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Ever had 6 guests and tried to cut 7 even
slices? If you're as inept as me you'll find it
a bit of a challenge. Various solutions
crossed my mind: a serving dish with lines
marking various sized slices, two hinged
knives with a marker at the handle end
displaying the size. But I thought most
people already had good knives so why
not use technology? How about a pen like
device that you stick into the middle of the
cake. The device has a dial on the top
displaying the numbers 3-20. You simply
select the desired number of slices and
the device projects a slice (or all slices on
the high-end version!) using lasers off a
laser pen. Simple!
Or modify po's laser knife to take care of the whole thing:
lazy_20lasagne_20laser
[DrCurry, Dec 28 2004]
(??) What's that you say? You want 7 slices of pie?
http://www.thegadge...m/078915011817.html
[half, Dec 28 2004]
(?) We have a set of these (one for round cakes, one for rectangular)
http://www.cakecutt...stal/krystal_v.html
Add a guide or way to set the angle on this based on the number of slices. Probably very similar to your "hinged knife" concept. [half, Dec 28 2004]
(?) How to cut a cake in 7
http://www.youtube....UjQ&feature=related
Saint Clara movie starting minute 6:22 [pashute, May 11 2011]
[link]
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Another laser idea from the seventies. |
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I dunno - I think this is a neat idea. |
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(Although how often are you faced with 6 guests all wanting exactly the same amount? Easier perhaps to use old fashioned cutting edge technology to cut the thicknesses people want for their first portion, then divide the rest amongst the people wanting seconds.) |
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I see consumer grade "laser levels" with multiple beams on the market. Maybe a modification of that. |
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There are also laser pointers with a rotatable head that turns the usual "dot" in to a pointing finger, arrow, crosshair, or other image. Why not images of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc. intersecting lines? |
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Of course, there are existing mechanical gadgets to mark 7 or 8 equal divisions on a pie/cake. |
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Yeah, I appreciate you often want to ask
guests how much they'd like, but I also
often cut a smallish cake and prepare
the plates in the kitchen. I then try to
figure out who'd be least offended with
the smaller ones! |
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Well my 'tude comes from research and lasers have other better uses as in equitable world-wide food distribution and this is just belittling an under-used tool. The laser knife is exibit ''A", that the kitchen is dead. It is a waste of time and too dangerous a place to spend time in, considering all the other things we could be doing in our short lives. |
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38,000 meals and 56,000 lbs. of vegetable cutting alone for the average marriage. |
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Just thanking you for your contribution
in case I make it! |
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No, no. Sorry, I understood you fine, [aw]. |
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I was referring to the annotation above mine. I don't get it. The author of it starts out in a previous annotation with a sarcastic-sounding statement about laser ideas from the 70's then later seems to be proposing to use lasers to solve world hunger and eliminate kitchens from our homes. |
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"What?" is my standard response to annotations that seem non-sequitur, ambiguous and sometimes incoherent to me. I'm always willing to concede that it's just me being thick, but every once in awhile I gotta check. |
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Well, put a chocolate chip on my head and call me "Cookie!" |
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Cookie. Now, a cookie, I know what to do with. |
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Sorry for the confusion Half, thx. |
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In response to peoples hunger issues,
I'm sure
we could all be spending
more of our time solving world hunger.
As for a more appropriate use of a laser
pen how would you provide irrigation to
millions without fresh water? |
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I'm also fairly sure that kitchen gadgets
are not the cause of world hunger and
that we can actually produce plenty of
food to feed everybody but that
distribution, political issues and
suppression by countries such as ours
are a much bigger cause of world
hunger. |
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My mum used to keep a protractor in the kitchen to alleviate the inevitable scraps over who got the biggest piece of cake. It did the trick. |
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Mine kept a handgun and for the same reason. |
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hah! mine kept a sense of humour. |
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[alistairwest] welcome to the
halfbakery... nice idea + |
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(link: finally remembered what the thing was called that we use for cutting & serving cake. I think this is what you meant by "hinged knife", basically) |
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Thanks Jon, not as good an idea as this
site though, brilliant :-) |
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i have to go and run a water line to the frozen river, I'll be right back with my manifesto. |
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Yes Half, that's the sort of thing, except
mine would have had some sort of
marking to indicate the proportion of
the cake about to be cut. |
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Keep kids out of the kitchen. Let them decide for themselves whether they want to be anthropologists or not. |
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//Ever had 6 guests and tried to cut 7 even slices// |
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Throw the pizza into a blender, then pour the liquid into seven glasses - done. |
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Just raise the power and pulse it and you don't even
have to cut... |
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