Comments on: Unitasker Wednesday: Even more elaborate butter cutters

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My New Obsession — Unitaskers « The Non-Consumer Advocate — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:32:06 +0000

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By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:03:47 +0000

OK … as much as this seems like a silly thing. I am very interested as I have Celiac Disease which means I am gluten intolerant and thus need to keep two seperate butter dishes (one for me and one for everyone else). This would allow my family to have one butter as there is no knife touching anything that might be poison to me and then coming in contact with the butter again.

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Just What We Needed Dept: WowBacon : Green Resouces — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:00:45 +0000

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By: Thistle

Thistle — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:07:57 +0000

I actually tried the one-click butter-cutter here as part of a story I was writing on kitchen gadgets, and as soon as I pressed on it, the clicker part snapped off and ricocheted back against my hand, cutting my skin instead of the butter. Totally useless.

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Just What We Needed Dept: WowBacon - Zidee.com — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:06:11 +0000

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Just What We Needed Dept: WowBacon — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:56:32 +0000

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By: Joy

Joy — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:24:00 +0000

As a household that does have a person with Celiac Disease, I can see a use for this, but we just keep two different butter containers–one for our son and one for us. That way we don’t contaminate his butter with our crumbs. Yes, yes, we should all have a butter knife out at all times, but really, most of us haven’t seen our butter knives since last Thanksgiving!

By: Lynoure

Lynoure — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:22:13 +0000

If you have someone in your household who has coeliac disease, this device is probably very useful, as it allows cutting of butter without the butter being touched by a knife (too easy to have that contaminated from touching bread) and instead drops the butter handsfree onto your gluten-free bread.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:56:06 +0000

I’m glad our European butter packages don’t fit in one of these.. so I don’t have to worry about someone ‘thoughtful’ getting one for me

Greetings from the netherlands!

By: Lynda

Lynda — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:49:44 +0000

and you can’t send it as a gift to friends in the UK as the butter in the UK is even less likely to fit this unitasker as it’s shaped like house bricks…

By: WilliamB

WilliamB — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:11:18 +0000

I thought it was bad when I first saw the pix. After I read the comments I realized it was worse than I thought. I know butter sticks come in different dimensions but still missed that problem.

I can think of two applications. As with any unitasker, if you do that application a lot, then a specialized tool makes sense. So yes, restaurants or caterers may be interested. (I think half the objections to something being designated a unitasker for situations where someone is doing the action a lot.) Second, if you need to restrict butter intake and inevitably cheat when you cut your own butter, then the price and cleaning hassle may be outweighed by the health benefits.

And yes, please!, don’t uset he butter/jam/sugar utensil in your own food.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:13:38 +0000

I’m actually going to defend this a little. It stores AND cuts butter! It would be nice to have one of these locked and loaded in the fridge so I don’t need to dirty a knife to drop a pat of butter onto a pan or a bowl of grits or rice.

Of course, my wife insists on separate, soft spreadable chemicals for toast-like applications.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:02:14 +0000

But…but…but *look* at that perfect pat of butter! Perfection, I tell you!