Foil Cutter

For 'Macro Mondays' theme of 'Cutter'

 

How things have changed over a lifetime!

 

Then any food leftover was put into a basin, covered with a piece of muslin, and stored on the cool slate slab shelf in the pantry - that is if there was anything left over which was very rare.

 

Now we can wrap it in metal foil and put it in the refrigerator. A plastic dispenser holds the foil we use - 30cm wide and 50m long. Cutting it used to be a pain but now the dispenser flap there is a metal cutting strip. You open the lid, pull out the length of foil needed and then snap the lid down hard. The cutter does its job and you have the piece of foil you need.

In an attempt to recycle as much as possible, the plastic dispenser goes into one bin - except for that metal cutting edge in the lid. Using pliers I extract that and drop it into another recycling bin, but not before rolling or folding the metal cutting strip!

 

So, what you see here is a piece of rolled cutting edge from the foil dispenser - obviously not all of the edge.

 

Russian Industar 61 L/Z 2.8/50mm lens ....................... about 2 inches

Done