7 Slicing Kitchen Gadgets Tested by Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

Just how effective is the Slap Chop? Can it be improved? Design and usability expert Dan Formosa takes a look at some common kitchen gadgets, rates them, and attempts to improve their designs.

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7 Slicing Kitchen Gadgets Tested by Design Expert | Well Equipped | Epicurious

[Matt-bktl]

**Goes to car dealership**
Dan: can I test drive this car?
Employee: Sure.
Dan: **oils up hands** Time for the left handed oil test.

[shoka_]

“Companies would come to me and they would describe to me their ‘average consumer‘ or their ‘average user’ and I would say ‘that’s great, but I don’t care about the average person, I need to know the people who are weakest and strongest, I need to know the tallest and shortest, I need to understand the spectrum.”

This. This is brilliant. More people should think like this.

[Naveication]

"So my solution for this would be to go to Japan where they sell square water melons"
Genius.

[efforterror]

3:22 "There are as many younger people as older people that have arthritis when you actually look at the demographics." FINALLY someone older doesn't say 'you're too young to have this problem'

[tamaralevi]

"My solution, go to japan, and get a square watermelon"


Me: "Oh, thats it?"

[synonymous_]

Where the hell did you find such a charismatic kitchen utility designer??

[Boombocks_Studio]

"Now I am going to some corn"

Dad humor: 5/5

[gavanscorner]

I literally thought he said "Hi I'm Dad" and I just accepted it

[gracet]

*corn stripper falls off the table*


dan: *staring at it* "oH tHaTs sO sAd!!!"




edit- wow 3.3k likes ?! tyyy <3

[jamesholmes]

I love how he said on the clever cutter "this product would have been better if the people designing it considered: 1 - thinking"

[neelkii]

Watermelon Slicer: Doesn’t work on round watermelons
The guys solution: Go to Japan

[OptimusPhillip]

I remember seeing the Slap Chop commercial, and they actually made a selling point out of the fact that it "automatically skins onions". Classic infomercial "It's not a flaw, it's a feature!" Logic

[colebaldwin]

Mom: Why are u making a mess and pulling all our utensils out??

Me: TIME FOR THE OILY HANDS TEST

[Ocelot]

wtf is this. i'd definitely watch this guy if he had a whole show of his own

[stardustcheng]

In terms of enjoyable personality, I would give you a 5/5, extremely likable.

[cz]

POV you’ve been friends with him for a while but after a dinner party where u got a little bit too tipsy you find a slap chop in the mail from him the next day. He doesn’t really like u.

[conchas]

This guy should have his own YouTube channel, I want more videos like this

[Laife]

Why did this appear in my recommended and why did I then watch the entire thing

[oscarsox]

Got sad at all that pineapple juice that he poured out

[strangety]

Imagine getting g a gift from this guy and watch the video then you find out he doesn't like you