ELECTRONIC CHEESE MILL

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Design Task - Cole and Mason Electronic Cheese Mill

Objective:

To bring to launch an Electronic Cheese Mill with an effortless and easy to use way of grating Cheese. With All parts are stored together safely and would not get lost. Premium product where the Quality of design and materials gives value perception from price. A choice of Shave, medium and coarse blades. Blades should deliver consistent quality, size and quantity of throughput.

The product should be “easy to hold” and to use and Having grated cheese it should not leave mess on the table. Being a table top item it should contain good size of Food Chamber, but still be aestheticaly pleaseing for using in different situations.

Must Have:

Easy to clean / wash (if not Dishwasher proof); Window to view quantity of cheese in the chamber; Ability to serve 4-6 people with cheese without the need to refill (approx 90g parmesan cheese); Wiper to scrape off cheese from the underside of the blades; A good sound to the Electronic unit; Ability to store the food section in the fridge if not all the cheese is used;

Should output a serving (15g) in approx 5 secs (approx 3 circular rotations);

Nice to Have:

Able to use on Chocolate and Nuts

All regulatory and other requirements here – including market specific, 5 year warranty against product failure, breakage of parts and corrosion; All materials to be EU and FDA complaint.
Product to be sold worldwide.

Initial Sketching

Design Development

Design Solution

One of the key features of this project was to simplify the act of grating the cheese.

Beyond the ease of use brought by the motorized mechanism, the choice of blades allows the user to get 2 different textures of grated cheese.

The main chamber comes with a cap for the user to store the unused cheese in the fridge.

The stand of the mill acts as a recipient to avoid cheese falling on the table and is also shaped to host the remaining blade in order to keep everything tidy.

Final Product

Cole and Mason Electronic Cheese Mill With razor-sharp stainless steel blades inside, this battery-powered cheese mill takes all the effort out of using hard cheeses as an ingredient and you can even grate a quantity in advance for serving with a meal and store in the fridge thanks to the freshness cap. Perfect for Parmesan on pasta dishes at the table, it comes with a handy tray to prevent mess.

Apart from the battery compartment, everything is dishwasher safe and there’s a spare blade included too.