Patent ID: 7954408

Claim:
A manually operable culinary apparatus for slicing an existing bread product, said manually operable culinary apparatus comprising: a bottom cradle having a plurality of walls configured to define a receiving cavity therebetween; a plurality of support plates intercalated between anterior and posterior ones of said walls and providing a plurality of support edges onto which the existing bread product is held; a cutting implement detachably engaged with said bottom cradle in such a manner that said cutting implement is abutted directly on said bottom cradle when vertically and linearly displaced along a vertical plane such that a bottom-most tip of said cutting implement traveling beyond said support edges and terminates medially between said support edges respectively; and means for selectively adjusting first and second lateral spatial distances defined between said support plates and said anterior and posterior walls respectively; wherein said first and second spatial distance adjusting means comprises: first and second inserts positioned within said receiving cavity and abutted directly against said anterior and posterior walls respectively; and a plurality of clips positioned about respective top edges of said anterior and posterior walls as well as said first and second inserts such that said first and second inserts remain statically coupled to said anterior and posterior walls during slicing operations.