DESIGN NAME: Flavoured Flints
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Food Tools
INSPIRATION: Inspired by prehistoric tools.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: “Flavoured flints” is a collection of differents food tools made by conglomerates of salt and sugar with added dried extracts of flavour-enhancing fruits, obtained by cryogrinding.
Spices, herbs, mushrooms, vegetables, and fruits are included in the ingredients. The flints prompt consumers to season their meals using ancestral techniques : rubbing the two volumes, as big as your fist and faceted, against each other. By choosing to use differents flints, it becomes possible to combine all sorts of flavours.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: -
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The projet started in April 2009 in Reims. And it was exhibited in the SIAL (Salon International de l'Alimentation) in Paris 2010.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Food, Beverage and Culinary Arts Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: The dried extracts of flavour-enhancing fruits are obtained by cryogrinding. The cryogrinding is a liquid nitrogen-based technique which cools ingredients right down to -196°C to make them easier to turn into powder, whilst preserving flavour and colour as much as possible.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 100×30×50.
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RESEARCH ABSTRACT: -
CHALLENGE: A relation with a chef was developped around this project.
ADDED DATE: 2011-10-20 04:16:46
TEAM MEMBERS (2) : Jenni Vigaud and
IMAGE CREDITS: Léa André, 2011.
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