Kitchen Tasks with Power Tools

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By Laura Cochrane
Posted 2012/08/15 @ 10:00 am
Category Food & Beverage, Hacks, Tools

Jason Poel Smith demonstrates four ways to use a power drill for everyday kitchen tasks, by attaching a cheese grater, whisk, scrubbing sponge, and my favorite, a pepper mill. I get a kick out of imagining the waiter at a fancy restaurant, power drill in each hand, speedily delivering freshly ground pepper and grated cheese to restaurant patrons.

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10 Responses to Kitchen Tasks with Power Tools

Severin // tiefpunkt on August 15th, 2012 at 10:41 am said:

Some guy at our hackerspace has been doing stuff like that for a while. We made him a soup gorup after a while: http://abrockdrillingatthings.soup.io/ He once made an adapter for a meat grinder to be used with an electric drill.

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ablufia (@ablufia) on August 15th, 2012 at 10:47 am said:

the bosch corkscrew;

http://www.bosch-do-it.co.uk/ixo_vino/bosch_ixo_vino.html

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Abraham King on August 15th, 2012 at 11:33 am said:

Surely any establishment fancy enough to offer both fresh ground pepper AND grated cheese would opt for a quick-change attachment and a single drill motor!

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miroslava von schlochbaum on August 15th, 2012 at 11:52 am said:

This with nary a nod to Alton Brown? (e.g. http://www.instructables.com/id/Automatic-Pepper-Grinder/ “My inspiration for this instructable came from the show “Good Eats” with Alton Brown.”)

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Michael Colombo on August 15th, 2012 at 12:53 pm said:

In college I had a friend with a hand-turned coffee grinder. Well, you can imagine what we did to it

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Christian on August 15th, 2012 at 11:45 pm said:

Reminds me of my IXO Vino: http://www.mission-wohntraum.de/2012/07/10/bosch-ixo-vino-von-1-2-do-com/

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raster on August 16th, 2012 at 6:52 am said:

I’ve always wanted a bandsaw in the kitchen. Imaging how easy it would be to slice a loaf of bread or a frozen pizza!

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Rob Cruickshank (@robcruickshank) on August 16th, 2012 at 8:26 am said:

Spade bits at low speed are great for hollowing out vegetables. I’ve used them to make carrot-based musical instruments, but you could also make, say, a tuna-stuffed baked carrot or something equally delicious.

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lily on August 22nd, 2012 at 1:27 pm said:

Surely any establishment fancy enough to offer both fresh ground pepper AND grated cheese would opt for a quick-change attachment and a single drill motor!

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