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Power Cutlery
Don't kill yourself with hard work, let electricity do it! | |
Cutlery hasn't changed much in years. Knives cut, forks stab, spoons spill soup...
Not with new Power Cutlery. The toughest steak yields before the blade of the Powerknife. Just press the switch on the handle and the reciprocating blade slashes through the steak like a... well, a hot knife through
butter, which is what switch no 2 is about; a heating element in the blade, to cut through butter.
The powerfork rotates, to wind up spaghetti. The tines work individually, to stab peas. A switch allows the tines to extend, so that stabbing a chunk of meat, a wedge of potato and a baby tomato just involve the press of a button.
The powerspoon has a bowl that can extend into a hollow sphere, to scoop up a lot more soup or cereal, without it spilling. Just put it in your mouth, release the switch and it empties into your mouth, releasing its contents.
Power is provided in the same way as done for electric toothbrushes. Getting kids to eat their dinner will never be a problem again.
Note: Fork and knife switches will not work if they detect certain chemicals in human breath, so you can't stab yourself in the tongue with a rotating fork.
Motorized spaghetti fork
http://www.wonderfu...ng-spagettifork.htm
Approx $10 US [krelnik, May 19 2005]
The KFnoirfke by [2 fries]
The_20KFnoirfke
Closely related invention - reciprocating knife integrated into a fork [krelnik, May 19 2005]
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Power cutlery rev. 1.003.9887. |
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Under certain, rare circumstances, customers have been able to activate the hot, stab, spin and slice functions simultaneously whilst the implement is being used despite the alcohol levels of the user being above the preset safety threshold. |
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Customers are advised to return the Power Cutlery to their stockist for a free firmware upgrade. |
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Alternatively, the firmware download and installation instructions are both available at the support web site. |
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A manual rotating spaghetti fork is already baked... unfortunately I can't find the link. |
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I'm impressed that someone thought these things were actually necessary. |
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Surprised? Humans are so lazy it would be strange if we didn't think they were necessary. These are the race that gave us Star Trek, after all. |
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Reciprocating blade? Pah! I want a chain blade! |
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//Humans are so lazy it would be strange if we didn't think they were necessary.// Which stands the reasons why man invented stairs and then decided to invent the escalator. ;) In addition to the fork, the electric knife is also baked and has been for more than 30 years. But a chain blade on a knife would be interesting. |
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//a chain blade on a knife would be interesting.// |
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Damned good thing you Americans started using forks, isn't it? |
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NB Forks were not popular in the US until the latter part of the nineteenth century. Up to that point the knife was often used to put food into the mouth. The legacy of that is today's habit, still extant in the US, of cutting up much of the meal then switching the fork to the right hand in order to eat the bite-sized pieces of food. It was the reason at least one US spy was captured in Russia in the 1950s, I believe. |
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