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In what could be the best innovation in coffee drinking since the mug, is a mug that’ll hold your spoon for you. The NOTA Coffee Mug is brought to us by Lee Hae Seung Scott, and solves the real world problem of having to continuously stir a hot beverage, with nowhere to place your spoon.
The NOTA Mug is unfortunately still in concept phase, so you’ll just have to keep holding onto the spoon yourself for a while. Sorry for the inconvenience.
[via Yanko Design]
Utensil hybrids appear to be all the rage lately, and it’s no longer limited to some odd commingling of the knife, fork and spoon. After chopsticks got in on the act with the Kung Foon, the latest hybrid that we could find has them joining forces with the spoon. Enter the spoonplus.
But more than just the pinching abilities of chopsticks mixed with the scooping properties of a standard spoon — the spoon part detaches to become an instant dipping tray. Now we just need chopsticks mixed with a knife and spork, and we’ll consider this matter closed.
What the spork?The Spork is a confusing utensil, that in theory has the scooping and liquid-holding properties of a spoon, combined with the food-stabbing features of a fork. However, with the spoon part too shallow to hold an acceptable amount of soup, and tines too short and stubby to properly penetrate anything firmer than a canned peach, the spork has become one of the longest standing jokes in culinary history.
But where did this malformed utensil come from? What was the reasoning behind this seemingly useless eating tool? And most importantly, who is ultimately responsible for inventing it? Foodiggity has the answer… sort of.
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The spoon is often an under-appreciated utensil. Playing second fiddle to its pronged sidekick and parodied by the invention of the spork.
But a spoon should be a cook’s ultimate tool, a weapon even. It should be your guide to kitchen dominance… Your culinary Sherpa.
A spoon… For real?
Well consider this. Some pro cooks will carve their names in their spoons… They claim them. You do not touch another cook’s spoons. This is because their spoon is their guide to quality control. It tells a pro everything that they need to know. Besides the tasting part, it can also be used for general measurement, as a meat flipper, a baster, or to flip frozen peas at co-workers. It is truly invaluable.