{"id":9009,"date":"2012-02-14T16:11:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2012-02-14T16:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T00:11:38","slug":"the-first-automatic-bread-slicer-was-invented-by-otto-frederick-rohwedder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/the-first-automatic-bread-slicer-was-invented-by-otto-frederick-rohwedder\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Automatic Bread Slicer was Invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/invented-sliced-bread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9010\" title=\"invented-sliced-bread\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/invented-sliced-bread.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"866\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/invented-sliced-bread.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/invented-sliced-bread-340x527.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s first automatic bread slicer was invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder in Davenport, Iowa.\u00a0 He first built a prototype of his bread slicer in 1912.\u00a0 Unfortunately, his blueprints and machine were destroyed in a fire in 1917.\u00a0\u00a0 From there, he struggled to obtain funding to begin again on his machine as the idea of pre-sliced bread was not at all popular among bakers.\u00a0 They felt the reduction in shelf life of the bread would not be popular among consumers, even if it was reasonably well packaged to try to delay the inevitable accelerated staleness as much as possible.\u00a0 Eventually, in 1927, Rohwedder was able to re-build the machine and produce a model ready to use in an actual bakery.<br \/>\nIn order to get around the &#8220;staleness&#8221; problem, Rohwedder initially tried to hold the pieces of bread together after slicing with pins.\u00a0 The pins would then be removed when you wanted a slice.\u00a0 This didn&#8217;t really work out for a variety of reasons and he eventually simply modified his machine to wrap the sliced loaves in wax paper directly after slicing.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bread Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/bread-goes-stale-about-six-times-faster-in-the-refrigerator-than-at-room-temperature\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s first automatic bread slicer was invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder in Davenport, Iowa.\u00a0 He first built a prototype of his bread slicer in 1912.\u00a0 Unfortunately, his blueprints and machine were destroyed in a fire in 1917.\u00a0\u00a0 From there, he struggled to obtain funding to begin again on his machine as the idea of pre-sliced bread was not at [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[974,2175,2174],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-bread-facts","tag-otto-frederick-rohwedder","tag-who-invented-sliced-bread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9011,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions\/9011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}