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Gorenje Qube Foldable Hob Is the Laptop of Kitchens
Posted by Jesus Diaz at 12:30 AM on September 2, 2008
This is the Gorenje Foldable Qube prototype, a hob and hood system that can be hung on the wall of a small kitchen to save some serious space. It's also a kitchen-to-go: "You can take it with you anywhere--just like a laptop", told me the IFA booth laeedee. You know, for those very special times in which you need to cook anywhere else in the house but the kitchen:
This is the Gorenje Foldable Qube prototype, a hob and hood system that can be hung on the wall of a small kitchen to save some serious space. It's also a kitchen-to-go: "You can take it with you anywhere--just like a laptop", told me the IFA booth laeedee. You know, for those very special times in which you need to cook anywhere else in the house but the kitchen:
• It's friday. You arrive home. You are drunk, like always. You have a Great Idea that, most probably, you will repent about the next morning. Knowing that you will spend the whole day in bed next saturday, you think about bringing the Qube foldable hob next to your bed, along with some bacon and eggs. You know, for brunch. You wake up on saturday with your face and chest covered with eggs, bacon in your underpants, olive oil on your hands, and a strange tingling sensation up your pooper. You repent. You don't want to know. You vow it will never happen again.
• It's friday. The next friday. You arrive home and you are drunk again. And hungry. You feel like banana pancakes. But you also feel like having a bath because you stink like a skunk dead from an overdose of MDMA and caipirinhas. Not knowing what to do, you go to the kitchen to get your Qube foldable hob, some bananas, pancake mix, maple syrup, and whipped cream to the bathtub. You wake up in the cold water next morning, two dozen pancakes floating on a mixture of water, maple syrup, and whipped cream. You can see last week's underpants lying on the floor, still with bacon in them. You notice the same tingling sensation, but you can't find any sign of the bananas. You repent again. A lot.
So maybe, the foldable hob to go thing is not such a good idea. Hanging it on the wall of a small kitchen, however, is a brilliant idea.
Gorenje Qube Fridge and Oven
They also had three beautiful stand-alone kitchen appliances in the same line--fridge and ovens--that are designed to be placed anywhere in your kitchen and easily moved around, like any piece of furniture. See them in video after the jump.
Gorenje Qube Top Oven
Unfortunately, these four kitchen appliances are still just prototypes. We were told the products will come to the market, but maybe not soon enough for me to install the wall-mounted Qube in my new apartment in New York. That if I can find an apartment before I leave at the end of this month. [More IFA 2008 Coverage]
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Kitchen appliances
Posted September 3, 2008 2:21 AM
How kitchen appliances have changed in the last decade. Imagine if you could show these to your Grandma 50 years ago...
I like the idea but the using a hob when drunk scenario seems a bit silly!
acekrn
Posted 1:21 AM 2/9/08
this is only useful for entrepreneurs who don't have time to cook at home. I don't see this lifting off anytime soon
acekrn
Pokeysticks
Posted 1:17 AM 2/9/08
This definitely started my day of right. Friggen hilarious!
Good work Jesus.
Pokeysticks
robpruitt
Posted 1:06 AM 2/9/08
"It's friday. You arrive home. You are drunk, like always. You have a Great Idea that, most probably, you will repent about the next morning. Knowing that you will spend the whole day in bed next saturday, you think about bringing the Qube foldable hob next to your bed, along with some bacon and eggs. You know, for brunch. You wake up on saturday with your face and chest covered with eggs, bacon in your underpants, olive oil on your hands, and a strange tingling sensation up your pooper. You repent. You don't want to know. You bow it will never happen again."
Seriously, WTF?
robpruitt
Reverov
Posted 1:00 AM 2/9/08
BJÖRKUDDEN!
Reverov
Redwraithvienna
Posted 1:43 AM 2/9/08
Crazy slovenians ... but i really love their stuff ...
Redwraithvienna
Bob1967
Posted 1:48 AM 2/9/08
What no ipod dock, PAH, you waste my time!!
Bob1967
yogibimbi
Posted 2:21 AM 2/9/08
@Wess: give that man a break! It's their job to make a potential customer feel attractive. Sex sells.
yogibimbi
Wess
Posted 2:08 AM 2/9/08
I think that that girl was into you just like the Toshiba lady.
Wess
Jesus Diaz
Posted 2:45 AM 2/9/08
@yogibimbi: actually, it's my natural sex appeal. Some women like monkeys like me.
Jesus Diaz
kidlucrative
Posted 3:07 AM 2/9/08
@robpruitt: It's an inside joke for those of us who have woken up in bed with food everywhere with a plot line surprisingly close to this. There can't be too few of us...
kidlucrative
Purple Dave
Posted 3:34 AM 2/9/08
For the majority of us, a "hob" appears what we would know as a cooktop or stovetop (i.e. a stove/range without the lower oven portion).
Purple Dave
dysthymia
Posted 3:47 AM 2/9/08
"you cook on top of here" he asked
"yeah, of course" she said, but in reality she wanted to say "or you can hold me, sit me on top and you can kiss me all you want, I am your main dish tonight milove, C'MON DO IT!
dysthymia
KarinDiscoGirl
Posted 4:09 AM 2/9/08
@Jesus Diaz: That was stunning. I thank you, sir. And yes, some of us do like monkeys like you.
KarinDiscoGirl
pobox90210
Posted 4:55 AM 2/9/08
LOL. Whilst you're all thinking what you're thinking because you're of that age, I'm thinking "Danger Will Robinson".
Pre-schoolers will no doubt play under there.
"Warning. Warning. Warning!"
pobox90210
vgart
Posted 6:26 AM 2/9/08
thats HOT
vgart
cyberscribe
Posted 7:22 AM 2/9/08
What the hell is a "hob" ??
cyberscribe
urbanturban666
Posted 7:28 AM 2/9/08
nice!!! great for small kitchens...rearange it with ease, if you dont like where the stove is just swap it with the fridge...
urbanturban666
TheLostVikings
Posted 8:55 AM 2/9/08
Rofl, great writing as always. Complete non sequiturs like this is why we all <3 the Giz.
TheLostVikings
Swarlanis
Posted 9:36 AM 2/9/08
I laughed so hard, I thought I was gonna pass out. Great writing.
Swarlanis
FritzLaurel
Posted 12:44 PM 2/9/08
I like how they advertise that the refrigerator is an "American style with two drawers" when I've never seen anything like that in a typical American kitchen. In my friend's high-end $3.5M house, yes, they have extra refrigeration drawers in their 12 foot long kitchen island. But amenities in high-end homes in America are usually advertised to be "European styled." Oh, the irony.
FritzLaurel
Redwraithvienna
Posted 4:43 PM 2/9/08
@FritzLaurel:
Normally an American fridge here is a free standing fridge with no deep freeze compartment.
so nop idea why this is called an "american fridge" ...
Redwraithvienna
ps61318
Posted 1:32 AM 3/9/08
@cyberscribe: Calvin's friend the stuffed tiger.
No, really, it's a British word for "cooktop" or "range" or "stove". A cooking surface with burners and so on.
ps61318