Cookit

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Cookit 強調兒童食物教育，並相信接觸料理對孩子的重要。提供一套讓孩子在家做料理的工具及方法，使孩子體會料理的樂趣，並從中探索自己的能力，讓兒童料理成為不只是培養親子關係的活動。

Cookit emphasizes on food education, and we believe in the importance of kids’ cooking. We offer a new way and designed tools for kids to cook at home. To give them a chance to experience the joy of cooking, and to discover their own ability within. Make the idea of kids’ cooking not only to build up the parent-child relationship.

設計背景 Design Background

料理這件事，不只是專屬於大人，孩子也需要接觸料理。許多研究及案例顯示，讓孩子從小開始做料理有很多好處，如食物認知、五感發展、手眼協調及增進生活技能等。而兒童的食物教育在近幾年受到重視，像是英國、日本等國家分別都成立了食物教育的相關法規，強調學習料理在兒童教育中的必要，希望孩子在製作料理的過程中，學會認識食物、珍惜食物。可惜在台灣，這樣的風氣並不盛行，加上現有的產品無法滿足兒童料理的需求，多數兒童很少有機會接觸料理。

Cooking is not just for adults, kids also need to start cooking. There are a lot of research and examples stating that it is beneficial for kids to start cooking at a young age, they can gain food knowledge, develop the five senses, train their hand-eye coordination, and learn a life skill. Kids’ food education continues to gain attention throughout the years, and countries such as England and Japan have even established regulations towards food education. They emphasize on the necessity of including learning to cook into child education, and they urge kids to learn more about food and to cherish food. However, this is not a common practice in Taiwan. Also, existing products cannot truly fit the needs for kids to cook. Hence, most of the kids in Taiwan rarely have the opportunity to try cooking.

產品特色 Features

人因、尺度 human factors and measurements / 色彩對應功能 colors with functions

將不使用的功能板翻成背面並放置在較遠處，使用中的功能板靠近自己，使孩子專心在正在使用的備料區域。

Place the board that you want to use close to yourself, and the other one upside down at the further end, to make the kids more focused on the area in use.

刀子側面實體化的下刀路徑，直覺學習正確下刀動作；刀背上寬下窄設計，方便在切較大塊體食材時以剖開的方式降低下刀阻力。搭配切功能板的切片指示，提供切食材時的引導以及手眼協調的訓練。

A guideline on the side of the knife, to guide the kids to use the proper motion to chop, while the printed lines on the chopping board provides a guide to slice, also enhancing the training of hand-eye coordination.

削與刨皆為平放橫向操作，改變傳統多方向施力易發生危險的缺點。立體功能板提供適當方向阻力使操作更穩定。

Peeling and grating with horizontal motions reduce the danger that might be caused by the traditional multi-direction motions, and the corresponding chopping board offers more stability.