Kitchen Toys

Tijdens mijn opleiding aan de Design Academy kregen we de opdracht om keukengereedschap voor kinderen te ontwerpen. Ik heb keukenspeelgoed gemaakt van gepoedercoat metaal. Ieder apparaat heeft zijn eigen functie: Jus persen, Chips maken, Appelmoes maken en appel  of patat schieten.

Doordat vandaag de dag steeds meer voedsel verkocht wordt in standaard verpakkingen is het steeds minder duidelijk hoe het gemaakt is en waar het vandaan komt. Kinderen houden van speelgoed, daarom heb ik vier stuks keukenspeelgoed voor kinderen ontworpen. Voor elk ontwerp gebruik je één stuk fruit of groente. Door te spelen met het keukenspeelgoed leer je hoe bijvoorbeeld chips gemaakt wordt.

English

During my studies at the Design Academy, we were commissioned to design kitchen tools for children. I have made kitchen toys out of powder coated metal. Each device has its own function: Pressing orange juice , making crisps, making applesauce or shooting fries or apples.

Because nowadays more and more food is sold in standard packages it is becoming less clear how it is made and where it comes from. Kids love toys, so I made four pieces of kitchen toys designed for children. For each design you use a piece of fruit or vegetable. By playing with the kitchen toys you learn how for example crisps are made.

Applesauce pistol

-core one or more apples
-Boil the apples until they are soft
-Pull the black button on the applesauce pistol backwards
-Pull the lid open and put a cooked apple in the pistol
-Close the lid
-Point the pistol at your plate or in a bowl and squeeze the handle several times
-You have squeezed the apple to applesauce now.
-According to your taste you can add cinnamon or sugar.

Applepart canon

With this device you can shoot an apple in segments and core it at once

-Clean one or more apples
-Remove the front part of the canon and push an apple with the core at the tip.
-Clamp the apple by using the handle on the back.
-The apple now disappears inside.
-Place the front part by using the clips on the side of the canon.
-Pull the release and the apple shoots trough the knife at the front, you can eat the appleparts directly.

Juiceturner

With this device you can make orange juice.

-Put a glass underneath the press.
-Turn the handle to open the press
-Put an orange inside the press and turn it back
-You split and squeeze the orange now.

Chipsshooter

With this device you make potato crisps.

-Put a potato in the clamp at the front
-Turn the handle to rotate the big drum
-The drum has a plane that cuts potatoes into thin slices.
-The slices fly of at the side
-Throw the slices directly into a bowl with cold water and put it in the refrigerator for two hours
-Put a layer of oil (about 5 cm.) In a deep fryer. Pour the potato slices off and dip them thoroughly dry. If the oil reaches 160 degrees Celsius (the temperature is very important!), you can add a handful of ' potato crisps ' (important: don’t put too much inside the pan)
-Stir the potato crisps with a wooden spoon, heat the oil to 180 degrees Celsius. Once the  potato crisps are golden brown, remove them and let them leak on kitchen paper.
-Bake no longer than 1 ½ minute, don’t let them get brown.
-Repeat this process with the rest of the potato slices. If everything is fried, straw sea salt or paprika powder and serve.