A designer gadget that measures spaghetti

scaught

#1 – 10:30 AM July 8, 2009

single purpose kitchen gadget. Alton Brown frowns.

Brandon West

#2 – 10:42 AM July 8, 2009

This device makes way more sense to keep around the kitch: http://www.cooking-gadgets.com/noooodle-spaghetti-measure-trivet/

Anonymous Anonymous

#3 – 10:50 AM July 8, 2009

My friend's mom referred to the pasta measuring device as the "peter meter". I can think of similar useful cases here...

haineux

#4 – 10:53 AM July 8, 2009

Does it come with its own designer-y storage case to keep it grime free? Because I'm betting it's NOT dishwasher safe.

(You COULD keep it in a zip top bag. How un-designer-y.)

But you can ALSO be ever so trendy and make your own. Bonus points for using an ellipse template.

Or you can be anal and weigh the spaghetti.

Or you can do what the unwashed proles do, and eyeball it. Sheesh.

ryuthrowsstuff

#5 – 11:25 AM July 8, 2009

As a former culinary professional I can say that this is 1) completely useless 2) likely to break after any real use.

akbar56

#6 – 12:00 PM July 8, 2009

@#1 scaught

Alton should frown upon himself for the high number of uni-taskers he still uses.

username

#7 – 12:02 PM July 8, 2009

Yup, it would definitely make you look design-y and a very much non-culinary person. More design for the sake of design rather than utility.

nehpetsE

#8 – 12:13 PM July 8, 2009

NOT single purpose at all.
You can look at people through it while opening and closing the iris and pretend your eye is a cyborg-camera.

it also might work as a cockring

nehpetsE

#9 – 12:16 PM July 8, 2009

Even if doesn't work as cockring, i think we now have a new standard for measuring the diameters of stuff.
As in "yeah, on the JOSEPHJOSEPH scale, i'm about a 5 and a half"

Bruce

#10 – 12:49 PM July 8, 2009

...or you could just use thumb and index finger for the same purpose. I allow a hole the size of a quarter per person.

Ain't opposible thumbs great?

flwombat

#11 – 1:11 PM July 8, 2009

I enjoy the designer's name, and am now wondering if he pronounces each "joseph" differently. Like, his first name is pronounced "jozeph".

And hey, maybe this design is just a prototype for a papercraftish version that will actually be built right into the spaghetti packaging.

No? They're selling the plastic on right now?

Ok that's dumb.

Zan

#12 – 1:30 PM July 8, 2009

What's wrong with cooking the whole box and putting the rest in the fridge like a normal person?

Felix Mitchell

#13 – 1:39 PM July 8, 2009

@ Zan:

Re-cooked spagetti tastes disgusting?

So how is this an improvement on the old design of a piece of plastic with different shaped holes in it?

HeatherB

#14 – 1:52 PM July 8, 2009

I'm with Felix. I don't recook my spaghetti. Not unless I want to feel like I'm eating rubber or having to add more butter or something which I just don't want to do.

Personally I don't need anything to help me measure any sort of pasta. Especially spaghetti. I've been cooking it since I was knee high to a grasshopper and it's just one of those things you can eye ball if you know what you're doing.

This gadget is to get for those type of people who either have no clue how to cook or just like kitchen gadgets.

mathew

#15 – 2:44 PM July 8, 2009

They need to do a version with goatse hands for Boing Boing readers.

geekpdx

#16 – 2:54 PM July 8, 2009

Ditch the tab, add a small motor. Then include a snap on attachment to connect it to the lens hood I use with my DSLR. And the iris should be red.

Boom.
$50, nearly useless camera accessory.
I'd buy it.

PaulR

#17 – 3:21 PM July 8, 2009

ryuthrowsstuff: Hear! Hear!

I weigh my pasta. Length varies, eh? And what if you're cooking some other shape?

O_M

#18 – 9:30 PM July 8, 2009

...Why does that thing remind me of some sort of Bris that Billy Mays would be selling to Rabbis?

Moriarty

#19 – 5:52 AM July 9, 2009

Surely it should be USB powered for some reason.

steve pick

#20 – 5:57 AM July 9, 2009

Now if this was the lid of a spaghetti length sized jar, I could see the use. Add a 0 to the meter to indicate it's closed (because it might not be obvious to many). But on it's own it's another thing to dig from the drawer.

SamSam

#21 – 6:57 AM July 9, 2009

Who weighs their pasta? A box is one pound (in the US). Half a box is half a pound. A third of a box is a third of a pound. Who needs more precision than that?

(Even better in non-Imperial countries, as a box is 500 g, and pasta is generally 100 g per person, plus 100 for the pot (though sauce-dependent). Seems more intuitive than "a fifth of a pound.")

c

#22 – 6:07 PM July 11, 2009

Does the Kinsey institute get a bulk rate discount?