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A fork made of spuds

an assortment of spudwareAt a recent outdoor wedding reception (the same one that served the faux meat), I found myself standing around talking and eating the ice cream cake that was dessert. A friend was stirring a cup of coffee with a disposable spoon and when she pulled it out of the cup she discovered that the spoon had started to melt in the heat of the liquid. It turns out that it was a compostable utensil made from corn. Good for the environment but not so good for hot beverages.

However, it looks like the newest biodegradable disposable cutlery out there might have withstood the heat a little bit better. Spudware is made from 80% potato starch and 20% soybean oil and takes but half a year (180 days) to break down. It's a little spendier than traditional plastic utensils, running $20 for a set of 50 forks, spoons and knives. If you're interested, you can get it here.

Via Josh Spear

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Filed Under: Business, Ingredients, New Products
Tags: biodegradable, compostable, disposable cutlery, Josh Spear, potato starch, spudware, vegetables

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Hillary

10-18-2007 @5:44PM Hillary said... Wow - who would have thought we'd ever get to making our utensils out of edibles. Very, very interesting.
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Reginae

10-18-2007 @10:10PM Reginae said... Corn spoons? Great. Now I have to read the ingredients on utensil packages, too?
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Robert

10-18-2007 @10:56PM Robert said... The potato and corn utensils are not edible, they are broken down into a plastic like substance that probably would not digest very well.

Also, you do not have to worry about your corn allergy as corn is just the product that they use to make the plastic like substance. There are no traces of any allergen left after they process them.
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kikkerjo

10-28-2007 @6:21PM kikkerjo said... Can I get it there, even if I'm not interesting? ;)
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neetalj

10-23-2007 @2:44PM neetalj said... They are actually a lot cheaper than 50 for $20. You can get a case of 1000 for $52 at Green Earth Office Supply (http://greenearthofficesupply.stores.yahoo.net/potforcasof1.html). That's around 5 cents each. Plasticware is around 4 cents each, so its really not that much more to be eco-conscious.
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