• bob_lemon@feddit.de
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    In Germany, English muffins are pre-sliced 90% of the way.

    That said: Fresh cut bread tastes better anyway.

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      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…

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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        Wait, what’s wrong with toasters that have a bagel function? It’s way better than toasters that don’t. Only toasting the open faced side of the bagel means you are still able to touch the outside without burning your fingers while the inside is actually toasted enough to be crispy. Without the bagel setting on a toaster, the only other option you have is a toaster oven or doing it by stove top. Toaster is way more convenient than either of those.

        Unless you mean cheap toasters that have a poorly implemented bagel option, rather than full separate control of all heating elements. But you didn’t specify cheap toasters. A good toaster is pretty important, so don’t buy it at wal-mart, and don’t get a cheap one from a proper store either. A top of the line toaster is a pretty cheap luxury, spoil yourself in an affordable way.

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          I’ve only seen one toaster properly implement the bagel function properly, and it was $200. Every other toaster up to $130 that I’ve tried has failed miserably, often toasting the outside more than the inside. They all aim to “warm” the outside and end up toasting it at least a little.

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            often toasting the outside more than the inside

            So, unless I’m mistaking your meaning that’s where I’d flip each bagel half 180 degrees before putting it in the toaster so the inside half faces the “more toasty” side of the toaster’s heating elements…unless I’m completely misunderstanding you?

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              flip…180 degrees

              I tried that as well, but it didn’t work, I think the bagels were too thick to have it work properly. It just comes down to bad design, imho.

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            HolyfuckingshitthemostIwouldspendistwentydollarsonafuckingtoaster. inhale

    • GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.socialOP
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      It’s not that they’re not “pre-sliced” it’s that they’re pre-sliced poorly. Either they’re still connected in the middle and trying to cleanly pull them apart is frustratingly rare or they’re sliced unevenly resulting in a 80/20 bagel experience. All too often it can be both.

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        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 🥯

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          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.

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            Pretend you want both, what sentence would you tell someone going to shop for you to express that?

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              “Muffins” would be English muffins. For the other kind, we would specify flavour if we’re asking someone to buy it for us. So I might say “Can you get muffins and also chocolate muffins please?”

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                I feel as though bringing you a bran muffin and a chocolate muffin would fulfill that and you would be out your “muffin” muffin. You guys should start calling them separate things.

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                  Maybe in America, but if you brought me a bran muffin when I asked for a muffin, you’d be in the wrong here. That’s just how it is shrugs

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    While you were dicking around with sliced loaves, we were studying the blade.

    Now we can slice our own bakery products.

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    Muffins shouldn’t be neatly sliced. Make the internal surface as rough as possible to hold more melted butter.

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    We used to get a brand of bagels here that were fully pre-sliced because they were in the same style of bag as a loaf of bread. So being fully sliced wasn’t a problem, they weren’t gonna shuffle around in that bag. Not sure why they aren’t all like that. Also despite being fully sliced, they did still stick together a little bit while fresh. But it was only their humidity holding them together, once they got a bit stale the halves fell apart from eachother.

    But yeah, not sure why that is so rare, I can’t think of a downside to it that other manufacturers are trying to avoid. Maybe different types of bagels need different solutions? The ones we used to get were cinnamon raisin.