Thursday, 19 August 2010

• A Solution For Unwilling Dishwashers: Finding Edibility in Everything

  
  

  (via Jelloware)

  I love food. I love tasting, peeling, cutting, chopping, seasoning, smelling, and doing other fine aspects of the cooking activity. Except washing the dishes. Thus, it is no surprise when I find myself gravitating towards the edible plates and cups and utensils that have recently popped up in the "Let's Live Greenly" campaign. Don't like the sponge? Here's a solution: edible cups! Not only does it make unwilling dishwashers like myself happy, these alternatives to paper and plastic make the world a tiny bit greener, a la better. 

   

  I suppose the actual "edibility" in these products are somewhat embellished; biodegradability seems to be the more fitting term. You can most certainly eat these containers that hold your food, but I'm guessing that they won't be the best tasting things ever. The cup shown above is made out of agar, a nearly tasteless gelatin substance. Jelloware, the company of the cup above, has recommended consumers to throw their finished cups outside, where the cups will eventually dissolve into helpful nutrients for grass and other vegetation. 

  There are other serious companies like NVYRO, which uses starch from corn and potatoes to make their forks, knives, cups, dishes, and bowls. Again, the tastiness factor might be far from the equation but at least you have the option, am I right?

  I think making edible plates are an interesting way to "help" the environment (although reusing glass plates might be an even better way to save our world). But as a food junkie, I'm actually interested in the development of creating dishware that stand in their own right as delicious foods; something like the classic waffle cone or bread bowl for your soup.

   

  

  (via UniqueDaily)

  The picture above shows an even closer solution to creating awesome edible plates (I believe the answer lies with bread) that an Italian inventor Tiziano Vicentini came up. 

  If you are an inventor, genius, chemist, or smart person, I really think you should look into this. It'll be interesting to see cuisine on top of an equally delicious plate, blurring the distinction of what is edible for the eater. 

  Some questions to mull over:

  What do you think about edible dishware? Will we see more from this relatively new market? Are there any well established and regarded food-plate out there?

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