Don, I have a project for you to work on in all your spare time.
We men who do venture into the kitchen from time to time are in sore straits. The influx of imported garbage utensils that wear out in two uses makes us crazy. :shakehead We need your expert craftsmanship, attention to detail and eye for design when it comes to making some good quality kitchen utensils a man would be proud to use.
I posted this rant in my food type thread in the Cafe:
Since we have some ice cream eaters here, I gotta vent about ice cream scoops. I am so sick of these crap scoops that are cheap steel plated with cheap whatever and start to disintegrate as soon as they go in the dishwasher and get hit with some detergent. I want an ice cream scoop that is milled out of a bar of real stainless and polished to a mirror shine and will last the rest of my life. It should weigh three pounds and survive an IED without issue. I want to put it through the dishwasher 10,000 times and never see any pitting or flaking. The steel the dishwasher is made out of and the forks and knives are made out of survives just fine. Why can't they make the flippin' scoop out of that stuff?!
Another member jokingly suggested a custom Ti scoop with an ice pick handle. I thought it was brilliant.
So, what I want is for you to design a Ti ice cream scoop that will outlive me. :huh:
I think to make things simple, the handle could basically just be your 2xAA clicky pak on the outside, but you just wouldn't bore out the center. That is already a beautiful and ergonomically pleasing design. So it would have the same look as the pak, but no hole/switch in the ends. Then the only thing you really have to design from scratch is the scoop. I have no idea if this is hard or not. But it probably is.
And I don't know if making the whole utensil all out of a solid piece is hard or not. If that is hard, you could make the scoop end separate and with a female threaded neck, and you could just screw it right onto the male end of the solid clicky pak and voila! It's like legoing a light and a scoop together, haha.
And then after that, I need a pizza cutter too. :naughty:
Anyways, I don't know if you have ever thought about making other cool gadgety stuff like that, but if you do, I think you could sell a few to us suckers here. :wave:
I'd be happy to beta-test any prototypes.
Would you other Gizmo fans be interested in some cool kitchen toys from Don too???