Battle Creek, Michigan, has a competing claim as the first city to sell bread sliced by Rohwedder's machine however, historians have produced no documentation backing up Battle Creek's claim.

Their product, 'Kleen Maid Sliced Bread', proved to be a success. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, who sold their first slices on July 7, 1928. A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire, and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States, invented the first single loaf bread-slicing machine. Louis in 1930, and may well show Rohwedder's machine in use by the Papendick Bakery Company The multiple cutting bands in Rohwedder's 1928 slicer are shown in this diagram from his patent. History Chillicothe Baking Company's building in Chillicothe, Missouri, where bread was first machine-sliced for sale This photograph depicts a 'new electrical bread slicing machine' in use by an unnamed bakery in St. By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom ' greatest thing since sliced bread'. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as 'the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped'.

Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife.

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