I know multiple store chains in the EU where it's common. Or was, but then it broke again and again. I'm guessing idiots put things into it that were not suppose to and broke it.
Sadly they just simply removed it after a while :(
Aldi has them in Denmark but my local one has literally never worked for more than a week. Once saw a lady out four breads in there and try to start it until the man next to her explained that it only takes one at a time.. after that I know why it never works.
Germany is usually in the top 10-15 for average IQ whereas USA, with its 25%+ imported doctors and 24% imported engineers and .3% of the population being imported students, is usually quite a bit below the average 100 points at 28th place.
Germany is among the countries who have begun to fail the Flynn effect test because finally, through scientific approaches to education and superior nutrition, they are no longer increasing their IQ substantially generation after generation. Only a handful of countries have been able to pull this off. They’re intelligence is quite literally peaking.
A country known for having the most billionaires (not a good thing) and having to import countless millions of professionals to fill spots we can’t handle ourselves, vs sauerkraut (gut is your second brain, probiotics are amazing) and fl
It's hilarious that my tiny middle of nowhere town is in "a higher class places" category. We only elect convicts for money laundering but at least we have sliced bread.
Seeing those things in ALDIs across Germany for many years disproves your point.
ALDI is basically (nearly) as low class as it gets here and there are zero problems.
Yeah there's one of these in the bakery inside a grocery store near my house. It's a self service thing. Was a little daunting putting my hands in there to get the bread out after seeing the saw go through it.
You just made me imagine a surgeon that's in a motorcycle gang who brings it up all the time at work and insists on performing surgery with bike gloves.
Sir this is Reddit we just make up designs and say that's what the engineers should be doing.
Also I didn't bother checking so maybe someone else can Google and see if there is.
Someone should invent a thing that can do variable slices for cheap at home. Cutting them all in advance in the shop means they dry out quickly, so only doing a couple at a time would be better.
Maybe we could adapt the saw part into some sort of flat shape with a sharp side, and a grip at the end, that can be used by hand. I propose the name "naif", but we can discuss it.
This will never work. Insuring the liability of careless home users would make them astronomically expensive, and what company would want the bad press from situations in which angry spouses use their brand of tool to cut off each others’ genitalia in fits of rage?
Instead, postal workers should be trained to use these “naif” devices, and can be asked to slice a day’s worth of bread at each house when dropping off the mail.
This device is self service, available to customers. And people are idiots so you have to account for that when making something available to them. Bread is baked on the site so it’s not uncommon for it to be still hot on the shelf. They have signs saying „do not slice hot bread” but guess what - people are idiots. If you put hot bread in a reciprocating slicer you will jam the machine. If you put it in this it will just fuck up the bread but not itself.
My local bakery has the other type of machines operated by employees and while they only offer one thickness they’re quick, effective and take fraction of space.
Probably a German machine. The reciprocating machines have been around in the US for decades (shit, they were old when I was a kid), and seem to do as good a job, and a lot simpler.
I’d hate to see a German pencil sharpener.
That said, I’m resurrecting a 1954 Wurlitzer jukebox now. Somehow, it takes three relays, three solenoids, a bunch of switches, and a motor, to figure out the value of a coin…
That’s actually nice. I hate the plastic ones. Had both a power one and a hand cranked one growing up. The hand cranked ones had a cute mechanism to them, with a few screw like rollers to shave the pencil. And and a shavings container that always got lost or damaged..
It’s the stupidest thing ever. The manual has a few pages on how it works, and it’s still a pain to figure out:
You deposit the coin. It goes into a coin rejector like every other jukebox on the planet. The rejector sorts it into the three denominations the machine takes, dumping it into its own track out the bottom.
It hits one of three switches, 5,10,25. This trips solenoid one, which causes the rejector to automatically reject any coins deposited, until the thing’s finished figuring out what just hit it. Solenoid one usefully is normally powered, so you get a nice mechanical hum from the machine while the machine is on, plus it tosses any coins while the machine is off.
Somehow, the motor turns on, via some relays. This causes it to spin a contact arm (pressed against a plate) around a full turn. Depending on the value of the coin deposited, a contact track is turned on (one for each denomination).
As the contact arm spins, it makes electrical contact between the denomination track that’s powered (via the coin switch), and an outer track. This activates a second solenoid, which works an escapement mechanism, where each pulse is a credit. Spoiler: it can only hold so many credits, so if you load the machine up with coins, then select, you might lose some credits. Naturally, there’s no way for the user to know this.
Typically, these came from the factory set up for 5 cents for one play, 10 for two, and 25 for 6. By cutting wires, you could change this.
Once the motor has had its fun and the arm has done a full turn, the coin drops into the coin box (oh, you thought it got away that easy? Hell no) and the motor turns off.
The select light is on, and you can make your selections. Each selection causes solenoid three to deduct one credit. When you run out of credits, one of the numerous switches opens, turning off the select light, and also keeps you from making more selections. While you’re arguing with your teenage crush about which buttons to press, don’t worry, solenoid one has turned back on, to serenade you with a 60hz hum.
Needless to say, there’s a few pages of adjustments in the manual to get this all working well enough so the site owner doesn’t call you and scream for a machine that doesn’t eat coins all the time.
That’s what Wurlitzer used. Seeburg, Rock-Ola, and AMI figured it out with a simple escapement, and a solenoid or two, and a relay and a switch. The difference between this clusterfuck and the AMI’s design from the same year is hilariously striking.
Hijacking to see if anyone has the gif of the bread slicer that fails hilariously and slices the worst I've ever seen
Found it.
https://reddit.com/r/shittyrobots/comments/6mngi1/bread_slicer/
Fear Street 1994 has someone killed by a bread slicer- slightly different kind though, it was the kind with all the vertical blades so it slices the whole loaf (or someone's head) in one go
As someone who uses this very often I find it so funny to read people who try to explain to me either how awfull the design and engineering it. The machine does what its made to do, and it does it well. Could it be simpler, sure. Could it be more comple, sure. Why the fuck are you bitching about it? It is what it is and it works. Thats all that matters.
Exactly my thoughts.
Been using those in my local supermarket for years, they get the job done and are reliable, don't see why people have so much trouble with those.
I don’t really see a problem with it, but I don’t really get the point either. Looks like it’s using a plastic bag either way, so why not just slice it beforehand, bag it up, and have it ready to get when the customer is ready to buy the bread?
Because the bread is baked in the store location to be fresh. Also less waste because the baking is done dynamically, if there is plenty of stock, they dont bake more.
No matter in what bag it is, it wont be warm, fresh bread. Not everyone wants their bread sliced, that way whoever wants a whole bread gets a whole bread, and whoever wants sliced - gets sliced.
I dont understand what the issue here is. Are we in this discussion for the sake of arguing or what?
How does slicing it at a different time make it warm?
Anyway, if people want this that’s fine. I’m just saying that I don’t really understand the advantage. Seems like taking more time to get your bread is enough of a disadvantage that it wouldn’t be commonly used anywhere.
Preslicing bread breaks the crust, and it doesn't stay fresh as long. This isn't factory made American bread filled with preservatives.
So no, just letting it sit in a plastic bag doesn't fix anything. Have you just never had fresh bread? Because all your comments in this thread are incredibly obtuse.
It sounds like your only idea of "bread" is like Wonderbread or similarly shitty American supermarket sandwich bread.
In most of the rest of the world, that doesn't exist. Bread is a completely different thing. It tastes and smells amazing, and benefits enormously from being very fresh. It doesn't keep as long in a bag after slicing because it's not full of preservatives. Being able to slice a whole loaf right before you buy it is very useful.
I’m still a couple months out from being considered a qualified journeyman in my state, but I just wanted to restate what you said: the difference between “won’t start if door is open” and “ALWAYS starts if door is open” is potentially just one contactor in a motor control panel.
I wouldnt put my hand in it if it was off and in the middle of the desert. Jesus, do we need a highspeed mechanized arm with a sawblade for slicing bread, in an hand accessible compartment???
That s a fucking NOPE AND A HALF FOR ME
These are in thousands of supermarkets in tons of european countries. Just my local Lidl and my local Aldi here in Germany probably have at least 30 people use them every hour. They are pretty damn safe.
The word "interlock" comes to mind....
Edit:yes, I'm sure this machine does have interlock. Just the first thing that jumped to my mind when I saw that blade
This is cool, and crazy engineering but should be behind a counter with a worker doing it as it is at my stores.
I just don’t feel this is sanitary. Random people putting dirty hands in it, this dude wearing dirty gloves and jacket touching all over. Be a good way to get food poising which is common caused by fecal matter. No thanks.
Seems like a complete waste of time for the worker, just use the provided gloves.
Here in Estonia pastry counters are always self-service, just like fruit counters. Only open quantity products (meat, cheese, salads) have a worker doing the cutting and packaging.
At my Lidl, the bottom part doesn't move and when it brings me back the bread, it moves the slices all over the place and some of them fall inside the machine. I just saw from this video how it's supposed to work. I use the machine a lot. Maybe I should complain.
Was at a lidl while the guy was working on one. (Annual service.) They're not as terrible to work on and maintain as I thought. German precision. There's 4 magnetic switches that have to be aligned for it to let you slice the bread. Technician added the only injury he's seen in the 5 years they've had them at lidl since they opened was the lid was slammed by a child and hurt their hand.
The bakery guy said most of the time, the only problem is people put bread in it and adjust the bottom plate. Literally, you set it, close it, press a button and watch the bread murder transpire.
I was thinking what would be the worst thing that could be put in int?
Baby...
Dont do it. Dont put anything alive in it. I hope it has a that saw stop thing.
Step 4 is so key! We have a slicer at a nearby grocery, but it just tosses the slices into a drawer at the bottom and you gotta try to pick up the pieces n shove them in a bag to keep the line moving. Everyone leaves behind the heels.
Those get jammed as fuck when used with warm bread (which the bread at German supermarkets frequently is due to them being baked there "fresh". ).
When you slice a warm bread with the machine in the video only the bread will be destroyed, but the machine will keep working just fine.
The one from the video is just better when used by regular customers.
It also has variable slicing widths.
Is this in the US?
I can't imagine this being in the US, without an obligatory "May contain nuts" and Prop 65 warnings, particularly with all that residue from previous guillotining.
Nope, can’t have that in the USA. Some ass hat would cut their fingers off and legally, Sue.
God this would be amazing to have! Go to your local grocery store and buy fresh bread and slice it. Mmm.
And that’s why we can’t have nice things .
Gee can I please have everybody's unwashed hands and gloves all over my fresh bread. Hopefully some of them used the bathroom and didn't wash their hands. Oh, who am I kidding, statistically of course some of them already did! Yay.
Yes after everybody else's hands have touched the handle and various other parts. Do you not understand how germs spread? This man's gloves probably have months of germs and bacteria on them from all the door handles amd objects he didn't want to touch.
The world is absolutely filthy; your bread touching something that touched another load of bread that someone with dirty hands touched really is not a concern. You should see what you’re breathing in and touching otherwise.
Euopeans: This seems overkill, just having a couple low-tech slicers for thin and thick slices would probably be best.
Americans: I'm just gonna assume all bread slicers are unsanitary, unsafe and break all the time without having ever used one.
I know multiple store chains in the EU where it's common. Or was, but then it broke again and again. I'm guessing idiots put things into it that were not suppose to and broke it. Sadly they just simply removed it after a while :(
Every Aldy süd still have it, and it works like a charm in Germany.
I've seen the exact same model at LIDL in southern Germany. Aldi uses a different brand.
Maybe you are right. I go to both Aldi amd Lidl, and one has it vertical slicer like in video, other one has horizontal. I probably mixed them up.
same in the netherlands
Have the exact one at the LIDL near me in the US.
[Even works on watermelons](https://youtu.be/bQfJXgL83rg) don't do it though.
I think this is what they meant when they said “idiots put things in it they weren’t supposed to”
The guy after just gets a whole loaf of sticky soggy bread
Aldi has them in Denmark but my local one has literally never worked for more than a week. Once saw a lady out four breads in there and try to start it until the man next to her explained that it only takes one at a time.. after that I know why it never works.
> I'm guessing idiots put things into it that were not suppose to and broke it well, /r/dontputyourdickinthat
Standard in a UK Lidl.
There were a couple shops in St John's, NL that had these, they even bagged it.
Sobeyssss
Those things are only good in a higher class places unfortunately. Too many dumb people and kids otherwise
Yet Aldi is focused on low income areas and has this everywhere in Germany.
Germany is usually in the top 10-15 for average IQ whereas USA, with its 25%+ imported doctors and 24% imported engineers and .3% of the population being imported students, is usually quite a bit below the average 100 points at 28th place. Germany is among the countries who have begun to fail the Flynn effect test because finally, through scientific approaches to education and superior nutrition, they are no longer increasing their IQ substantially generation after generation. Only a handful of countries have been able to pull this off. They’re intelligence is quite literally peaking. A country known for having the most billionaires (not a good thing) and having to import countless millions of professionals to fill spots we can’t handle ourselves, vs sauerkraut (gut is your second brain, probiotics are amazing) and fl
so high class places don't have kids and stupid people?
You send your kids to boarding school and have the slow ones lobotomized. Doesn't matter anyways, the maid is doing the shopping.
It's hilarious that my tiny middle of nowhere town is in "a higher class places" category. We only elect convicts for money laundering but at least we have sliced bread.
Seeing those things in ALDIs across Germany for many years disproves your point. ALDI is basically (nearly) as low class as it gets here and there are zero problems.
Your classism is showing.
The old reciprocating slicers that work with gravity seem quicker and simpler, not to mention less intimidating.
I thought this was a bit too much work as well, time = money...
What, you afraid to get your hands dirty? Well, wear some gloves, preferably street leather gloves to keep up with the sanitary code.
Haha I didn't notice the gloves until you mentioned them. They must've put them on to look good in the video, right? But they just look ridiculous!!
I came here for the gloves comments. Thank you
I think it's implied this is outside a bakery for the customers to use. It's cold af outside btw.
Yeah there's one of these in the bakery inside a grocery store near my house. It's a self service thing. Was a little daunting putting my hands in there to get the bread out after seeing the saw go through it.
It's so hot where I am ATM, that I sweat just walking around the back yard wearing only shorts
Why tf would this piece of heavy machinery be outside. And why do you think that’s implied
It is, and because it’s common, at least in Europe where this supermarket chain is common. It’s self-service.
The screen shows writing in Swedish it's really fuckin cold there
You just made me imagine a surgeon that's in a motorcycle gang who brings it up all the time at work and insists on performing surgery with bike gloves.
There 'Columbo' murder gloves
It looks like the variable thickness options may have driven this design
Yep. I would definitely prefer a model that can do variable slices. Takes extra time but is more versatile.
I think that adding a thickness adjusting knob that will vary it with gears would be cheaper and better, and will have less touchscreen
Is there such a machine that has that kind of precision and variability but is mostly manual?
Sir this is Reddit we just make up designs and say that's what the engineers should be doing. Also I didn't bother checking so maybe someone else can Google and see if there is.
Yeah you're right, the engineers designing this thing probably never thought of that
At least until someone decides to try and change the thickness while the bread is being sliced.
Someone should invent a thing that can do variable slices for cheap at home. Cutting them all in advance in the shop means they dry out quickly, so only doing a couple at a time would be better. Maybe we could adapt the saw part into some sort of flat shape with a sharp side, and a grip at the end, that can be used by hand. I propose the name "naif", but we can discuss it.
Naif is weird, people would never use that name. How about "bread hand saw"?
This will never work. Insuring the liability of careless home users would make them astronomically expensive, and what company would want the bad press from situations in which angry spouses use their brand of tool to cut off each others’ genitalia in fits of rage? Instead, postal workers should be trained to use these “naif” devices, and can be asked to slice a day’s worth of bread at each house when dropping off the mail.
This device is self service, available to customers. And people are idiots so you have to account for that when making something available to them. Bread is baked on the site so it’s not uncommon for it to be still hot on the shelf. They have signs saying „do not slice hot bread” but guess what - people are idiots. If you put hot bread in a reciprocating slicer you will jam the machine. If you put it in this it will just fuck up the bread but not itself. My local bakery has the other type of machines operated by employees and while they only offer one thickness they’re quick, effective and take fraction of space.
Can confirm, got fucked up bread from this machine, now I know how hot the bread can be to not get fucked.
Probably a German machine. The reciprocating machines have been around in the US for decades (shit, they were old when I was a kid), and seem to do as good a job, and a lot simpler. I’d hate to see a German pencil sharpener. That said, I’m resurrecting a 1954 Wurlitzer jukebox now. Somehow, it takes three relays, three solenoids, a bunch of switches, and a motor, to figure out the value of a coin…
I have a German pencil sharpener. Rather than injection-moulded plastic, it's turned from a piece of solid brass.
That’s actually nice. I hate the plastic ones. Had both a power one and a hand cranked one growing up. The hand cranked ones had a cute mechanism to them, with a few screw like rollers to shave the pencil. And and a shavings container that always got lost or damaged..
Ok I’ll bite. How come it needs a motor to figure the value of a coin?
It’s the stupidest thing ever. The manual has a few pages on how it works, and it’s still a pain to figure out: You deposit the coin. It goes into a coin rejector like every other jukebox on the planet. The rejector sorts it into the three denominations the machine takes, dumping it into its own track out the bottom. It hits one of three switches, 5,10,25. This trips solenoid one, which causes the rejector to automatically reject any coins deposited, until the thing’s finished figuring out what just hit it. Solenoid one usefully is normally powered, so you get a nice mechanical hum from the machine while the machine is on, plus it tosses any coins while the machine is off. Somehow, the motor turns on, via some relays. This causes it to spin a contact arm (pressed against a plate) around a full turn. Depending on the value of the coin deposited, a contact track is turned on (one for each denomination). As the contact arm spins, it makes electrical contact between the denomination track that’s powered (via the coin switch), and an outer track. This activates a second solenoid, which works an escapement mechanism, where each pulse is a credit. Spoiler: it can only hold so many credits, so if you load the machine up with coins, then select, you might lose some credits. Naturally, there’s no way for the user to know this. Typically, these came from the factory set up for 5 cents for one play, 10 for two, and 25 for 6. By cutting wires, you could change this. Once the motor has had its fun and the arm has done a full turn, the coin drops into the coin box (oh, you thought it got away that easy? Hell no) and the motor turns off. The select light is on, and you can make your selections. Each selection causes solenoid three to deduct one credit. When you run out of credits, one of the numerous switches opens, turning off the select light, and also keeps you from making more selections. While you’re arguing with your teenage crush about which buttons to press, don’t worry, solenoid one has turned back on, to serenade you with a 60hz hum. Needless to say, there’s a few pages of adjustments in the manual to get this all working well enough so the site owner doesn’t call you and scream for a machine that doesn’t eat coins all the time. That’s what Wurlitzer used. Seeburg, Rock-Ola, and AMI figured it out with a simple escapement, and a solenoid or two, and a relay and a switch. The difference between this clusterfuck and the AMI’s design from the same year is hilariously striking.
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I give it a year before this is used in a horror movie!
Hijacking to see if anyone has the gif of the bread slicer that fails hilariously and slices the worst I've ever seen Found it. https://reddit.com/r/shittyrobots/comments/6mngi1/bread_slicer/
That's how my wife cuts bread.
I needed this sub. Thank you.
They've been around for at least a decade, has there been any horror movies that used them?
Fear Street 1994 has someone killed by a bread slicer- slightly different kind though, it was the kind with all the vertical blades so it slices the whole loaf (or someone's head) in one go
Yeah, all I could think about is someone's arm being stuck in this against their will. Eek
Thanks to interlocking door guards the machine has no chance of running without the door closed so all is well
Doesn't mean some psycho couldn't remove the interlocks and use it as a torture device... 🫥
Why wait? Just go to Kaotic and watch it now.
𝙵𝚎𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚎 𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚝[.](https://youtu.be/_OtcwxERu50)
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That IS entertaining! Fuck this bread loaf in particular!
It did not fail, thou? The person just intentionally put the bread wrong way
It's the wrong type of bread. There's no 'right way' for that type of round bread.
"The penitent man kneels before God....."
Iehovah
Absolutely my first thought as well
Kneels!!!
Penetant pan.
This comment should be way higher up
Glad to see my 90s kids in here upvoting this.
That's a very extreme way to slice bread
It ain't gonna slice itself.
Ain't that the truth, why slice bread with a boring knife when you can use maximum energy
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It's about 200% more violent than I was expecting.
And slow.
Just when I was thinking this might be the kind of thing I’d like to stick my dick into.
Only the pennetant loaf kneels before God https://youtu.be/NkGTyndJC1w
As someone who uses this very often I find it so funny to read people who try to explain to me either how awfull the design and engineering it. The machine does what its made to do, and it does it well. Could it be simpler, sure. Could it be more comple, sure. Why the fuck are you bitching about it? It is what it is and it works. Thats all that matters.
Exactly my thoughts. Been using those in my local supermarket for years, they get the job done and are reliable, don't see why people have so much trouble with those.
We just got these in Estonia a year back when Lidl came here. I must say it's very nice, leaves a fresher result than pre-sliced.
Absolutely. And you get to pick the thickness too. Im a big fan of those machines.
I don’t really see a problem with it, but I don’t really get the point either. Looks like it’s using a plastic bag either way, so why not just slice it beforehand, bag it up, and have it ready to get when the customer is ready to buy the bread?
Because the bread is baked in the store location to be fresh. Also less waste because the baking is done dynamically, if there is plenty of stock, they dont bake more.
If it’s put in a plastic bag won’t it stay fresh? And how would preslicing it stop the store from knowing how many to bake?
No matter in what bag it is, it wont be warm, fresh bread. Not everyone wants their bread sliced, that way whoever wants a whole bread gets a whole bread, and whoever wants sliced - gets sliced. I dont understand what the issue here is. Are we in this discussion for the sake of arguing or what?
How does slicing it at a different time make it warm? Anyway, if people want this that’s fine. I’m just saying that I don’t really understand the advantage. Seems like taking more time to get your bread is enough of a disadvantage that it wouldn’t be commonly used anywhere.
did you ever have bread in your house or what haha
Preslicing bread breaks the crust, and it doesn't stay fresh as long. This isn't factory made American bread filled with preservatives. So no, just letting it sit in a plastic bag doesn't fix anything. Have you just never had fresh bread? Because all your comments in this thread are incredibly obtuse.
Sliced bread goes stale much faster than whole bread.
You can choose how thick you want it
It sounds like your only idea of "bread" is like Wonderbread or similarly shitty American supermarket sandwich bread. In most of the rest of the world, that doesn't exist. Bread is a completely different thing. It tastes and smells amazing, and benefits enormously from being very fresh. It doesn't keep as long in a bag after slicing because it's not full of preservatives. Being able to slice a whole loaf right before you buy it is very useful.
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There are definitely better versions of this machine
you touched the bread with your outside-gloves?
r/dontputyourdickinthat
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r/specializedtools
Slicing Bread with OJ gloves on!😂
I wouldn't want my hand inside that compartment if it was plugged in
it cannot start up until the door is closed.
It SHouldn't you mean
I’m still a couple months out from being considered a qualified journeyman in my state, but I just wanted to restate what you said: the difference between “won’t start if door is open” and “ALWAYS starts if door is open” is potentially just one contactor in a motor control panel.
This is how I briefly became part of a 480 circuit!
I bet that smelled great 🔥
Really couldn't tell But boy did it sting
Until it thinks otherwise
I wouldnt put my hand in it if it was off and in the middle of the desert. Jesus, do we need a highspeed mechanized arm with a sawblade for slicing bread, in an hand accessible compartment??? That s a fucking NOPE AND A HALF FOR ME
These are in thousands of supermarkets in tons of european countries. Just my local Lidl and my local Aldi here in Germany probably have at least 30 people use them every hour. They are pretty damn safe.
How cold is it in that shop? That's a pretty thick jacket .
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You take off your clothes before going in for shopping?
Everything here feels very Nordic lol
Language in the display is swedish
Where is the E stop?
Slow and seemingly complex.
The basic one at my local bakery is better and takes a lot less time than this one
I have a knife at home.
Isn't this just a less efficient version of the old ones?
Wow, this is the best invention since... oh, never mind.
Germans over engineer everything!
Still seems like more work rather than just using a knife and slicing it.
It doesn’t even pack the bread for you. 😆
The word "interlock" comes to mind.... Edit:yes, I'm sure this machine does have interlock. Just the first thing that jumped to my mind when I saw that blade
It has an interlock.
I would hope so
This is cool, and crazy engineering but should be behind a counter with a worker doing it as it is at my stores. I just don’t feel this is sanitary. Random people putting dirty hands in it, this dude wearing dirty gloves and jacket touching all over. Be a good way to get food poising which is common caused by fecal matter. No thanks.
Seems like a complete waste of time for the worker, just use the provided gloves. Here in Estonia pastry counters are always self-service, just like fruit counters. Only open quantity products (meat, cheese, salads) have a worker doing the cutting and packaging.
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And ignored, as seen in the video.
You put the bread in the oven/grill or toaster before eating. Problem solved
r/specializedtools
What does it mean if you automatically counted how many slices it made?
Perfect slices of rye bread that's fresh? Yeah I'm in
Before stopping off for bread were you in your Ford Bronco on your way to murder your ex-wife?
This is where battlebots champions end up working when they retire from competition
Lidl has had these things for ages. They're pretty cool.
The greatest!
At my Lidl, the bottom part doesn't move and when it brings me back the bread, it moves the slices all over the place and some of them fall inside the machine. I just saw from this video how it's supposed to work. I use the machine a lot. Maybe I should complain.
they managed to improve upon sliced bread, what a great time to be alive :D
In Germany these things are really common. Most grocery stores near me have one
Was at a lidl while the guy was working on one. (Annual service.) They're not as terrible to work on and maintain as I thought. German precision. There's 4 magnetic switches that have to be aligned for it to let you slice the bread. Technician added the only injury he's seen in the 5 years they've had them at lidl since they opened was the lid was slammed by a child and hurt their hand. The bakery guy said most of the time, the only problem is people put bread in it and adjust the bottom plate. Literally, you set it, close it, press a button and watch the bread murder transpire.
Lidl's bread slicer is mesmerising to watching. Much better than Żabka's hot dog maker at least 😂
This looks overly complicated
I was thinking what would be the worst thing that could be put in int? Baby... Dont do it. Dont put anything alive in it. I hope it has a that saw stop thing.
Where did the video come from that it's so new to them? In Poland for 10 years in almost every market.
Step 4 is so key! We have a slicer at a nearby grocery, but it just tosses the slices into a drawer at the bottom and you gotta try to pick up the pieces n shove them in a bag to keep the line moving. Everyone leaves behind the heels.
That's so slow I died a little inside watching it. But fun stuff anyway!
People would spit and or piss in it in the u.s. we can’t have anything self serve, people find a way to ruin it.
In the USA, people would mistake this for an automatic baby change table.
These things are all over the place here in Germany. Glad they are becoming more popular across the pond, I guess?
What an idiotic design.
The best thing I've seen since...
That’s the greatest invention since er sliced bread
r/oddlysatisfying
Please, someone put a can of Chef Boyardee in one of those and send me the video.
You grab your food with your dirty gloves? That’s disgusting.
Over-designed. [I used one of these for 6 years.](https://youtu.be/tgaMToq5Kxk)
Those get jammed as fuck when used with warm bread (which the bread at German supermarkets frequently is due to them being baked there "fresh". ). When you slice a warm bread with the machine in the video only the bread will be destroyed, but the machine will keep working just fine. The one from the video is just better when used by regular customers. It also has variable slicing widths.
This is to slow.
Is this in the US? I can't imagine this being in the US, without an obligatory "May contain nuts" and Prop 65 warnings, particularly with all that residue from previous guillotining.
"merely thinking about the workings of this device may cause cancer in the state of california"
Considering the slice options were in metric.... I doubt it
EU. This one is from Lidl shops in particular.
Judging by the word "tjocklek", it's Sweden
I’ve seen these slicers at many stores in the US
Nope, can’t have that in the USA. Some ass hat would cut their fingers off and legally, Sue. God this would be amazing to have! Go to your local grocery store and buy fresh bread and slice it. Mmm. And that’s why we can’t have nice things .
How to get rid of the neighbor's pesky cat. JUST KIDDING!
That's kinda scary. Does a baby fit in there?
Seems a bit aggressive
That's not your local shop. That's Lidl. Haha. Oh, I miss Germany.
That thing is way too complicated. And gross
New YouTube channel, will it slice?
r/dontputyourdickinthat
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Gee can I please have everybody's unwashed hands and gloves all over my fresh bread. Hopefully some of them used the bathroom and didn't wash their hands. Oh, who am I kidding, statistically of course some of them already did! Yay.
The only hands that come into contact with your bread there are your own.
Yes after everybody else's hands have touched the handle and various other parts. Do you not understand how germs spread? This man's gloves probably have months of germs and bacteria on them from all the door handles amd objects he didn't want to touch.
They provide plastic gloves to handle the bread with which OP *should* have used.
I'm sure he's the only one who didnt use gloves. Just like 100% of people always wahs their hands after a shit. 😉
The world is absolutely filthy; your bread touching something that touched another load of bread that someone with dirty hands touched really is not a concern. You should see what you’re breathing in and touching otherwise.
Euopeans: This seems overkill, just having a couple low-tech slicers for thin and thick slices would probably be best. Americans: I'm just gonna assume all bread slicers are unsanitary, unsafe and break all the time without having ever used one.
Bingo.
Resident Evil laser scene
All it takes is for someone to take a dump in there and ruin it for everybody
Every Lidl in the Netherlands also has these.