There are so many tricks and techniques in the kitchen that we used but are plain wrong. Yes, and to include on the list is the way we cut a round cake. Basically, we cut a cake by dividing it into parts and that would be nice if you’re gonna finish eating the cake in one setting.
However, that would be a bad idea if you’re only taking a slice and put the rest on the fridge. The result? The cake will get dry and hard when you come to eat it later and that would be a lot of waste. So, how to cut the round cake properly? British author and broadcaster Alex Bellos has revealed the trick:
In order for the cake to stay fresh to eat, you have to first cut slices in the middle and preserve the cake by simply pushing the remaining sections of the cake together. This discovery was from one of the most brilliant mathematical scientists of this past century, Sir Francis Galton that was published on an article in Nature magazine back in 1906. So now you know.
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