Butter Boss
This Novel Kitchen Tool Design is a Better Butter Dish
It’s “The chapstick of Butter”
Summary:
Butter Boss is a novel kitchen utensil design or ‘gadget’ and is a more functional and useful type of butter dish. It fits a standard 1/4lb stick of butter and features a measuring cap and heat resistant nylon material (similar to a spatula). It’s a ‘twist-able’ butter dish/dispenser!
This new kitchen tool design can be used directly on hot surfaces such as a frying pan, grilled cheese sandwich, or barbecue grill. It’s great at the dinner table for corn and is perfect for camping or tailgating. Kids love it, and grown-ups find it useful in baking, portion control, and simple refrigerated butter storage. Give it a twist and scrape a butter knife across the opening to shave a perfectly melting sliver of butter onto any surface, or get messy and plunge it into your stir-fried veggies!
Responsibilities:
Design Research
An opportunity was identified to address an unmet user need. The heuristic was a common occurrence. have you ever simply grabbed a butter stick wrapper-on and got to cookin’? Maybe a new kitchen utensil design is needed to address this common behavior of home chefs?
Intellectual Property
Surprisingly, with some careful patent research, we were able to discover and develop Butter Boss’s unique design and user functionality and be awarded a Utility Patent for our in-house invention.
Manufacturing and Marketing
Successfully funding a crowd marketing campaign allowed us to source tooling and manufacture our first production run (sold out). We are currently making upgrades to the design and packaging for version 2.0, and expect Butter Boss to be a new staple of clever kitchen utensil design.
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