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Drop colander lets you wash and spin salad ingredients easily

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January is a time for most people to create their resolutions, challenges, and new things that they want to try. Probably one of the most popular things that people add to their list is to eat healthier. That means you’re probably stocking up on various vegetables and salad ingredients over the next few days, weeks, or if you’re disciplined and determined, maybe months. So if you’re adding various salads to your menu, salad accessories are also a must have.

Designer: Viviana Degrandi

A salad spinner is something that I’ve been wanting to add to my kitchen except that the ones I see in the market can sometimes have too many parts. You have to assemble it and then disassemble when you need to clean it and then put it together. Yes I know, that’s a bit lazy but that’s the kind of “cook” I am. So this thing called Drop colander seems to appeal to me because they say it has less parts than the usual salad spinners.

Because it has less parts, it’s also smaller than the usual spinners you find in the market. But if you’re like me and live alone, you don’t need something that can wash salads for a whole family. The Drop can hold lettuce, berries, tomatoes, and other herbs and greens. Once you put all the salad ingredients in it, you rotate the inner handle to close it and keep them from falling out. Through the hollow handle, you can run the water through it and wash your ingredients and shake and “spin” them as the water drains.

Of course I can just use a regular colander if I wanted something that’s easy to use. The Drop colander though has a better design and also lets me spin the salad ingredients without them spinning over onto the floor, which is what happens often when I just wash and mix it in a regular bowl.

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Your Own Homegrown Veggie Zone

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In today’s society, it’s easy to forget about eating the right things. There’s often a time I’ll find myself making a sandwich and look to the fridge for inspiration, only to be greeted with empty shelves and a packet of ham…bleak. I may be lucky to have a bag of mixed salad leaves which have not held up. With the use of urban gardens, aeroponics, and hydroponics – healthy eating is now more accessible as ever.

The AeroGarden Harvest Touch set out to make sure big city living, with all of the hustle and bustle, doesn’t mean neglecting the importance of a balanced diet. Diet isn’t the only importance regarding urban gardening, it’s a hugely important aspect in the future of sustainable farming.

The overall design for the indoor garden is warm and approachable. The form doesn’t threaten to dominate the interior layout/design of its environment. The indoor garden greets you with a large 360 open view space – which not only gives the impression of the garden taking up less space that one thinks but also giving the user a quick ‘one glance’ update on progress/growth.

AeroGarden’s Harvest Touch was designed to integrate seamlessly into a city dwelling environment, allowing anyone to grow their very own vegetables at home. The system is soil free and harnesses its growth through the use of 100 high power performance LED lights, enough for optimal growing conditions year round while sitting nicely on your countertop. There is an intuitive LCD display to help the user through every step of the way.

Designer: AeroGarden

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Useless Salad Robot Wants to Toss Your Salad

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Are you tired of tossing your own salad? Sorry if that sounded too personal. I’m just trying to introduce you to the Useless Salad Robot. It is a 3D-printed machine that tosses, mixes, and warms salads, but maybe not in the most practical way. It has three modes for three different salad tossing options.


Useless Duck Company CEO Mike is demonstrating their latest product in the video below. Check it out, and judge its uselessness for yourself. Spoiler alert: It’s pretty terrible.

Personally I prefer Mode One. It just gets things done fast. And since I don’t eat a lot of salads, I really don’t mind this mode at all. Never use Mode Three!

[via Laughing Squid]

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Simplify Your Salad Making

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The beauty of a salad is that it’s simple and easy and so should be the utensils to make one! This straightforward design further simplifies the process by combining a few tools into one. Users can chop, dice, and mix without ever taking their hands off the two units. They’re specially designed to be both wide and sharp so each doubles as a “cutting board” and a cutting device. Easy to use, sanitary, and even easier to clean!

Designer: ODDO Studio

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CIROS Robot Makes a Salad, Promises Not to Stab You

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I know that many of us have dreamed about the day when a robot that could cook a meal for us, despite the fact that it requires a robot to handle a knife or other deadly kitchen implements. Your salad days aren’t over – but salad is made painfully slow – and potentially dangerous – when a robot prepares it.

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The Korean Institute of Science and Technology recently unveiled CIROS, a robot that will do a bunch of your housework and even fix you a salad – using a knife. That part cannot be overstated. If you live through its knife-wielding, you will have a salad. On the other hand, if it chooses to, it could just kill you dead and sprinkle the salad, along with some nice dressing, on your corpse… or sprinkle your blood on the salad.

When it’s not threatening you with a knife, CIROS can grab items from the refrigerator, serve tea, scrub dishes and slice vegetables. The stereoscopic cameras and 3D IR sensor help it recognize objects like microwaves, sinks, refrigerators and dishwashers so that it can do the jobs that you don’t want. Again, sometimes with a knife.

[via Botropolis]