Abstract: A butterer for dispensing butter to hot corn on the cob. The butterer includes a two part body that is adapted to be disassembled for cleaning and a central channel for receiving butter. The body also removably receives salt and pepper dispensers. The body is ovate in cross section and shaped to conform to the hand of a user. A pusher is positioned over the butter in the channel and allows a user to urge butter through the channel. A lower grill resists direct contact of semisolid butter with the corn, but transfers heat from the corn and allows melted butter to pass to the corn. A stand and storage tray supports the butterer during non use and allows storage with butter therein in a refrigerator.

Abstract: A food holder or pusher for use with a manual food slicing device having a plurality of nested sections including a base section equipped with a food reservoir and a plunger section equipped with a grip surface having two finger receptacles that are provided to prevent a user's hand from inadvertently slipping off of the grip surface and onto the slicing device.

Abstract: An easily adjustable food slicer for cutting various foods having a frame with a sloped cutting surface that is equipped with interchangeable cutting blades that face a selectively positioned primary ramp that is pivotally joined to the frame opposite the location of the blades. The ramp is removable and has a non-abrasive, smooth surface that can be raised or lowered by the use of an infinitely-adjustable cam. The cam has a knob located on a side surface of the frame and can be adjusted at anytime before and during a process allowing a user to vary the thickness of the slice of food. Also provided is an alternative secondary ramp with an abrasive, grating surface for grating food that can be installed after removal of the primary ramp.

Abstract: A meat mallet for tenderizing and flattening meat with a handle, a neck and a head with interchangeable face plates. The face plates have a meat-engaging surface of varying patterns that can be flat, have outwardly projecting points of different sizes and shapes to accommodate meats having different connective tissues or other suitable tenderizing structure. The head has a partially hollow cavity that opens at a front end and stores the face plates in a nested configuration with the top-most plate being an in-use plate. The face plates have a perimeter support shoulder that facilitates the nesting configuration providing a perimeter support system while protecting the meat engaging surfaces of the face plates. A retainer ring has an inner threaded surface that threadedly engages an outer threaded surface of the front end of the head and allows the meat-engaging surface of the in-use plate to partially extend past the retainer ring to engage the subject meat.