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Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

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Re: Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

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Post by jacobolus »

clove wrote: post #12
sandworm101 wrote: post #10

Read before attempting: https://newyorkerbagels.com/bagel-safety-dont-be-an-er-stati... Seriously. As any nurse about a "bagel injury" and they will know exactly what you are talking about. It is so common that it is addressed in some military first aid courses.

For problem number 1 listed in your link, the YouTube video I posted elsewhere in this thread is a solution. Moreover, my wife, who is a nurse, has never heard of "bagel injury."

The link claims there are 2 thousand bagel injuries per year. (Out of 3 billion bagels eaten per year.)

People should be careful with knives, but this is not the most serious risk modern people face. Living near cars is like 3+ orders of magnitude more dangerous.

Re: Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

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Post by jacobolus »

shakna wrote: post #39
clove wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For problem number 1 listed in your link, the YouTube video I posted elsewhere in this thread is a solution. Moreover, my wife, who is a nurse, has never heard of "bagel injury."

> Moreover, my wife, who is a nurse, has never heard of "bagel injury." Well, if we go by the numbers in the article... > Americans ate an estimated 3 billion bagels at home in 2011, an average of about 11 per person (this doesn’t include bagels eaten at work). And in the course of slicing up all those bagels, almost 2,000 people cut their fingers so badly that they ended up in an emergency room. You have roughly (ve…

> 0.24% chance of being one of those people injured, each day

2,000 / 330,000,000 / 365 = 0.00000166% chance of daily bagel injury. Not sure what calculation you did, but as far as I can tell it is off by 5 orders of magnitude.

Re: Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

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Post by sandworm101 »

jacobolus wrote: post #41
clove wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For problem number 1 listed in your link, the YouTube video I posted elsewhere in this thread is a solution. Moreover, my wife, who is a nurse, has never heard of "bagel injury."

The link claims there are 2 thousand bagel injuries per year. (Out of 3 billion bagels eaten per year.) People should be careful with knives, but this is not the most serious risk modern people face. Living near cars is like 3+ orders of magnitude more dangerous.

2000 that result in an ER visit. No doubt the vast majority do not require such attention. Few injuries involving cars go unreported.

Re: Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

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Post by s5300 »

sh4rks wrote: post #32

Stopped reading when I saw he drew on a perfectly good bagel with a sharpie. People have no respect for food nowadays.

Bit of an odd gripe IMO, but either way Sharpie ink is non-toxic & you’d have to ingest more than an entire marker to do any real harm.

Re: Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

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Post by shakna »

jacobolus wrote: post #42
shakna wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Moreover, my wife, who is a nurse, has never heard of "bagel injury." Well, if we go by the numbers in the article... > Americans ate an estimated 3 billion bagels at home in 2011, an average of about 11 per person (this doesn’t include bagels eaten at work). And in the course of slicing up all those bagels, almost 2,000 people cut their fingers so badly that they ended up in an emergency room. You have roughly (ve…

> 0.24% chance of being one of those people injured, each day 2,000 / 330,000,000 / 365 = 0.00000166% chance of daily bagel injury. Not sure what calculation you did, but as far as I can tell it is off by 5 orders of magnitude.

(2000 / (300000000 / 365)) * 100

You seem to have forgotten to move the decimal place to get a percentage.

Re: Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

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Post by phamilton »

mushyhammer wrote: post #40
sandworm101 wrote: post #10

Read before attempting: https://newyorkerbagels.com/bagel-safety-dont-be-an-er-stati... Seriously. As any nurse about a "bagel injury" and they will know exactly what you are talking about. It is so common that it is addressed in some military first aid courses.

I really hope this isn’t really that common. Like how bad do you have to be with a knife and do you really need someone to tell you it’s going to be a tad difficult to cut a frozen piece of bread? Basic safety tip: Don’t pull or point pointy bits towards your meaty bits.

This reminds me of a really interesting safety tip in the woodworking world: A chisel is always a two handed tool. Either two hands on the tool itself, or one hand on the chisel and another holding a mallet. Either way, the piece needs to be in a vice or otherwise rendered immobile.

Every dumb thing I've done with a chisel has been trying to use it at an odd angle or stabilizing the piece with one hand and holding the chisel in the other.

Re: Mathematically correct breakfast: How to slice a bagel into two linked halves (2009)

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Post by na85 »

bryans wrote: post #13

> In additional to the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area. As someone who uses half of a brick per bagel regardless of size, I'd say surface area is a non-limiting factor for cream cheese application. If you want more cream cheese, just have more cream cheese -- it's delicious, on top of being more filling (and arguably healthier) than the bagel itself.

I used to love cream cheese until I looked at the ingredients list. Buncha weird ass bean gums and stuff. No thanks.

Now I use ricotta, or just butter.

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