+1 but then again, there are so many tools utterly unnecessary in a kitchen...

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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.

+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.

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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.

I've seen a similar gadget to that 1, but it produced curls of butter instead of small slabs.

Cheers.

I've seen a similar gadget to that 1, but it produced curls of butter instead of small slabs.

Cheers.

That sounds slightly more practical. At least the curls would have more surface area and melt faster.

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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!

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.

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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.

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I have one without the wheel. I use it to pop corn on camping trips.

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popcorn cooker for over an open fire

oops, uli beat me. (^;

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Merciful heavens! That didn't last too long did it!

Yep, it is an old mechanical popcorn popper. Well done Uli. PM sent.

I took one look and though popcorn.

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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.

While I am sure there is excellent pastry in all of those countries, the French have somewhat of a reputation for outstanding pastry...

Thanks for the win Chris.
Ok, what is it?

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Now that is different looking. (^;

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Thanks for the win Chris.
Ok, what is it?

Looks a bit like a trackball I once owned about 15 or so years ago. :-)

Cheers.

LOL

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hand held Panini grill

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