Canter Bridge

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Let’s hear it for the small inventions in the $5 – $50 price range that make life just a bit simpler with understated design and solid performance.

The Kamenstein Stainless Paper Towel Holder belongs to the genre.

Its virtues are simple: weighty quality, attractive stainless-and-black appearance, and flawless solution of a problem that wasn’t measurably impeding humanity’s progress in the first place but was worth addressing by sheer dint of repetition.

The reason Kamenstein ventures the ‘Perfect Tear’ moniker seems to reduce to two features. A vertical peg on the perimeter of the holder’s wide base and the steady pressure-producing ‘click’ that exerts a bit of tension on the process of pulling off a sheet and then tearing it straight.

This wasn’t rocket science. But life just became one infinitesimal degree less taxing. I say ‘Hear! Hear!’.