The culinary instruments that are commonly found in canisters and drawers are relocated overhead with the Kitchen Icicle. A winning concept in for the 2012 Red Dot Design Award, this collection comprising a stirring spoon, a spatula, a ladle and a pair of tongs has a special talent.
Jo Eun Hee and Park Ji Yeon came up with the idea to embed strong magnets into the tips of the lightweight utensils' handles so that they can be stuck onto metal surfaces. A slender rectangular steel plate is designed to be mounted beneath your cabinets and close to the stovetop, allowing the implements to connect and dangle down.
The Kitchen Icicle utensils are simple, effective and ergonomic. Best of all, they clear clutter from your food preparation area and they can be hung up conveniently while in use instead of set down to dirty your cooking surface.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Overhead Utensil Storage
- Designing utensils with embedding magnets into the tips of their lightweight handles to be utilized by hanging from an overhead surface provides a disruptive innovation opportunity for the home kitchen industry.
- Metal Surface Attachments
- Creating utensils that can be attached to metal surfaces with embedded magnets in their handles provides a disruptive innovation opportunity for the kitchen accessory industry.
- Clutter-free Food Preparation Area
- Developing innovative kitchen tools that can be hung up above metal cooking surfaces to maintain a clutter-free food preparation area provides a disruptive innovation opportunity for the kitchenware industry.
Where This Applies
- Home Kitchen
- Applying magnet technology to optimize storage solutions provides a disruptive innovation opportunity for the home kitchen industry.
- Kitchen Accessory
- Introducing embedded magnet utensils for attachment to metal surfaces provides a disruptive innovation opportunity for the kitchen accessory industry.
- Kitchenware
- Incorporating metal surface attachments into unique kitchen tools provides a disruptive innovation opportunity for the kitchenware industry.
