How OXO Conquered the American Kitchen

Of all the things that surprised me at OXO headquarters, the Tiffany box had to be at the top of the list.

The kitchenware company’s head engineer, Mack Mor, had dug through the archives to find some product prototypes to help me understand how OXO designs and develops gadgets. Now, sitting on a table in the employee break room, amid jury-rigged cherry pitters and spiralizers constructed from sawed-apart water bottles, was a large, baby blue Tiffany box, of the sort in which you might expect to see encased a sparkling wedding present. Mor opened the box—and revealed the company’s very first salad spinner.