A bagel machine is a machine that automatically produces

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. It rolls, presses, and shapes dough into perfect circles.

History

In 1950, Daniel Thompson, son of Mickey Thompson, began designing an automatic bagel-making machine when he was 29. His father had been trying to make a working automatic bagel-making machine for most of his life to advance his baking business, and Daniel was following in his footsteps. In 1958, Daniel Thompson started construction of the first successful automatic bagel-making machine in his garage in Cheviot Hills, Los Angeles. He called it “The Thompson Bagel Machine”. A few years later, he patented his design. One year later, in 1961, he and his wife established the "Thompson Bagel Machine Manufacturing Corporation".{{Cite news, url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/22/daniel-thompson-who-brought-bagels-to-the-masses-but-miffed-purists-dead-at-94/, title=The inventor who revolutionized and maybe ruined the bagel, dead at 94, last=Kaplan, first=Sarah, date=2015-09-22, newspaper=Washington Post, access-date=2017-09-19, language=en-US, issn=0190-8286 Five years after he started construction of the bagel machine, he leased the successful and perfected design to Murray Lender, who owned a family-run bagel-making business. The first automated bagel-making machines were introduced to

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in 1963, producing between 200 and 400 bagels per hour. The largest machines could produce as many as 5,000 bagels in an hour. Bagels had very quickly become extremely popular and were in an abundance supermarkets and restaurants because of Daniel Thompson’s bagel making machine. The price of the bagel has dropped significantly because they are now being mass produced everywhere in the world.

Impact

Before Thompson's automatic bagel-making machine was invented, making bagels was a slow process. Very few bakers actually made them. After the automatic bagel machine was invented, many more bagels were produced and the bagel became much more common. The automatic bagel-making machine popularized the bagel, leading to it being featured in many supermarkets and restaurants around the world. Today, far more bagels are being produced than ever before.

Use and features

The bagel machine automatically mass creates bagels by rolling the bagels, shaping the bagels, and pressing the bagels until they are a circular shape.

References

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