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Kitchen Envy: ChopChop's Workbench Inspired Design

By erika - May 12, 2014

in Homeware

Photos by Patric Dreier

If there's one thing that'll ruin meal-making—no matter how many glasses of wine you've had to counteract any frustration or how loud you've got the cooking tunes playing—it's an disorganized prep space. Well, a lack of space might be worse, but there are ways to deal with that if you've got the cash (Häfele's transformable kitchen/dining areas are a good example). The ChopChop Kitchen from Berlin-based industrial designer Dirk Biotto has given me a major case of kitchen envy. ChopChop might doesn't come off as simple as the minimalistic kitchen islands of late, but this might be why I'm so drawn to it. The complete dedication to functionality is honorable—and its got a workbench vibe going that leaves little to dislike.

Cooking even the simplest of things can be a challenge when you really think about all of the tools, ingredients and steps that go into preparing a meal. Specifically, Biotto took elderly and disabled chefs into consideration when designing ChopChop, which focuses on keeping everything in sight and easily grabbed.

My favorite part: the wall-side peg board that can be customized to hold your most-used cooking utensils for easy access. A close second is the milled slot in the wooden work surface, which makes slicing bread and other ingredients easy and (more or less) mess-free. The design also features a built-in grater and collection drawer as well as a sloped sink area for pulling heavy pots and pans into and out of the cleaning area.

Instead of hiding your dinnerware and cooking tools like a lot of kitchen designs would be quick to do, ChopChop encourages busting it all out with ample display space on the perforated backboard—which essentially kicks hand-drying to the curb. Check out more work from Biotto on his website.

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Mark the Maker

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Well, to me it looks truly amazing. The wooden work surface looks very nice and @Evan, if after a few years, it doesn't look all that great anymore, you can just sand it down and put on another finish, so it should last you many many years.

Actually, I have never ever replaced my wooden chopping boards, when they get very worn out... sand and refinish.
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Scott

10 years ago

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Wow, seems everyone is a critic.
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Evan

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First off, let me just say that that grating drawer thing seems like it would make it several times harder to keep this thing clean. I can just see my anal perfectionist self standing there with a tooth pick or pocket knife cleaning out the grime from the corners of that drawer(old cheese, carrots, etc).

Not to mention the cheese grater itself is going to be a hard thing to replace 10 or so years down the line when it rusts, gets blunt or lost(most of these can be solved with making it out of quality material) and this product has been discontinued for 5 or so years.

I really don't get the vice grip thing to the side of the second(one on the right) table.

The things I am unsure of are the wooden counter top material, I get the utility but I can just imagine after 10 or so years I'm going to have to or really want to replace such a surface, most people certainly replace their wooden chopping boards more often. Another thing that I love/hate is the sink. Yes its wonderfully wide, I love wide sinks, narrow sinks are one of my biggest gripes with kitchen design. But then its shallow as heck, and I fail to see how I'm going to clean a big stock pot in that sink.

I do love the pegboard however, and the utilitarian Bauhaus aesthetic really is beautiful here.
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