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These cooking pods let you easily boil and strain your veggies, eggs, and pasta

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You may have seen a similar-looking apparatus in ramen shops, where chefs boil noodles within cylindrical sieve containers, allowing them to easily prepare multiple portions in the same pot of boiling water and scoop the noodles out just when they’re ready. Or maybe you’ve seen an equivalent in your everyday diner, as the cook uses an immersion fryer to make french fries or onion rings. The Trebonn Cookin’Pods bring a similar compartmentalized cooking experience to your own home. Designed to let you boil pasta, vegetables, or even eggs in water without having to fish in with a slotted spoon to retrieve them later, the Cookin’Pods rest directly on the rim of your saucepan with their base immersed in the water. When you want to take your food out, just grab a pair of gloves and pull the Cookin’Pods out. The pods automatically strain your food in a split second, saving you time and effort.

There’s a certain convenience to the Cookin’Pods but their biggest advantage is their ability to let you easily compartmentalize your cooking. Imagine having to cook pasta in boiling water as well as blanch vegetables. While under normal circumstances you’d require two separate saucepans to prepare the two different foods, Cookin’Pods lets you do it all right in one pot of boiling water. Just add the pasta in one pod and the veggies in the other. Not only do the pods let you separately cook both at the same time, but they also let you easily take either one out when they’re done cooking – something that would be impossible if your vegetables and pasta were all chucked into the same saucepan together!

The colorful Cookin’Pods are made from a thermoset plastic that can withstand high temperatures. The Cookin’Pods are designed to be used only in water (you can’t immerse them in hot oil), and Trebonn recommends not using them on a gas burner with a high flame, just in case the heat causes the pods to warp. Even though they aren’t made from metal, the Cookin’Pods do get hot, so when you’re taking them out of the saucepan, it’s best if you use oven mitts to hold their handles.

Designer: Rich Clough for Trebonn

Let’s take a second to appreciate this saucepan’s detachable handle

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If it wasn’t my job to talk about the Jiu Cast Iron Pan, I’d be looking at that GIF all day. The Jiu Cast Iron Pan comes with a detachable wooden handle, allowing you to use it with small ovens or on stovetops without the handle, and letting you directly snap the handle on whenever you want to lift or swirl the pan. With the handle, the Jiu looks like an elegant cast iron pan fit for the finest kitchens, and without the handle, the Jiu takes on a much more classy plate-esque avatar. All in all, the detachable handle becomes much more than just a gimmick, because the plate looks classy with it and without it too… and the handle’s working mechanism is a thing of sheer beauty.

The handle itself is a two-piece sliding unit made from walnut wood that grabs onto the rim of the pan. The pan comes built with a pretty large rim, allowing the handle to grab onto the metal without ever coming in contact with the food. The rim is also shaped in a way that allows the handle to grip on pretty tightly, so the pan doesn’t come sliding off by accident, sending hot food flying everywhere.

Both the handle and the pan have a minimal, useful, Japanese sensibility which truly makes the Jiu look as wonderful as it does. Its use of simple lines and contrasting materials creates a utensil that I’d sure love to have in my kitchen… and that’s not just the bachelor in me appreciating the fact I can now directly eat food out of the pan!

Designer: TENT for Fujita Metal Co.

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Upturned Utensil

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The Top & Down utensil design comes from a place of absolute ingenuity. Think of it as a life-hack turned into a product. Simply put, the Top & Down utensil is a saucepan with a lid design that can double up as a place mat that allows you to rest a hot vessel on a dining table. The lid has handles that act as a resting point for the vessel once off the stove and on a table top. Clever, isn’t it?? I wonder why no one thought of making it mainstream yet.

The Top & Down utensil is a winner of the Red Dot Design Award for the year 2016.

Designer: Zhang Weiwei

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Upturned Utensil

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The Top & Down utensil design comes from a place of absolute ingenuity. Think of it as a life-hack turned into a product. Simply put, the Top & Down utensil is a saucepan with a lid design that can double up as a place mat that allows you to rest a hot vessel on a dining table. The lid has handles that act as a resting point for the vessel once off the stove and on a table top. Clever, isn’t it?? I wonder why no one thought of making it mainstream yet.

The Top & Down utensil is a winner of the Red Dot Design Award for the year 2016.

Designer: Zhang Weiwei

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