Comment by savanaly | Hacker News Reader

Comment by savanaly | Hacker News Reader

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The reasons are too many to list, there's a reason we have a saying "best thing since sliced bread".

>What's so hard about slicing bread yourself?

* Have to get out a cutting board and knife

* Have to clean the cutting board and knife (oh wait-- my cutting board is at the bottom of my sink full of dirty dishes...guess this 30 second lunch is turning into a ten minute one...)

* Don't forget to clean up the crumbs that spilled everywhere including the floor when you cut the bread. Go find that broom from wherever it is around the house

* Small chance to cut yourself

* What if you don't have a knife to begin with?

* What if your small child is making themself a meal? What are the chances they cut themself?

* Pre cut bread is even widths, smoothly cut

Multiply all these troubles by two if you're frail...

I have cutting board for my bread (and associated knife) that's always out next to the toaster. And since I only ever cut bread on it, I rarely need to clean it.

Bread crumbs are produced just as readily produced by sliced bread and getting even cuts isn't hard if you're doing it every day.

Though at the end of the day, it's down to a matter of taste and considering how I can very easily get bread that's miles better than any sliced bread I've tasted, for me it's easily worth the hassle.

We must be eating very different types of bread then because slicing bread produces way more crumbs than pre sliced by a considerable margin and always has. Main reason I buy sliced bread, really.

Based on this article, I now believe the reason we say "best thing since sliced bread" is purely marketing. The (apparent) originator of sliced bread seems to have called it "the best thing since wrapped bread", and I guess that's saying something?

Anyway, your points are fine, but surely being made to slice your own bread isn't the end of the world. The outcry depicted in this article gives me hope/despair that there is nothing new about reddit-style whining about everything.

It shows that you've never seen or used a Brotschneidemaschine

That makes all the risk from sharpness much more intense.

And I still have to keep it somewhere and keep it clean.

I'm happy letting someone put the bread through that before I take it home.

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