Topic of The Day, to be Read Tomorrow and Yesterday: Bread

Can you think of any other food that changes names when you heat it up? Spaghetti is still Spaghetti when you boil it. Eggs are hard boiled eggs when you boil it, or sunny side up when you add heat. Cooking is defined as the manipulation of heat. So, when someone asks you to prepare your toughest, most creative dish, make toast, because I can't really think of anything besides toast that becomes entirely something else when you add heat to it-just by plopping bread in some slits and dropping the lever. "You want elk tenderloin or some Georgia Scallops-boring, watch this: It is MAGIC-bread becomes something totally different-toast!"

Toast is sliced bread which has been browned by exposure to dry heat. Toasting warms the bread, making it more pleasant to eat for some, allowing for butter to melt when placed on the surface, and makes it crisp such that it holds toppings more securely. Toasting is also a common method of making stale bread palatable. Toast is often served with butter, cheese, marmalade, or any number of other toppings, thereby making an open-faced sandwich.

Directions for how to make toast:
The usual method of browning bread is by the use of a toaster, a small appliance made for that purpose, first used in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. For a modern toaster, sliced bread is placed into the narrow slots on the top of the device and the desired toast setting is selected. Then, the lever on the side of the toaster is pushed down, simultaneously turning on the heating elements.

That is why whoever invented the toaster was beyond Einsteinian genius. When you put a turkey in the oven it's oven baked turkey. We don't have toaster toasted bread. It's just toast. You see, he was not only just inventing a common household appliance, he was shifting our generational thinking about food, and for that matter, economics, and philosophy. The toaster is the only appliance, tool, model, or concrete thing for lack of a better word, that performs magic. It ranks outside the realm of appliances and food, and becomes something alongside technology, computers, digital transfers as the only thing that transforms magic. In fact, I would rank it higher than such things as on-line banking, email, and other nontangible beings in terms of changing forms of one thing to something completely different.
What is the most common wedding present: toaster.
What is the most common household appliance: toaster.
Most underrated appliance: toaster.
Most energy efficient appliance: garbage disposal?

Listen, let's not set our underpants on fire over this, becuause most of it doesn't even make sense after reading it, but hopefully you get the gist of what I am getting at with the whole toaster metaphor for intangible transormations, i.e: education into wisdom, investments into capitol, um that's all I got. So, the purpose here was to begin our battleblogs. Topic: Bread, and see what you come up with. My friend Kyle V came up with the idea, and I encourage you to come up with your reply on the topic of "Bread."


I am opening a bakery. name: Well Bread
(don't f'ing steal it. I will kick you in the kidney.)

battleblogs: wolfie, where you at?
--Kyle P.