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A metal butter knife, with a plastic handle.
Insert batteries into the handle, flick on the heating element, and butter till you can butter no more.
To include a thermostat, so the temperature can be adjusted to cope with every imaginable butter scenario.
Also slightly more effective against
intruders and abusive husbands!
(???) Quite baked. Here's one of several...
http://164.195.100....758&RS=PN/5,438,758
therefore [marked–for–deletion] [ldischler, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Can cut cakes of chocolate, too
A_20Cake_20of_20Chocolate
[Vernon, Mar 18 2012]
Hot Butter Knife
http://imgbox.com/aajd7cjr
Not actually what it says on the box. [Alterother, Apr 02 2012]
[link]
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Don't turn it on until you start buttering or the butter will slip off. |
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Probably not [desert], but it would be easy enough to clean.
I suppose a waterproof version could be made... |
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Does that have a thermostat [ldischler]?
Also I'd advise you not to [MFD] on the grounds of baked, as there are a few about who will make your life a misery (i'm not one of them... just trying to save you the aggro and a few fishbones).
Widely known to exist? Well if so i've never seen one, but i don't doubt they exist...
One for the moderators i suppose!
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Oh please. A hot butter knife is so baked it’s a cliché. Putting a battery and a thermostat in it is...well, I’m just amazed that the PTO issued a patent on it. |
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Yea, wait 'till the kids get their hands on that one. Parents are already scared enough when their children hold a regular knife, now there is one that can burn them too? Sorry but you are asking for lawsuits. |
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I disagree with the "marked-for-deletion" tag. I don't think self-heating butter knives are widely known to exist. |
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There are hot knives, mostly propane-powered or corded, but they're for cutting styrofoam. |
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Beekeepers also use heated knives, for decapping honeycomb. They tend to use electricity or steam, or are just dipped in hot water. |
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Banjo strings can be heated by sufficient current, and should suffice to slice butter. |
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//also slightly more effective against intruders and abusive husbands// huh ? [ ] |
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Takes some leg work to set the banjo up correctly. |
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There is no such thing as`a`banjo set up correctly. Jam-filled, bee-releasing or otherwise. |
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The knife in this idea isn't just for slicing butter--for which any of many hot-wire cutters could substitute--it is a heated butter spreader. The spatula-oid shape is part of the plan and is not baked as far as I know. |
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(It's applying the heat to the wrong side of the slice of butter, but it will work.) |
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It is a widely-known fact that butter is nearly unrivalled as
a conductor of thermal
energy. If heated on the knife side, a patty will quickly
soften and melt on the bread side. |
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Perhaps what is needed is a wide blade with a Peltier-effect heatpump integrated into it. |
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The leading edge of the blade is warm, to cut into the cold butter; conversely, the trailing edge is cool, to resolidify the butter passing over it. |
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I thought this was going to be some kind of plasma knife, using superheated butter to provide the plasma. |
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Quite what it might be used for is another question altogether, possibly some kind of armoured cash van breaker? |
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I can see it now on tv. The armed robbery squad sting operation goes wrong..."Dispatch, he says he has a packet of Anchor and he's not afraid to use it, send reinforcements!" |
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