Convergence isn’t just for cellphones and cameras. The obsession with cramming ever more functionality into a single device has now taken over the kitchen and the dining room. No, it’s not a combination food-processor / dining chair. It’s a single shaker containing cooking’s bitterest enemies, the Tom and Jerry of the tabletop: Salt’n’pepper.
This unholy cruet-combo is the work of Fred, purveyor of home accessories to the nerd-about-town (Fisticups or Salad Tools, anyone?)
The Switch, as it is called, features a large switch on the top to flip between a stream of savory ground rock or the dried and powdered fruit of the piper nigrum. Both exit through the same hole.
Now really, you should never buy such a thing. Fresh-ground pepper from a mill is so quick and easy, and so full of the hot, tangy volatile oils that have long since left the harshly-spiced desert of pre-ground pepper that you should never consider the dried version. On the other hand, it’s so cute!
Side note: If you’re thinking of buying a salt-mill, don’t. The plastic grinder will wear out in no time, and why the hell would you grind your own salt anyway? It’s a rock. It can’t dry out, or spoil. Just buy a few different sizes from the store and keep them in small bowls. Or buy the Switch, I guess, and keep the pepper side empty.
Pricing TBA, available in the 2011 “collection”.
Fred store [World Wide Fred via Oh Gizmo!]
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