Tired of bread crumbs in the margarine? Sick of walking to the sink every time you want to butter a new piece of bread? Introducing the Off Damn Crumbs! Butter Knife. The Off Damn Crumbs! Butter Knife works by using a specially designed scraper to scrape the crumbs, butter, and anything leftover off the knife, making it clean. To operate, you simply move the slider in the handle all the way up, then back down again. Enjoy clean butter forever more!
-- fogfreak, Aug 23 2002

Prehistoric Knife Scraper http://www.7cs.com/sumer/Stonekni.htm
Wow - I didn't know cavemen had margarine... [DrCurry, Aug 27 2002, last modified Oct 04 2004]

So it's like a cloth, just it's perdy lookin and it's going to be expensive. Sounds like a good product to me! If you make it, make it shiny and 500% over the actual cost of making it. That always makes people believe it's worth buying!
-- Athenaeum, Aug 23 2002


Or you could use squeezy butter.
-- BinaryCookies, Aug 24 2002


isn't squeezy butter an edible oil product? ick. through years of practice you get to the point where you have just the absolute correct amount of butter on the knife with only one dip in the container. no crumb issues.
-- rbl, Aug 24 2002


The worst crumbs in the butter/marg come from people who overestimate the amount they need, and scrape the excess back into the tub. I say we punish them.
-- -alx, Aug 24 2002


I'll remember that next time I'm around for tea...heh, heh, heh...
-- DrCurry, Aug 24 2002


Just lick the knife.
-- RayfordSteele, Aug 24 2002


//isn't squeezy butter an edible oil product?//

All yellow spreads are, m'boy. They meet all of the criteria:
1. Reasonably solid at room temperature.
2. High fat content, usually saturated.
3. Not particularly good for you.
4. Don't taste terribly good on their own.
-- UnaBubba, Aug 24 2002


Like the idea. Maybe a similar product so you can scrape off peanut butter or jelly too for your PBJ? I also feel that there may be some cleanliness issues with the slider and its moving parts... but a crumbly, flaky crois for you.
-- polartomato, Aug 25 2002


Baked chez moi as kitchen paper.
-- angel, Aug 27 2002


Crumbless bread anyone?
-- Zircon, Aug 27 2002


"Yet who would have had thought the old man to have had so much in him?"
-- UnaBubba, Aug 27 2002


How about that $35 rock at DrCurry's site?

Anyway, I am opposed to highly specialized kitchen gizmos, taking up space on the off-chance that their need might arise. For instance, grapefruit spoons. The more practical a utensil is, the better the chance I'll have it - like a regular butterknife.

I try to get my toast crumbs off the knife by strategic wiping. If I happen to get a couple crumbs into the butter stash - oh well. I guess I won't be buying this product...even if it's only $19.95 if I order now.
-- XSarenkaX, Aug 27 2002


It says the rock is 15,000 years old. I suspect that it's probably a little older than that. It may have been a shaped tool for 15,000 years.

Incidentally, it's illegal to move aboriginal artifacts and stone implements found in Australia. They must stay in the spot upon which they were found.
-- UnaBubba, Aug 27 2002



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