TEMPlate
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TEMPlate is a temperature controlled ceramic dinner plate that can be removed from the oven or microwave with your hands after being exposed to heat for long durations of time. It remains cool to the touch around the rim and underside, whilst heating quickly in the center of the plate to keep food hotter for longer.
The plate is beneficial to the everyday market and can be especially relevant to restaurants, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, children, elderly and disabled people (including people with arthritic and dexterity problems and visual impairments).
TEMPlate won last years Inclusive Worlds category in the RSA design awards and we now have UK and PCT patents pending that cover the idea through to mugs, bowls and baking trays as well as the original plate.
It is currently exhibiting in the Product Concept section of this years Ideal Home Show. Please click on the web link below and scroll to the bottom. Your vote could help us to win funding, which would allow us to finish creating a working prototype with a view to manufacturing and retailing TEMPlate on the high street in the next two years.
| by: Mandy and Sarah licence: tags: plate bowl mug ceramics INCLUSIVE temperature |
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That’s an amazing idea, what inspired you to come up with that? That is one of those inventions that you look at and think, why didn’t I come up with that. You got my vote great work.
MattG
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Thanks Matt, always great to get feedback :)
Mandy
Hello Mandy,
Some constructive critique: I’m a former chef. In some ways this design solves a “problem” that we don’t consider to be a problem. For example, we want food to go out on hot plates. They should arrive at the table hot. It is considered a serious breach of protocol to serve a hot meal on a cool or cold plate. I understand that your plate keeps the food hot in the center, but the patron needs to feel the hot plate. In other words, the hot plate is by design and user experience, not necessarily necessity. I’ve also purchased dish ware for restaurants. Anything that would raise the cost of the piece is multiplied by thousands, i.e. if your plate is $1 more than other plates because of it’s unique manufacturing requirements, I’ll be purchasing 1,000 of them and therefore I need to justify the outlay of the extra money. People in the business, cooks, chefs, professional waiters already know that the plates are hot. That is why we all carry towels and or aprons. As a purchaser I wouldn’t go for it.
This is just a perspective from the restaurant side. This design has many uses and applications. Well done.