pepper maracas, designed by Akiko Itoh, £32.00.
Somelier wine glass designed by by Maxim Velčovsk, £29.00 for a set of two.
Spudski, designer: Black+Blum £11.50.
(Whilst bordering on the novelty kitchenware edge, I actually think this would make a good masher and be good for getting into the pan corners.)
Images from the respective linked sites.
I love a bit of clever design. I saw something very similiar to the Spudski masher, in the looks department anyway; in a shop near me recently. It was by Joseph Joseph - and the novelty factor was that the masher was springloaded - so it easily 'bounced' up and down when mashing. Not show how sturdy it is though.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link if you haven't seen it:-
http://www.josephjoseph.com/kitchen-tools/smasher
I was also quite taken with the fold flat grater.
I actually saw that J&J masher at the weekend! Love the designs on their chooping boards but they are all glass and I can't be dealing with the noise of the knife on glass - shudder..
ReplyDeleteknife on glass - yeah not good at all.
ReplyDeleteGive me a sturdy wooden chopping block hewn from Oak and hand carved by white bearded Swedish craftsmen in a remote Alpine village using traditional techniques passed down from father to son for centuries and then finally, when finished and inspected....oiled with rendered Elk fat, its transported down the mountain by a reindeer pulled sleigh to be sold in an obscure craft market where I purchased it.
That's the (completely farbricted)story of my chopping block. I think it sounds better than "I got this in John Lewis".