“Food Crayon” lets you playfully garnish your dishes with ingredient-flavored shavings! Move over, SaltBae!

Instead of sprinkling fresh herbs or grating parmesan shavings over your food, these flavor-packed crayon-shaped edible sticks let you garnish your food in a playfully fun way!

The wacky idea for crayon-based garnishing comes from Montreal-based Nadia Lahrichi, who runs the company along with her brother, Kamil, and mom, Veronique. Together, they call themselves the Foodie Family and with their combined backgrounds in cooking, biochemistry, and marketing, they’re reinventing how we interact with our food! The Food Crayons really don’t need much explaining – traditional crayons are made from wax and dye and are formed into the crayon shape… Food Crayons, on the other hand, are made from food ingredients suspended in an edible substrate, agar-agar. Commonly used as a gelling agent, and a vegan alternative to animal-based gelatine, the agar-agar helps bind the ingredients into the crayon shape. Once the crayon’s been cast, they can easily be shaved over food, flavoring it in an absolutely engaging and exciting way!

The gastronomic crayon sticks come in a variety of flavors – both sweet and savory. Perfect for seasoning your dish with, they add a touch of brightness without you needing to grate, shred, julienne herbs, grind peppercorns, or even prepare sauces, compotes, and vinaigrettes. The flavors include classics like basil, lemon, ginger, and shallot, to more exotic ingredients like porcini mushrooms or black garlic, and even interesting combos that include chilli and garlic, balsamic and figs, curry and turmeric, or honey and mustard. Perfect for upgrading your dishes, the creators recommend adding 5-10 shavings on top of your food. It’s an incredibly fun way to make food taste better, and the crayons barely occupy space on your kitchen spice rack!

All the flavors are plant-based, gluten-free, and vegan (barring the honey mustard). You could buy individual crayons, or create your own box-set of colors/flavors to choose from. Food Crayon even sells a neat little sharpener to do the trick, so you don’t have to borrow one from your kid’s stationery set.

Ultimately, the same way a crayon adds a dash of vibrancy to a blank paper, the Food Crayons bring about vibrancy to your regular meals or drinks, giving them a zing or a pep that’s difficult to miss. Yes, I said drinks, because the company just released a Piña Colada-flavored crayon too! Don’t judge me if I directly chomp right into that one…

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This quirky jar turns your tea-leaves into soil, and the teaspoon into a sapling!

I’ve been pretty vocal about my love for Qualy Design’s products and how they reinterpret mundane objects as beautiful, desirable keepsakes. The Sprout Jar is yet another example of how Qualy Design has this innate tendency to view products around them with an almost childlike curiosity, turning them from regular products into designs with depth, and emotional storytelling value. Unlike your run-of-the-mill jars, the Sprout Jar comes with a sprout-shaped spoon fixed into its cap. Designed for things like tea-leaves, ground coffee, dried herbs, or anything that would look like soil (I guess brown-sugar would work too!), the jar comes with a design that’s meant to be placed on counters inverted. When flipped over, the leaves/grounds/herbs form a base layer around the sprout-shaped spoon, making it look like a sapling emerging from the ground! The clear-plastic container also comes with a slightly domed top, making it look almost like a bell-jar that’s encasing a mini terrarium within!

Designer: Qualy Design

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Seasoning Stix Season From The Inside

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Seasoning Stix looks like a cool product. It’s a flavour stick you jam into your food, and it flavours it from the inside.

Seasoning Stix are solid “sticks” of seasonings, spices and herbs, which are inserted into meat, fish and poultry prior to cooking to season from the inside out.

At approximately 110F food science takes over. Water is driven out, Seasoning Stixs begin to liquify and the meat absorbs the seasonings like a sponge.

It’s the first major change in seasonings in 1,000 years.

So unique it’s already been award three U.S. Patents.

It’s currently available for $35, which will give you over 100 stix of different flavours, like Classic Garlic and Backyard Barbecue.

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Shot Pellets Made From Seasoning Fill Your Bird Up With Flavor

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Flashback to 2006, where news of this first came out, and when it seems we were looking the other way. You see hunting, controversial a practice as you may want, is still going on strong in most parts of the world. And while filling birds up with shot may satisfy our primal instinct to kill other living creatures, it also has the unfortunate side effect of filling them up with inedible steel at the same time. Not if you pack your rifle with Season Shot. The shot pellets are actually tightly packed seasoning, which supposedly don’t disintegrate under the extreme stress of being ejected at high speeds by gaseous propellant. Instead of peppering the bird with metal, you’ll be seasoning it with Cajun, Lemon Pepper, Garlic, Teriyaki, or Honey Mustard flavors.

At least, those are the claims. Sadly, once you dig a little deeper and realize that even 7 years later the website still hasn’t announced a release date or an expected price, you get the sense that maybe this was just someone’s wishful thinking. Or pet project that didn’t pan out. But… with the crowdfunding avenues now available to the everyday inventor, how hard can it be to get something like this off the ground? Is it physically impossible? Any gun geeks out there to enlighten the rest of us?

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