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= December 15 =

Hot dog buns
(OK, this is a really dumb question, but I got to wondering about it while eating lunch, so here goes.) How does a hot dog bun know how to split open on one side only? How does it know to split open at all? When I take them out of the package, the eight buns seem to be made from a single piece of bread-material. → Michael J Ⓣ Ⓒ Ⓜ 18:35, 15 December 2013 (UTC)


 * The buns are either sliced or punctured during the baking process to make splitting them easier. YouTube is your friend.  I found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh6eaKkTNcc this 3 min video] by searching for "making hot dog buns" and it answers your question directly. μηδείς (talk) 20:19, 15 December 2013 (UTC)


 * The ones I buy are already split. One frequent problem, though, is that the two halves want to separate at the seam.  I've always thought it would make more sense if they were U-shaped to begin with.  (It might be a bit more trouble in packaging, though, as you would want rigid packing that maintains the U-shape, or perhaps you could alternate every other one upside-down, so the tops of the two adjacent buns would fit in the bottom of the U.) StuRat (talk) 15:12, 16 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Making u-shaped buns would be very expensive, and they would either have a crust on the inside surface or go stale, and produce tremendous waste from the excised portion. I suggest you simply buy some sliced white, Italian white, or Potato bread, and wrap the bread around the hotdog. μηδείς (talk) 18:12, 16 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Bending doesn't always work, as brittle bread (like whole wheat) will tend to break rather than bend 180 degrees.


 * There doesn't have to be an excised portion, if you use a baking pan with a "hot dog form" on it, and cook the buns in those trays, upside-down. Or, if you do make round buns and cut away that portion, it can be reused as bread crumbs, etc.  StuRat (talk) 09:32, 17 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, but then you get a crust on the inside, when people are used to that being freshly exposed bread. Perhaps something like a loaf of bread, but with the slices being in vees instead of flat, so you get slices shaped like the roof of a house. In any case, the use of plain bread slices as mentioned above works just fine. μηδείς (talk) 20:21, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

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Is there a sister website of boobpedia.com? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.153.197 (talk) 20:22, 15 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Do you mean a bosom buddy?--Aspro (talk) 21:12, 15 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Not sure what you have in mind for a sister site. There is a website, "dickpedia" (which I shall not link to), but it is about metaphorical dicks, rather than actual dicks. Someguy1221 (talk) 22:38, 15 December 2013 (UTC)


 * "Some men are born dicks, some work hard to become dicks, and still others have dicks thrust upon them." StuRat (talk) 12:20, 16 December 2013 (UTC)


 * I haven't found signs it's part of a wiki family if that's what you mean. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:07, 16 December 2013 (UTC)


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IBPS Officer exam
What are the technical topic for professional knowledge of IBPS SO IL officer scale I exam?and any particular book suggestion will be a kind — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.82.137.109 (talk) 23:27, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
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