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![]() Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Apr 06 Posts: 5556 Credit: 1,541,289 RAC: 0 ![]() |
All I can think of then is a (hygienic) butter dispenser, but then again, it wasn't a dispenser... Well... if it was some kind of dispenser, it would either be as a bottle, or big enough to keep the whole piece of butter directly from the pack. Ja? ;-) At least it sounds like sense to me. ;-D This is not called a dispenser... but a..... ;-D Come on now, good people! Its so close, but yet............. we miss the point here. hehe ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 40475 Credit: 41,350,794 RAC: 1,941 ![]() ![]() |
OK got it! It's a "one click butter cutter" for making butter pats :-) But I think that Julie was 99.9% there already ... |
![]() Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Apr 06 Posts: 5556 Credit: 1,541,289 RAC: 0 ![]() |
OK got it! Aye aye!! Thats what it is. ;-) Nah.. Im not agree with that.. even though I would like to see Julie win.. hehe but I dont make things into somethings else.. ;) The big point here is the cutting part.. so.. you Chris is the winner this time. ;-) So Yes. Yet another treasure. A butter kutter. Everyone needs one, right? ;-) I found it for 12 dollars. But for those money you get a very neat thingy in yellow and cream colored plastic, that cuts the butter in perfect, square slices. That is.. if you; 1. Get the butter into the correct temperature, to first of all squeeze it Into the cutter. Another way is to use a knife, and cut the butter in a square that Fits into the cutter. The more professional you can do this, the more professional the end result will become. ;-p 2. Keep it cool in the fridge, so the butter doesn’t just slips away from it, or comes out in other, unexpected formes. 3. Remember to take it out of the fridge a while before you are going to use it – since too hard butter may give you a sore thumb. - - Or… you can use the knife instead, eventually the one you had to use in point 1. ;-D ![]() Note; As far as I can manage to see, the piece of butter on this pic is photo shopped.. so I guess the people who should sell it had a hard time getting it right also. hehe ![]() |
![]() ![]() ![]() Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 40475 Credit: 41,350,794 RAC: 1,941 ![]() ![]() |
'ello Miss Moon :-) Thank you for the win, although I think Julie really deserves it more than me. However I'm not sure that I will rush out to buy one though, if the butter is not the right size and at the right temperature the whole thing fails! 21C gimmickry :-) Okidoki, off to find something else for you all. Oh BTW, Mette-Marit, has serious competition ;-)) |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,313,799 RAC: 1,120 ![]() |
gadget!! |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2291 Credit: 12,052,591 RAC: 311 ![]() |
tool Ooops! wrong thread. (^; ... ![]() |
David S Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 23,717,539 RAC: 5,857 ![]() ![]() |
OK got it! That was what I was thinking when I asked if it had to do with butter, but I didn't want to win. That has to be the stupidest kitchen gadget I've ever seen. As far as I'm concerned, if the butter is cold enough to slice properly, it's too cold to melt and spread properly on my toast. I wouldn't pay 12 cents for it. (Not criticizing you, Moon, just the hucksters who came up with it and try to sell it to gullible idiots.) David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
rob smith ![]() Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 15879 Credit: 295,795,418 RAC: 323,612 ![]() ![]() |
I think Dave sums up that "tool" perfectly. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
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![]() ![]() Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 12869 Credit: 25,082,181 RAC: 39,551 ![]() ![]() |
If the device cuts very thin slices of very cold butter very rapidly, it could be a useful tool for making homemade puff pastry. Outside of that, I can imagine no practical use for it. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 3 Jun 99 Posts: 2291 Credit: 12,052,591 RAC: 311 ![]() |
+2 for dull tools & gadgets (^; Don't get me wrong, great tool for the mystery but, for practicality, nadda. Ok, now I can ask. Is butter by the stick (4 sticks to a pound here in US) shaped like that in Europe. Most of what I remember it would not fit in this device. ... ![]() |
![]() ![]() Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 12869 Credit: 25,082,181 RAC: 39,551 ![]() ![]() |
On the east coast and in the midwest butter tends to come in long, elegant rectangles - 4 to a pound. Here on the west coast we have "western stubbies" (real name - honest!!!). Our rectangles are shorter and fatter than elsewhere in the states, but still 4 to a pound. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 13736 Credit: 180,148,019 RAC: 79,594 ![]() ![]() |
I've seen a similar gadget to that 1, but it produced curls of butter instead of small slabs. Cheers. |
David S Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 23,717,539 RAC: 5,857 ![]() ![]() |
I've seen a similar gadget to that 1, but it produced curls of butter instead of small slabs. That sounds slightly more practical. At least the curls would have more surface area and melt faster. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
![]() ![]() Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 12869 Credit: 25,082,181 RAC: 39,551 ![]() ![]() |
I have only made homemade puff pastry once in my life, years ago when I was enrolled for fun in a bread baking class. In that class, I used a cheese slicer to drop a layer of thin butter slices over half the dough before I folded it, rolled it and then dropped butter on half of it again... and again, and again, and again, and again. Puff pastry is very labor intensive! I have never bothered to make it from scratch again. We are fortunate to have a couple of excellent bakeries in Berkeley. If they ever went out of business, I would whine and whine and whine until Eric took me to France! |
![]() Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10848 Credit: 5,743,225 RAC: 0 ![]() |
Sniff not Germany? Belgium? Switzerland? Austria? Finland? Norway? The list goes on Ang. BTW Trader Joe has a pretty good Apfelstuddel. All I can say is the price is right. Pluto will always be a planet to me. ![]() Seti Ambassador |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,313,799 RAC: 1,120 ![]() |
Up here in the land of the free and the home of the cold, we get butter in 454g or so. It is supposed to be the same weight as an old imperial pound. |
![]() ![]() ![]() Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 40475 Credit: 41,350,794 RAC: 1,941 ![]() ![]() |
OK, what was this used for? ![]() |
rob smith ![]() Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 15879 Credit: 295,795,418 RAC: 323,612 ![]() ![]() |
unwinding spaghetti Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
![]() ![]() ![]() Volunteer tester ![]() Send message Joined: 19 Nov 00 Posts: 40475 Credit: 41,350,794 RAC: 1,941 ![]() ![]() |
Nope! |
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