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    Default If you burn your toast, do you throw it out and start over, or eat it even though it's burnt?

    As I was throwing some burnt toast away today, I heard my mother's voice in my head from long ago and far away telling me I was being wasteful and had to eat the toast even though I burned it instead of putting fresh bread into the toaster to make new, unburnt toast.

    So what do you do?

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    slather on A LOT of butter to soften it up lol
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    I used to try to eat it, but depending on the level of burntness it's usually not worth the terrible taste. Sometimes I feed pieces to my dog and have him do tricks for it, but usually I'll just throw it away.

    On the one hand, yeah, it's kind of wasteful, and generally I try not to waste food (e.g. ordering/making only what I'll eat). On the other hand, at least food is biodegradable.
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    I grind it into a fine black paste and snort it. It's a great substitute for caffeine if you ask me.

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    No way I'd eat burnt stuff. Since we live in a first-world country, throwing away burnt food is perfectly reasonable.
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    eat it, toss it and make more, toss it and don't bother making more, remove the burnt part(s), whatever depending on the degree and my mood (i'll eat it as long as it still seems edible)... wouldn't feed it to birds because apparently they can't digest it well and it can kill them if they eat too much bread. anyway i rarely ever use my toaster these days.

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    I eat it. I burn popcorn and hotdogs on purpose just to get that charcoal taste.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Starfall View Post
    Same! Popcorn is gross.
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    For a long while, I had a great 4-slot toaster and commandeered one side of it, so the setting was always right for me. But we had a regular houseguest who liked my side AND liked burnt toast. Grrrrr.

    In case of burning: If it's handmade bread or artisanal bread or whatever, I salvage what I can. If it's standard-issue presliced bread, it gets tossed. If it's an organic pop-tart thingy, I have to eat it.
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    It depends how burnt it is; if it's only blackened on some parts I usually just scrape it off with a butter knife
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mariella View Post
    As I was throwing some burnt toast away today, I heard my mother's voice in my head from long ago and far away telling me I was being wasteful and had to eat the toast even though I burned it instead of putting fresh bread into the toaster to make new, unburnt toast.

    So what do you do?
    I take the toast, sell it to someone else as "artisan toast", then I see if they eat it or throw it out.

    If they want there money back I try to convince a person's the burned edges add a more rustic old world flavor to it and accuse them of being an uncultured swine. If that fails I guilt them by telling them they are wasteful in this time of economic strain. Finally if that fails I carry around unburnt bread that is stale that I reimburse them with, then flee to another country.

    You may think that's wrong, but you don't know me.... and beside human morality is just a matter of personal preference, and my preference is to not be wasteful, to try to turn trash into another man's treasure, who are you to question my ethics!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Starfall View Post
    I just scrape the burnt part off. Good as new.
    ^that. although i don't burn toast.

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