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A properly-sliced bagel would be the best thing since sliced bread.
by properly sliced, I assume you mean like this:
you monster, you.
No, that's just evil.
Lmao legit thought this was sliced chicken breast 😅
this is because you are a normal person. not a bagel-defiling monster.
Idk man, aren’t bagels just failed donuts? 😆
Nope. not at all. I mean, yes, they have the same amount (or sometimes even more,) calories, but, like, totally different. Also, I discovered it's super easy to troll colleagues at work. (I may have brought in lots of bagels and left 2/3's of one bread sliced on a plate.)(They had it coming... they drank all the coffee.)
Lol. Grew up an hour from St Louis and I still don't know how people prefer sliced bagels like those. I like to butter my bagels or some other schmear. I don't want to eat a dry bagel and I also don't want to walk around with a dip
I mean, I just assume that it was something that Panera or whoever did to give out samples, which is an entirely reasonable form of sacrilege…. And that one idiot made it go viral.
While you were dicking around with sliced loaves, we were studying the blade.
Now we can slice our own bakery products.
In Germany, English muffins are pre-sliced 90% of the way.
That said: Fresh cut bread tastes better anyway.
I don’t want my English muffins sliced at all, personally, and I agree about freshly sliced bread…
…but…
In the US, pre-sliced bagels are the worst. They’re the fucking worst! In a package of 6 bagels, at least 4 will not be sliced in the middle, so you get one “half” with 75% of the bagel, and the other “half” just disintegrates. Of the ones that are sliced in the middle, they leave a line of uncut area for godknowswhy and trying to tear it apart usually fucks up one of the halves.
One shouldn’t have to pull out a sharp knife to open a pre-sliced bagel!
And don’t even get me started on toasters with a bagel function…
This is because they know if you are buying a bag of pre-sliced bagels you don’t care about quality and they figure they can just phone it in.
In much of the USA, bags of pre-sliced bagels are the only kind available. If you are not in a large urban center, that is all you likely have access to.
I’m gonna have to disagree with you on that one, bud.
I have been to places where the only reasonably close food is a piggly wiggly or a dollar general and that’s it, but most towns over ~35,000 people have some sort of grocery store with a bakery department. The vast majority of the US population lives less than 20 minutes drive from such a town.
I’d also argue that if you don’t live near a decent grocery store you have likely accepted a lack of amenities and would make your own bagels if that’s something you really cared about.
You don't "open" a bagel like a pop can, that's why they're ripping.
You "twist" it like a bottle, and it should split evenly 99% of the time.
The middle being connected is so you don't just have a bag of bagel halves.
I get that, but it’s executed poorly. If only 20-30% of the time they’re cut properly to do the twist move, it’s still a failure. I’d rather have a bag of disconnected bagel halves or have to cut them myself than the BS currently available in my local market.
I mean, I honestly can't remember buying bagels at the store and ever having one that isn't connected still.
Not that I eat a crazy amount of bagels tho.
You need a bagel stabber like this one Just insert bagel and stab, no more worries. Oh and buy real bakery bagels not grocery store ones.
I get pre-sliced bagels and English muffins all the time... 🤨
Maybe check out other brands than what you've been buying?
Well, for Thomas' English muffin all you have to do is little squeeze around the whole edges until it comes apart. No knife nor fork required.
Yum crumbs. Unless you developed the touch.
Muffins shouldn't be neatly sliced. Make the internal surface as rough as possible to hold more melted butter.
That's what the air pockets are for
Our frozen bagels are mostly fine 🤷♂️
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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