Jonathan Banton of the UK designed this contraption, which sits atop your cooking veggies or pasta, and captures the water vapor and steam produced to hydrate the growing plants.
The Eco-Cooker was a popular post on our site using the same principle of recycling steam. Looking at the gadget we figured this would be a pretty easy DIY to copy and made our own eco-cooker.
The Osmos, as named by its designer, captures the heat and water wastefully escaping your cooking pot and puts it back to use to grow herbs, grass, etc.
Osmos brings together a number of future issues in a practical design whilst introducing style, sophistication and education into the dining environment. With its special core Osmos absorbs and retains all wasted steam and heat, recycling it into greenery of your choice; herbs, garnish, cress, grass. After cooking, Osmos can be placed on a dining table as a thought provoking tableware piece, whilst providing fresh healthy nibbles. By 2015 saving energy and water, educating our children on natural products will be key worldwide cultural themes, Osmos effectively supports these. Of bone china construction, Osmos displays contemporary looks combined with sound ecological design and an ideal conversational piece.
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That’s awesome! I’d totally buy that if you could. Can you??? My kids would love to have herbs growing on top of their spaghetti noodles!
I may be showing my horticultural ignorance but wouldn’t that cook (& subsequently kill) the vegetation you are trying to grow? I guess it would be good for really really fresh steamed veggies!
The Device was designed to only be used for shot periods, as the amount of water needed to hydrate such some plant life is relatively small.
It was also was designed with the advancement in materials by 2015 (as per the Breif) so the core would be able to deflect heat but absorb water vapour.