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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.
If you take the original 16 squares and reduce them each in half, you can have 32 squares. Doctorate now, please.
You can take this to the limit and make a waffle with infinitely many holes, each infinitely small !
It’s just crepes.
For those who didn’t know you can just pour as much syrup as you like, regardless of the square count.
Why we don’t make one giant square to hold even more syrup?
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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.
can make it round so the syrup spreads more evenly from the center.
Oops you made pancakes
This goes to 17 sqares!
The evil waffle
What you want is infinite squares, so you get infinite crispy edges
Aren’t Hexagons the bestagon for tiling a plane for most holding capacity while reducing the “walls” than any shape?
This here is just the best known solution to packing 17 squares specifically
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!
This was my first thought.
A circle filled with hexagons!
I wonder if John Bidwell is haunted by his discovery. I know I would be. That shit is cursed as fuck.
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
If they don’t appreciate the 17-square waffle, they don’t deserve it.
I don’t think waffle enjoyers want one more square in the same waffle, they want a specific shape and syrup/butter ratio per square. This waffle bricks that with its thick sections.
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”.
Shapes are dumb.
TIL the shape in waffle is to hold syrup.
It holds blueberries very well too!
if the bottom part of the waffle is the inverted shape of the top one, it should fit another waffle. To properly stack them
But it’s not, so you need blueberries to be able to stack waffles reliably.
How about 25?
_ _ _ _ _ |_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_|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.
This image is cropped so poorly. I’ve seen the uncropped version recently too…
Why would do this?
This ruined my day.
I need to find this waffle iron!
