"We're betting that when you cut into a cake, you probably take out one wedge at a time. It's perfectly reasonable, particularly given that it's the classic method for divvying up the dessert. Turns out, though, science says we've been cutting cake all wrong.
"You're not maximizing the amount of gastronomic pleasure you can get from this cake," says British author Alex Bellos. He took to YouTube to show us all the proper cake-cutting procedure—and since it hit the site three days ago, it's already gotten more than two million views. Apparently, this technique is 100 years old and was once published in the science magazine Nature, when Francis Galton wrote a letter to the editor about the faulty wedge method. The reason that strategy is so bad? When you store your cake afterward, the exposed sides will continue to dry out until you take another piece. Slicing your cake in a different way solves this problem, keeping your dessert tender and moist." Check out the video below:
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