One day, Will cooked some wheat, as usual, and then had to leave. When he returned, the wheat had become stale. He decided to put this wheat through rollers anyway. To his surise, each grain of wheat came out as a flake. When he baked the flakes in the oven to get them dry, they became light brown in color. After he tried this a few timea, he produced wheat flakes without the stale wheat. He asked his brother John to serve the new breakfast food in the dining room of the health center. The patients ate the new breakfast food and loved it. It was 1894, and a new cereal was born.