Jugs

I'm at that age where I now go to dinner parties more than I go to the pub.  Whilst around a friends house I watched as the hostess poured the dessert cream into a jug, so that it looked better on the table than the pot it was bought in. 

At the end of the meal whilst I was helping clean up, she poured the leftover cream back into the pot, to put it back in the fridge.  When I asked why, she said, because the pot has a lid and her jugs do not.  I avoided all double entendre by concentrating on how easy it would be to design a range of presentable vessels with lids, so she could put her jugs on the table and in the fridge, without the cream spoiling or her having to use cling film (saran wrap/plastic wrap).

Comments

[Lee Washington]

Why not a jug that the open pot of cream could sit in? Place the pot in the jug for the table. Pot goes back in the fridge when not in use. No wastage and no washing up. The jug just needs to conceal the pot.

[Product Tank]

Mr Washington, you're right! As long as all cream pots are the same size (which I think they generally are, not sure about different countries) and can be gripped inside the jug so that they don't slip out as you tip; and with careful design no cream runs down between the pot and the jug, then you've improved on the idea, which is what this is all about. Fair play. The only thing is, you are then constrained by a design that has to fit the pot you buy, which will then need careful treatment so as not to look too bulky or like a jug concealing a pot of cream - but that's the fun of design.