Butterup – The world’s best butter knife?

butterup-best butter knifeI grew up in a climate where butter needed to be stored in the refrigerator (or did it?). And that meant scraping and spreading butter on fresh bread or even toast was a shredded nightmare that ended in wrecked bread and tears.

It seems I’m not the only one that had this problem and three Australian designers have created what they consider the solution called “Butterup”. They have a Kickstarter site which has already reached it goal. For $18 AUD (including shipping) you can be one of the first to get in on this new cutlery wonder knife. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and the image above does describe how it works pretty well.

The “Stupendous Splendiferous Butterup” has some great press copy to describe it further: “Say goodbye to hard clumps of butter ripping apart your morning toast with ButterUp. The Stupendous Splendiferous ButterUp quickly turns cold, hard butter into sumptuous easy to spread ribbons of dairy goodness.”

Read about the backstory at Wired.com

Handmade Tableware by TITASY

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We here at the Cutlery Review are always looking for innovative new and challenging designs. Pinterest (visit our board here) is a great hunting ground as people are always contributing their new wonderful finds.

The image above is what started us on the hunt to find this page on Pinterest of handmade tableware that is incredible. Further google-fu led to this Etsy shop run by TITASY. And even more digging led to their company page http://www.titasy.co.kr/.

TITASY’s designer and president is James Park of Seoul, South Korea. He majored in metal crafts in university and graduate school and has been creating tableware since 2005.

For an amazing gallery check out TITASY Pinterest page

To buy any items I recommend the Etsy TITASY shop

Reed & Barton Palmer 18/10 Stainless Steel 65-Piece Set

Reed & Barton Palmer 65-Piece SetI really like the hammered look on the handles of this flatware from Reed & Barton (and it hides scratches). The “Palmer 65-piece cutlery set” is setting for 12 with forks, knives, teaspoons, salad forks, and place spoons. It includes a full serving set with a tablespoon, cold meat fork, pierced tablespoon, butter knife, and a sugar spoon.

It is made of 18/10 Stainless steel and is dishwasher safe with a 25-Year limited warranty. There has been some complaints about rust spotting, but that can be prevented, please refer back to our post Rust spots on Cutlery on how to avoid.

 Reed & Barton Palmer 18/10 Stainless Steel 65-Piece Set, Service for 12

 

Birth of a spork…

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Looks like the fork and spoon got hooked up. A bit of monday morning cutlery fun for you to start the week. Thanks to my sister for sending this over to me.