MIT at work - how to twist apart the perfect Oreo

It’s safe to say many people eat Oreos the same way. They twist them apart, then consume the cookie as two separate creme-covered wafers.

Yet more than a century after the Oreo’s inception, many connoisseurs haven’t solved a frustrating problem: how to twist it so both wafers end up with filling on them.

Michelle Deignan, vice president of Oreo in the U.S., said there’s no secret method. That, it seems, made it a worthy challenge for some scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“I’ve always been annoyed that I have to twist them apart and then push creme from one side onto the other,” said Crystal Owens, a Ph.D. candidate in MIT’s mechanical engineering department.

[This is “Trust the Science™” I can get behind. ~ Beege]