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Inspired by a store bought loaf that had a really thick, difficult to cut crust.
The Perforator is an advancement over the common slotted bread slicing rack. Literally, you place it OVER one of those, as a guide for a needle/awl/pointy thing you use before trying to slice the bread.
With the bread
in the rack, you press down on the needle's handle, piercing the crust and continuing downward through the loaf. Then withdraw the needle, reposition it a bit to the side, and repeat as many times as it takes to make a row of closely spaced holes through the loaf. For some loaves you might also want to reposition the needle guide to make another line of holes through the side, crossing the lines already made top to bottom.
The perforations make it easier to slice through a thick crust. They can also solve the opposite problem - letting you slice through a freshly baked, softer loaf without squashing or tearing it.
See also : Slicing a banana without peeling it.
See also : Fork Split English Muffins. Which are neither English nor Muffins, but a vaguely related concept.
Slicing a banana without peeling it
https://www.youtube...watch?v=PcZ35D981hI
[a1, Oct 30 2023]
Fork Split English Muffins
https://www.mashed....g-your-entire-life/
[a1, Oct 30 2023]
Muffins
https://www.google....printsec=frontcover
Mrs Beeton gives pretty detailed multi-stage instructions. [pocmloc, Oct 30 2023]
Thomas' English Muffins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas'
[a1, Oct 30 2023]
Non-orientable_20sandwiches
Another area of food preparation in which topology is very, very important [hippo, Oct 31 2023]
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They just look like muffins to me. |
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Is there some other kind of muffin? American muffins? Now I am curious. |
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Added link to Mrs Beeton (1861) who is very clear that they are a normal English thing and are called "muffins". These Americans have some very strange ideas sometimes! |
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[pocmloc], thank you for the book link. Truly, I had never thought much about how they were made. And for good reason - even Mrs Beeton said they're not easy to make, and more commonly purchased than manufactured at home. |
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The Thomas' brand has been a breakfast staple for me, for as long as I can remember. |
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Yes as far as I can see Thomas in the US seems to have taken an old traditional English item and introduced it to the US market. And then (from reading online) it seems that more recently a mythology arose that they are a uniquely American thing with no English antecedents. |
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I remember occasionally having (bought) muffins as a tea-time thing when I was a child in England. But no, I have never tried home-baking them. |
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// more recently a mythology arose that they are a uniquely American thing with no English antecedents // |
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I don't know if I'd go that far, but my very British wife sort of scoffs at these things. Not proper muffins, she says. Though when I've visited there I'm not sure I figured out what a proper one was either. |
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Also doubles up as a witchfinder instrument of torture..... (in the spirit of 8th) |
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Pricking with a needle works better as a cure for arthritis than it does for witchfinding..... (in the spirit of Pratchett & Gaiman). |
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Sewing your loaf? Sounds prurient. This is a problem only where there is good bread. Most of us will not need this device, unfortunately. |
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Crumpets, of course, are already perforated. |
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Depends how you define "perforated". |
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Maybe I should say "inforated". It's not a real word, but it reflects the fact that the holes don't go all the way through. |
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Or I could say that the upper surface of a crumpet is perforated, and the lower surface not, so as to keep the melted butter in. |
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Or I could say, "Mmm, crumpets!" |
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No I was not thinking topologically but causationally. The holes in a crumpet are caused by bubbles rising to the surface and popping, whereas to me at least "perforated" implies the holes being created by an object which pierces the surface (for example, a fork). By this definition a round of shortbread is perforated but a crumpet is merely holey. |
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I think you're mistaking indentation for holes. Wholly different topology. |
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In kitchen topology "hole" is standardly used as the terminology for blind holes. Through-holes are also called holes but everyone knows the difference from context. Indentations are different, not topologically but geometrically defined. |
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Do golf balls have holes? Do bowling balls? |
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Sorry I was drawing pictures of holes, hence mistakenly saying topography. |
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//Do golf balls have holes?// |
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No they have dimples (which are not the same as indentations) |
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//Do bowling balls?// No they are smooth |
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[hippo] - thank you for mentioning Non-orientable Sandwiches. Now I can stare off into space for the rest of the afternoon trying to guess how the pinpoint perforator might work on a Möbius Bagel. |
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aLL EXISTANT OBJECTS ASRE 3 DIMENSIONAL |
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That's a bOLD sTATEMONT [voice]. |
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Nothing exists. Everything is an illusion. |
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But how many DIMENSIONS are there in the illusion of a pumpernickel Möbius bagel? |
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