Bah!
I burnt me toast!


From the The Black And White Challenge challenge. See all 371 entries (closed)

(Ian Woosnam, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:27, archived)

that toatser
looks like it's the head of a killer cyborg
( Discomeats fish fingers are READY!, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:28, archived)

borg clops
(Bumsmells, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:37, archived)

Dead or alive you are toasting with me....

(Chungo Our survey says - Feck Off!, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:38, archived)

only a matter of time, was it...

( pzyko is a whaler on the moon and carries a harpoon, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:39, archived)

Hmm Many of My Words Jumble up Do I...
:D
(I do a cracking Yoda Impression.. I'm Phil Cool me)
( Spenface ALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:46, archived)

ahahahaha
*click*
( mictoboy, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:28, archived)

That took me too long...
Arfs
( Spenface ALWAYS hangs in the Buffalo Stance, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:29, archived)

did you win it from Zoo magazine?

( Dr. Strange Apparantly those were the droids I was looking for, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:29, archived)

Doh...
I'm sat there waiting for it to go black..... Derrr - I'll get me coat...
(Chungo Our survey says - Feck Off!, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:30, archived)

*slaps head*
aaaah, it's a compo entry
( pzyko is a whaler on the moon and carries a harpoon, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:31, archived)

If black isn't inside white and when toast burns it becomes black
how did the black hide under the white? I've never understood this and nobody has explained it to me in a satisfactory manner.
(Scrofulus, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:31, archived)

That is the most ludicrously hatstand question in the history of everything.
If I were you I'd write it down and read it back to yourself for a few days. I think you may find the reason for your 'unsatisfactory answer' blues.
( grey kid is breakdancing to save a community centre, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:32, archived)

WTFAYBOA?

( wastedindustry hates writing CVs, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:33, archived)

all the coloured stuff gets burnt off
what's left has no pigment coloured stuff so it looks black


I think
( Dr. Strange Apparantly those were the droids I was looking for, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:33, archived)

Pigment = wrong.
I still don't understand the question though.
( wastedindustry hates writing CVs, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:35, archived)

I blame combustion

( Keyboard Weasel, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:34, archived)

you blame combustion for everything!

( ivesb Assistant Clinical Physiologist extraordinary, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:36, archived)

well, it has a lot to answer for

( mediocre *canned laughter*, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:40, archived)

erm
i think you've drastically misunderstood how things work
( mictoboy, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:34, archived)

because it just bloody does!

( ivesb Assistant Clinical Physiologist extraordinary, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:35, archived)

4dam's garage

( pzyko is a whaler on the moon and carries a harpoon, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:36, archived)

Some ACs are always worth keeping

( Keyboard Weasel, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:36, archived)

Haha that was mine originally

( wastedindustry hates writing CVs, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:37, archived)

sorry for theft
i just found it very fitting for several occasions :D
( pzyko is a whaler on the moon and carries a harpoon, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:40, archived)

INHALE INHALE
YOU'RE THE VICTIM
( 4dam party, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:44, archived)

come on vincent!

( mictoboy, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:48, archived)

LOL
:)
( 4dam party, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:54, archived)

*comes on vincent*

( pzyko is a whaler on the moon and carries a harpoon, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:54, archived)

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST YOU 'RE SCARY
/ac
( 4dam party, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:40, archived)

Bah!

( wastedindustry hates writing CVs, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:43, archived)

I'm not scared of you any more!

( 4dam party, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:44, archived)

The carbon in the atmosphere
is oxidised onto the surface of the bread by the action of heat.

The black comes from the air!

Or something. I just made that up.

Sounded good though, dinnit?
(Doctor Frinkelstein (Not a real Doctor), Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:36, archived)

Hmmm, sounds remotely plausible
So is it the C from CO2 that oxidizes on the surface, or the combustible material from the bread is used in the reaction revealing the carbon in the toast?
(Scrofulus, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:38, archived)

As it burns
carbon is created deposited on the bread, which is the black stuff. Hence why you can scrape it off, as it is lying on top.

I think.

EDIT: thank you Dr.
(Mr._Pickles Yiff! Yiff! Grrr! Miaow!, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:36, archived)

+mono/dioxide

( pzyko is a whaler on the moon and carries a harpoon, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:37, archived)

not sure the carbon is created
surely its always there
( Dr. Strange Apparantly those were the droids I was looking for, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:44, archived)

I know what I mean...
deposited on the bread.
(Mr._Pickles Yiff! Yiff! Grrr! Miaow!, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:50, archived)

I see where you've gone wrong
The black actually hides IN the toatser and when the toats burns, the black leaps out of from behind the burny coil things and attaches itself to the bread.
AKA Science.
Edit: My manners! I forgot to woo the pic (that took me a while to get and then realised it was a compo entry).

( Flowerpot watches through the railings as they play, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:36, archived)

i think you taught at my old school.....
:D
( The King of Hats The bigger they are, the Hadoken they fall!, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:39, archived)

eurekakakakakaka!

( god save the queen hardly ever original, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:39, archived)

I don't have the tits
thank gawd

( Flowerpot watches through the railings as they play, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:40, archived)

Ok, here's what I think you need to know
Everything organic on this planet is made from a mixture of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. K?

When something burns, it releases water (mixture of Hydrogen and Oxygen) and Carbon Dioxide.

However if combustion is inefficient (as in the case of burning toast) there will be a residue of carbon left on the surface of whatever is burning since not enough oxygen combines with the carbon to produce CO2.

Carbon is black. There you go.
( wastedindustry hates writing CVs, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:42, archived)

except when it is diamonds

( Wasp Box is your next PM, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:46, archived)

So
If you put diamonds in a toatser, the won't be black despite containing carbon!
That is top science ;)

( Flowerpot watches through the railings as they play, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:47, archived)

Yes, and interestingly
the same applies to dingos, destitutes and dentists, but not dace.
( Wasp Box is your next PM, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:50, archived)

Damn
and I thought there was a pattern emerging.

( Flowerpot watches through the railings as they play, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:56, archived)

there's always an exception to the rule,
which proves the rule
( Wasp Box is your next PM, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:59, archived)

Could you patronise us a bit more please?
Subtleties are so lost on B3tards :)

( Flowerpot watches through the railings as they play, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:46, archived)

Hah sorry ;)
Judging by the question I thought I'd better explain carefully.
And I replied to the wrong person too :p
( wastedindustry hates writing CVs, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:53, archived)

what about hydrocarbons
no oxygen in those
( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:49, archived)

No
but the carbon oxidises using the oxygen in the air.

Besides, hydrocarbons aren't organic.
( wastedindustry hates writing CVs, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:52, archived)

?
(second part, not the first; there's plenty of oxygen in the air)

alkanes aren't organic? benzene isn't organic?
news to me
[edit: also, some compunds, such as what you get when you completely halogenate a hydrocarbon, don't even have hydrogen in either]
( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:57, archived)

hydrocarbons aren't...
oh, nevermind, let's get back to MAGNETS!
( Wasp Box is your next PM, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 16:02, archived)

magnets

( Wasp Box is your next PM, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:42, archived)

^---- this




hard



in the face



twice
( Dr. Strange Apparantly those were the droids I was looking for, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:46, archived)

that's bit clever
had me perplexed for a while there.
( god save the queen hardly ever original, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:34, archived)

He he he

( Statler&Waldorf I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK., Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:35, archived)

haha!
you are a daft.
( - D - Onion-head-carrot-fingers, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:37, archived)

PULL!

( Zank Frappa Dahmer Llama Karma Drama!, Tue 6 Mar 2007, 15:43, archived)