• Skua
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    703 months ago

    My greatest ever achievement in the kitchen was that time I successfully cut a bagel into two interlocked rings like this

    • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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      293 months ago

      This doesn’t seem possible, but it’s probable enough that I have thought about it way too long and I will probably have a dream about it in the near future.

      • troybot [he/him]
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        133 months ago

        Judging by the picture the slice is done in a spiral which results in two Mobius bagels

      • Natanael
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        3 months ago

        It’s sliced along the center, rotating the axis of slice 360 degrees as it goes along the circle, cutting it in two halves which interlock

        • @jaaake@lemmy.world
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          63 months ago

          Stage 2 is for some hardware techbro to invent an artisanal moebius toasting methodology, and then suddenly even most white people can’t afford to live there.

      • Skua
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        43 months ago

        There has been recognition of a particularly useful application of Möbius strips for a long time: belts in machinery wear out slower if they’re Möbius strips, because that way the contact with the shafts is split between both sides of the belt. The oldest example of this usage I know of is from a 13th century engineer in the region of modern-day Iraq and Syria

  • @1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    263 months ago

    Wheres the part that starts off as a perfect half bagel at one side but is barely atoms thick by the time you get to the other?

    • @other_cat@lemmy.zip
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      13 months ago

      I’m guessing a humorous exaggeration? I’ve accidentally cut bread off a loaf into weirdly thin/wedge slices but bagels I tend to nail pretty consistently.

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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    53 months ago

    Do y’all really have trouble cutting bagels, or is this one of those things everyone just sort of claims as a running gag or, like, memetic knowledge? Sometimes one side is a little thicker than the other, but mostly I have no trouble cutting bagels. Could be because I grew up eating a lot of bagels, and learned young?