FRED & Friends makes quirky, playful, family-friendly products for the table and the kitchen, and they are always one of the first places I visit at the Housewares Show. They are a friendly bunch of people, too, with well-developed senses of humor. Here are a few new things from this year — all playful and a little silly, and awfully fun for the kitchen.
None of these things are going to revolutionize your kitchen, but they may bring a bit of whimsy in.
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• 1 OCD Chef Cutting Board - If you really care about your 1/2-inch dice this might the right board for you. (Nice for pastry, too.)
• 2 Yumbots - Silicone cups for square cupcakes. Hello there, robot-themed birthday party.
• 3 Lunch Bugs - Stay away, lunch bag thief. There's a bug in this bag.
• 4 More little silicone cups. Usually I'm not so into silicone bakeware, but these are just so fun and vibrant in person. They would be good for more than just baking — think of serving pudding in them!
• 5 Hatched - Fabulously big and solid ice cubes (for truly good cocktails) come from this silicone mold with chickens on the other side. Chickens hatching egg ice cubes — get it?
Related: Fill Up Your Brain: Equal Measure Cup from FRED
(Images: Faith Durand)
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Those sandwich bags! Ew! I think the power of suggestion might work for my own sandwiches and I wouldn't want to eat them! :)
Why isn't there a link to the OCD Chef board. So cute, & useful.
omg, I will be buying the OCD chef board when it's available. lol!
If I gave in to buying every FRED thing I've ever seen and loved, I'd have not a centimeter of counter or cabinet space left.
Everything they do is so fun and funny!
OCD is pretty misunderstood (and will continue to be so), judging by (and thanks to) this product. I'd be ashamed to have it in my house the same time as my friends with actual, diagnosed, medicated & managed obsessive-compulsive disorder.
I like the design, but I wish it were called the Drafter's Cutting Board.
Good call, @Nora Rocket.
That cutting board takes me back to my days hovering over a cutting mat in studio. NEVER AGAIN. I'm pretty sure cooking is supposed to be more fun than that!
How did I know that there would be a comment on the name of the board?? Oh well...
I love Fred stuff. Their matryoshka measuring cups and spoons are so popular here in Australia. The sandwich cake pan on their website is pretty cool.
Awesome products. These look like they would be so much fun to have in my
Tee hee! My (actually diagnosed) OCD husband saw the cutting board and said "Awesome! That would help me so much! How much is it?"