Design duo Lanzavecchia + Wai has incorporated a lens into an outdoor furniture set to concentrate sunlight onto a grilling plate for cooking food. More about Solar cooking set by Lanzavecchia + Wai uses the sun's rays to barbecue
German design student May Kukula has created a Moroccan-inspired pot and a set of tools that enable users to "cook" their own bespoke scents. More about May Kukula's Aroma set produces homemade room fragrances
Graduate shows 2015: intended to promote eating humans, the Guide to Cannibalism provides recipes for cooking meat, and also comes with kitchenware embedded with real hair (+ slideshow). More about Guide to Cannibalism suggests ways to eat humans
A cookery school is housed behind the glazed facade of this contemporary shed, recently completed by Satellite Architects at the headquarters of British TV programme River Cottage (+ slideshow). More about Satellite Architects adds a new cookery school to the River Cottage headquarters
Norwegian designer Per Finne has created a utensil based on traditional Japanese knives that he says offers enough flexibility to be the only knife needed in a home cook's kitchen (+ slideshow). More about Per Finne's Umami Santoku knife combines Norwegian and Japanese design
Ingredients are displayed like fabric samples to help western readers recreate traditional Japanese sweets with common foods, in this cookbook by designer Moé Takemura. More about Minimal cookbook presents Japanese sweet ingredients as colour swatches
Graduate designer Moritz Putzier has integrated gas burners into the centre of a multi-purpose wooden dining table to bring the kitchen into the heart of the home (+ slideshow). More about Moritz Putzier designs Cooking Table for collaborative meal preparation
Kingston University graduate Jake Rich has redesigned the common household microwave – adding wheels, a domed removable lid and a light that changes intensity with the power (+ slideshow). More about Mediumwave by Jake Rich is a pod-shaped microwave on wheels
Chefs can collaborate remotely on recipes then get them prepared and cooked by this food machine created by Stockholm studio PJADAD (+ movie). More about Food Machine by PJADAD encourages collaborative cooking
Swedish design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has come up with a stove for the developing world that uses two-thirds less wood than a traditional cooking fire (+ movies + slideshow). More about Baker Cookstove by Claesson Koivisto Rune
This liquor-distilling kit by Vienna designer Francesco Morackini breaks down into four perfectly innocent household objects. More about Prohibition Kit by Francesco Morackini
Translucent polycarbonate sheets screen off the kitchen and office of this baking school in Seoul (+ slideshow). More about Una's Kitchen by Nordic Bros Design Community
Product news: Oslo designers Andersson & Voll paired a bright yellow moka pot with a cooking hob sculpted from a slab of marble for an exhibition of Norwegian design at the Design Tide Tokyo trade fair this weekend. More about Good Morning moka pot and Tuamotu hob by Anderssen & Voll
Jerusalem designer Avichai Tadmor created this scaled-up pencil sharpener for shaving curls of carrot onto salads. More about Karoto by Avichai Tadmor for Monkey Business
This barbecue by Barcelona designers Mermeladaestudio will char your food with geometric patterns. More about Druida barbecue by Mermeladaestudio
Test tubes of olive oil line one wall of this high-tech workshop designed for Michelin-starred chef Paco Roncero by Spanish studio Carmen Baselga Taller de Proyectos. More about Paco Roncero's workshop by Carmen Baselga Taller de Proyectos
These five measuring spoons give the correct quantities of flour, water, yeast, sugar and oil to bake the perfect loaf of bread. More about Bread spoons by Niels Datema
Estonian architects Muru & Pere have designed an outdoor kitchen in Tabasalu, near Tallinn in Estonia. More about Copper house summer kitchen by Muru & Pere
Designer Gillian Westley has created a range of cooking utensils that don't leave a mess on worktops. More about Elevate by Gillian Westley for Joseph Joseph
New York designer Matthias Kaeding has designed a pair of ceramic cooking knives inspired by Stone Age tools. More about NeoLithic by Matthias Kaeding