Comments | khromat: I'm in love....

khromat

I'm in love....

Jul 07, 2011 13:43

I have several friends who will occasionally send me links to things they think I'd like, and recently one of these friends sent me a link to this:

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culinary, art

Comments 7

Cool... niall_shapero July 7 2011, 20:46:16 UTC

And just where can this toy be found? AHA! NOW I see the link...(must investigate..."run and find out..."

chefmongoose July 7 2011, 21:06:21 UTC

Very pretty, though I'm not sold on how they'd be for actual use.. the empty handles on the biggest knives I'd suspect wouldn't work too well in actual kitchen conditions.

Still, very pretty. :)

tuftears July 7 2011, 21:09:30 UTC

Dang, that is pretty cute! Though I think it sacrifices some function, I'd think the smallest knife might be hard to hold well.

zrath July 7 2011, 23:23:32 UTC

A beautiful piece of art, made in France. :)

International creation khromat July 8 2011, 05:00:46 UTC

... by a GERMAN/Sri Lankan student at a BELGIUM design collage.

Sorry to burst your patriotic bubble. This was an international effort. :)

coppercheetah July 8 2011, 02:56:10 UTC

It is a very interesting solution, one that tries to combine style and function. However, with what meager knife skills I have, I'd like to bring up several questions and comments:

Having a blade with holes in it does tend to allow the blade to cut more smoothly through softer materials, but with it being just the very profile border of the blade, how much cutting strength do you actually have? It'll be fine for going through tomatoes, onions, and other produce, but what happens when you have to crack open a squash (like a pumpkin) or a tough root like horseradish? (Get out the cleaver and mallet?)
In the same way the having a blade with only the profile may affect performance, having a hollow handle will affect grip. I had a knife with such a handle, and it was very hard to keep precise control for cuts. Were they to, say, only keep one side of the handle's outer profile, allowing the other knives to rest in the remaining depression, they could still stack the knives in the carrier, and the palm grip of the handle would have that ( ... )

khromat July 8 2011, 05:06:01 UTC

As I don't have them physcially in hand (to turn a pun) to test them, I don't know if Mia designed them with sufficient depth to handle the strain of being hollow - in theory, the hollowness of the chef knife shouldn't affect its usefulness *if* the heel has enough heft. I agree on the hollow handle, and imagine if someone where to actually use this set they would make sleeves to cover the specific handle issues -- something to thicken the grip of the paring knife, for example.

This is definitely more a design than practical use, but they must work at least reasonably well or she wouldn't have won an award for them under the Culinary catagory of the European Design Awards. :)