Smell of toast....

[Archie_tect]

Over the last 20 years my wife and I have often smelt toast in our house in the mornings at week-ends. It's very distinctive and we've both commented on it.

Tonight sitting typing here at the kitchen table, I just caught the smell again now. It was striong enough to bring my wife into the kitchen as she thought I was having a late night toasty snack....

We haven't made toast for weeks.... the cooker hasn't been on nor has the microwave, we had salad for tea....

Now I'm a rational person and find the psychobabble of the paranormal wierdos all a bit pathetic but sitting here has given my pragmatic view of the world a bit of a reality stretch!

 

[mcshroom]

Have you got a fan heater? Mine can smell a bit like toast the first time it's been turned on for a while as it burns off the dust.

 

[slowmotion]

Toast

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I just slip in a slice...

 

[vernon]

Toast

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmKStqugMc[/media]



I just slip in a slice...

I saw Streetband live when they played the Fforde Green in Leeds back in the late seventies. When they played "Toast' they threw toast out into the audience. I caught a slice and threw it back hitting Paul Young on the bridge of his nose.

 

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I winged Alan Price with a small flower at a gig about twenty years ago. He was not at all happy. I was aiming my token of appreciation at a totally beautiful back-line singer, slightly to his left.

 

[Fnaar]

There must be a rational explanation... you've just got to use your loaf.

 

[smokeysmoo]

Is it the toast of Christmas past?

Breville Bravo

 

[cisamcgu]

In an old house that we used to own, we had a 240V-12V transformer for a light over the dressing table. This was very old and whenever it was switched on it gave off a strange, familiar odour that neither my wife or I could put our finger on. When we realised it was also getting worriyingly hot, we had it removed...

 

[LosingFocus]

Is your boiler in your kitchen? My parents used a similar toast-like smell when the boiler in their old home started off.

 

[Archie_tect]

Fan heater- no.
Electric wiring- no.
Boiler in kitchen- yes, replaced with new balanced flue one one but.... that might be it if it happened every time the boiler starts up, but it doesn't.

Uncle Mort-

brilliant!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

We haven't made toast for weeks....

 

[jonny jeez]

Over the last 20 years my wife and I have often smelt toast in our house in the mornings at week-ends. It's very distinctive and we've both commented on it.

Tonight sitting typing here at the kitchen table, I just caught the smell again now. It was striong enough to bring my wife into the kitchen as she thought I was having a late night toasty snack....

We haven't made toast for weeks.... the cooker hasn't been on nor has the microwave, we had salad for tea....

Now I'm a rational person and find the psychobabble of the paranormal wierdos all a bit pathetic but sitting here has given my pragmatic view of the world a bit of a reality stretch!

Archie...serious question ...is it specifically toast you smell or general burning..such as rubber or plastic? I ask for a specific reason.

 

[Archie_tect]

It's definitely toast... the lovely golden-warm smell of freshly toasted soft white bread... must be both nasally hallucinating...

No shorting wires, not a burning smell- usually only happens occasionally at week-ends- in the mornings. It is wierd!

No sign of sunshine focussing anywhere to start anything smoldering [though we used to have small glass panes in the front windows which had those bulls-eyes in which focussed sunlight on the carpet and you could see little smoke plumes rising off the carpet.... but they went years ago!

 

[Archie_tect]

Maybe your neighbours are making lots and lots of toast, seeing as it's the weekend ...

Could be but they are quite a way away....

 

[jonny jeez]

It's definitely toast... the lovely golden-warm smell of freshly toasted soft white bread... must be both nasally hallucinating...

No shorting wires, not a burning smell- usually only happens occasionally at week-ends- in the mornings. It is wierd!

No sign of sunshine focussing anywhere to start anything smoldering [though we used to have small glass panes in the front windows which had those bulls-eyes in which focussed sunlight on the carpet and you could see little smoke plumes rising off the carpet.... but they went years ago!

That's good I was thinking of something else, (the smell of burnt rubber is a symptom of one particular nasty ailment) ...I've no idea but hope its something lovely like a new bread factory