No more crouching in the kitchen – Cutting boards for tall people

gadgets and gizmos, products | February 5, 2010 | By

Cutting boards for tall people

I’m short. Really short. Not midget-short, but under 5 foot short. I simply don’t have this problem, and on the contrary, I have the opposite. I need step stools to reach things, I climb cabinets, and I have to use a cutting board on the table because it’s too awkward to try to cut on it on the cabinet.

So I can relate, but in an opposite way. Because of that, I think this is freakin’ awesome. How often do you even think about a countertop being too high or low? Most of us don’t even have it cross our minds, and the ones that do find things a little awkward, just deal with it without thought.

Now while it might not be that common for women to be so tall that they have to crouch that much to slice, dice, and chop things…..what about all those men out there, too, who tower over counters, too?

Such a simple tool for such a simple problem…..but I’ve never seen this cutting board for taller people before.

Can I put it right on the rack?

images, other sites, pictures, pizza | February 3, 2010 | By

Strangely specific questions
My feed reader is filled with tons of sites I follow, and a decent chunk of them are food/cooking sites. Serious Eats is one of them and a few weeks ago, the above picture was posted.

I wonder how specific a question has to be in order for it to make it into the list of questions. Then again maybe if ovens came with the same sort of FAQs, this would never have happened:

Don’t drink and drive – Phone home instead!

images, pictures | February 1, 2010 | By

If you go beyond your limit, please don't drive.

Liquid intake often goes hand-in-hand with eating, so you get this great drinking and driving public service announcement here. When you make alcohol your choice drink, just don’t drive. Duh.

Thanks, E.T.!