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21st Century Cooking

Israeli inventors' new Daya-Chef
counter-top system does all the work.

HELEN KAYE SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

I

t all started because Yair Dar

and his partner Shimon Ya-
hav wanted a fail-safe method
of roasting sunflower seeds,
the white kind they like best.
'We'd buy the seeds on Friday,
and by the time we sat down on
Saturday to crack them, they
would be stale," recalls 52-year-
old Mr. Dar, a mechanical engi-
neer.
Some seven years, 30 versions
and about $3 million later, Mr.
Dar and Mr. Yahav have intro-
duced a new way of counter-top
cooking. Trademarked as Daya-
Chef, the method aims to retire
the phrase "slaving over a hot
stove."
Its most revolutionary princi-
ple is a pair of easy-to-clip-on he-
lical, stainless-steel stirrers, each
equipped with a small, flattened
cone-like wheel which also re-
volves.
These stirrers pivot and re-
volve at a constant rate, with the
little wheels ensuring that the
food is always in the center of the
stainless steel concave
"saucepan."
In other words, forget about
stirring, beating, whisking, toss-
ing or any other of the food-mov-
ing activities that require the
cook to stand over the pot.
In fact, the whole setup is a
leap toward the 21st century. An
electronic keypad control panel
allows the user to precisely reg-
ulate the cooking time, the tem-
perature and the speed of the
stirrers.
Another feature of the hot
plate is that it will take any flat-
bottomed saucepan, so you can
cook a steak or fry an egg on it as
well.
Mr. Dar, a gentle, cautious and
somewhat shy man who will
wear a jacket and tie only when
he needs to go abroad for meet-
ings, doesn't like the term inven-
tor.
"It gives the idea of sudden in-
spiration," he said. "The idea is
the smallest part of the process
... I prefer to talk about develop-
ment because that's what each
new product is the result of.
Hours and hours of trying this
and that, of trial and error until
you get what you want."
Mr. Dar and draftsman Mr.
Yahav are the team who in 1986
unveiled the revolutionary Epi-
lady hair remover whose coiled
spring action plucks out hairs like
thousands of tiny tweezers all
working at once. Today, its world-
wide sales have totaled over a bil-
lion dollars.
Tht- ' wo met in 1973 when Mr.

Dar decided to specialize in au-
tomation and they have been to-
gether ever since. Mr. Yahav
"builds the prototypes and I make
the plans," says Mr. Dar, who ha-
bitually says 'we' rather than 'I'
when speaking of their inven-
tions.
Born and raised in Jerusalem,
Mr. Dar liked mechanical things
from childhood. He earned a de-
gree from the Technion and im-
mediately went to work trying "to
find new ways of overcoming
technical problems in the manu-
facturing process."
This meant building machines,
especially automated machines.
In 1982, Mr. Yahav and Dar
received the Kaplan Prize for
their contribution to the au-
tomation of industry.
Their forays into the consumer
market come from a wish to
make a product for the challenge
and the fun of it. One result was
Daya-Chef, whose first name is
a portmanteau of their last
names.
The choice of a name took a
long time.
"We went through a list of
about 800 but had to discard most
of them because of future possi-
ble legal problems," explains Mr.
Dar.
"I think the name we came up
with is catchy," he adds with
modest pride.

"I think the name we
came up with is
catchy."

Yair Dar

The system comes complete
with a saucepan, stirrers, a stain-
less-steel basket and an 80-recipe
cookbook by cooking expert and
author Ruth Sirkis.
The book contains recipes for
a host of dishes from french fries
to chocolate mousse and even del-
icate sauces, which usually re-
quire a double boiler and crossed
fingers.
Mr. Yahav and Mr. Dar used
their own money for the R&D of
the Daya-Chef but have received
government loans to set up the
manufacturing line at Solarum,
a factory in Hatzor Haglilit in Up-
per Galilee which is capable of
turning out several thousand per
month.
At present, Daya-Chef is only
for the Israeli market, although
negotiations are under way for
its export to European countries,

