You can have your cake and eat it too. Fresh as a daisy every time you cut a slice.
London-based author Alex Bellos has unearthed a secret trick to cutting your next birthday cake that is more than a hundred years old.
Bellos has released the trick for all to try via his Youtube account Numberphiles and it’s very interesting.
Mainly because anything to do with cake is interesting, because – cake.
He begins by showing us the good ol’ fashioned way – the wedge cut. It’s the popular cut of choice for the average cake-lover.
How good does that look.
Don't get too excited though, because before long we're introduced to a scientific study originally introduced by Francis Galton in 1906. A study which says we've been doing it all WRONG.
So apparently we've got to get our cake-cutting shit together.
We need to be cutting the slices in a PARALLEL fashion.
Now once you've cut your parallel slice, you push the two halves of the cake BACK TOGETHER. Thus avoiding leaving any part of the spongy inner cake open to the elements of your fridge. No more dry edges.
At this point I'm drooling because he keeps cutting slices and none of them are being eaten (who does this?)
Especially when he keeps the two halves together with a rubber band???
As it continues though, I see the logic. I see the cake-eating benefits, which are the best kind of benefits.
So trust in the science here, and have your cake.
And eat it again, too.
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