![]() ![]() How is sliced bread used around the world?ĭue to its convenience, sliced bread is popular in many parts of the world, and the usual thickness varies by company and country: In 1930 Wonder Bread, first sold in 1925, started marketing sliced bread nationwide. Long, who promoted the Holsum Bread brand, used by various independent bakers around the country, pioneered and promoted the packaging of sliced bread beginning in 1928. The tray aligned the slices, allowing mechanized wrapping machines to function. ![]() After failures trying rubber bands and metal pins, he settled on placing the slices into a cardboard tray. Louis baker Gustav Papendick bought Rohwedder's second bread slicer and set out to improve it by devising a way to keep the slices together at least long enough to allow the loaves to be wrapped. The bread was advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped." Battle Creek, Michigan, has a competing claim as the first city to sell bread sliced by Rohwedder's machine however, historians have produced no documentation backing up Battle Creek's claim. Their product, "Kleen Maid Sliced Bread", proved a success. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, which produced their first slices on July 7, 1928. A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States, invented the first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. Image: Bread slicing machine from the 1930's History of the Bread Slicing Machine
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