Tools or equipment that you would like to own but perhaps have not yet been invented.

[EddieJ]

Do you have an idea for a tool or item that frustratingly hasn't perhaps yet been invented, made and marketed?

Mine is a very simple and basic idea.

I'd like to be able to own a cooking pan/pot which has segregated compartments, along the lines that the American mess tins use, but without the horrid wide divide, and also be much deeper, and must be able to comfortably hold and cook approx 1 x 400gram tin of liquid in each side.

As a simple example...I want to be able to say boil rice in one side of a pan/pot whilst cooking meat/sauce in the other, without the two food items mixing. Despite much hunting and searching around shops, a pan/pot like this doesn't seem to exist, and I'm now thinking of getting someone to weld a section across an existing pot in order that I can have one. I could join two of my Austrian army top pan sets together, but that doesn't look very neat and tidy.

I'm really posting this in the hope that someone could point me in the direction of such a pot/pan.

[JonnyP]

Do you have an idea for a tool or item that frustratingly hasn't perhaps yet been invented, made and marketed?

Mine is a very simple and basic idea.

I'd like to be able to own a cooking pan/pot which has segregated compartments, along the lines that the American mess tins use, but without the horrid wide divide, and also be much deeper, and must be able to comfortably hold and cook approx 1 x 400gram tin of liquid in each side.

As a simple example...I want to be able to say boil rice in one side of a pan/pot whilst cooking meat/sauce in the other, without the two food items mixing. Despite much hunting and searching around shops, a pan/pot like this doesn't seem to exist, and I'm now thinking of getting someone to weld a section across an existing pot in order that I can have one. I could join two of my Austrian army top pan sets together, but that doesn't look very neat and tidy.

I'm really posting this in the hope that someone could point me in the direction of such a pot/pan.

One of these do you..? Janie has one in her caravan..
http://www.ronebergcairns.com/2006on...ome06_012.html

[FishyFolk]

A teleporting device. Would save me from all that boring and tiresome walking....

[EddieJ]

Thanks JonnyP, that would be a good start.

You now just need to find me one.

[ian c]

Hi Eddie try the local charity shops or the boot fairs.

[alvino78]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Double-boi...item3a7d363cf4
OR THIS???

[alvino78]

OR THESE
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-SW...item3ccd9b26ad

[Ehecatl]

Think there's already a patent out on this --> http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20110017750

[EddieJ]

Thanks everyone, your help is appreciated.

[Bob W]

One of these do you..? Janie has one in her caravan..
http://www.ronebergcairns.com/2006on...ome06_012.html

That reminds me so much of the pressure cooker and separators in it my mother had in the late 60's early 70's. I used to use the weight (pressure regulator??) as a spinning top.