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Regular loaves of bread have pre-slicing technology figured out, so what is it with bagels and English muffins? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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[–] vivavideri 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First job was panera bread many moons ago. The bagel slicer is essentially a chute with a saw blade. Sometimes an oblong bagel would slice badly, or the blade would come loose, resulting in poor performance.

The technology exists, and certainly could be improved, but that costs money and god forbid innovation eat into profits 🥯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I once ate at a residence hall cafeteria where they had these fuckin bagel guillotines that you basically positiones your bagel in as if it was the head of a hapless French aristocrat and you could be all like vive le revolución and chop those fuckers. But they'd all seen so many bagels without sharpening that they required great strength to slice through a chewy bagel. In fact they probably slowed down the process.

The moral of the story is that bagels are hard to slice on a large scale.