Sukwoo Lee’s strainer/colander possesses a quality that elevates and anthropomorphizes it to something beautiful that you’d surely not want to stash in your kitchen drawer. The collapsing strainer takes the shape and form of a peacock when its handle is folded inwards. It surely takes a great deal of creativity to be able to look at a product and see the potential to redesign it with the character of something else, but Sukwoo Lee manages to pull it off wonderfully!
The strainer’s handle serves as the body and slender neck of the peacock, complete with a minimalist beak, while the strainer itself resembles the fanned plumage of a peacock, with the strainer’s holes laid out in a beautiful pattern that definitely reminds one of the majestic bird.
At Dreamfarm, along with food, there are always a couple of good ideas cooking. I’m talking about the guys that designed the Nutella spatula you’ve surely seen on the internet, or the TAPI, a silicone attachment to your bathroom tap that you pinch to divert water flow upwards, turning it into a water fountain. Now meet the Vebo, another rather brilliant idea from the minds at Dreamfarm. Unlike most metal colanders, the Vebo (a portmanteau of vegetable + boiler) is a silicone perforated bag with handles. Its silicone construction makes it food-grade and safe to immerse in heat. The bag’s flexible silicone design expands to let you put more veggies in or even fold to fit into pots of any size, and it even packs handles that allow you to lift it and carry it around.
The Vebo can be used to boil or even steam veggies with ease. It comes with an elevated base, making steaming vegetables easier, and the handles allow you to grab and hold the boiled or steamed vegetables fresh off the stove. Its perforations allow the water to drip through, even making it easy to rinse vegetables under running water. The Vebo is like a metal colander in the fact that it performs the exact same job… but just infinitely better!
How often have you picked off grapes from the sink, because when you were washing them, a couple of them fell in. Annoying, right? Addressing this and two other important issues (which I will get into later), the Equilibric colander makes itself a prized possession in your kitchen.
The science behind this rotating colander is simple. It is designed to keep the inner bowl always upright. And because of this, when you drain off water, the outer bowl discharged the water, while the inner bowl keeps everything upright and safe. Another big advantage of this design is that it is very helpful when you want to defrost food. The outer bowl collects the defrost water, and saves your countertop from stains.
Lastly, the colander can be used as a serving dish, thanks to the food-safe materials it has been crafted from. My style of cooking requires a lot of cleaning of veggies and fruits, so I completely resonate with the solution this colander provides. It saves you water (by 60%), removes contamination efficiently (90% of the dirt and bacteria from your foods) and looks neat. Three thumbs-up from us!
The Equilibric serves on your kitchen as a colander, defrosting bowl and a serving dish.
The Equilibric colander reduces the amount of water needed to wash your fruits and vegetables by 60% – all while removing twice as many contaminants!
Its ergonomic design keeps the vegetables upright and safe as the water bowl drains the dirty water away, cleaning your foods and keeping your clean items safe from spillage.
The colander also serves as a serving dish for you. You don’t have to worry about using more dishes than necessary just because you need something to put them in afterwards. Drain the excess water from your vegetables – and serve your fruits or salads in the same dish.
Trying to defrost something at room temperature turns into a huge problem for most cooks. Water often winds up all over the counter creating an even bigger mess, and more work for you. But with the Equilibric colander, its washing machine motion helps remove 90% of the dirt and bacteria from your foods.
Equilibric has a very well considered hole slots pattern that allows draining the excess water fast and simple. Equilibric Bowl is made from a high-quality polypropylene which is an unharmful material to dine from. Equilibric Bowl design has a special spin system which uses the force of gravity to speed up all kitchen tasks.
There are a rare bunch of times it’s acceptable to play with your food, and this is one of them! Made by OTOTO (the makers of the world’s favorite Loch Ness soup ladle) the Spaghetti Monster colander easily becomes yet another adorable monster that finds its place in our kitchen.
The Spaghetti Monster, a delightfully bewildered looking creature, strains your spaghetti in a manner that makes it look like it has a wild messy blonde mane when loaded with the steamed noodles. The colander bowl forms the perforated body of the monster, with four tiny legs that give it balance. The eyes become the handles that one would grip (the eyeballs fit well into the palms, and no, I didn’t think I’d ever utter those words!), making it easy for shaking the colander every now and then so that the water drains through completely… although do be gentle! The Spaghetti Monster has feelings too!
Everything about the RMDLO Colander is creative, from its name to the product itself. Designed by Ran Merkazy, an ex-employee at Dyson, the colander can A. open out into a full scale perforated bowl used for draining or steaming, B. collapse into a flat strip that can be stored in drawers, or hung to dry, and C. warp, allowing you to bend it as you drain out water and then pour the contents out into a vessel big or small.
Named after its inspiration, the Armadillo, the RMDLO colander has a mechanism we’ve seen before in the Pangolin Backpack and the Suli Lamp, but never before in kitchenware. The flexible foldable shape allows you to use the RMDLO with other vessels of any sizes. The colander bends to accommodate the size of the other container, while the handle stops it from slipping in (when used to steam veggies). Aside from being the embodiment of sleek, functional, and delightful, the RMDLO colander is also dishwasher safe and BPA-free!
You know a design is brilliant when James Dyson puts his seal of approval on it! The O’Boil is the only utensil you’ll ever want to use while cooking. Designed with the kind of aesthetic that marries functionality and beauty with pure ease, the O’Boil has a negligible learning curve. Just pop the O’Boil into a slightly larger saucepan, pop the lid off and put in your ingredients, put the lid back on and set the timer (the lid has its own integrated timer…now isn’t that cute?), and you’re all set. Let the O’Boil do its job. Lift it up with ease using the insulated silicone handles. Let the water drain out, and press the handles together like you would a large clothes-peg…Voila! The O’Boil opens its mighty perforated clamps and out comes your delicious food, cooked to perfection!
The O’Boil is the proud recipient of a James Dyson Design Award.
This Bowler Hat Colander is suitable for any gentleman or gentle lady in the kitchen. Flaunt it and tip it while wiggling your eyebrows and curling your mustache as you wait for your food to cook, then toss it in and strain.
Strain your spaghetti and then throw it on your hat rack. Then adjust your bow tie, twirl your cane and do a little Charlie Chaplin dance. I guess you could use it for a hat while you are out and a colander when you are in. It’s basically a plaything for those who like old timey shenanigans.
The Bowler Hat Colander will cost you $20(USD) from Firebox.
The problem with colanders is that their wide top makes it hard to pour things out of them after you’ve strained them. The Trap Door Colander solves this problem by letting you pour things out of the bottom. Just strain your pasta, then move the Trap Door Colander over your bowl, pull the handles and the food goes right onto the plate. There’s actually two trap doors and two levers so you can control the portions. No mess on your countertop, no having to use a helper spoon while you awkwardly hold the colander with only one hand, no tongs needed, no problems.
solves this problem by letting you pour things out of the bottom. Just strain your pasta, then move the Trap Door Colander over your bowl, pull the handles and the food goes right onto the plate. There’s actually two trap doors and two levers so you can control the portions. No mess on your countertop, no having to use a helper spoon while you awkwardly hold the colander with only one hand, no tongs needed, no problems.