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A Better Way to Dispense Butter, Whether at the Stove or the Table

The Butter Boss is like Chapstick for the chapped lips that are your toast or frying pan

By Rain Noe - May 21, 2015

in Food

You know when you see a new product design and think "Wow that's dumb," but then you look into it and realize "Hey, this is actually super cool?" That's the feeling I got when checking out the Butter Boss.

Designed by Chicago-based Y Line Product Design, this dispenser accepts a stick of butter, then dispenses it like Chapstick: Crank the dial on the bottom and the butter advances.

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You can then slice off a calibrated amount, or apply it directly to your pan/grill/food like you would with a glue stick.

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The video takes a while to get to the point, but stick it out (no pun intended):

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Early Birds are going for $18. Interestingly, for another six bucks they'll send you 3D printer files for their "Boss Butter Maker," a little tub that you can melt differently-shaped butter inside to get it to fit the Butter Boss. And butter aficionados can mix it with herbs or bath salts or what have you.

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While the device looks useful, the Kickstarter campaign has a ways to go: At press time they were at $16,525, less than half of the way towards their $38,250 target. There's 33 days left to make it happen.

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xantriks X

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Pritt_Sticks.JPG

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Martin CS Tee

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I think it would be best to work with butter manufacturers that produce butter in stick form (there are already such butter on the market), so that users don't have to make their own butter stick to fit in the Butter Boss.

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Rob McCulloch

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I like the idea and I hope you get funded, but I think the video is putting potential backers off. I was 57 secs into the video and I hadn't been told what the product was yet, or even seen it being used. Way too much gimmicky editing. You've got a cool product, let it speak for itself!

IMHO, just simplify the whole video, then hit the blogs (tech, cooking, man cave, etc...) all day long for a few weeks to drive some traffic to your Kickstarter.

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Geraint Krumpe

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Yo!!!! Thanks for the awesome write-up Rain! You... Are....Da' Boss!!!!!! :)

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