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by ihaveajob 3071 days ago
Exercise to the reader: How do you slice the bagel so that you can spread cream cheese continuously along both sides. In other words, can you make a Möbious bagel?
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Leave it uncut. It already has a continuous surface.
But then you can't spread on the soft side.
Spreading on the 'soft side' wasn't in the requirements.
Lazy answer: Cut it almost in half and leave it connected. Fold hinge around.
Clever.
Make a cut through it shaped like a mobius strip - that is, a single 180 degree rotation instead of going the whole 360 degrees shown here.

To think about it another way, imagine if you took a mobius strip and constructed a semicircular lump of bread on the surface, extending it around until it connects back to itself. You've made a bagel!

Now take the mobius strip out of the middle, and the gap it leaves is the cut you're asking to make.

Sounds like a job for some parchment and my weekend.

I wonder if I could sell bagel-sized silicone mobius strips for baking.

Potentially interesting to anyone with an oven, if you can capture 1% of that market you'll be rich!

I'd suggest raising a few million in seed funding and renting an office in downtown SF. If it doesn't pan out you can pivot into math-related silicone ice cube trays.

The ICO is Monday. First 10,000 have an ERC20 address printed on the mold.
Yeah, I think you can just make a half-twist instead of a full twist like the article does. Or any number of full turns + 1/2.
Haven't attempted or vetted yet, but perhaps this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NRvK_07KRV8
I definitely saw a Mobious bagel on Youtube, perhaps about 5 years ago - my attempt to copy it failed, my bagel was too soft.
I should document this and make it my first HN post.
Don't you have a job?
I used to ;D
This may have been the best comment I have read in days.