Friday, December 16, 2011

Shitty Design #2



Supposedly this was a well designed food processor that can do many things: dice, puree, chop. It has a large bowl, nice blade and a safe, functional shoot to insert the food. The problem is that the lip that holds the blade only goes up about an inch leaving the next 4 inches of the container unusable. This thing isn't supposed to make soup? What? When you take almost any food and blend it, what happens? It becomes soupy. Most food has water in it: fruits, veggies and when you chop them they are going to liquify. Even if you are only wanting to dice instead of liquify, suppose you want to make some bread crumbs. Guess what, the bread crumbs more than an inch high still fall through the hole. They do so at a slower rate than pure soup but still. The illusion that this thing can work with no more than a quarter of what it the volume of its design appears to indicate is continually frustrating to use.

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