The Eatensil puts all the tools an English glutton needs into one hard-to-use package
This is the Eatensil, a multitool for fast food. Currently being hawked to manufacturers by British takeaway (takeout) website Just Eat, the tool is obviously designed to tackle British-style takeout, but I’d argue that the idea is flawed from the beginning, whichever country it is designed for.
The oversized Swiss-Army-Knife style tool includes a knife, a fork and a spoon, a beer-bottle opener, a pizza wheel, chopsticks and a small wooden fork for eating fish and chips (which is totally the best way to eat fish and chips). In short, everything you need for an impromptu meal (unless you prefer wine).
But who would use this? First, every takeout comes with its own utensils. Even pizza can be pre-sliced at the restaurant. If you’re going to carry knives and forks, why not carry real ones? Also, you can only use one tool at a time. How would you use a knife and fork together, for example?
And the inclusion of the disposable wooden chip-fork and chopsticks seems gimmicky at best. Are you really going to wipe these clean and reuse them? Which brings us onto washing this whole unhygienic mess. Finally, the small, easy-to-wield wooden fork has its entire point undermined when saddled with this giant handle.
Then again, it may just be a publicity stunt to drum up some extra hits for Just Eat, in which case it has been perfectly designed. And in which case it will probably never be made, a boon to the world’s resources of plastic, metal and cheap splintery wood.
Eatensil becomes ultimate cutlery for take away fans [Pocket Lint via Oh Gizmo]
See Also:
- Trinacrina Cutlery Cuts Three Ways
- 1800-Year-Old Roman Multitool
- Chopula, The Pun-Tastic Chopping Spatula
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