(The horse is still twitching.) Easy proof this phenomenon has everything to do with the hardness of the bowl: Try cutting instead against the inside of a paper (technically cardboard) Chinese takeout box. It's practically impossible. --rwg On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 2:26 AM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
while sliding back an forth against the inside of a slippery bowl? --rwg
No one took this question seriously, but I claim the phenomenon needs explaining. It definitely requires some friction with the bowl: Just now I had it work improbably well on a piece of meat, yet fail on a tenderer but slipperier partially stewed tomato in the same bowl. --rwg
[Chop]