Milano / December 2022 / 2 people team
The United Nations’s 12th goal focuses on sustainable consumption and production. At household level, the issue is relevant for two main reasons: nearly 30% of food waste comes from homes, mostly vegetables, and most people still fail to maintain an healthy diet.
Kenwood, a leading home appliance brand, aims to address this challenge by imagining a new smart product that supports better food habits, encouraging more sustainable and conscious everyday behaviours.
Initial research showed that modern, urban lifestyle is one key cause: more people live alone and have little time to spend on buying, storing, and cooking food.
1/5 A meal-prepping kit
Quadrifoglio is a meal-prepping kit that reinterprets the traditional Italian jar-cooking technique (in bain-marie) as a product–service solution designed for contemporary workers to have healthy weekly meals.
2/5 The potential of a glass jar
The concept leverage on the sealed glass jar potential, traditionally used for making jams, as a way to organise food into portions, cook it in low-temperature, keeps it sealed, and allows easy consumption at the workplace.
3/5 A dedicated appliance
This with a dedicated appliance, where the jars are cooked in a bain-marie and an app, which guide users in cooking four recipes in four jars at once, each with different timing settings and temperature.
