If you spend any time in the kitchen, you’re likely to use an Oxo product regularly – an apple corer, vegetable peeler, whisk, or the ever-popular salad spinner. Oxo is practically the definition of “good experience” in cooking utensils – from grips to weight distribution to the aesthetics of each device – and so president Alex Lee was a natural candidate for the Gel stage.

While Oxo typically develops its own products, here Alex talks about the rare Oxo products that have come outside inventors. (In each case, the inventors themselves sound just as interesting as the devices they create.)