The well made chopsticks that you can trust and buy
Simpo chopsticks are the chopsticks that you have been looking for. Chopsticks that are affordable, not overly decorated, using materials and finishes that you know is quality, safe, environmental friendly and sustainable.
We only use good quality sustainable hardwoods and 100% pure tung oil and Beeswax for finishes. No scary chemicals, just what the nature offers.
The design philosophy of Simpo Chopsticks is to go back to the basics, tracing back to the days before we have gone astray to overly industrialize an everyday item that is so essential and so simple. Our design process examines the traditions as well as modern day knowledge, synthesizing them, preserving what is good and rejecting what is bad to create something that is the best from both world. And by leveraging modern day manufacturing technique and technologies, we were able to maintain both quality and affordability.
The Original Simpo Chopsticks was designed in the style of traditional Chinese Chopsticks, which is a square cross section all along where you would hold them, followed by a tapered blunt end. This design provides exceptional Chopsticks holding experience; each orientation of the chopsticks would feel the same as it is made to a nearly perfect square, therefore as you maneuver your chopsticks during a meal, the feel of the chopsticks in your hand remain the same. The wooden texture make it non-slippy and warm to touch, unlike the metal ones. The tapering is well away from where you would hold so your fingers won’t be sliding off as tapered chopsticks would tend to do. The proportion where it tapers off is formulated by the famous Golden Ratio, a frequent geometric portion occurring in nature, believe to be the most aesthetic pleasing portion to human eye.
100% Pure tung oil is widely recognized as the best food safe, natural finishing oil. It has been in use by the Chinese for thousands of years, mainly in waterproofing and preserving wooden ships. Though it is recognized as the best, however it is not the most popular due to its high cost (One Litre is $40 CAD) and its laborious application process.
Simpo chopsticks uses 100% pure tung oil to honour its Chinese root and tradition, furthermore it is chosen especially for its natural food safe and waterproofing property.
The 1000 pairs pledge goal will allow us to spread the high cost of the 100% pure tung oil into an acceptable level. And it will also allow us to design process to reduce the time and work involve in oiling the chopsticks.
Most chopsticks on the market are vague about the material that they used. Some of them do not specified the type of wood that they use, and even if it is specified, it is a kind that is not very well known, thus hard to verify its authenticity. Besides bespoke chopsticks that are usually costly, almost none of them tell you what kind of finishes they use, if it is food safe. One can only hope and assume that it is food safe. To assume and to know are two very different thing. The lack of transparency and withholding information are unacceptable practices with today’s health conscious consumer, we are careful about what we eat, but we often neglect the Chopsticks that we put in our mouth day after day.
Most chopsticks packages will say it is hygienic and safe because it uses wood…etc, but most brands are unknown and there is little to no accountability to their claims. Simpo wants to be the brand that stands behind our claims. The kind of chopsticks that you can trust.
Simpo chopsticks are bespoke chopsticks without the pricy price tag, we specifically design the chopsticks and the process to make so that it is affordable for you to buy not only one pair, but for the whole family, we want Simpo to be your standard chopsticks for your family. It is our mission to do just that.
A couple variations were developed from the Original form after hearing customer feedbacks with their different preferences, some wanted it to be more pointy, some like their Chopsticks round. Hey, customers are always right, and we always listen.
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