Red Hot Nickel Ball vs. Brick of Butter: Cholesterol Choo-Choo

Red Hot Nickel Ball has taken on a lot of food challengers . And yeah, you sort of know implicitly that a ball of scorching metal is gonna decimate a brick of innocent butter. But I bet you a bucket of popcorn you’ll still watch.

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Butter Grater Solves Yet Another Critical First World Problem

Are you sick of lumpy butter on your toast? Leave it to Japan to come up with another gadget you never knew you needed. This infomercial-worthy contraption is – as far as I know – the world’s first butter grater.

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Just load up a stick of butter into the Easy Butter grater, and twist it to drizzle out delicate strings of butter, which look kind of like shredded cheese.

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The Easy Butter grater sells for ¥2,300 (~$23 USD) over at Metex[JP]. While I love the idea of grated butter, I don’t love the idea of cleaning this thing.

[via RocketNews via Foodbeast]

Science Shows the Difference Between Butter and Margarine

When they tell you that you can’t believe it’s not butter, it’s a damned lie. Butter is creamy beautiful deliciousness while margarine is mere fake and processed imitation. It’s no contest… unless you consider their healthiness. Because we can’t have nice things, butter is high in saturated fat. That’s no good. However! Margarine, which was made to be healthier than butter, ain’t so good itself. More »