1) 3D Printed Cooking Equipment by Gareth Ladley

Make sure to go to the above link & read all the details about how Gareth wants to give chefs more customized tools. Here is his vision in his words:

Auxiliary Tools aims to address obsolescence and idling technology among kitchen tools by using shared components. The central hand tool shares its motor across a set of auxiliary tools. These molecular gastronomy inspired objects have been designed for a chef through insights gained within an commercial kitchen. This has lead to a designer in residence scenario where objects have been produced using soft tooling methods and 3D printing technology.

Vegetable lathe

Plate spinner

2) Matt Burdis’s Assisted Kitchen Knives for the Elderly

From Matt Burdis’s page:

The brief for this project was to create a bread knife and a paring knife specifically designed for retirees and the elderly, with a particular focus on their needs and conditions such as arthritis. This meant there was a large emphasis on ergonomics and usability. To get an insight into the users needs focus groups were undertaken with some retirees and then later on in the design process a concept evaluation (aesthetic concept board and physical foam models were generated for this). The final design as shown in the presentation boards takes into account the issues that were found to be the most important (such as grip, visibility, weighting, comfort and safety) and the visuals, along 3D printed models of the final design were well received by all of the focus group participants.



3) BotBQ





The BotBQ is the open source 3D printing BBQ (eventually..). Right now you can download and modify the extruder to fit your own requirements to make it compatilbe with your 3D printer extruder if it isn’t a Wades already (btw… a parametric version in the works!) You could easily be printing your own burgers in your favorite shape and thickness in no time with the help of the BotBQ extruder and a couple modifications to fit your 3D printer. The BotBQ extruder was designed to be simple to use and you don’t even need to disassemble your printer to attach it, only remove the idler block and replace it with the BotBQ extruder.

Via 3D Printing

4) Ravioli Maker

-Roll the pasta dough into thin sheets.

-Place one of the sheets over the Ravioli Maker.

-Gently push down the sheet a little to make a dent for your filling.

-Scoop your favourite filling into the dents.

-Place another sheet of pasta over the filling and cover the entire thing.

-Use a rolling pin to roll over and press the 2 sheets of pasta against the zig zag grooves in order to separate into individual raviolis.

5) Garlic Crusher

Video about the Garlic Crusher

6) Citrus Juicer