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The No Knife Bagel Experience: Tearaway Bagel

I decided to delve into a food product to redesign, and why not the common bagel?

Some issues:

Many bagels are not pre-cut, Cutting devices are inadequate, There's a high risk of bagel cutting injuries, One must use knife to spread cream cheese, Waste of utensils

“Bagel-related accidents are the great underreported injury of our times.”
-Mark Smith, head of George Washington's Department of Emergency Medicine

After going to some bagel factories in the SF Bay area, I learned about the processes- and instead of inventing a new cutting method, I wanted to reinvent the bagel.

I realized that if you slice the dough (usually put in a freezer) before baking, a fracture line forms which makes it easy to tear- So it works much like an English muffin!