Unitasker Wednesday: The butter cutter

One of the luxurious benefits of eating a catered meal is, of course, the pat of butter that one receives to put on your bread. I always enjoy getting my own personal pat of butter and I longed for the day that I could do the same in the comfort of my own home.

Enter the Butter Cutter. Now pats of butter are available for the masses. Don’t settle for using a butter knife to retrieve your butter, simply cut a whole stick of butter into uniform pats that will make everyone’s meal that much easier.

** Unitasker Wednesday posts humorously poke fun at the single-use items that seem to find their way into our homes.

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Posted by Matt on Oct 10, 2007 | Comments |

17 comments posted

  1. Posted by bob - 10/10/2007

    Actually, couldn’t this come in handy if you do a lot of baking and need the butter at room temp when baking? The smaller pats will warm up faster than a whole stick or whatever.

    Also, looking at my roll this morning I am saddened by my non-perfect pats of butter.

  2. Posted by Amanda Himelein - 10/10/2007

    It’s clearly a dieting device. Pre-cut pats of butter prevent you from loading up your toast with saturated fat. :)

  3. Posted by CodyP - 10/10/2007

    Gizmodo has a much more useful butter cutter posted today

  4. Posted by missdona - 10/10/2007

    As silly as it is, I love my butter cutter. I sliced up a stick this morning.

  5. Posted by jehb - 10/10/2007

    It also seems to me that this particular unitasker doesn’t take up any more real refrigerator shelf space than the device it replaces - a butter tray. Yes, it may be fairly pointless, but no more cluttering.

  6. Posted by Zach - 10/10/2007

    I don’t think I’d consider it a dieting device…those pats of butter look huge relative to the amount of butter one normally uses!

    I’m sure the added surface area created by pre-slicing the butter helps prevent spoilage and keeps the butter from picking up any extra nastiness from the fridge…

    -Zach

  7. Posted by Zach - 10/10/2007

    Blarg…my sarcasm tags on the 2nd paragraph didn’t show up… :(
    -Zach

  8. Posted by urban bohemian - 10/10/2007

    I don’t know, I think the unitask category might apply in advertising and name only. I could think of many things this could be used for in the kitchen.

    Velveeta anyone? :)

  9. Posted by Cody - 10/10/2007

    Aah! What happens if I’m eating a particularly small piece of bread, and need a particularly small pat of butter?

    I think it’s time they made small, medium, and large butter cutters.

  10. Posted by Aisha - 10/10/2007

    wouldn’t this work for hardboiled eggs and tomatoes, too?

  11. Posted by doris - 10/10/2007

    No eggs with a butter cutter please! You need the original egg slicer, have a look at Googles images :-)) We loved our one, but you definetely need one of these snack trays as well.

  12. Posted by bobbquackenbush - 10/11/2007

    Use an egg cutter for butter, eggs of course, for mushrooms, small pieces of cheese, and garlic.

  13. Posted by bethany - 10/11/2007

    I love Unitasker Wednesday, and imagine my surprise to see something I actually think I could use. It is only because my kids spread butter like it’s cream cheese and we run out so fast! But they will soon grow up and I would be stuck with one more thing cluttering up my kitchen.

  14. Posted by Ellen - 10/14/2007

    I actually have a butter cutter, acquired free at our town’s swap shed, and use it now and then; it’s best when I’m making a big pot of something (triple or quadruple batch of risotto, f’rinstance) and need to melt butter in a hurry. Slice, toss in, and presto, the butter’s all ready!

    Mine’s flat, though, so it fits neatly in a drawer, and it *was* free. I wouldn’t recommend one to most people :-)

  15. Posted by thisisbeth - 10/17/2007

    I have a butter cutter in my kitchen for cutting small pats of butter for faster melting, or for when I have guests. Of course, I call it a “knife” and I can only cut one pat of butter at a time (or anything else).

  16. Posted by jt in the army - 10/17/2007

    this looks like it would come in handy for those who host dinner parties or run small catering businesses out of their kitchens.

  17. Posted by Jez - 12/10/2007

    A month late, but I found the link I was looking for today:
    http://www.oneclickbuttercutter.com/

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