Patent ID: 7249550

Claim:
A culinary tool for slicing a cylindrical roll of cookie dough, said culinary tool comprising: a base member having a planar bottom surface and an arcuate top surface arranged in such a manner that the entire cylindrical roll of cookie dough fits thereon, said arcuate top surface being contoured symmetrically to an outer surface of the cylindrical roll of cookie dough such that a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical roll of cookie dough lays along a horizontal plane and parallel to a longitudinal axis of said base member during slicing operations, said base member being provided with a plurality of grooves equidistantly spaced along the longitudinal length thereof, said grooves traverses the longitudinal length of the cylindrical roll of cookie dough; and a slicing section pivotally conjoined directly to axially opposed ends of said base member, said slicing section being rearwardly offset from a center of said base member and being repeatedly pivotal along a fulcrum axis registered parallel to the longitudinal axis of said base member such that said slicing section penetrates downwardly through said grooves and stops adjacent to said bottom surface of said base member so that the cylindrical roll of cookie dough becomes completely severed into a plurality of disc-shaped segments defined by said grooves; wherein said slicing section comprises a unitary and U-shaped handle having opposed ends directly connected to said ends of said base member; first and second anchor rods having axially opposed ends statically and directly connected to said U-shaped handle and registered parallel to the longitudinal axis of said base member; and a plurality of equidistantly spaced slicing implements having axially opposed end portions permanently affixed directly to said first and second anchor rods, said slicing implements having a fixed spatial relationship equal to a fixed spatial relationship of said grooves such that said slicing implements enter corresponding ones of said grooves when said slicing section is pivoted to a lowered position.