Hasta La Ideas

Now that summer finally seems to be coming along, maybe it would be just about time to introduce this pitcher with its crushed ice cooling compartment. You will agree, we are sure, that keeping the ice in its own compartment is preferable to pouring it into the drink itself. There it would dilute your lemonade or your ice tea or your sangria or whatever you prefer to drink on the porch on a hot day. USD 45:-.brbr

È stato sufficiente inserire delle clip magnetiche sulla superficie di una tenda per trasformare un oggetto immutato da millenni in qualcosa di nuovo. Un’idea potente, che aumenta le possibilità di controllo sulla qualità e la quantità di luce all’interno della casa, e stimola la creatività. Senz’altro ci sono degli svantaggi: dispiegare le tende richiede più tempo, e c’è un maggiore accumulo di polvere, ma insomma … questa è quasi arte, no?
Il progetto è opera di Florian Kräutli, un giovane designer svizzero per cui pronostico un brillante futuro. Florian possiede un portfolio già ricco ed interessante, e dimostra un approccio intelligente verso ogni progetto, anche quello delle interfacce. Il suo sito, ad esempio, è esattamente come dovrebbe essere quello di un giovane progettista in cerca della maggiore visibilità possibile, e questa galleria fotografica in Flash è migliore di quanto abbia visto in siti realizzati con ben altri budget.
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We love grilling. Shish kebabs too. But there is always the problem with turning them over. The little pieces of meat or veggies or shrimps or whatever do tend to turn on the skewer as you turn the skewer over and thus ending up with the uncooked side on top as before. The answer to that was the double skewer with two prongs that stopped food from turning. But there still was the chore of turning all the skewers. Enter the eight-pronged grill fork. Or the quad double skewer. No food spin. And just one turn to turn all the skewers. Could skewers get any better? GBP 10:- (about USD 20:-).brbr

Grandmother had one. Auntie had one. Mum had one. Wouldn’t be surprised if every Swedish kitchen had a whisk like this during the fifties and sixties. The there was the electric whisk, but we still think this old invention is the better of the two. It’s cheaper, there are less parts that can break, and it does not use any power. On the contrary, it helps you improve muscle strength while you get the whipped cream ready. The whisk in the picture is from the British Lakeland web-shop where it is GBP 9:- (around USD 18:-). We could not find a Swedish web shop that sells them, alas.brbr

Ordinary knife stands, knife blocks or knife holders have one problem in common. They take up space on the kitchen counter. This knife holder from Wusthof, though, offers an alternative. Mounted under a kitchen cabinet, it swings out to present the knives and back again to keep them out of sight. Clever. And the best part is it has a magnet inside to prevent the knives from flying all over the kitchen in case you get too enthusiastic. Room for 8 knives no longer that 10 in. USD 40:-.brbr