
Effects Īs commercially sliced bread resulted in uniform and somewhat thinner slices, people ate more slices of bread at a time. By the 1950s around 80% of bread sold in Britain was pre-sliced. In the United Kingdom, the first slicing and wrapping machine was installed in the Wonderloaf Bakery in Tottenham, London, in 1937. 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 to be a success. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, who sold 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 single loaf bread-slicing machine. Louis in 1930, and may well show Rohwedder's machine in use by the Papendick Bakery Company The multiple cutting bands in Rohwedder's 1928 slicer are shown in this diagram from his patent.


History Chillicothe Baking Company's building in Chillicothe, Missouri, where bread was first machine-sliced for sale This photograph depicts a "new electrical bread slicing machine" in use by an unnamed bakery in St. By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom " greatest thing since sliced bread". It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife.
