Oh yeah. This is my philosophy regarding whipped cream as well.

The people deserve answers, Claire

I am going to ask my bagel-making friend why she doesn’t do this

WOW

I do this over a plate with the first half, then manually sprinkle the fallen flavor crystals on the cream cheese on the second half.

Were you raised by wolves?

There’s a third type of bagel eater: those (like me) who eat them like donuts—whole and uncut. Of course I tend to only eat blueberry bagels, so toppings are not a concern.

I have literally never heard of nor seen anyone eating a bagel as a sandwich unless it is actually a sandwich. I.e. has meat and cheese.
I grew up in a 1/2 Jewish household, so bagels are absolutely a *thing*, and this strikes me as absolutely bizarre.   Even the trailer bagels you get in NYC that are cut in half top…

When I am a lotto gazillionaire, I am going to have them make me a bagel with the everything baked in like they do with onion bagels, plus sprinkled on top

Oh, yes. We shall have a fine time.

“If there was some magic about this working (the only one I can think of is taking advantage of some electrical gradient), all you’d need to do is rub your hand on any stainless steel pan (or sink!) you already have.”

You know what’s great? A stainless steel garlic press! With big handles you can rub your hands on!

I’ll ditto this. I get garlic smell on my fingertips some time for a couple days and while I love garlic it makes me feel dirty to smell stuff on my hands hours and hours after a task. I own one these steel bars and it seems to work and these “devices” are like $5-10. We’ve all spent more on dumber stuff.

And garlic to get the soap smell off!

I was extremely skeptical of steel working to remove the smell of garlic, for the reasons you list, but I swear it works. And I have absolutely no idea how or why.

I don’t have anything to add to this comment I just like it a lot. 

I do like the smell of vinegar

I don’t know why it did not work for me or Joel! I do wonder if it’s a body chemistry thing.

That’s exactly what most cooks do. They wash their knife.

I don’t know about the science, but it definitely works for me.  Rubbing stainless steel removes onion/garlic smells from my hands.

Vinegar to get the garlic smell off, soap and water to get the vinegar smell off.

I just rub my hands on the side of my stainless steel kitchen sink. It works quite well.