Sushi Clippers

Me and my partner both agreed that a food that is difficult to eat was sushi. In our past experience, we realized that if the quality of the sushi was not stable enough, it would tend to fall apart a lot easier. Since we wanted something that was easy to use, practical, and easy to control. We thought that making something similar to chopsticks could work, but they needed to have more stability. Therefore we thought about how clippers work, and that those have more stability than chopsticks, but are still easy to fall off.  So instead of making normal clippers and chopsticks, we decided to add more solidity. For this reason, we decided add edges to the clippers, so it holds the sushi all together.

Feedback from peers/adults:

-How do you eat the sushi when its on the clip?

-I like the idea of the sushi clippers because other people had similar problems, but yours clipped under, not on top of the sushi.

-I like how you drew 3D

-How do you grab it?

-Could it possibly be made of different materials?

When me and my partner first got back our feedback, we also asked the teacher for advice. He said that maybe it could be made from different materials and how it could be picked up easier. We realized that there were some things that could have been improved in our design. We noticed that our design wasn’t the most practical, and might be hard to use since it was just straight edges. So we had to think about solutions to help grip the sushi better. Another issues was we thought the metal might have been too slippery for the sushi to stay on the clipper, so we had to think of a way to fix that.

We used the first feedback we got, which was how to make the grip on the sushi clipper better, to make our first improved version. Which was the “Sushi clippers with teeth”. It was the same as the first design but with teeth added. We did this because a lot of cooking tools have this feature. They use the teeth to help grip the food with more stability. For our second feedback, we had to think how we would improve it might slip off the clipper. We took the last design of the sushi clippers with teeth, but the metal was wrapped in silicone. We chose to do this because since the clippers could also be used with other foods, so if the food was too hot, the silicone would help a lot.