POSTED BY

John Brownlee

AT 8:24 AM
Tuesday July 15, 2008

Kitchen and Housewares

spoon • zing

Zing! spoon tries to perfect the art of food catapulting

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A spoon designed for food flinging. At $9.95, a wonderful idea, right? But look at that piece of broccoli. On a regular spoon, the catapult would snap to a halt thanks to the rigidity of the handle. But when you replace the handle of a spoon with a spring, the spoon head just keeps going... in this case, stopping only when it hurtles into your knuckle, bursting it like a cartilaginous, fluid-filled blister. It appears that the common spoon is already the perfectly designed food catapult. As all kids knew deep down in their souls anyway.

Zing! Spoon - A Utensil for Flinging Food [Spoon Sisters]

6 Comments

strider_mt2k

#1 – 8:43 AM July 15, 2008

Funny they'll spring Broccoli, but no one ever wants to spring for dessert. L(

Marley9

#2 – 10:32 AM July 15, 2008

Physics, Mr. Brownless, physics. Knuckles are completely safe. As Mr. Little say, Technique!

Trnck

#3 – 11:05 AM July 15, 2008

You have to see this comic.
http://i36.tinypic.com/zn0sr4.jpg

ROSSINDETROIT

#4 – 11:17 AM July 15, 2008

Oh noes! Escalation of the food wars. Next we'll have steam powered souffle trebuchets and nuclear cream pie launchers.

BethanyAnne

#5 – 12:44 PM July 15, 2008

Again, a direct link to Fred.

:-)
Bethany

Chevan

#6 – 7:41 PM July 15, 2008

That problem could easily be fixed with a piece of metal acting as a stop for the spring.

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