EAT

Most of my ideas relating to 'eat' were generated by the most common food struggles.

1) Imagine retrieving a whole heap of bubblegum without having to spend a single penny! Simply by turning the doorknob or pulling on the door handle will eject hundreds of bubblegum in many different colours that will essentially pop out of the door handle. Where did they all come from? It could be magic, or maybe there is a lifetime supply stacked within the door. I feel like the rotations when turning a door handle is similar to the gumballs travelling down the spiral of a gumball machine after the money has been inserted.

2) Spare ribs are another very messy food where the hands and the face are guaranteed to get smothered in BBQ sauce. There should be a device where this activity of eating spare ribs can be made hands-free. Two hand stands built to hold a spare rib, one hand pinching one end and one end of the baby finger from the other hand touching the other end of the spare rib. By simply pressing on the nails of the hands you can adjust the speed of the rotation of the rib, enabling you to reach all areas of the rib. The hand stands (not the somersault) would be designed to lock the rib in place with minimal contact with the fingers, demonstrating the gesture of how people hold spare ribs- using the fingertips. The hand holding the rib with the end of the baby finger would be positioned in this way so that the palm of the hand is exposed and the palm would contain a built-in compartment for lemon scented wipes so that when the rib eating is complete the mouth can be wiped.

3) Don't you find it terribly frustrating how jam doughnuts bleed with a pool of jam after one bite and the jam goes everywhere? Conversely there could be a ridiculously small blob of jam where you keep biting and biting and waiting for more jam to ooze out but it just doesn't. Jam is always so unevenly distributed in jam doughnuts, it's either going to be too intense or way too little and so nobody is ever satisfied. To solve this within the dough there should be small droplets of jam dotted inside like how chocolate chips or blueberries are positioned in muffins. No mess. And the jam is gently and consistently incorporated.

4) Muffins have issues too! After biting the top off the base of the muffin gets so crumbly to the point where you are having to bury your face in the muffin case. After pressing the base of the muffin case, from underneath, the base should elevate to your mouth like a little plate so that it is easier to consume all that muffin debris.

5) I find that I am constantly eating random spoonsful of Nutella on its own. What if Nutella was packed in a lip-gloss style jar but instead of having the lip applicator there would be a little tiny spoon at the end.  Hence whenever you are craving a bit of Nutella you could apply some to your tongue and let it melt away, this could also be your 'emergency Nutella'. The aesthetics of the lip-gloss bottle would be identical to the original Nutella jar; the white corrugated screw top, the transparent glass revealing the hazelnut goodness and the classic label.

6) Nut allergy sufferers must be so cautious when eating out because the contamination of food means that there could be traces of nuts in anything, especially with foods in foreign countries or unknown food labels sometimes it is difficult to trust certain foods. A nut detector would be so helpful. A bit like the system of a metal detector however the detector would be a pistachio nut where the shell would open if the food contains nuts and would remain closed if the food was nut-free.