Final Proposal

Final Proposal: Are your kitchenwares all eatable?

Like many friends of mine, people spend a lot on daily grocery: they want to eat fresh; they want to eat organic. However, they seem to forget about the containers that they use to deal with food. During high school years, I have cooked over a hundred meals then started to realize that my knife was not sharp enough to cut through ingredients. Since then I pay much attention to kitchenware.

For Example, nonstick pans are one of the cooking tools that almost everyone would have in their kitchens: light, easy to use, easy to clean. While they are convenient, some nonstick pans are made out of toxic chemicals coating for the nonstick surface. Teflon, a wide-use coating on pans and pots, which is made in perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), has shown in some research that it can increase the risk of high cholesterol levels, thyroid diseases, and infertility.

I would use some daily ingredients to make mini size cookware such as frying pan, stockpot, saucepan, knife and cutting board. Each kitchenware will contain or be part of a dish. Audiences would each get a different dish on the table.

Next week I would have the first try on actually making eatable kitchenwares by baking and curving. On the week 11 and 12, I would start trying the food that can go with the containers. After the preview, I would make some changes if needed.

It might be hard to do so many different dishes with different kitchenwares. I would love to make everyone a dish, which is 17. I am not sure if I can make so many pots and pans by baking because I am a bad baker. Designing different look of each one of these delicate dishes would be a challenge as well.