ButterWizard

[Shecoda]

And in the "Why Did I Buy It Catetgory" :arms:

Kids has this ever happened to you? You get out the bread and the butter and go to butter the bread when riiiip, suddenly all you have is torn bread with pats of butter here and there on it? Well now there is:



An end to hard butter misery.
U.K. company unveils temperature-controlled butter dish

Updated: 10:12 a.m. ET Nov. 30, 2005
LONDON - Ever get frustrated with fresh-out-of the-fridge butter that is too hard to spread?

A U.K.-based company has launched a portable, temperature-controlled butter dish, ButterWizard, which keeps butter at what it says is the optimal spreadable temperature of 18.5 C.

It has a built-in fan and a chip which together control the temperature, adjustable for different textures, be it super-soft bread, crusty toast or delicate biscuits. "We were trying to find out what people's frustration with butter was. It's either too hard or too soft," said David Alfille, managing director of East Sussex-based company Alfille Innovations Limited.

"ButterWizard heats or cools the butter and you can adjust the temperature to suit yourself."

Nutritionist Fiona Hunter said: "There are over 16 million U.K. households buying butter on a regular basis, but one complaint I hear time after time is the lack of spreadability of real butter."

"Butter has been part of diet for thousands of years. The important thing is to spread butter thinly," she added.

ButterWizard is available in the U.K. for 34.95 pounds ($60.17).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10264729/

I personally am waiting until it comes down to $19.95 and wait there's more.

(I really do laud new inventions, but I just keep thinking how much room would any of us have in our kitchen if we bought every new gadget that comes onto the market)?

[Shecoda]

What I find truly interesting about the above article is the related stories category listed next to the article itself.

Related Stories explanation "This new feature on MSNBC.com will compare the text of the story you are reading with the text of all other stories on the site. Based on this comparison, our system determines and displays the five most related stories on the site. This is completely automated and MSNBC.com does not modify the results; the computer does all the work. This service was created to help surface more stories you might be looking for. "

Related Stories for the above article are:

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• Massive die-off of Caribbean coral feared
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Just what are they trying to say here?

That hard butter causes global warming and that causes Caribbean coral die off and intense hurricanes? Wouldn't it be the other way around? Wouldn't warm butter in it's own way contribute to the general warmth of the earth albeit in a completely minor way?

Or are they trying to pin it all on the use of peanut butter, eh? Perhaps peanut butter has been known to have properties that contribute to the overall collection of methane that is distributed into the atmosphere on a daily basis by many of the living things on the planet? If this is true shouldn't we be warned of this imminently dire threat to life on earth as we know it if we continue to eat peanuts and peanut butter?

I really think the connection that MSNBC is making here should be made much clearer don't you? :33:




:D

[circledancer]

Whatever happened to the good ol' covered butter dish that you can set out on the table...that's what I use....The Britts need to look into that before they plop down all that cash!
The related stories are curious to say the least....related?

[maryals]

Whatever happened to the good ol' covered butter dish that you can set out on the table...that's what I use....The Britts need to look into that before they plop down all that cash!
The related stories are curious to say the least....related?

Yup! It's like, NASA spent thousands of $$$ creating a pen that writes in zero gravity, while the Russians gave their astronauts pencils.
My butter dish is in 2 parts. The outer part is the elongated Butter Dish Shape, with a blue line inside. You fill this dish with chilled water, up to that blue line. You put your stick of butter in the inner dish, place the inner dish in the outer dish, and the water regulates the temp of the butter. And yes it comes with a nice cover. You keep this butter dish out, on the counter.
Where it's very hot you might put some crushed ice in the water dish section.

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