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Screw the Normal way when you can do it the Scientific Way!!!
Screw the Normal way when you can do it the Scientific Way!!!
The Scientific Way to Cut a Cake
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Andy M.
Certified Pretend Chef
The early pieces are more cake and less frosting than a traditionally cut cake. The last four pieces are more frosting and less cake. Also, those stupid rubber bands would make a mess.
Not to mention, if you bake and store the cake properly, it won't really dry out between slices.
Not to mention, if you bake and store the cake properly, it won't really dry out between slices.
Whiskadoodle
Executive Chef
Tip a mixing bowl over the top if you don't have a "cake saver" pan.
Put a piece of plastic wrap over the cake. Poke the cake top with toothpicks so the frosting doesn't stick to the plastic.
Eat all the cake. Or, Send a piece home with everyone. There. (dusts hands.) No leftover cake to dry out.
Put a piece of plastic wrap over the cake. Poke the cake top with toothpicks so the frosting doesn't stick to the plastic.
Eat all the cake. Or, Send a piece home with everyone. There. (dusts hands.) No leftover cake to dry out.
I'm all for the scientific method. I soooo love licking frosting off my hands.
GLC
Head Chef
What the scientists failed to consider....
In the news, word that "scientists" have determined that there is a better way to cut a cake to keep it from drying out.
A Scientifically Smarter Way to Cut Cake - ABC News
This may help some people, but I feel they largely wasted their time. In my experience, few cakes stay around long enough to dry out.
In the news, word that "scientists" have determined that there is a better way to cut a cake to keep it from drying out.
A Scientifically Smarter Way to Cut Cake - ABC News
This may help some people, but I feel they largely wasted their time. In my experience, few cakes stay around long enough to dry out.
jabbur
Master Chef
I rarely make layer cakes anyway. Most of the time it's a sheet cake in a 9x13 pan with frosting on top. Put the lid that comes with the pan on when we're done for the day and no dry cake.
Kayelle
Chef Extraordinaire
That guy is so annoying I could only watch half of it. The second rubber band was enough for me. 
When cutting a wedding cake or other large layers we cut it in slices like that and then portion them out. But this is slightly on the silly side. If you don't want your open edges to dry out, use a cake cover, plastic wrap, zipper bag, etc.
Elastics?
Oh, and who only cuts one slice of cake a day?
Elastics?
Oh, and who only cuts one slice of cake a day?
roadfix
Chef Extraordinaire
I can relate and I can do this! After all, I liked geometry in the 10th grade and was good at it.
Roadfix, would you like me to bake you a cake so you can practice? 
Mad Cook
Master Chef
My mother always cut the Christmas rich fruit cake this way because her mother did and so on.
If this is what scientists do all day we must be paying them too much.
Not so long ago some "scientists" at a British university proved that babies will stop crying and go to sleep if you (wait for it......) ROCK THEIR CRADLES!!!!
Shock! Why has no-one discovered this before? They also worked out the precise speed and tempo of rocking that produced the quietest babies.
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