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Adorable Bat-shaped Kitchen Scissors Cut Bags and Veggies, Crack Nuts, and Open Bottles

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Arriving perfectly in time for Halloween season, this friendly little bat adds fun and flavor to your kitchen! With its unique design that’s easy to grip both from the inside as well as the outside, Elizabat (that has to be the cutest name ever) is a pair of culinary scissors that helps you cut, chop, and slice away at veggies and herbs in the kitchen. Its clever blade design also has a bottle opener, while the gap between the handle serves as a nut-cracker. Whatever it is you need, Elizabat is the perfect sous chef!

Designer: OTOTO

The folks at OTOTO are masters of storytelling through fun product designs and experiences. All their products have unique characters that lend a charm to the product and its overall experience, making using them a lot more fun without being too cumbersome. Elizabat follows the same logic, with a design that may look uncomfortable at first, but you soon realize that the bat-shaped grips are what make the scissors so useful!

Designed to be gripped both through the inside as well as the outside, the bat’s wings have an ergonomic profile to them that works well for the scissor’s various uses. Hold them traditionally and the scissor works well cutting and chopping through veggies and fruit, whether you’re trimming some green onions to sprinkle on your ramen, or cutting through tough artichoke leaves. One of the scissor’s blades has a clever cutout that works well as a bottle opener, while ridges in the metal tang between both handles work as a nut-cracker, allowing you to casually flip between lever types 1, 2, and 3 depending on the task at hand!

Elizabat features a simple steel, rubber, and plastic construction that gets elevated by its unique character-based design. The bat’s wings are delightfully accurate, with a tiny plastic bat right between them that has an adorable appeal altogether. In fact, it’s so adorable that we’d probably have to tell you to keep Elizabat away from kids!

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‘Al Dente’ Pasta Tester sits on the rim of your saucepan, letting you know when your spaghetti is ready

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Meet Al Dente. First name Al, last name Dente. Al is passionate about two things – fishing, and perfect toothsome spaghetti.

Designed by the fine folks at OTOTO in collaboration with Klipy Design, Al Dente quietly and patiently perches himself on the rim of your saucepan, casting a single line of spaghetti into your boiling water. Whenever you want to check if your pasta is perfectly undercooked (or what the Italians called al dente), just take the spaghetti from Al Dente’s hands and nibble at the lower end of the line. If your spaghetti needs some extra time in the boiling water, just put it back in Al’s hands and he’ll hold onto it for you to check again after a few moments! Once you’re done, discard the spaghetti Al was holding onto (that was just a test piece) and strain out the rest of your pasta! Buon Appetito!

Designers: Klipy Design and OTOTO

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Al’s the kind of chap that’s dedicated to his craft. His silicone construction means he’s heat resistant, BPA-free, food-safe, and dishwasher friendly. Pop him on the edge of your saucepan and he even lets you place a lid on top with a small opening around him, working as a steam releaser… although his favorite activity really is patiently casting a line of spaghetti into your boiling water. Instead of taking a pair of tongs and fishing around for a noodle to bite into to test your pasta’s done-ness, Al Dente does the hard part for you, holding onto a single test noodle that you can easily grab out and test. For now, Al Dente only works with dry spaghetti and bucatini, although I’m sure he’s looking to expand his skill set in the future!

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This adorable little tea-infuser looks exactly like the Piranha Plant from Super Mario!

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When you’re not using it to brew tea, you could turn it into a prop for your Lego Mario set.

OTOTO‘s Tea Trap puts a fun spin on the art of brewing tea. Unlike those boring metal infusers, the Tea Trap models itself on a carnivorous plant that chomps down on your tea leaves. Once the Tea Trap’s stomach (or mouth) is full, just dunk it in a cup of hot water, and the tea begins infusing through the perforations on the sides of the infuser. Use the Tea Trap’s elongated handle to stir it around till your tea reaches the right color, and when you’re done, the Tea Trap will very kindly spit out the tea-leaves into the waste-bin, because nobody likes eating tea leaves… not even carnivorous plants!

Designer: OTOTO

The Tea Trap is made from stainless steel along with BPA-free silicone. It’s 100% food-safe and dishwasher-safe too.

OTOTO’s Ninja Cutting Board comes with its own knife docked inside it!

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Clearly meant for people who’d like to live out the game Fruit Ninja in real life, the Ninja Cutting Board & Knife from OTOTO is an adorable little kitchen accessory that makes mise en place fun! The board comes shaped like a little Ninja with a steely glare that means business, and a katana docked into its back. Whip the katana out and chop away your veggies fruits, and other ingredients on the Ninja board before washing, wiping, and docking the katana/knife back in. Don’t forget to say “Arigato Sensei” to the Ninja once you’re done!

Designers: Bar Davidovich & OTOTO

This adorable Toucan-shaped kitchen-tool helps you core and spiralize apples!

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I wouldn’t be surprised if the idea for Toco came from a Flintstones episode! I mean, that family had a bird for everything… phone calls, record playing, typewriting, even alarm clocks! Toco, however, is more of a kitchen helper. Modeled on the shape and design of a toucan bird (remember Rafael from the movie Rio?), Toco actually helps core and spiralize an apple, turning it from a fruit into a fun spiral you can eat!

Made from plastic (so it’s relatively safe around kids), Toco’s beak comes with a circular element at its tip that pierces into the fruit’s core, while the beak itself has a sharp-ish edge that cuts through the fruit’s flesh. Toco’s eye-hole serves as a finger-rest too, giving you the leverage you need to easily cut through the fruit. A few twists later, you’ve got yourself an apple that’s core-less and ready to eat, bake, or decorate your smoothie bowl with! Toco works with all kinds of apples and a bunch of pears too!

Designer: Avichai Tadmor for OTOTO

This rocking-horse inspired cookie cutter comes with a festive twist!

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I hope you’ll forgive me for this terrible pun, but OTOTO‘s products are truly ‘deer’ to me! The company, which has established a reputation for making some of the most heartwarming products, does a remarkable job of combining elements of playfulness along with a strong storytelling aspect to create products that are just clever! Take for instance the Sweet Deer – a rocking-horse-inspired cookie cutter. Designed to clearly get children to help with food-prep, the cutter comes in the shape of a reindeer on a rocking base. The rocking base comes with tapered edges that help it cut into dough, allowing kids to cut out cookies while playing with their forest friend! The Sweet Deer is 100% food safe and comes made from High-Quality Silicone. Aside from cutting cookies, it debosses a neat star in the center too, to give the cookie a nice festive touch!

Designer: Jenny Pokryvailo for OTOTO

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This egg-poacher is the epitome of an easy-breezy lazy breakfast!

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I can’t begin to tell you how stressful poaching an egg is to the amateur cook. Every chef has their own technique which requires a fair amount of expertise. Some do it in a microwave, some swirl the water before they put the egg in, and some use tea strainers or cups to introduce the cracked egg to boiling water… and while each chef has their own poaching lifehack, none are as easy (and easy-looking) as using OTOTO’s Eggland poacher. Designed as a pool-tube that floats in water, this food-grade silicone device makes poaching eggs absolutely stress-free. Just place the Eggland in almost-boiling water, add a few drops of oil, and crack the egg right into its cavity. The egg looks like it’s lounging away, while the hot water below it cooks it to oozy-yolk perfection. Pull the device out by the handle that’s modeled after an inflatable palm tree, and flip the egg over your ham and cheese sandwich to upgrade it to an absolutely divine Croque Madame sandwich. Now THAT’s what I call a breakfast of champions!

Designers: Lilach Eytan & OTOTO

OTOTO’s Giraffe-inspired measuring tape is the “height” of creativity!

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Giraffe necks and “height” of creativity may just be my weakest pun ever, but isn’t this giraffe-inspired measuring tape just adorable? Miss Meter, as it’s called, is an exotic animal from the savannas of Africa, with a unique neck that can elongate and contract. Designed, however, to be a fully functional measuring tape, Miss Meter cleverly integrates the tape-roll within its body, with a switch on the spine that allows you to lock the auto-retraction feature.

Another really clever detail lies in Miss Meter’s head, which sort of easily works as a hook too (seen on most tapes) to help hold the tape against a corner or edge of an object or surface to help you single-handedly measure better. When not in use, Miss Meter proudly sits on any tabletop with a certain majestic appeal, rather than being dumped in your tool-drawer like any other measuring tape. What next?? A Rhino that can sharpen your kitchen knives?!

Designers: Idan Noyberg and Gal Bulka for OTOTO

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OTOTO’s tipsy bottle-stopper knows how to have a good time!

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Almost like a before-and-after of every Friday-night done well, Ototo’s bottle-stopper features an adorable wino perched on the stopper with a glass, who immediately goes limp when you press the stopper down. Place the stopper on the bottle and Wasted stays upright. Try to take the stopper off and he becomes a dazed heap! Inspired by a popular wooden toy that uses elastic tautness to keep toy-characters upright and immediately have them collapse when the elastic running through them stops being taut, the bottle-stopper, aptly named Wasted uses the similar principle, but in a fun, socially-apt product… and let Wasted be a reminder that you never want to be that guy!

Designers: Nadav Goldenberg and OTOTO

This rhino knows how to look sharp and keep your knives sharp!

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As an Industrial Designer, this isn’t the kind of Rhinoceros I usually find myself talking about (designer joke alert), but Ototo’s new knife sharpener is both creative and wholesome at the same time!

Blade is a knife-sharpener that assumes the avatar of the humble, gentle rhinoceros. The sharpener’s broad base makes it perfect for securely placing on your kitchen counter, while the two horns on the rhino’s snout come with honing steel plates that help keep your knives razor-sharp while adding a bit of character and diversity to your kitchen! Works with most flat-edged or curved blades. Yes, you can use cleavers on it too. Rhinos are originally herbivores, but this one doesn’t judge!

Designers: Lilach Eytan & OTOTO

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