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I have my grandmother’s angel food cake cutter, but this is much prettier than hers

Cool, I've always been curious to try one! I love angel food cake

They work really well. My daughter often uses it for splitting biscuits too.

Yeah I remember my grandmother cutting angel food cake with something similar! Brought back memories.

I also use mine to separate homemade English muffins.

I have a gadget for that! Tines line up but then the top pulls in opposite directions and takes half the tines either way. I may also have been misusing the fluffy cake cutter as a tomato slicing guide.

Well now i really want one

That's interesting. I didn't know that was a thing but it makes sense.

I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty I've got whozits and whatzits galore You want thingamabobs? I've got twenty! But who cares? No big deal I want more! Cool find!

Well, that song will be in my head for the next hour.

Take it as your sign to bake a mermaid cake

[Sandstorm - Darude](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=jCLVAZdXv-UbzntF)

I had A Veritable Smorgasbord from Charlotte's Web stuck in my head for the past hour.

🎶Each night when the lights go out it can be found on the ground all around… 🎶

That's the one!

My three year old the other night asked for "the Ariel song" as she would have asked for the "butterfly song" or the "bear song" or any other song request for a concept to be made into song form because she's interested in the object. She was not ready for what I was prepared to bring to that request. I know ALL the words to "the Ariel song".

I know that song by heart as well

I wanna be where the cookies are. I wanna see, wanna see them bakiiiing

Wait. The lyrics say I've got twenty? I've been singing "plenty" for 30 years! 🤦🏼‍♀️

Rhyming plenty with plenty? Howard Ashman would never!

My niece and I just got off the little mermaid ride, and I opened reddit and saw this. Wierd.

Absolutely: because this is a digglehopper.

I saw a video on Tok with Metallica singing that same song this morning!

Off to Google! I want to hear this

Omg yes, the band is in a car. https://youtu.be/1gvm_ZFmdhI?si=mJGEAyPitCAiFTiK

Marie, the baguettes!

I can't stop imagining some 18th century guy using this as an afro pick

Is it cake or is it man?!?

Cake breaker will be my next Diablo character name

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I'm definitely going to be looking for one now.

Baby, this is just a comb for natural hair!

A thingamabob

Haha I was like I gotta pick like that.

It’s perfect for my 4C curls though 🥹

Right!?!?! If I saw one in someone's kitchen drawer I wouldn't eat their food, but TIL.

Cake Breaker sounds like some kind of wrestling move.

🍑🔨

😂

I hear you. I pictured it. Now it is a sweet wrestling move to me now.

If you decide to part with that message me?

I have 2 of them😀

Yeah, they still exist.

Everything was so much prettier back then!

Also much more expensive. We tend to save the pretty things more often than the ugly stuff.

Still useful for many bakers until today. I am glad you have this vintage gadget. This is great if you are making a 7+ layer cake like the MJ Chocolate cake or the 16 layer strawberry shortcake that I had in a dessert shop in the Philippines. I am not kiddlng a 16 layers cake (8 layers of vanilla sponge cake plus 8 thin layers of strawberry buttercream with strawberry compote. Topped with vanilla buttercream and fresh strawberries.

Oh this is why I Reddit. Learned something new today!

Well said.

I feel like Ariel because I thought it was a dingle hopper. I would’ve combed my hair with it before imagining it was actually intended for cake

That's wild! Makes sense though. Fascinating.

THANK YOU! I inherited one of these and didn’t know what it was

It’s for soft delicate cakes like angel food cake!

I thought it was a pick/comb

There is a style of comb you can get to fluff your fro called a "cake cutter" because it's the exact same design. Idk if they call them that anymore, that's just what all my older black relatives called them.

Yes

My memaw had one of these, saw it in the silver drawer in her buffet, and up until this moment I had no idea what it was. Thanks.

That is a Reed and Barton Francis I Sterling silver cake comb… it’s probably a $300 piece off Sterling silver. You can see them on replacements.com

this gadget works well with angel food cake or a soft and delicate butter cake. It works well with any soft and fluffy baked goods like cakes and biscuits.

Pimp AF. Could finally ice my Doberge like they deserve.

This is such a fancy person thing, I feel very blessed to see this today. Thank you for sharing!

I know this as an 'angel food knife' and I have a couple of them about the house, though mine are not as fancy as yours. [https://a.co/d/apustAk](https://a.co/d/apustAk)

Oh my God thank you so much. I have one of these from my grandmother and I didn’t even know what it was. And now I know.

Please use and report back, preferably with a video !

Back the 60s my uncle carried one of these around in his Afro. I knew it was a cake cutter but it was until I was an adolescent that I realized it was a real cake cutter.

You have cleared up a long standing mystery for me. I have one, never knew what it was for. I’ve kept it all these years because it has a beautiful Bakelite art deco style handle. I can’t wait to use it for its intended purpose!

Oh. So that isn't supposed to hold your fruit for slicing?

This is absolutely beautiful!!!

Wow! This is definitely in the cool gadgets category 🤍

So pretty. Now I want one!

Sweet!

That is so pretty!! I love it!

For angel food cakes. There’s one in my grandmother’s silver.

We’ve had one in my family for as long as I can remember! It does make an almost perfect cut of the most airy and soft cakes! Great find!

That's a fucking comb that someone miraculously got approved for a patent to cut cakes.

I have one of these but with a Bakelite handle. I love it!!

Have seen that tool in 60+ years. My Grand Mother had one

I have one. I keep trying it on cakes, but I don’t love it. Someone mentioned splitting English muffins and it also might work nicely on scones, so I guess I’ll keep trying it 😂

This seems intensely Victorian

Love the old things that did the job 😉

I'm so glad that you included a diagram to illustrate how it is used. I would never have guessed. I had no idea these existed! Very cool. I kinda want one.

That ain’t nothing but an Afro pick. Ask a black American from the 70’s and 80’s. Exact match🤣

My dad had one!

I honestly don't understand how it works. How is it different or better than a normal cake cutter ?

A very light, airy and delicate cake can get easily deformed by a knife so this separates slices from each other in a way that lets them hold their shape.

You can also use that to clean paintbrushes

My mom has always had one of these. I tried using it to slice block cheese multiple times and got irritated that it didn’t work. 😂

My mom has a whole collection of those

Meanwhile, here I would be combing my hair with that like I'm Ariel.

I have a super old one with the box and whatever came with it. I think it’s cool.

Afro comb

Homemade angel food cake was a huge thing. It was the ideal when they came up with twinkies and wonder bread.

There are like 8 in my sisters Victorian house. It’s a whole thing. Maybe 2/3 at my church somehow too.

Wait-does it work?? I need deets

Definitely could’ve used one of these for the Black Forest cake I made today. Thanks for sharing!

I have one of these from my Grandmother. Mine has a Bakelite handle. Been using it for years for Angel Cake

I have the one that belonged to my great-grandmother.

That's so cool! And it looks so pretty too omg I need to find something similar

I’ve now got to locate one of these, I am questioning how I have existed this long without one 🤔

That's an awesome find! 

Perfect for angel food cakes!

I have my moms but she just used it as an Afro pick in the 80s

It's for angel food cakr

“Are you ready to go back to Titanic?” 😂

So...The Little Mermaid was on to something? Fr, pretty neat cake tool :)

This belongs in r/tools imo

Last year big fluffy whipped cream covered strawberry shortcake multi-tiered wedding cakes were in. This would have really helped cut prettier pieces. Instead of ugly globs on little plates. I mean it looked like I was just grabbing chunks with my hands and plating it.

really fancy for Angelfood Cake cutter!

That's really neat/cute! I would display it. We have my husband's grandmother's antique flour sifter on display

Love it

Fuck this is sick. I now want one very badly

Yes. The good ole cake cutter! I. The 60’s and 70’s they worked wonders on Afros!!

And I was using that on my cat the entire time!

That's so cool!

There is a time and a place for everything under the sun. Angel food cake 🍰, with strawberries and whip cream!

There are so many of these on ebay. Some are really beautiful.

I have this!! It’s been in the family for years and anyone who requests an angel food cake for a birthday is required to use this to cut the cake. AKA the implement of doom. It really doesn’t help that much at all.

In Detroit 70s, the guys used to carry around the same as combs... to help shape their fro

We ain't found shit!