Slice-a-Slice Bread Slicer
Display: Cutting Edge
Culinary Technique: size reduction
Manufacturer: Ace Manufacturing Company, Inc.
Location: Doncannon, Pennsylvania
Dimensions: 7.5" h x 4.75" w x 3.5" d
Watch collection donor Mel Mickevic demonstrate this object with
Dean Christopher
Koetke, School of Culinary Arts, Kendall College,
and Victoria Matranga, exhibition curator.
Slice-a-Slice helped a hostess make dainty sandwiches for ladies' luncheons and was marketed as a dieter's aid. It allowed a homemaker to slice bread to a thickness of one-quarter of an inch by splitting a conventional slice of bread into two equal pieces. Two metal plates, embossed with sharply pointed puncture holes, held the bread in place as a knife passed through it. The wooden base plate at the hinge joint protected the knife blade.