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This article is part of our series on the 17 most unique things to have come out of Japan. Check out the other 16.
If breakfast usually involves a battle between you, your toast and your butter knife, ending in lots of holes, there’s a solution. Let the ‘easy butter former’ bring peace into your home. It’s like a grater, but it’s specially designed for butter. All you have to do is pop your pat inside and turn the lid. Presto, it emerges as impossibly thin slivers, which means soft, evenly spread butter wherever you need it, be that on toast, cakes, biscuits or straight into your mouth.
There’s no more having to leave the butter out of the fridge, waiting for it to warm up to a spreadable temperature. Actually, it’s pretty difficult to believe that it’s taken this long to solve such an ancient dilemma — and with such a straightforward yet ingenious invention.
You can check out the easy butter former in action on YouTube and buy one of your very own online via Metex for $26. A similar Australian invention, the Butter Up Knife, is a little more slimline.
According to the website, the easy butter former is also good for chocolate and cheese. Your homemade cappuccino just got a thousand times better. It’s possible your arteries didn’t fare so well.
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