Mo
Mo is a sustainable millstone that developed from a traditional millstone but is more accessible to the modern kitchen. It encourages people to enjoy grinding food with human energy and contemplate where the power of electronic devices comes from.
Nowadays, people already take electric machines for granted, yet rarely question where this energy coming from. To encourage people to invest their human energy in grinding foods, I redesign the traditional millstone and make it more accessible to modern life.
Simple connections between the wood and stone
make it easier to renew the stone discs after long-time use.
The wood cannot be glued with the stone tightly because of consistent twist force. Therefore, I designed two types of connecting slots between the wood and the stone to make them drive each other easily.
The wood parts are made by a CNC machine.
Cause the millstone was scaled-down on my design,
carving these thin edges on the wood is cheaper and easier than on the stone.
The grinding discs are made from the discarded SLATE stone in the countertop market. These patterns were carved by hand angle grinders.
The scenario of grinding the rice.
The outcome of making soybean milk and tofu.
The sound of grinding the rice is very healing.
With the encouragement of workshop teachers,
I carved the grinding patterns by myself with hand angular grinders.
Also, I learned how to use the CNC machine to carve woods.
To provide a smoother user experience, the teacher suggested that
the handle should rotate by itself and guide me to improve its structures.
Special thanks to the expert in Zaar Stone AB, who gave me a lot of professional suggestions about stone carving.
