• Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Legal
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Alectro Labs

Alectro Labs

  • Science
    • Psychology
  • Tech
  • History
  • Everything Else
    • How to Adult
    • Interviews
  • Shop
You are here: Home / Tech / Ever Wanted a Knife That Spreads Butter AND Toasts Bread? Now You Can Have One Thanks to Colin Furze!

Ever Wanted a Knife That Spreads Butter AND Toasts Bread? Now You Can Have One Thanks to Colin Furze!

January 21, 2020

Too many times I have looked in the butter dish while toasting a piece of bread to make a grave discovery……there is no more butter.  I know I will then have to take out a new piece from the refrigerator where it will be so cold that I’ll barely be able to scrape a bit off of it.  Oh, and you can totally forget about getting a nice even spreading of butter on your toast–it will be far too cold for that. I’ve thought, what If I heat up this knife over an open flame, maybe it will cut into the cold butter better then?  But alas, that is a major fire hazard and one slip could torch my kitchen curtains and burn my fingers.  

There has to be a better way! 

What if I told you that there was a knife that you could not only cut and spread cold butter with, but also TOAST the bread as you cut it?  You’d probably tell me “No way, Marisa!  That’s too good to be true, why would anyone buy a toaster if that knife existed?”   Well then prepare to be amazed! I recently stumbled across a YouTube video where inventor Colin Furze has built just that.  Watch the video below to marvel in all of its toasty glory: 

Oooooo toasty!

In the video, he explains that the knife is made using a modified microwave transformer that runs a current through cables that are connected to copper tubes that the current passes through and in turn heats up a metal blade attached to them.  This invention looks surprisingly simple to make, and after a few Google searches I’ve found that all the materials can be acquired for less than $100 total. Also, as someone in the comments pointed out, an added bonus is that if you cut your hand with the knife it’ll also cauterize the wound! 

Take a look at his video (and his channel because he has some other wicked cool inventions!) and let me know if you attempt to make a Furzo Toasto of your own!  As for me, I can truly say that this knife is the best thing since sliced bread.

in Tech

Reader Interactions

you may also like
Have You Ever Wanted to be Spiderman? Here’s your chance!
Xenobots: Creepy Science Fiction or The Future?

Comments

  1. EYAN TROTTER says

    January 22, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    respect

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Hi, I’m Marisa

Hi my name is Marisa and my favorite things to do are look stuff up on the internet and listen to music. I created this website to share the interesting things that I find during these adventures on the world wide web. Considering that I spend 90% of my time on the internet, there’s a lot. So here’s Alectro Labs, the place where I cultivate the most interesting topics in History, Science, and Tech for your viewing pleasure.
read more

Top hits!

  • 10 Kooky Facts About the Addams Family
  • Interesting Parallels Between Dr. House and Sherlock Holmes
  • A Beanie Baby History: What Led to the Craze?

Featured

How Blackjack Saved FedEx

On Instagram

An American Airlines (DC-3) plane flying past a st An American Airlines (DC-3) plane flying past a stagecoach [1949]
Dirty walls?? Clean them with Play-Doh! Did you k Dirty walls?? Clean them with Play-Doh! 
Did you know that Play-Doh was originally manufactured as a putty with the purpose of easily cleaning coal residue off of walls? 
Click the link in our bio to find out more about Play-Doh's interesting origins!
Ever put NutraSweet or Equal in your coffee? The Ever put NutraSweet or Equal in your coffee?  The base compound of both of those sweeteners is Aspartame, which was discovered accidentally by a chemist back in 1965. 
Click the link in our bio to learn how licking your fingers in a chemistry lab doesn't always have horrible consequences! (Please wear gloves and practice good safety in chemistry labs, we beg of you!)
Scary good fun! Scary good fun!
The man, the myth, the meme! Learn more about thi The man, the myth, the meme! 
Learn more about this member of Marie Antoinette's court on our website, link in description!
On this Monday we wish we were lounging in a jacuz On this Monday we wish we were lounging in a jacuzzi instead of working!
2020 © Alectro Labs
theme by soleilflare