Corn Buttering Gizmo

You love corn. Corn on the cob, piping hot and slathered in butter. Mmmm. You’re feeling hungry for corn just reading this, aren’t you? You are. It’s a snack fit for a prince, to be sure. But until today, it was a snack your enjoyment of which was limited by mundane practicalities.

The problems with buttered corn:
1. It’s hot to hold, so you have to use an implement.
2. Butter just slides off the corn, resulting in an unsatisfying, haphazard coating of butter.

Aware that the buttered-bread corn technique could cause problems for the wheat intolerants and those with a fear of bread, I present the Corn Buttering Gizmo. The Corn Buttering Gizmo provides a unitary solution to both of these most vexatious problems. Available in premium steel and budget plastic, the corn gizmo consists of two circular ends joined by hinges to a corn-length plastic trough. The inner surface of the plastic ends bear spikes, designed to be driven into the ends of the corn, holding the Epicurean delight firmly in place, without the need for discommodious corn forks.

The trough has a small slit in the base, through which the butter, heated by proximity to the steaming corn slips smoothly through. For those corn-lovers unfortunate enough to live in regions where corn-sizes have yet to be standardised, the Deluxe Corn Buttering Gizmo features a telescopic trough. As the corn is rotated by the eater, the butter drips through to generate a smooth, uniform covering of golden butter.

The image linked below shows a prototype, with the trough positioned on the opposite side of the corn from the mouth of the eater. Another model has the trough on the top of the corn.