Bread Slicer

An electric bread slicer is a kitchen tool used for quickly and uniformly slicing bread loaves. The majority of slicers are industrial-sized, and are used in bakeries. Smaller bread slicers are designed for home use, though most are sold as all-purpose machines capable of handling a variety of foods. Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been pre-sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a bread knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". A bakery bread slicer is a machine that cuts a single loaf of bread in perfectly equal slices, and then packages the loaf for convenience and sale. Prior to its invention in the late 1920s, fresh loaves of bread were usually baked at home, taking up a considerable amount of time.