Cutting a bagel

[IronWing]

Bagels are insulators though.

You're not using enough butter.

 

[Rubycon]

You're not using enough butter.

Too much butter is very bad for you.
When you get my age you have to watch these things. :'(

 

[IronWing]

Too much butter is very bad for you.
When you get my age you have to watch these things. :'(

Oh oh. Better get an updated pic. Don't want to go through temporal shock.

 

[BladeVenom]

Problem is the process is ablative so you have the darkest toasted edge imaginable. Would you eat a piece of bread that was used as a heat shield on a spacecraft? D:

If you want to cut it with laser precision without ablation a 50k psig jet cutter will do wonders.

Watch them cut food with a laser. Little to no excess burning.
Bread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqp4M4xEmXQ
Pizza http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3KSfVU5aw
Engraved apple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVmOSBydEOc

 

[Rubycon]

Watch them cut food with a laser. Little to no excess burning.
Bread http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqp4M4xEmXQ
Pizza http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3KSfVU5aw
Engraved apple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVmOSBydEOc

Try eating it though. D:

 

[Rubycon]

Had a bagel this AM, reminded me of this thread.
Bagels are yummy! :thumbsup:

 

[Red Squirrel]

Table saw would be the best bet, adjust it so the blade is half it's thickness from the side bar, pass the bagel through vertically, rotating it once it's in the blade. Sounds unsafe though.

You could place two heavy objects to hold it vertical and cut it with a mitre saw too. Use the finest tooth blade you've got. If you go slow enough, it will even toast it for you.

 

[KLin]

http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Cut...0880091&sr=8-1

I'd go buy one of those. Smart and Final has them for like 10-15 bucks.

 

[Rubycon]

Table saw would be the best bet, adjust it so the blade is half it's thickness from the side bar, pass the bagel through vertically, rotating it once it's in the blade. Sounds unsafe though.

You could place two heavy objects to hold it vertical and cut it with a mitre saw too. Use the finest tooth blade you've got. If you go slow enough, it will even toast it for you.

That's not a safe way to use a table saw! NEVER allow the stock to move with the blade or prepare to get it tossed. Granted a bagel is soft compared to oak. A ten inch blade all the way out should afford decent depth to cut an average bagel. Just don't use your hand to keep it pressed against the rip fence. A good blade will cut very clean instantly. A blade in poor shape may pull a bit and tear. If you hog in and it grabs let go, it's food for the dust collector vac!

 

[Squisher]

That's not a safe way to use a table saw! NEVER allow the stock to move with the blade or prepare to get it tossed. Granted a bagel is soft compared to oak. A ten inch blade all the way out should afford decent depth to cut an average bagel. Just don't use your hand to keep it pressed against the rip fence. A good blade will cut very clean instantly. A blade in poor shape may pull a bit and tear. If you hog in and it grabs let go, it's food for the dust collector vac!

I would think you'd wand to use a sled.


I've seen some interesting uses of die room equipment used for food preparation. Most notable the heat treat furnaces for grilling steaks.

 

[Rubycon]

I have a LOT of respect for cabinet saws. Learned how to use it last summer.
Honestly I would stick with my original recommendation of using a coping saw blade after wiping it down with 99% IPA.

Come to think of it there is nothing wrong with eating a bagel whole, unsliced just warmed a tad in the radarrange. If that isn't available hanging in front of a large quartz work light will do.

 

[DrPizza]

I'm going to bet that in a bread bakery, where they make the sliced bread, the bread slicing mechanism is far more similar to a bandsaw than a lathe.

 

[Rubycon]

I'm going to bet that in a bread bakery, where they make the sliced bread, the bread slicing mechanism is far more similar to a bandsaw than a lathe.

Guillotine would be the closest.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's not a safe way to use a table saw! NEVER allow the stock to move with the blade or prepare to get it tossed. Granted a bagel is soft compared to oak. A ten inch blade all the way out should afford decent depth to cut an average bagel. Just don't use your hand to keep it pressed against the rip fence. A good blade will cut very clean instantly. A blade in poor shape may pull a bit and tear. If you hog in and it grabs let go, it's food for the dust collector vac!

But imagine the stories if you lost your hand!

"I was cutting a bagel and..."

 

[Howard]

Guillotine would be the closest.

Not for soft breads.

 

[DrPizza]

Guillotine would be the closest.

Been a long time since I was in the Strohmann's plant, but I don't think it was like a guillotine at all. More like a bunch of parallel blades acting like scroll saws.

Here's a slicer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qaSdepNSqk

 

[Rubycon]

Not for soft breads.

Bagels aren't soft.

 

[Howard]

Bagels aren't soft.

But sliced bread can be, which is what DrPizza was talking about.

 

[Red Squirrel]

A 1kw laser would also work, it has no "drag" so it will make a nice perfect cut, and leave a nicely toasted surface.

 

[Rubycon]

But sliced bread can be, which is what DrPizza was talking about.

This thread is about bagels though.
And that bread is pretty gross. D:

A 1kw laser would also work, it has no "drag" so it will make a nice perfect cut, and leave a nicely toasted surface.

That was covered previously. Unless you like your toast to taste like it was used as an ablative heat shield from an Apollo mission, I would pass.

 

[Exterous]

Honestly I would stick with my original recommendation of using a coping saw blade after wiping it down with 99% IPA.

Pft -thats too boring

I'm going to bet that in a bread bakery, where they make the sliced bread, the bread slicing mechanism is far more similar to a bandsaw than a lathe.

Hey - the lathe did an acceptable job with less risk of injury and without the need for a bagel cutting jig

 

[sleep]

We were debating the best way to cut a bagel in absense of your 'typical' utensils since we have a small shop but apparently no knives in the kitchenette

who in this world thinks this way.