`Raadvad' hand-operated bread slicer, comprising wooden bread trough, hinged iron chopping blade, and hooks for securing base to table, Danish, 1880-1900. Work Type. Domestic Appliances. Date.

A favorite of many an online sourdough girlie, the Zassenhaus bread slicer has actually been around for more than 100 years. Zassenhaus is a popular producer of kitchen products and other home ...

Layer cakes. I don’t use anything else when I need to divide a cake for stacking and frosting. A serrated knife will cut, not tear, the cake, and it’s long enough to reach all the way through it.

W hen sliced bread hit the market, American consumers weren’t sure just how great it was. On this day, July 7, in 1928, a bakery in Chillicothe, Mo., was the first to sell pre-cut bread using ...

This commercial bread-slicing machine was designed and manufactured in 1928 by Otto Frederick Rohwedder (1880-1960). ... Iowa, beginning in late 1928. This is Rohwedder's second automatic bread-slicer ...

The convenience of pre-sliced bread. 04 July 2011 • 7:00am Getting down to the business of slicing bread: Raadvad hand-operated bread slicer, c. 1880 Credit : Photo: SSPL/Getty Images ...