By David Ponce
We live in a pampered society where we get to gripe about our first world problems. High up on that list is cold, hard butter and that delicious toast awaiting its flavour enhancer. How are you to get the butter on the toast? Enter the Toastie Knife, invented by bread maker Warburtons in the UK. A heating element inside the blade heats up at the touch of a button and reaches a temperature of 41.8 degrees Celsius (107.2 F) in 20 seconds. This is apparently the optimal butter-spreading temperature and should have you covering a slice in all of 30 seconds.
The knife is just a prototype at the moment and there’s no word on when or even if it’ll be commercialized. But knowing it exists goes a long way to reassuring us that even the dumbest of our rich society problems will be taken care of eventually. Next on our wish list: some system that prevents the shower curtains from touching you as you shower.
[ DailyMail Article ] VIA [ Gizmodo ]
great idea
great idea. the shower problem is fixed with a curved shower rod! home depot
They discussed this on the Rhod Gilbert radio show and his co-host said he did something similar by heating a knife on the hob. This led to a lot of tittering about “hot knives” which I’m sure went clear over the head of most of the audience.