High Frequency Food: Better Cutting with Ultrasonics
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·March 22, 2025MostlyStable
Depending on how much it would cost to hack together a version of this at home, this might actually solve a home food cutting problem I have, haha. I'll have to look into it.
shalmanese
Electric carving knives were all the rage in the 90s and they genuinely cut through squishy things (meat, soft breads, tomatoes) far more cleanly than manual knives but the improvement wasn't worth a seperate tool so they've mostly disappeared from the market, despite the proliferation of a billion other special purpose tools.
ipsum2
A non-ultrasonic but high frequency knife made at home: https://youtu.be/dN2jhnWNyxs?t=324
MostlyStable
Haha, that's funny, but that's basically what electric knives already are, right?
bschmidt731
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fosterfriends
This is so cool. Alas, probably no way to get at home
kragen
Also, waterjet.
_blk
Very cool but I've already settle for this other way of cutting... Limited usefulness on foods although it doesn't stick either https://youtube.com/shorts/K6mi8MFPoog?si=R5K4X7q6gMp00zxN
bschmidt703
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bschmidt771
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It still smashed the bread quite a bit in the demo video, the difference wasn't super obvious until they held the loaf up. I wonder how representative that demonstration is, because the text mentions a combination of moving blade and food platform.