We’ve been cutting cakes the wrong way

It seems that it takes a mathematician to prove to us that all our lives we’ve been cutting cakes the wrong way.

The way we’ve been doing it only makes the cake dry out a lot faster than it should.

Fortunately, mathematician Alex Bellos comes to our rescue and demonstrates why it is best to cut cakes on their entire length and starting from the middle.

What you should do is cut one flat slice right in the middle and then push the remaining cake parts together for better storage. The next slice will be perpendicular to the first one.

That is how you keep you tasty birthday treat fresh for a longer period of time.

Strangely enough, this method has been known for over 100 years , as Bellos points out,when it was first published in the Nature magazine letter to editor. But, although it is better, it never became very popular until now, hopefully.