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Design Friday: Tetras Trivets

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Chicken feet? No - trivets for your hot pot. The Tetras Trivet has six little pieces like silicone dice that you can throw down on the table and no matter which way they fall you've got a trivet for your pot. They are awfully cute - like something out of a Wallace and Gromit movie - but we wonder how well they actually work. Anyone played with these?

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Oooh it makes your pans look like Baba Yaga's hut! Scary!

posted by tin_angel on July 20th 2007 at 4:55am
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so...caltrops for the kitchen...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltrop

they're cute , but cost a lot more than a tile or a cloth potholder.

posted by jillrenee from boston on July 20th 2007 at 6:40am
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I wonder if they are stable...
They are more expensive than a tile or cloth potholder, but they are keeping a hot pan father from your table (and more importantly it's finish....

posted by sarahrae on July 20th 2007 at 8:04am
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I immediately thought Ardman Animation's "Chicken Run", too! So cute.

posted by Lisa from VA/lsaspacey on July 20th 2007 at 1:39pm
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