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Graduated Plate

Cut your food in equal pieces
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If you have experienced the problem of kids fighting over un- proportionately cut pies or pizzas or you are just obsessed with cutting your food in equal parts then the graduated plate is the solution for you.

It is like any other plate with the crucial exception of having graduations at its outer edge in centimeters, inches and degrees.

kkowlgi, Nov 11 2010

prior art by me OctoPie
[xandram, Nov 11 2010]

Bacon Slicer Bacon_20Slicer
Could be reprogrammed for pizza ... [8th of 7, Nov 13 2010]

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       I taught my kids geometry by getting them to work out how much cake they should get by various methods.   

       This device would bring laziness and ignorance to an otherwise mathematically civilised world, leading inevitably to the collapse of civilisation.   

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Twizz, Nov 11 2010
  

       Kids should learn to use instruments.
kkowlgi, Nov 11 2010
  

       That's right.
Those highschool dropout plates don't deserve any pizza anyhow.
  

       You will need a method of fixing the pizza to the plate; any rotational or translational movement will make the graduations worthless.
daseva, Nov 11 2010
  

       Surely it is not beyond the wit of man to inkjet markings onto pizzae?
MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 11 2010
  

       Your pet octopus could do it, Shirley.
baconbrain, Nov 11 2010
  

       Mmm, octopus...
Boomershine, Nov 12 2010
  

       [+] This is brilliant and deserves more buns.
DrWorm, Nov 12 2010
  

       That, and also, good for you, [Twizz]!   

       Welcome to the halfbakery, [kkowlgi].
normzone, Nov 12 2010
  

       I fail to see how graduations in inches or cm's are going to help.
FlyingToaster, Nov 12 2010
  

       I think a grid would actually be more useful.
DrWorm, Nov 12 2010
  

       Use scales. After all, your ravening hoardes do not want equal areas or equal radii. They want equal mass.
MaxwellBuchanan, Nov 12 2010
  

       Looks redundant to me. See [xandram's] link.
xenzag, Nov 12 2010
  

       Thanks for the tip Dr Worm. A grid would help cut smaller food.
kkowlgi, Nov 13 2010
  

       Octopie is brilliant, but it is a mould. Graduated plate is suitable for any number of pieces.
kkowlgi, Nov 13 2010
  

       The food can be temporarily fixed by fork or a hand.
kkowlgi, Nov 13 2010
  

       @MaxwellBuchanan: the graduated plate is only limited to food having a homogenous density
kkowlgi, Nov 13 2010
  

       Is it theoretically possible to fold a pizza, and then divide it into many even equal portions with one cut?
Ling, Nov 13 2010
  

       [Ling}: Yes of course.   

       TO solve the pizza homogeneousity issue, the plate could rotate and have a digital readout like a wheel-balancing machine used in tyre garages.Small pieces of mushroom or olive could be added to the edge until it is perfectly balanced. Then the pizza can be cut according to the gradations on the plate rim.
pocmloc, Nov 13 2010
  

       Black olives, or green olives ?
8th of 7, Nov 13 2010
  

       Could we have it with a diameter of exactly ten inches and, consequently, a suggestively irrational number of inches around the edge?   

       Oh, and welcome to the half pizza-oven, [kkowlgi]. No, I mean, bacon to the half-whelkery. No, that's not right. Pull up a chair, anyway, and make yourself at home.
pertinax, Nov 14 2010
  
      
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