Why is the smell of toast so incredible?

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Isn't it? Just incredible.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone in this office has just made toast. And I kind of hate them for it. Is it pathetic to beg a complete stranger for toast?

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It's only pathetic if you cry.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you sure you're not about to have a seizure? Is Dr. Penfield around? (Canadians, I hope you get my reference.)

― Jodi (Celerina), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

That all sounds hilarious.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I get the reference! I'm cool!!!!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr ailsa goes and makes some toast a lot - I often decline to have some until I smell it and then it's impossible not to want some too. Hot buttered toast, mmmmm....

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 12 January 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Toast pales in comparison to the heavenly aroma of freshly-won pudding.

― andy, Monday, 12 January 2004 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I got the first half of the reference.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds nuts. Toast? Freshly baked bread, sure, but toast? I can't even remember what toast smells like.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Toast pales in comparison to the heavenly aroma of freshly-won pudding.

Obviously, I disagree. Toast isn't like that. You can't win it in competitions or stack it in your pantry. It's ephemeral. The magic of hot toast comes from some sort of weird alchemy leagues above the flat practicality of pudding and its ilk.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Toast is not quite as good as the aroma of slowly cooking curry drifting from a stranger's house.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

That sounds like a euphemism for something absolutely filthy.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

@d@am like, get some help, or give your prize back, or something. Pervert.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

It's only filthy if he meant Tim Curry.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Which I did.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Casuistry painfully otm. Besides, whatever nutritional value bread has is destroyed by the heat.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

btw @d@m, how goes the new job? And what's this prize you won?

― Leee Majors (Leee), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Besides, whatever nutritional value bread has is destroyed by the heat.

This is just rockism.

I'm still at my old job, Leee. I'm just doing something else this week.

And what's this prize you won?

People's Choice.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

it's better than the smell of wet hippy

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Toast is not quite as good as the aroma of slowly cooking curry drifting from a stranger's house.

Or up to a subway platform. The Jackson Heights subway platform on the 7 line sits above a nexus of Indian restaurants. We stopped there and this wonderful waft of curry was coming up through the rain.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Apart from the smell, the greatest pleasure of making toast is the way, just before you turn it over, the ungrilled side feels.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Agreed.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

We have a retarded Hello Kitty toaster here. It makes an untoasted white spot shaped like the Kitty herself. I don't want any portion of my toast untoasted. It sucks.

― andy, Monday, 12 January 2004 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

wtf?!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

twee toasters ... NOW I'VE HEARD OF EVERYTHING!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang on... turn your toast over? Dont you mentalists have normal popup toasters that do both sides at once?!

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"popup"? "both sides"?

Yuppie!

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.toaster.org/images/toasters/kitty3.gif

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Foul.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

carcinogens

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Never confuse your hello kitty toaster with your hello kitty vibrator. Results could be very nasty.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Indeed. crumbs everywhere. terrible.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

mmm tangy

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Its the logistics of getting a slice of bread into a vibrator (presumably shaped somewhat like a penis) that boggles the mind.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

you could use it for spreading the margarine

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

And end up with a hot buttered dildo.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still stuck back at the turn it over thing. Haven't toasters been around since at least the 50s?? Or is this some other "quaint" English thing? "Oh no, toasters are for impatient Americans, TRUE toast is only made this way..."

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Some people grill their toast.

Some other people have crappy toasters that only do one side at a time.

Is this an English thing? I don't know.

― That famous guy who won a prize (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Ive seen those one side at a time toasters (they have doors wot you open, yeh?) but only a crappy old thing we had in our beach house which I assumed really was left over from the 1950s. Mind you they seem to be back in vogue lately as a retro thing.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

grill shillaz

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

blurillaz?

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

a hot buttered dildo.

That phrase is gonna be with me for life. Flows off the tongue. I hear that was the original title of Isaac Hayes's album.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:27 (twenty-two years ago)

tfgwwap, this site is for you:

http://www.drtoast.com/

enjoy.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to have some toast right now! Even just reading about it makes me hungry.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy I have the same toaster. And it doesn't really make the kitty face on the bread very well. AND it's plastic so making toast smells like a melting airplane. I have to get rid of it.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Once, I turned the toast over twice.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

a gas grill toasts bread far better than any toaster or somesuch. Only problem is that they're getting rarer and rarer, so now it's a toaster for us.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Toast made under grill is just nicer.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

We have a gas grill mm.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I've seen some people stuff 4 toasts in a normal double-entry toaster, only to then have to re-toast the untoasted side of those that were stuck in the middle...
*I'll submit this to the GRE I think*

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

another good point - a gas grill will do up to about six slices at once, which is handy if you have mates round, or if you're like me and are a fat bastard.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Why? No really, why?

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeez, I thought Trayce was over-reacting to the backwardsness of Britain, but wtf are you kidding me? One-sided toasters? Grilling the bread (which is wack 'cos you have to keep an eye on it)? Shall we all vote Attlee back?

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

is keeping an eye on the toast that much of a hardship? really? you young folk, no backbone that's your problem.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Keeping an eye on the toast is one of the nice things about it! It's soothing! And unlike toasters you can remove the toast at EXACTLY the optimum moment of toastedness.

I do HAVE a toaster, so it's not like I'm backward. I just don't use it any more.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I'm not going to keep an eye on the toast, *and* make the coffee, *and* navigate the radio (ie avoid ads, Moyles, weak tunes, phone-ins), am I?

― Enrique (Enrique), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

in other words - Enrique can't multi-task. It is so not difficult to toast bread under the grill and make coffee, not to mention the radio.

Archel is spot on here.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

And muffins. English muffins, I mean. Don't forget muffins. And crumpets!

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

crumpets done in the toaster are rubbish, true

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

there is a reason for this too, you have totoastthe base for longer than the top - ie the base to be kind of crispy but the top to be only slightly browned to give you the difference in textures - especially once you've slathered the butter on.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

crumpets done anywhere are delish!

― run it off (run it off), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't stop eating toasted rye bread.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 23 January 2004 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

me=sourdough (gluten-free!)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 January 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

droooooooool

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Monday, 21 March 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if the mods could change the title of this thread so that "incredible" is in all caps? That would be more correct.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 21 March 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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