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Cheat Sheets: Simple, Brilliant Design to Making Cooking (and Cleanup) Easier

By Rain Noe - April 23, 2020

in Food

Cheat Sheets make it easier to cook, and to clean up afterwards. As a product design, it checks all the boxes with me:

- Simple execution

- Makes a common task easier

- Eliminates hassle of clean-up

- Eliminates material waste

- Smart use of material

Cheat sheets are simply silicone dividers that nest into a standard half sheet pan or the included one, allowing you to keep ingredients separate. This means you can easily pull out different parts of the meal at different times, when you're cooking things that require it.

You also no longer have to use aluminum foil (I hate the amount we go through) nor worry about scrubbing the pan (I've given up on trying to keep mine clean).

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In addition to the design, developer Prepd released these on Kickstarter at the perfect time, when all of us are cooking at home. Which explains why they've racked up a staggering $522,442 at press time on a $10,000 goal! And there's still 28 days left to pledge.

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Nathan D.

4 years ago

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Bed Bath & Beyond could probably make a lot of money during the downtime by taking in small tour groups of Millennials and showing them all the things they really don't need to go invent again. Maybe offer ayahuasca smoothies and call them "vision quests."

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Ross Oliver

4 years ago

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The dimensions seem strange. Their sheet pan is not any US or European standard size. 4.92 inches is 150mm, and 9.85 inches is 250mm, I don't think that's a coincidence.

They make the claim, "Unlike plastics that are made from oil, silicone comes from silica which is derived from sand, the second most abundant material on earth." Yes, silica is one of the ingredients, but there's a lot of petroleum-based hydrocarbons in there as well.

Finally there is the question of food safety: https://lifewithoutplastic.com/silicone/
"We feel uneasy about silicone cookware.
While silicone is durable and has a high temperature resistance, it makes us queasy to be heating food to very high temperatures in a material like silicone which has been shown to leach chemicals and is not completely inert and stable."

So is easy cleanup worth the risk of contamination? I'll stick to glass and metal for now, and yes aluminum foil when baking fish, as that fish oil residue will never come off.

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