Kitchen Tools For the Blind

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Tools for the kitchen have been evolving for decades, with ever-smarter gadgets and devices to help us cook with ease. Implements for the blind, however, haven’t evolved very much, making cooking a much more laborious and dangerous job. When you can’t see, there’s much more danger in simple tasks like chopping, cutting, boiling, and baking.  Folks Kitchenware is hoping to change that with their innovative line of products that were developed directly alongside blind participants.  The results are a series of simple yet ingenious tools that are safer, more intuitive, and more ergonomic for users.

Check out the huge and exhaustive page on Folks Kitchenware on their Behance page.

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This kitchen knife has a plastic guard that protects hands until you’re read to cut and chop.

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This simple yet clever tray clips onto a cutting board, making for a clean transfer of ingredients, without having to hunt around with hands.

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This ring sits on a gas stove and has terraced edges to let someone who can’t see feel when their pot is stable.

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A bobber type device attaches to a spoon, and floats to the top when liquid is poured, giving tactile feedback so that spills and burns are avoided.

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cooking tools for the blind // moss and fog

Exhaustive sketches and designs for Folks Kitchenware

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