DIY Bread slicing ?

One of Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet Ministers said "only life's failures use buses." (or words to that effect). It depends if you're refering to inner city or rural buses.

Not so good if it's raining.

Cost probably comes into the equation.

Some of the Deli style slicing machines will also do bread, like:

Never mind the cheap tat, try some of the knives that this chap makes:

I know a number of Bus drivers. They say the same thing. :-)

It doesn't rain that much. This year has been exceptional. For a short journey you can pick a gap in the weather, even today.

I doubt it does, it is good they cost less, but bikes are quicker, more time efficient.

Try it, you might surprise yourself, it took me years to convince my son, but now he loves it.

IME the answer is a sharp, serrated, long'ish knife (as others have said) but to let the serrations do the work while you apply minimum downwards pressure. When others are allowed to touch my loaves (!!) they usually push down too hard and wreck a thing of beauty.

As is usual with YouTube videos, three minutes into the video before he actually starts cutting the bread.

Other that cutting the crusts off, loaves need to cool well before they cut well.

I used to ride a fair bit. But being knocked off my bike by an elderly driver who didn't realise there wasn't enough room to pass me when there was a car coming the other way - resulting in my having a broken arm - made me lose my nerve. That was 24 years ago. I was told by the surgeon that I was lucky to keep my arm! It's still got 2 metal plates in, and one of the scars is still obvious.

That's a singular comment!

Unfortunately no different to many TV documentaries that expand 10 minutes of real content into an hour program by endlessly repeating what we watched minutes before, just in case we had forgotten, and constantly hinting that in the next section of the program they will reveal what they have discovered.

A Youtube video that straight to the point in under a second (if you ignore or block inserted adverts)

Driving a bicycle is an acquired taste.

The risk never goes away.

Now, I'm off to drive the bicycle. See ya! :-)

Paul

I'm back. I checked the doppler radar on the weather site, and I could see a 40 minute window clear of rain. I arrived home with only one drop of rain on the bicycle seat (while I was in a store).

I've also been drenched. I checked the radar. I was on my way back. I was about half a mile from home, when I could see I wasn't going to make it. A "low cloud deck" was headed straight for me. No place to hide.

I arrived home, drenched. That happens sometimes.

A cargo E-bike would take the effort out of it, but you still might find that too heavy for your usage. Some of those weigh enough, you can't really lift them into the house. My bicycles have always come into the house, after usage. (That's to help them dry out.) Some of them, the battery pack unlocks, so the charging can be done where ever you want to do the charging. A few fancy bicycles, hide the cells in the frame, but that's not really a good idea.

One of the fun parts, is figuring out local laws and regulations. Sellers are quite happy to sell you items that are illegal. If you are driving kit which is illegal, you can always "lay low" during Blitz weeks (when the police show zero tolerance).

Paul

"Slicing and cutting crusty bread with a bandsaw"

Plus, get one with find ‘teeth’. Also, until you get the hang of it, try turning the loaf either on its side and cutting a bottom corner first or, use a clean tea towel to support the loaf, and turn it upside down, and cut from the bottom.

The bottom tends to be harder and you can make a better start. Then, as Andy suggests, use the normal sighting trick ( like when using a saw) and go slowly at first.

Warm bread, while delicious, is a pain to slice but you can do it with practice.

I have a hand operated rotary slicing machine with a blade for cutting bread that works very well. No name on it and I bought it at an exhibition years ago, so I can't tell you the make.

:) !

I was wondering why no-one had mentioned an angle grinder :-).

PS Sainburys are stopping a lot of in-store bakeries and now supplying bread from a different arrangement.

Their rather nice 800 gramme wholemeal or seeded wholemeal bread, sliced in-store, may be for the chop.

Which is the last thing they sell that is unique to them (10 years of searching high and low confirm).

May yet end up baking my own bread ...

It's a still picture. (No air movement?)