Convergence isn’t just for cellphones as well as cameras. The mania with cramming ever more functionality into a single device has right away taken over the kitchen and the dining room. No, it’s not the combination food-processor / dining chair. It’s a singular shaker containing cooking’s bitterest enemies, a Tom and Jerry of the tabletop: Salt’n’pepper.

This unholy cruet-combo is a work of Fred, purveyor of home accessories to the nerd-about-town (Fisticups or Salad Tools, anybody

The Switch, as it is called, features the vast switch upon a top to flip in between the stream of savory belligerent stone or the dried as well as powdered ripened offspring of the piper nigrum. Both exit through a same hole.

Now really, you should never buy such a thing. Fresh-ground peppers from a indent is so discerning as well as easy, as well as so full of a prohibited, tangy flighty oils which have prolonged since left a harshly-spiced dried of pre-ground peppers which you should never consider the dusty version. On a alternative hand, it’s so lovable!

Side note: If you’re thinking of shopping a salt-mill, don’t. The plastic millstone will wear out in no time, and because a ruin would you grub your own salt anyway? It’s a rock. It can’t dry out, or spoil. Just buy a few different sizes from a store as well as keep them in tiny bowls. Or buy the Switch, I theory, as well as keep the peppers side empty.

Pricing TBA, accessible in a 2011 “collection”.

Fred store [World Wide Fred via Oh Gizmo!]