why does the toats always land butter side down?

Answer 1

i went to dine out and my toats kept falling, and they landed butter side down like half the time, it was craxy

Answer 2

Everyone is wrong on this one. Even you. It's "toast" not "toats". The reason for landing butter side down is because when it's on the counter the buttered side is up. As you push the toast off the counter, a rotation occurs that is caused by the weight of the leading edge of the toast. The height of the counter and the period of rotation of the toast will cause it to land with the side down that was up on the counter, regardless of whether or not the toast is buttered. (whoa! Daryl E DID get it right!)

Answer 3

I could say that it's because you have buttered the wrong side of the bread but there is a good scientific reason for it. Any falling object will tumble in free-fall and the number of rotations is dependent upon the height of the fall and the size and weight characteristics of the object. A slice of bread and the height of a table are pretty well standardized wherever you find them and it just so happens that a slice of bread will tumble one and a half times before hitting the floor-ie buttered side down.

Answer 4

boscombe almost has it right. It's because of the height it falls in relation to the size of the slice of bread.
It rotates while falling (complicated physics) but only has time to turn half a rotation before it hits the floor, so because it's on the table or whatever butter-side-up, it will land butter side down.

If your table or worktop was twice as high, it would have time to turn all the way round and land butter side up.

But if a cat always lands on its feet and toast always lands butter side down, what would happen it you strapped some toast butter-side-up to a cat's back?

Answer 5

Toast normally lands butter side down when falling off a table because the leading edge tilts down first, and it normally only has time to "flip" once. From a higher height, the toast is more likely to land butter side down ONLY if you really press into the bread, creating a concave surface when buttering. If both sides are equal, your odds of hitting butter side down is roughly 50 percent.

Answer 6

Chances are you spread the butter on the bread UNEVENLY, and this causes the bread to rotate in the air as it is falling, ie turn over with wind resistance being unequal- and then the butter side eventually aims down; whic is only fitting because yes the butter is heavier and gravity pulls on it more than it does on the dried out, fluffy bread, so it remains falling butter side down... *splat*

Answer 7

I think you will find that it doesnt always land butter side down. It is in fact 50/50 its probably that on the ocassions that you have dropped toast it has landed butter down - you havent done it enough times to test the theory.

Answer 8

Same reason why cats land on their feet - the Gods have decreed it so...

Interesting fact - if you tie a piece of toast buttered side up to a cat's back, and drop it, it will hover, as neither can land that way...

Answer 9

It doesnt, but we only notice it wen it does! If it lands dry side down we just pick it up, give it a basic once over blow and eat it. But if its butter side down, whole different ball game. Its not gravity against u, just how much more noticable dirt/fluff/pubes etc are on a yellow sticky surface. lol

Answer 10

ummm so toast always lands butter side down, and as Jo* says cats always land on their feet. so...... if you strap a piece of bread butter side up to a cats back and drop it out of the window will it ever hit the ground? (not that I am condoning dropping cats from windows)