NEKA^®

In the NEKA^® project, Pakhalé revisits the hand-operated kitchen appliance, applying recent developments in materials and manufacturing techniques. The human effort required to use NEKA^® objects is significantly less than that needed for traditional hand-operated kitchen appliances. The project offers a sensorial and efficient way of preparing food, with minimum components that are easy to clean. NEKA^® addresses the current awareness about healthy living and the environment. It is designed to encourage cooking as social cohesion – as a basic act of living, with an awareness of healthy food preparation and preservation as a family activity that instills an element of self-sufficiency.

Design study exploring various configurations of the handle grip and the rotating crank mechanism

Satyendra Pakhalé: “The challenge in this project was not only to innovate the working mechanism of the way the NEKA^® objects work – technically as well as poetically but above all how wider masses could accept the slow cooking and doing things manually.  Somewhat ironically now as we go through Covid-19 crisis such ideas are taken more seriously understanding the innate values of aware living.”

NEKA^® handle and grip study

Studying and learning from the ageold non-electric kitchen tool