Bagel slicer

Multi blade knife (knife stack with spacers) and a gauge block for depth. people like it to be "hand cut" so you can't take away all the hand work.

Koz

Tom Gardner wrote:

Can you post a photo of a properly cut bagel (poppy seed would be nice)?

At my local coffee shop they use a plastic knife guide that more-or-less cuts the bagel in half, then pop it into the conveyorized toaster.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

The place I stop in at near work sends the bagels whizzing down a high speed conveyer behind the glass fronted counter.

At the far end they encounter a wicked looking spinning blade like the ones in that Indy Jones "Holy Grail" movie and are sliced by it faster than you can say Jill Robinson.

I get a creepy feeling just watching it...I makes my hands curl up into fists and move behind me.

Jeff

You don't need a slicer.

You need a "Bagel Knurler!"

Jim

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I was at a tractor/stationary engine show last summer, and was admiring a pto driven crosscut circular saw. The owner was about to yank me back, until he saw me keeping my distance with my hands behind my back. When I told him I operated machine tools since I was 12, he was comforted even further.

I like to keep my appendages away from the moving bits, and I am well aware that hot coffee can burn me, too.

Well and good, but is it kosher to put the mark of the cross on a bagel?

-- Jeff

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:44:40 GMT, "Tom Gardner" vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email

Re a p[revious discussion. I cannot resist. Use a flame cutter and run it on LOx!

Ganged blades mounted on a specially built arbor, powered by a Dewalt sliding compound miter saw, with a CNC rotary table for the bagel.

OH, damn. You said "cheap". How about a knife and low paid employee? :) Greg

Perhaps we could ties this up with the "What does a shaper do?" thread.

Paul K. Dickman

The next time I went into the bagel

That would be a good start. Tom, the counterperson in the place (Finagleabagel) flips the bagel against the inside of the glass display case and the bagel falls on a belt conveyor. A horizontally mounted spinning saw blade is positioned to cut the bagel in half. The bagel self feeds into the teeth and is spit out the other side of the blade. You could add two sets of vertical gang saws with a vertical tangential roller in between to spin the half-bagels to produce a cross effect. The saw blade doesn't do anything for the flavor, but what can one expect of a bagel in Boston?

Kevin (I'm from Jersey) Gallimore

Wow! You must buy _really tough_ bagels.

Place a series of blades in a board with the blades up. Have a pusher that will slide the bagel over the knife blades scoring it. Rotate the bagel 90 degrees and repeat. Take out lots of liability insurance. Remember if you make it idiot proof they will build a better idiot.

How about something similar to a mandolin. The cooking type not the musical one.

A tray/plate to keep the bagel captive, cut-side up and a roller/brayer consisting of 1/4" spacers and rotary-cutter-blades from a sewing/fabric store, those things are _sharp_. put a guard on the upper side of the tool.

Actually, a circular saw style guard on the working side might be a good idea too

- Carl

Local Einstein Bagels here has this bagel slicer that's a metal chute with what I think is a bandsaw at the other end. The noise it makes is as bad as nails on a chalkboard. Oy. Pretty frightening to listen to.

Hinge the lid so that the closing of the lid exposes the cutting surfaces of the blades and the opening retracts them.