How are bagels cut?

Serrated knife Your first step will be to hold both sides of a bagel with your thumb to one side and your other fingers on the other. Then you will make a space between the top of the bagel and that is where you will start the slice. Be careful to not squish the bagel. Remember to always cut away from your body.

What is bagel cut St. Louis style?

The “St. Louis style” bagel — apparently, a bagel cut into thin slices like a loaf of bread — infuriated Twitter users on Wednesday. It’s a special kind of sad and pathetic. Today I introduced my coworkers to the St Louis secret of ordering bagels bread sliced.

What is a bread sliced bagel?

The bagels in question have been “bread sliced.” Yes, that means that they went through a bread slicer, were cut height-wise, and emerged looking more like bagel chips than an actual bagel. If this argument feels very 2019 to you, that’s because it is.

Why don’t they slice the bagel all the way through?

“The reason why they’re not cut all the way through is because the bagels are propelled through a spinning blade and they’re spit out at a very high velocity, and if they’re cut all the way through- the tops and the bottoms would separate,” Trust said.