Kitchen tool design

[riley gilham]

I will tweak the design a little bit

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Perhaps as

Here I just traced around a 5 lb. bag of flour. You'd have to make the device a bit smaller since the flour bag won't ever be open fully as at manufacturing but you could still get 6 cutters just a might smaller than 2" like TastyReuben was saying. View attachment 136590

Personally I'd never put the cookie cutter into the bag. I'd use the flour in the working surface to dust the cutter, or use a saucer or side plate to hold some flour.

 

[Barriehie]

Perhaps as


Personally I'd never put the cookie cutter into the bag. I'd use the flour in the working surface to dust the cutter, or use a saucer or side plate to hold some flour.

Me neither but it was mentioned in an earlier post.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I will tweak the design a little bit

As part of your design you might work out the percentage of dough that ends up as cookie from the overall shape of your combined design. That way you can justify which design creates less waste.

Also consider how easily your design works next to another one of it because you're fixing the area that can be used. A parallelogram of circles (slanted rectangle) would minimise wasted dough and give a better shape for joining to the next cut. The circle of circles isn't as easy to use with dough rolled out.

 

[Barriehie]

Search engine just turned up a triangle full of circles.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Search engine just turned up a triangle full of circles.

That's half of my suggestion!

 

[riley gilham]

can someone help with the design ?

 

[riley gilham]

I like the idea of a triangle of circles though

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

can someone help with the design ?

To be honest, the best way of learning is to play.
Make yourself some dough (it can be pastry or actually cookie dough) roll it flat (rolling pin, or a bottle of you lack a rolling on) and experiment cutting out shapes and using a circular cutter to create the cookies.

That way you'll learn what it is you're trying to improve. And if you use cookie dough, end up with cookies/ UK biscuits in the process.

I'm also away from home with only my phone, so can't use my laptop to copy and paste circles into a design which you could also try.

 

[riley gilham]

Thank you very much for your help

 

[riley gilham]

If you have any more ideas or tweaks with the idea please can u let me know , thank you again

 

[Barriehie]

To be honest, the best way of learning is to play.
Make yourself some dough (it can be pastry or actually cookie dough) roll it flat (rolling pin, or a bottle of you lack a rolling on) and experiment cutting out shapes and using a circular cutter to create the cookies.

That way you'll learn what it is you're trying to improve. And if you use cookie dough, end up with cookies/ UK biscuits in the process.

I'm also away from home with only my phone, so can't use my laptop to copy and paste circles into a design which you could also try.

SNSSO is quite right here!

 

[Z-Cook]

I could see this being an issue with the design. I’m not sure how easily your device would fit into a bag of flour.

Just needs a handle. Wouldn't dip a used cookie cutter into a clean bag of flour.

Main problem with the idea - big and cumbersome - takes up a lot of storage space, pain to clean except in a dishwasher

 

[badjak]

takes up a lot of storage space

I was thinking of that as well.
Maybe hinges, so it can store as multiple stacked rings?
Personally, I wouldn't spend any money on a cookie cutter, but I hardly ever make cookies, so I am not part of the target market

 

[Z-Cook]

Plenty of sets of cookie cutters out there, some with handles, some not. The sets are usually in different sizes that fit and store inside one another. Useful not just for cookies, good for dumpling dough and anything that needs to be cut into a disc/circle