B. Sprout 2000, later known as the Veggie Gripper, is a cutting board inspired by my personal inability to slice brussels sprouts. B. Sprout 2000 is a small 6” x 6” bamboo board with CNC stepped divets in the center that hug your fruit/veggie, and knife lines for your knife to follow as you slice.
B. Sprout 2000 was created as a project for Peter Ragonetti's prototyping class at Pratt Institute. I went on to put B. Sprout on Kickstarter, and was funded over 200% and chosen as a "Project We Love". B. Sprout later was licensed for production by Cookduo, and is currently sold as the Veggie Gripper.
B. Sprout 2000
Year: 2016 - Current
The Sprout Scenario
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Cutting round vegetables can be hard; either (A) your fingers are too close to the knife and can result in injury (i.e., what happens when I cut round veggies), or (B), you move your fingers farther from the line of slice and the veggie rolls away.
Or take scenario (C); a user only access to mobility of one hand, and unlike myself who just has bad knife skills, the user really needs stabilization of the round vegetable to be able to slice it.
While B. Sprout didn't win any industrial design awards for the most epic class A surfacing known to man, or a marvel of G3 curvature, B. Sprout solved problems for people who didn't have a ton of options and allowed them to enjoy brussels sprouts in the same way that I do.
Thanks to Peter Ragonneti, Quan Li, Grant Ederer, Jordan Ringdahl, and all of my Kickstarter backers.