Who Invented Toast?

[@Incubansoul]

Answer: The first dude who realized his bread was getting stale and remembered that fire fixes everything.

[@uncreativename8968]

Bread is delicious but only if it’s cooked so if we cooked it twice then it would be even more delicious right

[@banhatlessducks]

Toast the bread so nice they bake it twice

[@PresidentFunnyValentine]

Big brain

[@JohnnyTromboner]

Right

[@theykilledjoel1496]

Wrong

[@torianholt2752]

Hardtack is baked at least twice and is described as being less than desirable, to say the least.

[@ricepaddymaddie]

“Hey, I know this bread is cooked but what if we...cook it again?”

[@7-ten]

Same person that invented re-fried beans🤔🤔🤔

[@spritemon98]

"Blasphemy!!!!"

[@brian576]

leftovers are cooked...but im pretty sure you would cook them again to heat it

[@lisalynn1]

sure, why not

[@Zeon01]

@@7-ten I know it's a joke but we only call refried beans refried because of a translation error.

[@UncleTimTheHermit]

A politician admitted to making a mistake? Wow, that's incredible.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Just remember, bread isn't bad for you, not exercising is bad for you.

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

Run to bread. Problem solved.

[@logan6034]

Ya don’t say 😒

[@acetate909]

Processed wheat is kinda bad. I know that I sound like the "well actually" guy, and I guess I am, but processed grains and gluten cause health issues that most people suffer from but don't acknowledge. Eating whole grain, gluten free starches can improve ones quality of life though most people never consider it because they don't realise that it's an issue worth considering.

[@0bread286]

emf 1200 whole grain bread is delicious. I love Orowheat

[@mudmagnet3249]

Actually bro. Quitting wheat products has been the best thing I ever did. I still do eat bakery stuff because it's delicious. But no bread at home. No wheat flour. My missus went full keto and lost 20kgs. With zero activity, she is the laziest person I ever met.

[@mikefanfare]

Red Skeleton, legend! Maybe he would be an interesting person for the biography channel?

[@steelerspittsburgh875]

I was thinking the same 👍

[@keetrandling4530]

Sorry. You don't want to know his bio. I read it... You're better off thinking his stage persona was what he was really like.

[@SquigglyTheAsianPotato]

Normies: the world is falling apart This guy: who made toast

[@enrkm85]

lol, yeah. But its what I need today

[@acetate909]

Who invented toast? A dad making his kids breakfast. "It's grilled bread, stop crying"

[@Laura-Yu]

I agree that it must be a confused or careless dad

[@mickavellian]

An absent minded baker ?

[@jingalls9142]

Lmfao. Thats perfect. It reminds me of my dad and what i do to my kid now...the things that used to drive me nuts as a kid i use to annoy my daughter hahaha. Being a dad has its moments thats for sure

[@JM1993951]

Bread is a staple, toast is a treat. So simple, yet so delicious when you melt the butter correctly.

[@jevinday]

"The history of toast starts with, well, bread." Mind=blown

[@arky1790]

Me: trying to sleep at 2 am Today I found out show: hey ever wonder who invented toast Me: well let’s find out

[@damien4197]

Remember, Betty White was born in 1922, so sliced bread is the greatest thing since Betty White.

[@spritemon98]

Wow...

[@petersavage7904]

Sliced bread is the best thing since really big sandwiches

[@valiroime]

@Peter Savage: I would argue that sliced bread facilitated the creation of really tall, stacked sandwiches.

[@jeffbell2668]

Saint Olaf would be pround

[@petersavage7904]

@@valiroime yes but the unsliced bread creates the most dense sandwich possible as someone who often eats 2-7 sliced pans for lunch I find it is much more efficient

[@shackdaddy7106]

Inside information: There are 10 million breadcrumbs inside of Simon’s beard.

[@jeremiahschatz2710]

I hear he saves them to feed to Sam.

[@dustintacohands1107]

@@jeremiahschatz2710 it's how he gets paid

[@jeremiahschatz2710]

@@dustintacohands1107 🤣🤣🤣

[@SigEpBlue]

The worst part: Simon doesn't even pick them out. Sam has to go in -- no hands allowed! -- and get them himself.

[@sealornodeal5668]

Well, I am laying in bed under an electric blanket all toasty while watching a video on toast. Irony? Depends on how you think of it.

[@dudeimbusy]

Turn over, please

[@reddog-ex4dx]

Do you want some butter to go with that?

[@dudeimbusy]

reddog 458 I’m thinking we’re in a ‘jam mood’ kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHjZk599eKlqp68

[@Scribe13013]

It's August but ok

[@I.am.Sarah.]

@@Scribe13013 I'm guessing they're in the southern hemisphere. Currently here in South Australia it is pretty chilly

[@stevenwallace773]

Great job Simon. Crisp delivery, full of facts.

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

I wish we bigfoots had bread out here in the forest so we could make toast

[@lyndsaybrown8471]

Never give up on your dreams.

[@danwinstanley2810]

I found the reclusive big foot! First!

[@grayeaglej]

Toast a Pinecone, or a Squirrel. O.o

[@williamjeffersonclinton69]

Make a nut flower from pine nuts my guy.

[@momstermom2939]

My grandmother had a toaster that was the flip over kind. I found it fascinating. There was a little flat stand on top to keep the toast warm.

[@zacharyhughes3053]

That's like asking "who invented boiled rice?" Pretty sure lots of peoples reached the same conclusion. Who knows?

[@BangFarang1]

Some invented steam rice.

[@dave900575]

Wait, what!? They boil rice? When did this happen. I missed the video.

[@SkeletonTown374]

are you gonna update this now that the alan macmasters thing has come to light?

[@AvidCat5000]

As a brilliant madman musician sang, "YEAH, TOAST!"

[@Danielle_Zor-El]

Thank you, Simon. I made a cup of tea and was going to have a cinnamon roll. But after this, I had to go make toast. 🙄 And instead of my usual 2 slices, I made 4. With butter and jam, of course. 😉👍

[@serioussquad8809]

Props to you for not just stretching it out to 10mins with needles crap.

[@tiki_trash]

IKR? I would watch more Business Blaze if it didn't take up a fucking half an hour of my precious time... allegedly.

[@YurinanAcquiline]

You only need 8 minutes for ads now.

[@sethleslie8867]

This is the content I keep coming back for.

[@light-master]

6:18 That's the look of someone that loves their job.

[@MrWildbill]

I find it interesting with all of the innovations since sliced bread that sliced bread still holds the Best Thing Since award.

[@Doctors_TARDIS]

I'm going to start working "The greatest thing since wrapped bread" into my vocabulary. I encourage all of you to do the same.

[@adrees]

I thought you were going to cover the first guy who made a toast. So please cover that on your next video. Thank you for bringing so much knowledge and joy with your videos :)

[@ArmchairDeity]

Yanno as I think about it, it seems to me that whoever they were, we can draw a straight line from the inattentive baker that originally made people eat scorched bread to the sadist who decided to wrap questionable meat and napalm cheese in a squashed piece of toast and called it a HotPocket...

[@narobii9815]

it did say hot pocket, magma is certainly hot.

[@dustintacohands1107]

I put in her hooot pocket

[@MurderMostFowl]

ironic you mention hot pockets because the guy holding the baked loaves of bread near the end of the video looks like Jim Gaffigan 😂

[@ArmchairDeity]

MurderMostFowl 🎵Hot🎶Pockets🎵 😉😏

[@trj1442]

Simon if you could explain a couple of things I'd really appreciate it; 1. How and why does the moon go from blue /quarter/half/ full etc and back, and a bit of a refresher about the earth's orbit in general. I'm sure I learnt it in school but I've forgotten, yet wonder when I'm walking my dogs in the park downunder in the depths of winter; and 2. I just finished watching the Netflix series Chernobyl. Can you find out and tell us about radiation, ie; how it burns through skin at high levels, causes cancer at medium levels, and makes any affected substance toxic for a Zillion years, yet plantlife, wildlife etc apparently is in abundance wild and free around Chernobyl at the moment. I could look it up myself I guess but I'd much prefer the convenience and pleasure of Simon explaining it to me in under 30min, bless him.

[@McSynth]

Mr Whistler, you excel yourself with 'topics to be discussed' ! :-) Splendid.

[@BothHands1]

when i lived in south africa, you would buy a loaf of bread, and then there was a bread slicing machine that would turn your loaf into sliced bread. then it went into the bag, and we took home sliced bread. this was around 1994, and south africa was mostly like 10-20 years behind america, so that's how we got our sliced bread. but there was no presliced bread on the shelves, you had to get your fresh bread loaf at the bakery and put it through the bread slicer before going home

[@colinmcdonald2499]

This is done for reasons of deliciousness, no? My best homemade brunches/ sandwiches/ dinners with always happen when a whole unsliced loaf of bread is available. Pre sliced bread toasted will do the job, but not as good.

[@BothHands1]

Colin McDonald possibly, but the primary reason was that we just didn't have the culture, technology, or futuristic preservatives they have now, to make sliced bread available on the shelves . i thought it was normal until i came to america at age 10, and my parents were poor due to the exchange rate and the cost of moving to the other side of the world. so my parents bought me presliced wonderbread, and i was so confused as to where the actual bread was. an entire slice of wonderbread could be flattened to be about as thin as a sheet of paper. and the only cheese i had ever known was gouda, which was the only cheese sold in south africa at the time. so when my parents got that fake kraft imitation cheese for my lunch sandwiches, i would just not eat lunch because none of it was at all pleasant

[@colinmcdonald2499]

@@BothHands1 Interesting story! Thanks for sharing.

[@PatRClarke]

Almost all toaster are actually not timed at all. Most implement a bimetallic strip and simply shut off when a certain level of heat is achieved. Both Tom Scott and Technology Connections have interesting videos about this!

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

_Don't know who inventedToast but, in the early 80's Paul Hogan taught this Yank how to make it in less than 20sec using an Acetylene-Torch. {=.o}_

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

Now that's a toast!

[@efilwv1635]

The Dangerous History of Toast could be a book title.

[@KayakTN]

Suzanne Phillips has made an entire career as a historian of discussing things that will kill you. 😄

[@AD-cy4vj]

What

[@shackdaddy7106]

I have personally been told “you’re toast” on a number of occasions.

[@terryenby2304]

I hadn’t used a toaster until I moved out aged 21. Before that we toasted things on top of a flat top gas system. (Think Aga). I guess it’s the equivalent of making toast in a dry pan over a very low heat. I had no idea you could have it so quickly! 😅

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Aside from preservation techniques, toast is actually very British. If you read accounts of European travellers visiting GB in the 17th and 18th centuries they’re all astonished at the fact that Britons scorched perfectly good bread over a fire.

[@ktlemongrass5129]

I’ve used an electric bread slicer Frequenters when I was a a baker & then a bagel servant. It seems like they probably haven’t changed it much

[@djimma5080]

Whoever made the first full English breakfast was a genius and we should hold a public holiday for them called fry up day

[@lindseyhiccups]

I have never agreed with anything more in my life than I do with this comment

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

With regards to the history of bread...this video is the best thing since sliced bread

[@Crazy-Chicken-Media]

Fun Fact! Betty White is older than sliced bread.

[@Tustin2121]

Only if you don’t count the prototype that got destroyed 5 years before she was born.

[@BoomerangMonkey4]

Cool

[@athena8794]

Some day, we all need to sit down and consider what kind of world we want to leave behind for Betty White and Queen Elizabeth II.

[@acetate909]

Betty White Bread

[@Crazy-Chicken-Media]

@@Tustin2121 that's why a baby is not 9 months old when it is born.

[@dave900575]

I'm sure it must have been the Earl of Sandwich the day he fell asleep at the beach, or maybe that's where the tuna melt came from.

[@robertt9342]

I slice homemade bread myself and While it only takes a couple of minutes, there is a consistency and small convenience to pre-sliced bread. This is actually why I risk drying it out and slice all at once, it allows for more consistency and it's less of hassle to do once every loaf.

[@erickmarquez6361]

This is what the world needs right now a video about toast became a thing

[@michaelmason4917]

Ah, we have come to the end of Today I Found Out, It's been a good ride, Thank you Simon.

[@Hal-md7qw]

Love a video on the iron stomach of pigs and what makes them eating and digesting machine !

[@AwareWolfOnWheels]

They were like "Damn this bread is so good, cook it again!"

[@AdrianCarlisle]

Toast is nada without jam n butter 🥰

[@Nurichiri]

One of those things I never thought about, but once this showed up in my recommenced, I had to know.

[@starcrashr]

I had paused the video to explain to my partner how something as simple as sliced bread revolutionized the morning routines of American housewives because of how much is used for toast and sandwiches for a large or moderate family. When I resumed, Simon went on to read the letter about that, making my explaination a giant waste of time and oxygen. This must be what Simon feels like when he's reading Danny's scripts for Business Blaze. Bonus bonus fact: Betty White is older than sliced bread, so sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White.

[@scottandrewhutchins]

Funny, I was noticing Edmund's thing about toast watching the Andrew Adamson version of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe last night.

[@Pepperminge_Mononoke]

Lol can't lie... ive been waiting for a video all day

[@michaeljames4904]

*Anyone* who had hardening bread, and still wanted to eat if before it went stale. _There, answering that question wasn’t so difficult._

[@bigemugamer]

Moving out on my own in 1994 AKA prehistoric times I used a couple of these one sided toasters, a central coiled heating element and 2 flaps on either side dropped down for you to lay your bread on, then turn the dial which raises and lowers the flaps so the bread 'leans' against the metal mesh surrounding the heating element at an 85 degree angle, DON'T WALK AWAY as there was no buzzer, it just keeps toasting! as soon as it reaches your desired toastiness you drop the side flaps, flip the half toasted bread and repeat. Despite this ancient way of toasting bread the finished product was fully edible and just like today's toast it could support a jam or butter type substance spread across it's surface to enhance flavor P=

[@turmoildragon]

The fact about sliced bread and banning bread during WW2 was actually used on the Brainfood podcast

[@marcpeterson1092]

My guess as to why: Some bureaucrat saw lots of people eating sliced bread. "There's a war on, we can't have that!"

[@helirobk9]

Simon!!! You’ve done this one before, with the same graphics and quotes! You just named it the best thing since sliced bread!!!

[@krystofdayne]

Asking the important questions

[@johngerken4263]

@TIFO - Video Idea: Were one-man bands ever a real thing, and, if so, how long did it take to learn a new song? (On approx. average, of course)

[@pixel12yearsago35]

How far you have come

[@atariduckman]

I've smashed the thumbs-up button and now it's broken. Please repair it...

[@QuixoteX]

At least somebody is asking the important questions.

[@AveryTalksAboutStuff]

Sliced bread is one of those things that got invented way later than I thought.

[@fionafiona1146]

It's quite wasteful

[@Agaettis]

"Semi automatic toaster" pew pew pew

[@1hrleft209]

What school doesn’t teach you this man does

[@SupermotoZach]

I sat down this morning with my marmite toast, opened KZbin and there was your video on toast lmao

[@VisualBasic6]

Banning sliced bread in 2020: The media : "THERE'S A CRISIS" Breadmakers : [Delivers the same amount the next day and nothing has changed]

[@robertt9342]

Well, realistically the excess demand would create addition scarcity and will cause people to buy the bread the days following. -The bread makers will likely increase production tying to satiate the demand. - This in turn leads to a small temporary shortage of flour causing people to go out and stock pile flour and yeast making the problem worse. -Bread makers if they didn't plan for it will see an excess in supply of bread as people's demand is now satiated. -Flour and yeast supply is still strained for about a week as stockpiles are shipped in to cover the difference. -Supply returns to normal and people are left with significantly more bread, flour and heat then they need.

[@markwierzbicki5307]

I am sure it is here somewhere, however here it is again. If something is deemed "the best thing since sliced bread", what was the best thing prior to sliced bread?

[@MissRiny]

In English you have the phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread" and in German we say "verkauft sich wie geschnitten Brot" which means "sells like sliced bread" for something that sells really good (we also have a similar saying for warm buns). Are there any sliced bread related sayings in other languages?

[@jeremiahschatz2710]

Probably more at home on BB (as this Simon is personality deprived) but I would love to see one of the "Who did/made/say?" and the answer be. Simon on the right side, a photo of the subject on the left(with accompanying name). Simon pointing angrily "Him/Her... There, now you know!!! Are you Happy?!?" cut.

[@susanrobinson910]

Finally! Simon is going to answer one of life’s biggest questions!

[@2wheelpartsguy]

pretty sure Haywood Banks wrote a song about this very topic. strongly suggest you check it out

[@westonmccall4094]

Nothing better than finding out the origins of toast while sitting on the toilet

[@YeeSoest]

The biggest takeaway is actually "before sliced bread, the best thing in the world was wrapped bread" That is applicable in many a situation, IF you're the kind of person that has to have fun and weird facts on anything ready in their heads at all times. I am that kind of person. And did you know that my mother's family side actually owns the oldest pumpernickel manufacturing company in germany, dating back to 1570? Yeah...that's old^^

[@ellewoodford262]

before ive seen the video yet - some random breadmaker or farmer shortly after the invention of bread decided to see if cooking the bread more would do anything

[@Martin.Wilson]

I have it on good authority that toast was invented in 1237 by the Duke of Crouton. His banquets were often attended by the Earl of Sandwich and Lord and Lady Douchebag.

[@shmackedmuffins7948]

My dad retired this year and all he's been doing is making bread. I'm going to show him this video.

[@brianwilliams9605]

I use the ancient Egyptian Pharaohs way of making toast. Instead of burning with a fire you use the power of the pyramids to melt the surface of the bread which makes it sticky so the jam doesn't fall off.

[@MirandaMilner]

The thing is, nobody needs to know this, but it’s one of those videos you just have to watch, ya know? I don’t really know why it’s interesting, but it is.

[@applegal3058]

The yeast is also found naturally on the surface of the grain.

[@metanevets91]

You forgot to mention the brief advancement to "automatic beyond belief" style toaster and the subsequent regression to what we have today.

[@poeticjustice8476]

Toast: the best thing since sliced bread

[@friend6281]

The bread's so nice when you cook it twice

[@clemkadiddlehopper7705]

07:28 BTW.... Clem Kadiddlehopper is a Red Skelton character...as in my profile picture...Now you know....and knowing is half the battle!

[@gawdsuniverse3282]

'Who invented Toast?' the first person who didn't want to eat cold bread and decided to heat it over the fire. One of the world's greatest inventors.

[@petersavage7904]

Sliced bread is the best thing since really big sandwiches

[@djjorjinho]

All around the country and coast to coast People always ask "what do you like most?" I don't wanna brag, I don't wanna boast I always tell 'em "I like toast!"

[@dave900575]

Yeah toast!

[@yetigriff]

Hello Simon, Can we have a program on who invented the skip?

[@CardinalTreehouse]

The yeast does not come from the air - it comes from yeast present on the grain when it is milled.

[@aaronpollitt8630]

The dude in this pic is definitely the guy who played Jack in the Richard Gale film, "The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon".

[@Kero7th]

Imagine slicing 22 slices of bread evenly

[@BothHands1]

i actually bought a book on toasters 16 years ago for a dollar at goodwill. i found if so incredibly hilarious that there was a book about toasters. that's where i learned that the egyptians were the first people to make toast.

[@daniel_wilkinson]

TIFO totally missed a perfect opportunity to mention that Betty White is older than sliced bread.

[@mickavellian]

is she still alive???

[@chadfalardeau3259]

For now

[@wildshadowstar]

She’s 98 as of this year.

[@tacticallawyer]

Is she?

[@DoctorX17]

They also missed their chance to mention the greatest toaster of all time. The Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster: Automatic Beyond Belief!

[@JamesD92763]

"Yeah Toast!!" - Heywood Banks

[@BradGryphonn]

Give me an inch thick slice of freshly baked bread with lashings of butter and honey please.

[@ARIXANDRE]

Best invention preceding sliced bread.

[@dianasmith7047]

So it comes down to that guy just hated sliced bread.

[@adrianholroyd4533]

Toast was recently voted the World's best grilled sliced bread.

[@ridetheapex]

All around the country and coast coast. People always ask what do you like most? I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast. I just tell em... I like toast!

[@CAP198462]

Simon, The big question in anthropology is, which came first; bread or beer? *obviously it’s not going to be like Stella Artois but closer to alcoholic gruel. I’d be fascinated to see what you come up with :-)

[@TootieProduct]

This feels familiar, have you talked about the slice bread ban before?

[@PokeMaster22222]

So what was "the best thing" before wrapped bread?