CHALLAH CALCULATOR

Challah is a Jewish bread made weekly for the Shabbat dinner table. See my secret recipe to make it yourself!

Use the calculator below to explore niche braiding strategies. Press the buttons to change the number of strands.

CLASSIC

Periodic, balanced, and beautiful. The traditional Jewish braid.

THUE-MORSE

Aperiodic, balanced, and quasicrystalline. Aesthetically very pretty while still feeling mathy.

FIBONACCI

Aperiodic, unbalanced, and you get to say the name “Fibonacci.”

CHAOTIC 🎲

Random, but with a balanced number of twists.