People are just finding out how Ina Garten likes to cut her bagels and they are freaking out. Though the controversial bagel recipe is more than 10 years old, many social media users had no idea that the Barefoot Contessa host likes to cut her bagel into thirds until images from the old video began circulating on social media.
You might wonder why Ina would do such a thing, and many social media users have asked the exact same question. However, in the resurfaced video for her smoked salmon and herb cream cheese bagels recipe, Ina made the reason pretty clear: She thinks it tastes better that way.
The original tweet, which contains two images — one of Ina explaining that she likes to cut her bagels into thirds and another zoomed into the three bagel slices — now has more than 3 million views, along with a lot of mixed reactions.
To many, the news of how Ina cuts her bagels is deeply perplexing.
"And here I thought Ina was my ally, my friend, my MOTHER. Much rethinking to do," one person responded to the post on X.
"I like to turn my bagels into two bagel crisps and a piece of unwieldy toast" said the noted celebrity TV chef.
"This is what we really created Cancel Culture for! " another person wrote.
Some Ina stans were quick to jump to her defense.
"More surface area for cream cheese," one X user responded. "LET HER COOK."
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"Never question this woman. She's on a higher cooking level than us mortals," another person wrote.
Ina's recipe calls for slicing "each bagel into 3 rounds lengthwise to make 6 pieces." Then, she says those who are following the recipe should "spread cream cheese on top of 3 of the rounds and a slice of smoked salmon top of the cream cheese."
