Bored Panda reached out to world-famous pie artist and published author Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin, @thepieous, for her thoughts on truly great product, tool, and packaging designs. She was kind enough to share some great insights with us that should help anyone who bakes or cooks. Check out our interview with her below!
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Design For Roommates Or Siblings
According to pie artist Jessica, your creativity is a powerful asset. You can get a lot done even if you don’t have a lot of tools and gadgets at your disposal. “When I started my career as a pie artist, the only baking tools I had at my disposal were my own two hands and a toothpick… And I am a firm believer that creativity in the kitchen is not gadget-dependant — you can make wonderful things, and have a blast doing it, with a very limited tool kit! Indeed, sometimes not having access to the right tools for the job is precisely what spurs on those wonderful discoveries, new techniques, and new baking formats,” she told Bored Panda in an email.
“All that said, as I grew in my practice and started to become more efficient as a kitchen denizen, there were a few tools and gadgets that became indispensable to me. Not because they helped me develop my creativity necessarily, but because they cut down on time, frustration, and mistakes.”#2
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Jessica shared her top 3 kitchen tools and gadgets with us:
- “A really excellent, and properly sharpened knife. Volumes have been written on the subject for anyone looking to go down the ‘good knife’ rabbit hole online, but suffice it to say, no single tool will have a greater impact on your speed, precision, safety, and—if you’re a food artist like me the level of fine detail you can achieve in your work!
- A decent food processor. If you make a lot of dough or batter and you really care about consistency between batches, a food processor is an indispensable tool. It allows you to precisely measure how much you are blending certain ingredients, and with certain fussy culinary chemical reactions, that is a critical variable to know. It also helps you keep your ingredients cold, and cuts down the time it takes to combine them, which is very handy with recipes like pie dough where the clock is ticking on the fat melting and making your dough tough.
- An oven thermometer. Knowing what temperature your oven actually is, and if it has ‘hot spots’ (if the temperature is higher in some areas of the oven than in other parts) may just be the final piece of the puzzle for anyone wondering why their bakes always turn out different from the recipe. It is rare for ovens, especially older ones, to heat precisely to the temperature on the dial in every part of the oven. If you find your dishes turn out over or underdone on occasion and you don’t know why, invest in a cheap oven thermometer! Then you can adjust the temperature up or down, or rotate your baking sheets during the bake to ensure the proper doneness.”
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The Wine Box Is Designed To Be Reused As A Birdhouse:)
