Why we don’t make one giant square to hold even more syrup?
optimal amount of syrup
Submitted 2 months ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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stan_stanminson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
yuriRO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The Wa
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Because then it gets too soggy in the middle. The magic of the waffle is that the tops of the square dividers stay mostly dry until you start cutting into them. So you get freshly syruped waffle throughout the eating process.
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 months ago
This goes to 17 sqares!
Redjard@reddthat.com 2 months ago
can make it round so the syrup spreads more evenly from the center.
Oops you made pancakes
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
What you want is infinite squares, so you get infinite crispy edges
AlreadyDefederated@midwest.social 2 months ago
Or - here’s a radical idea -
EAT A SECOND FUCKING WAFFLE
elbucho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I wonder if John Bidwell is haunted by his discovery. I know I would be. That shit is cursed as fuck.
palmtrees2309@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Aren’t Hexagons the bestagon for tiling a plane for most holding capacity while reducing the “walls” than any shape?
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 months ago
This here is just the best known solution to packing 17 squares specifically
FishFace@piefed.social 2 months ago
The honeycomb theorem is actually better than that: there isn’t any way to divide up the plane with equal-area shapes (even if it’s not a tiling in the sense of having any pattern) it won’t be better than hexagons.
But that video can die in a fire!
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This was my first thought.
A circle filled with hexagons!
unnamedau@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
on one hand, i want a 17-square waffle maker. on the other hand i think i would get brutally murdered by anyone i ever tried to make waffles for
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
If they don’t appreciate the 17-square waffle, they don’t deserve it.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
I keep telling people that you can make nice, even months if you just have 13 of them but nooooo, 13 is a prime number, you can’t divide it by 2, 3, 4, or 6! Boo fucking hoo, I want every month in the year to start on the same day of the week.
ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org 2 months ago
Doesn’t add up, either. Plus, you still have leap years and seconds.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yes it does. 13 even months with one extra day for new years
thessnake03@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Found Henry Ford’s account
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Hey, fuck that racist bastard. I just hate trying to remember his many days are in a month because the current system is stupid.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 months ago
365/13 is 28.07 - what are you doing with the extra day? + leap years too
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
The last month is 1 day longer (or 2 on a leap year) which resets the sequence. So exactly 4 weeks per month until the end, then new years has a buffer day.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I don’t think waffle enjoyers want one more square in the same waffle, they want a specific shape and ayruo/butter ratio per square. This waffle bricks that with its thick sections.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
How about 25?
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shane@feddit.nl 2 months ago
If you look at the image on the left you’ll see that 5 of the smaller squares won’t fit in the big one.
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
TIL the shape in waffle is to hold syrup.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It holds blueberries very well too!
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
if the bottom part of the waffle is the inverted shape of the top one, it should fit another waffle. To properly stack them
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Great. Now cut that into 8 equal bites without spilling any syrup.
Fuckin’ dumbass. THIS is what is meant by “book smart but not street smart”.
kozy138@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Shapes are dumb.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This image is cropped so poorly. I’ve seen the uncropped version recently too…
Jarix@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why would do this?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I need to find this waffle iron!
gressen@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Except the 17 square version holds less syrup than the 16 square version because you need to reduce the size of the squares to fit more of them.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If you take the original 16 squares and cut them each in half, you can have 32 squares. Doctorate now, please.
xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 months ago
If the squares are half the size, you get 4x the number of squares, assuming you’re measuring side length and not area.
arcine@jlai.lu 2 months ago
You can take this to the limit and make a waffle with infinitely many holes, each infinitely small !
It’s just crepes.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For those who didn’t know you can just pour as much syrup as you like, regardless of the square count.