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Milan 2013: patterned rolling pins that make edible plates and a meat grinder that squeezes out biodegradable bowls are among a set of kitchen products on show at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week (+ movies).

Altered Appliances is a collection of four projects by students from Rotterdam’s Piet Zwart Institute, all of which introduce low-tech, hand-powered appliances and ideas to the kitchen.

Rollware is a set of laser-cut rolling pins designed by Joanne Choueiri, Giulia Cosenza and Povilas Raskevicius to produce edible plates and dishes from dough.

One set of four rolling pins is used to imprint patterns on the dough.

Above: Rollware movie

Another set cuts the dough into four different plate sizes before they are baked into tableware.

Extrudough is a collection of biodegradable tableware made with a meat grinder, which designers Bo Baalman and Kine Solberg describe as an “analogue, human-powered 3D printer”.

A soft dough is extruded through the meat grinder in thin tubes onto various shaped moulds and then dried at room temperature.

As well as being cheap to produce, the products have a shorter decomposing time than other temporary tableware such as paper plates.

Above: Extrudough movie

The Flip Food lunch box by Ilias Markolefas and Nathalia Martinez Saavedra is inspired by the brown paper bags often used for carrying lunch to school or work.

The designers used stencils to cut a brown paper surface into a flat template, which is then folded and assembled to form a geometric lunchbox with six compartments.

The printed patterns visible on the outside vary depending on the lunchbox’s rotation, so they can be used to indicate the type of food held inside.

Reusable plastic protective containers can also be inserted into the compartments to protect certain foods.

Above: Flipfood movie

Finally Maddalena Gioglio and Egle Tuleikyte created the CONEformation measuring set from mounds of salt poured out of a contraption holding various sizes of measuring funnels.

The salt mounds are hardened by spraying water onto them and then covered with a layer of runny clay. The salt is then removed to reveal a set of ceramic measuring vessels.

The four projects emerged from a studio led by Alex Suarez – whose installation in a salt factory we featured in 2010 – and Brian Peters at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Other food designs we’ve featured include a collection of tableware made from baked dough and prototypes for 3D-printed hamburgers and pasta – see all projects involving food.

Above: CONEformation movie

Also at Ventura Lambrate this week are a seating booth inspired by an old train carriage and dining chairs with legs that flick out like ice skates, both designed by Tjep. – see all news about Ventura Lambrate.

Dezeen is in Milan covering the highlights of the design week – see our round-up from the Salone yesterday, browse all news from Milan or check out our interactive map of the week’s best talks, exhibitions and parties.

Photographs are by the designers.

Here’s some more information from Piet Zwart Institute:

Altered Appliances is an exhibition presenting projects that investigate the retooling of industrial low-tech appliances and gadgets to offer alternative design solutions and experiences for today’s kitchen. The exhibition is staged as a live demonstration presenting the process of making. The kitchen was the inspiration for the design projects. Historically, the kitchen as a domestic room grew from the need to house a variety of activities related to consumption. It is a story of the making of the modern home and its components, and on the shifting place and development of the most technological, equipment-laden and factory-like room of the home.

For the projects, the designers researched historical examples of appliances/apparatus, particularly low-tech, hand powered devices to become experts in a particular appliance, use and its effect. From this initial investigation, design parameters, fabrication techniques and material experimentations were developed to define the project, its application and explore new “altered” design opportunities for the kitchen.

The projects were made during a thematic design studio by design students in the Master of Interior Architecture & Retail Design (MIARD) program at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL.

Rollware: Edible Dishware
Designers: Joanne Choueiri, Giulia Cosenza, Povilas Raskevicius

Rollware is a set of laser-cut rolling pins designed as a tool for the production of bread-based edible dishware, which are adorned with customised and useful patterns. The sustainable products merge traditional crafts, tableware production and cooking with digital technology.

Extrudough: Biodegradable Tableware
Designers: Bo Baalman, Kine Solberg

Extrudough is a collection of biodegradable tableware fabricated using an altered meat grinder that operates as an analogue, human powered 3D printer. The product line consists of five biodegradable containers, each with a unique pattern, colour and density.

Flip Food: Lunch Box
Designers: Ilias Markolefas, Nathalia Martinez Saavedra

Flip Food is a lunch box designed to store and carry food in a playful way. It is a self-standing rotating object with six compartments to store different types of food in each section. Inspired by the classic brown paper bag used by many to carry lunch to work or school.

CONEformation: A Measuring Set
Designers: Maddalena Gioglio, Egle Tuleikyte

CONEformation is a set of measuring cones for cooking, designed for mixing ingredients and serving food. The organic shapes of the cones are an unexpected yet a practical addition to the task of measuring for recipes in the kitchen.

Instructors: Alex Suarez, Brian Peters

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This coffee maker brews an espresso inside a microwave in 30 seconds.

Piamo was designed by German inventors Christoph and Hendrik Meyl, founders of Gemodo Coffee, with design studio Lunar Europe, and consists of a cup, water chamber, filter inlay and filter cap.

After filling the chamber with water, the user places ground coffee or an espresso pad inside the filter and connects the two components.

The water chamber and filter are flipped over and attached to the cup before being placed in the microwave for 30 seconds.

The pressure of the steam created in the microwave then forces the water through the coffee in the filter to create a shot of espresso.

The product is currently raising money on German crowdfunding website Startnext, where supporters who pledge €40 will receive a Piamo first.

Other designs for coffee we’ve featured include a milk frothing add-on for a stove-top coffee pot and a reusable coffee cup designed for McDonald’s – see all designs for coffee.

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Here’s some more information from Lunar Europe:

Piamo is the first espresso maker worldwide that works in the microwave. Piamo creates a fresh cup of delicious espresso within 30 seconds. Whether you prefer pads or ground coffee, Piamo can do both.

Simply fill in water and insert an espresso pad or ground coffee. Stack it, flip it and place Piamo in your microwave. Now your microwave does all the magic: due to heating pressure builds up and makes the water run through the coffee, creating your fresh espresso straight into your cup. Piamo is available through crowdfunding. Piamo supporters can secure their piece starting at 40 euros for early bird supporters.

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In the next movie in our series of interviews we filmed for the Design Museum Collection App for iPad, Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic talks about iconic kitchenware products in their collection.

Sudjic focuses on Christopher Dresser’s soup ladle, Arne Jacobsen’s Cylinda Line and Dry Flatware designed by Achille Castiglioni.

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Here are some excerpts from the app:

Soup ladle (above)

After a visit to Japan, as an official representative of the British Government, the designer Christopher Dresser changed his ideas about design. From being principally concerned with ornament, he decided that form was enough to entertain and please the eye. He now believed ornament can distract from, rather than enhance, form. Dresser’s 1879 soup ladle owes much to the simplicity and elegance of Japanese design.

Dresser worked at a time when designers aimed to raise the aesthetic standard of objects that surrounded people in their everyday life. These standards were considered to be low, mainly because of industrial production at the time. While many designers tried to return to pre-industrial styles of manufacturing, Dresser accepted modern industrial methods and pioneered new industrial techniques such as electroplating. However, although he designed goods that could, in theory, be made by machines, Dresser only used such technologies to realise a variety of effects. Despite its machined appearance, this soup ladle could only ever have been made by hand.

Cylinder Line (above)

Designed in 1967, Arne Jacobsen’s Cylinda Line series of tableware for Danish company Stelton is the last word in minimalism. Originally sketched on a napkin in 1964, it nonetheless took three years before the technology was sufficiently advanced to produce Jacobsen’s design. Jacobsen insisted on seamless tubes with perfect, brushed surfaces and originally envisaged using standard steel pipes. This proved too costly, so instead stainless steel sheets were bent and welded, then brushed in an industrial process that left no traces of welding.

Jacobsen’s partnership with Stelton, run by his stepson Peter Holmblad, continued until 1971. In this time, he added new pieces to the collection, including items such as a cocktail shaker, a martini mixer, an ice bucket with tongs and a serving tray. Based on differing variations of cylindrical shapes, the basic idea was to create a line of tableware where there would always be a correlation between individual items to create harmonious table settings.

Dry Flatware (above)

Dry Flatware, designed in 1982 by one of the most important industrial designers of the twentieth century, Achille Castiglioni was the first cutlery range produced by Alessi. Its innovative shape, and resolute style, along with extreme manageability and an excellent finish has kept the range as one of their best-selling products.

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Designer Marcial Ahsayane of Brussels has designed an oil bottle and pestle that combine to make a rolling pin.

Called Roll & Mix, the set is designed for making pizza and screws together with a metal thread to make three utensils in one.

Here’s some more information from Ahsayane:

Roll & Mix

Roll & Mix is a multifunctional kitchen roller. It is split in two halves. Each half has a different function by itself. One is an oil bottle and the other one is a pestle for grinding and mixing. These two parts can be threaded in order to be used as a roller as well. So the user has three food preparation utensils compacted in one.

We used to get dough pizzas, pastry or batter in the shop. But sometimes we appreciate to prepare dough by ourselves. It is “the handmade time” we used to spent during weekend. Sometimes as a relaxing hobby, others because we have guests for dinner and we want to do our best in the kitchen.

The design provides a compact tool for the kitchen, easy to store and clean. The same tool can roll dough and help us to mix natural food for the sauce. The design is a three in one product. It provides the tools used for roll and mix in a compact way. So the user has an easy way to cook in the kitchen and to store it.

Two metallic threads in the middle made the design compact or detachable depending of the function desirable. The compact function is for roller. Is when we use flour, water and yeast to made dough. The detachable function is for mixing. Is when we need to add oil with a bottle and grid/mix with the other hand.

The form is composed by two joined white bottles. White color provides a clean perception due the product touch the food in the preparing process. The dimension of each bottle is the standard proportion for a 11oz (33cl) bottle. It is for instance, the proportion for beer bottle. It is very useful in order to grab it. And the two bottles threaded provides 18.78” (477mm) length for the roller function. Wrinkled texture is necessary for the roller function in order to avoid the dough doesn´t stick on the roller and keep a good grip during the mixing process.

We don´t have to much time to cook elaborate food. The grandmother cook is lost. Contradictorily we have more resources to get traditional recipes via internet. So the design identifies the possibility to boost the handmade preparing food and recover old traditional cooking techniques. It is know by everybody that we don’t have too much time to cook. But also is know that all of us love the hand made food at home. The designs invites to users to cook their own pizzas. Encourage to cook own pasta dough, either as a hobby or to offer or best cuisine to the guests.

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These duck-shaped funnels for transferring liquids from one container to another are by London designer Roger Arquer.

Called Funnel Friends, the vessels come in three sizes and can be stacked together by slotting them inside one another for easy storage.

The products have been produced in collboration with Dutch homeware brand Royal VKB.

See also: Funnel Vase by Roger Arquer.

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Here’s some more information from Arquer:

Funnel Friends

Funnel Friends Transferring ingredients but wondering how to do it? ………Funnel Friends from Royal VKB offer the perfect solution!
Funnel Friends is a multi usable and practical cross over set between funnels and containers that can be perfectly used for transferring liquids, cereals and grain. No matter whether large or small quantities need to be transferred, Funnel Friends offer unlimited possibilities.

Our Funnel Friends are not only extremely practical to use, but possess an extra dimension due to their unique and organic styling. The flowing shape of each of the Funnel Friends is cleverly designed to make the complete set fit together perfectly. This allows the Funnel Friends to be easily stacked and stored so taking little space in what is often an already crowded kitchen!

The RVKB set of Funnel Friends includes three different sizes:

Small Funnel
The smallest funnel is ideal for transferring liquids, for example while decanting wine or filling spice jars like a salt and pepper mill. Because of the oval shaped spout a vacuum is prevented when pouring which improves the flow of liquids.

Medium Funnel
The medium funnel is ideal for transferring not only liquids but also ingredients as sugar, rice and other grain. The open shape is perfect for scooping large quantities of ingredients and transferring them through the spout in smaller quantities as desired.

Large Funnel
The large funnel can be used both to store and pour large amounts of liquid, for example lemonade and pancake batter. This makes the funnel multi usable.

Funnel Friends, your ‘friends’ for in and outside the kitchen! The set of Funnel Friends is available in white only and is packed in an attractive full colour gift box.

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Funnel Vase by Roger Arquer	Non-lethal mousetraps by Roger Arquer	Teapot/cup by Louie Rigano