Good Tips

Curious about spiralizing produce? The OXO Hand-Held Spiralizer easily creates vegetable noodles for healthier meals.
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Does your little one love grapes but you’re nervous about the choking hazard? Enter the OXO Tot Grape Cutter for safely slicing grapes into quarters.
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Ever wondered what a salad spinner does and why you need it? We take you behind the scenes on how we developed our salad spinner so you don’t have to worry about sad salads.

At OXO, it’s in our DNA to listen and learn — we learn from consumer feedback, retailer feedback, what’s happening in the marketplace, and so on. Then, we take what we learn and create solutions that improve everyday life.

Here at OXO, we have a strong tradition of teaching middle and high school students all about product engineering because, well, we think what we do each day is pretty awesome and we want to share it! We love getting the younger generation excited about solving everyday pet peeves around the house so they can come and join our team later on.

One of the first things you probably associate with the OXO brand is our iconic Good Grips line. The soft, non-slip, black handles can be found on many products from spatulas to can openers. Ever wonder how these comfy, easy-to-grip handles ended up on so many of your favorite OXO products?

OXOnians live to solve everyday challenges and never know when inspiration will strike. No one recognizes the truth in the statement “good ideas come from anywhere” better than we do. After all, it was a fishing rod that inspired the design of our egg beater. And a child’s toy was the basis for our now-iconic salad spinner. Even something as mundane as a commercial postal scale served was a thought-starter for our Pull Out Food Scale.

At OXO we apply our “question everything” philosophy to every product we develop. When it came time to design our first line of baby strollers, we knew we wanted them to be lightweight and easy to fold, but also address pet peeves we experienced as parents and questions we had about strollers. We interviewed nearly 1,000 parents, both first-timers and old pros, met with baby store staff, and pored over hundreds of online reviews, to discover what people loved about their strollers—and what drove them nuts. Those pet peeves led to some of the most important and parent-friendly features in our brand new Cubby and Cubby+ Strollers.

I am not a confident cook, so when I had to host Thanksgiving for 30 people, one of my biggest concerns was making sure I precisely followed the recipes of those far more skilled than me. I didn’t want to have too much or too little of anything and risk making my dishes too doughy, not sweet enough and so on. Accuracy, consistency, and proper conversion could mean the difference between a happy meal and a bunch of annoyed, rumbling tummies, but achieving those with just my eyeballs and my iPhone was tough. This was a situation where I really could have used a scale.