Reddit mentions of Salad Bowl Finish

Ok, at the creator's go-ahead, I'll bite. Let's get this roast going. I hope I'm not too punishing.

• The product name differs between the title and the summary
  
• I'd be afraid to buy stained-wood kitchenware in general, especially handmade. Vegetable oils can cause stain to leech out of wood. There are food-safe stains.
  
• Nothing here really shows that heating food is a good alternative to salts and fats. If I had the choice between a piece of hot, dry toast and cold, buttered toast, I'd choose the latter.
  
• If this thing were to be mass-produced (in wood) the FDA would stomp it out pretty quickly, probably for a number of reasons I don't understand as well as the stain thing.
  
  My suggestions:
  
  
• Consider making a two-chamber design where you can pour warm water in, instead of plugging it in. It's faster, safer, and requires fewer parts.
  
• Have a manufacturable design. Handbuilt wooden boxes are not scalable. You may need to call in a favor, but having a real design drawn up in CAD will pay for itself in the long run.
  
• Talk to a small-run plastics manufacturer. A local one for me is Protolabs. You can get just one or two parts made in a relatively cheap mold, and they'll save the tooling for when you're ready to go full-scale.
  
• Once you've done the above 2 things, start a real campaign with the prototypes and a more realistic funding goal for full production.