Why does toast always fall butter side down?

Answer 1

Actually it does not always fall butter side down. Butter side down is dependent on the cost of the carpet.

Answer 2

umm you people do realize that unless you had tons of butter, the change in center of gravity would be negligible. At least for me, The amount of mutter I put on toast would hardly make a difference. Even then, it would have to fall from pretty high to make the difference in center of gravity actually make a noticeable difference. I am quite confident that buttered toast does not fall butter side down any more often Thant butter side up. This is likely just a myth that came about because people notice more when things go badly than they do when they go well.

Answer 3

It doesn't but if it did it would be a great energy source.

Cats always land on their feet, if the thing about toast was true you could put toast on a cats back,butter side up, and drop it.

The cat and the butter side of the toast would both want to hit the floor, so it would spin.

Wire it up to a generator & hey presto, immediate free energy.

To increase the amount of energy substitute the toast for an open carton of take away chinese or indian.

Answer 4

Do not confuse yourself with buttered side being heavy, and gravity acting on it.
When the toast falls from a table or from our hip level, it flips once ( or a little more than one flip,in which case the edge hits the ground first and bounces back without completing the second flip.)
As we normally keep the buttered side up, when it does one flip,the buttered side falls down.
You may experiment with the following:-
1.Instead of flipping over or pushing the toast try to drop it horizontally.
2.Keep the buttered side down and then flip it over.
3.Increase the height of the fall ( try a range ).
4.increase the speed of the flip ( try a range ).

You will see that a toast does not always fall buttered side down.

Answer 5

It doesn't!

What we have here are two issues. Firstly the butter is denser than the bread and so changes the bread's centre of gravity hence increasing the chances of the bread landing butter side down.

Secondly: You will tend to remember it landing butter side down (because of the agro caused by it) more than landing butter side up.

Here something to think about.

If cats always land on their fee and toast always lands butter side down if you strapped a piece of buttered toast onto a cat would it just revolve in the air as the two competing forces try to put themselves in the correct position?

Answer 6

Toast has just as much chance of landing butter side up. Maybe to insure that your toast lands butter side up once in awhile ,press the butter knife firmly down on the toast while you spread your butter to create an indented surface which might cause your toast to flip over during its decent and land butter side up.

Answer 7

It was shown on Mythbusters that this is not true. In fact toast fell mostly buttered side up due to the fact that when it is buttered the toast was pressed down forming a cup.

Answer 8

The butter upsets the balance of the toast making it more heavy then the other side. Saying that the toast I dropped this morning landed butter side up

Answer 9

The toast has been given more mass (and therefore the center of balance has shifted) making the buttered side heavier than the unbuttered side. When it falls gravity will make the heavier side "flip" over and land buttered side down.

And the law they refer to whin this "phenomena" occurs is often called Murphy's law (anything that can go wrong, it will)... which is often confused with Finagle's Corollary, (also known as Sod's law). Although both "laws" refer to similar functions, Murphy's Law is more common in use than Sod's Law.

Answer 10

It's heavier on that side. It's centre of gravity is (roughly) in the middle as you look at it, but on the butter side. Therefore unless it's only fallen a short way, or is perfectly balanced butter-side up (unlikely), it will spin and inevitably land butter-side down.
Pointless and annoying enough answer (for a pointless and annoying question)?