Who Sliced Bread First?

Sliced bread was invented in 1928 by Otto Frederick Rohwedder, a man of many trades (he was an engineer, inventor, and jeweler with a degree in optics—talk about a resume).

Who was the first person to slice bread?

Sliced bread, however, has been around for less than a century. The first automatically sliced commercial loaves were produced on July 6, 1928, in Chillicothe, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Rohwedder, an Iowa-born, Missouri-based jeweler.

When did sliced bread first appear?

On this day, July 7, in 1928, a bakery in Chillicothe, Mo., was the first to sell pre-cut bread using Otto Frederick Rohwedder's invention: the automatic bread-slicing machine. While an advertisement touted it as “the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped,” customers were wary.