We all seem to cut our cakes the same way. We take triangular slices. Why do we do this? Perhaps it’s aesthetics. Perhaps we’re just indolent and thoughtless. The result of our slicing, however, is that the parts around the slices we’ve cut become dry and unpleasant to the mouth. Especially if we put the cake back in the fridge overnight. “You’re not maximizing the amount of gastronomic pleasure,” says Bellow. And in today’s world, just as in math, if you’re not maximizing, you are a mini human. In 1906, however, mathematician Francis Galton had already explained to cake-wasters to cut it out. He insisted that if you slice the cake across the middle and take the first piece from there, you will not only have the most perfectly moist piece first, but also allow for the cake to be closed up again when it’s put into the fridge. https://youtube/watch?v=wBU9N35ZHIw
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 07:51:52 +0000
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