h a l f b a k e r yQuis custodiet the custard?
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
A zonohedron is a particular type of 3 dimensional shape (look it up to learn of its defining features (link)
"A zonohedron is a shape for which every face has point symmetry. That means that looking towards the central point of a face from two opposite directions, whatever those directions happen
to be, you will always see exactly the same thing."
I propose making loaves of bread that are this shape.
Think of the basic challenge of cutting them into simple evenly sized slices and making sandwiches. Then imagine how great the sandwiches would look with their odd angles along every side.
Who wants boring rectangular bread when they can have a Zonohedron Loaf?
Parallelepided
https://www.technol...arallelepiped.shtml
[xenzag, Oct 24 2021]
Please log in.
If you're not logged in,
you can see what this page
looks like, but you will
not be able to add anything.
Destination URL.
E.g., https://www.coffee.com/
Description (displayed with the short name and URL.)
|
| |
i like the simplicity of a square loaf [+] |
|
| |
Implementation challenge: how to hold the dough in the oven
in such a way that, as the yeast does its work, the dough will
not only rise but also sink and expand laterally in equal
measure. |
|
| |
You just need a zonohedron shaped container that is
designed to increase all sides proportionally* as it expands.
Stick the dough in and compress the container down as small
as it will go until all the air is out and the dough conforms to
the zonohedron shape. As it expands during cooking, the
shape is maintained as the size increases. |
|
| |
*Implementation is lefts as an exercise for the reader. |
|
| |
The bakery in Oxford that I used to patronise baked perfect cuboid loaves using a tin with a lid, the dough expanded until it touched the lid and then stopped expanding and conformed to the shape of the inside. You could use it to cut perfectly square slices. I believe they called it a "square loaf". They also did loaves in a two part curved tin that produced perfectly cylindrical loaves which were useful for cutting circular slices of bread from. |
|
| |
So to get this baked, just tell that to a bakery in Cambridge.
Nerd competitiveness will do the rest. |
|
| |
Zonohedons are space-filling so the loaves of bread
are going to stack together nicely. |
|
| |
1. You could cut rhomboid slices from a square loaf by cutting at an angle. |
|
| |
2. You could cut square slices from a parallelepiped loaf by cutting at the correct angle. |
|
| |
3. You could cut rectangular slices from a cylindrical loaf by cutting lengthwise. |
|
| |
N.B. All slices have to have their crusts attached otherwise it is officially cheating. |
|
| |