Some clever, unknown designer with a lasercutter figured out how to sell cutting boards to anal-retentive cooks. This Obsessive Chef Cutting Board, manufactured for novelty product company Fred and sold by the likes of Oddity Mall, is just a piece of laminated bamboo with angles, grids and measurements burned into it.
As for who it's aimed at, get a load of the copy:
"I find that celery cut at or below 3.45 inches is just too short, and therefore inedible, that's why I need to use the OCD cutting board. I can now measure all my celery strips at 3.46 inches and above and have a terrific meal of perfection."
There's also this Cheese Degrees variant.
I think this category of objects falls into "What a stupid idea (that I wish I'd thought of first)." I bet this designer's laughing all the way to the bank.
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I really wish people would stop using "OCD" to describe a quirky desire for perfection or preference for order. It's like marketing a product with "bipolar disorder" or "major depressive disorder". It makes it difficult for people who legitimately have OCD to get diagnosed and get treatment because they might not even know they have it if they only associate OCD with perfectionism like this product does. Really frustrating and a trend I'd like to see the end of. There's nothing quirky and fun about OCD.