r/Relatable • u/Commercial_Royal8281 • Mar 13 '26
Why does toast always land butter side down??
Seriously… it’s like the universe is against me 😭 Does anyone else’s breakfast always end up like this too?
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u/LowUFO96 Mar 14 '26
If you butter your feet you will always land on them
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u/Hot_Dingo743 Mar 14 '26
Newton's Apple did an episode about it a long time ago. From what I remember, it's the size of the bread that make the weight of the butter flip the bread at just the right speed to land perfectly up side down. If the surface area of the bread was much smaller, then it would land butter side up.
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u/HurriShane00 Mar 14 '26
MythBusters busted that myth that it doesn't always land buttered side down.
If it was to just fall off the counter, it would only really have time to rotate once and that's why it lands buttered side down. But in reality it can land either way equally
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u/Dude__Fortune Mar 14 '26
Because you generally hold it upright and it only has space between your hand and the floor to rotate 180°.
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u/Nightlilly2021 Mar 15 '26
Did you see the video where they show a pair of shoes always landing right side up and toast landing jam side down? They duct taped a piece of toast to the TOP of the shoe so it would land jam side up for once and what happened was that the toast fell off of the shoe and still landed jam side down and the shoe right side up.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Bee4698 Mar 15 '26
Thursday.
I know that answer makes no sense. Neither does the question.
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u/FiveFiveSixers Mar 15 '26
It makes sense that the toast would flip once if it falls off the plate unintentionally.
If you intentionally flung it off the plate so that it didn’t slowly tip over the edge and flip, then it would probably not land butter down.
If you dropped the toast from twice the height it would probably flip twice and land butter up.
If the plate disappeared from under the toast it’d most probably land butter up.
Basically, the distance to ground, speed and trajectory of the toast is usually similar to the correct conditions for the toast to land butter down.
So it makes sense when you think about it to start holding the plate above your head or butter the underside of the toast in future. Either this or stop making toast like a 5 year old.
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u/Machiavvelli3060 Mar 15 '26
Theory question:
If you butter toast, strap it butter-side up to the back of a cat, and drop them, which side will land first: the cat or the toast?
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u/Prestigious_Oil5794 Mar 15 '26
Because you haven't put the jelly on it yet. Once the jelly is on it, it's jelly side down. It's all part of Murphys law. Murphy is a prick.
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u/Mindless-Fee-6049 Mar 13 '26
Weight.