Best thing since sliced bread

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In July of 1928, the world experienced the event to which every other scientific accomplishment is compared. Pre-sliced bread first appeared on store shelves and marked a key step in the mechanization of daily life.

Iowa-born jeweler Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented a crude prototype of his bread slicer in 1912, but a series of problems, including a fire that destroyed his blueprints as well as the prototype, prevented him from refining the design and building a working model until 1928.


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Thanks for interesting factoid. The summer camp I went to had a slicer in the kitchen. Since I bake 2 loaves a week in the Zojirushi, I have often wondered what happened to it
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Originally Posted By: KGMtech
Excellent! my wife (blonde) gets it mixed up and often blurts out "best thing since sliced chicken!"
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Sliced chicken is really a good thing.
 
Pre-sliced bread pretty much means its not good bread though... Most of the time my wife bakes bread and with a good bread knife its not a big deal to slice it, plus you customize the thickness for each kids sandwich.
 
I could never slice homemade bread thin enough. But I certainly prefer it.
 
Originally Posted By: supton
I could never slice homemade bread thin enough. But I certainly prefer it.

I think we have a couple past threads about knifes/preparation knifes... and how to keep them sharp/sharpen them....
 
Originally Posted By: pandus13
Originally Posted By: supton
I could never slice homemade bread thin enough. But I certainly prefer it.

I think we have a couple past threads about knifes/preparation knifes... and how to keep them sharp/sharpen them....


I can't draw a straight line, much less cut one. yeah, I can get something to guide the knife. At the moment, it's just easier to buy a loaf of bread.
 
Originally Posted By: KGMtech
Excellent! my wife (blonde) gets it mixed up and often blurts out "best thing since sliced chicken!"
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Reminds me of my SO who makes some of the most awkward and strange analogies I've ever heard.
 
Sliced bread is nasty bread, I usually stay away from it.
I very much prefer slicing my own baked bread with a knife as I needed, fresh and more satisfying, like changing your own oil...
 
Originally Posted By: supton
Originally Posted By: pandus13
Originally Posted By: supton
I could never slice homemade bread thin enough. But I certainly prefer it.

I think we have a couple past threads about knifes/preparation knifes... and how to keep them sharp/sharpen them....


I can't draw a straight line, much less cut one. yeah, I can get something to guide the knife. At the moment, it's just easier to buy a loaf of bread.

...kneading the bread? (hand made bread... is going to be a work out better then your bike...)
my ultimate creation was french baguettes on a Saturday morning....

you can think of as training for christmas decorations....

...and anybody complaining about straight lines, "...remember about how the settlers lived" ?
 
Originally Posted By: supton
I could never slice homemade bread thin enough. But I certainly prefer it.

I see from time to time bread slicing guides at the local thrift store. I myself like bread on the thick side. Have a 50 plus year old toaster and it can digest a slice about 3/4 inch or just throw them in the toaster oven buttered for a real treat. The flavor of toasting the bread with the butter is great, especially with some home made raspberry jam
 
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Originally Posted By: andyd
Thanks for interesting factoid. The summer camp I went to had a slicer in the kitchen. Since I bake 2 loaves a week in the Zojirushi, I have often wondered what happened to it
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I also bake about two loaves a week in the Zojirushi. Been doing it for years now and have gotten good at slicing bread. I slice those Zojirushi loaves into 12 slices. Rarely do I mess one up.
 
Used to get sent down the road to get one and a half loaves of bread, they were just wrapped with a piece of paper. Getting home the half loaf would be hollowed out, I think that's why the extra half loaf...my grandmother must've seen a lot of hollow half loaves.
 
Originally Posted By: supton
I can't draw a straight line, much less cut one. yeah, I can get something to guide the knife. At the moment, it's just easier to buy a loaf of bread.

I know what you mean. If I have to slice bread myself, it looks like I took a hatchet to it. My mom used to often bake her own bread, so when I was a kid, she would get rather frustrated with me vandalizing a loaf.
 
Originally Posted By: KGMtech
Excellent! my wife (blonde) gets it mixed up and often blurts out "best thing since sliced chicken!"
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Oh it's quite all right.
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I can't carve chicken (or turkey) either, so the analogy works there too for me (do love me a good sammich).

I do like my bread maker (well the wife uses it). But the sandwiches come out a bit on the large side.

Hmm, been a while since I've made bread; maybe next week I should try again. Shake up the diet a bit.
 
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