Perfect toastie soldier machine

The Perfect Soldier Cutter is a £6 device to slice millimetre-accurate toastie soldiers out of slices of toasted bread, and it goes on sale shortly. The inventor is clearly my kind of obsessive:

The perforator is the brainchild of Mike Minton, a 37-year-old electronics engineer, who says the ideal soldier should be 22mm wide.

"I love egg soldiers but the one thing I hate is cutting up the toast, because it is fiddly, messy and time consuming," he said.

"There has always been a danger of cutting your soldiers too fat or too thin. If they are too fat then obviously they can't fit into the opened neck of the egg which is infuriating.

"But if the soldiers are too small then there's the risk of a catastrophic failure after they're dunked into the yolk. The simple act of withdrawing the soldier may cause it to break in half, forcing the person who is eating the egg to resort to a teaspoon."

Link (via Gizmodo)