Kitchen: Chop, flip, chop

I often wish I could use my cutting board on both sides without having to rinse/wash it. You don't want to make your counters super dirty by just flipping the board. Look what I just stumbled upon in The Spoon Sisters:

Such an easy, practical idea. I would add this to my list of good ontwerpen (in short, it's dutch for well engineered design*), and maybe to my wishlist :-). They also have plenty of stuff that serve as excellent ideas for gifts.




* It turns out there are 2 words for design in Dutch: vormgeving and ontwerpen. The former refers to fashionable, but not really needed design; the second one refers to design that has some added value to society because of how well engineered it is. Read this on swissmiss, my new addition to my design n style list of blogs to browse.

Design pots

I often wonder why people would buy expensive tools for the kitchen that presumably have good design, but to me look just normal... Today's find in Remodelista made me think differently. These pots are very pretty looking, which would make me be confident enough to serve dishes with the pot directly to the table to guests; they are stackable; AND the  lids not can be put upside down without them spinning around, but can also be used as serving trivets. Isn't this genius? I like well designed things in general, but I swoon for functional beautiful design.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, they are stove-top and oven safe. I am already dreaming of the steamer insert... Oh well, another thing to add to my "I will buy it in a year or two"-wishlist :-).