the odd new food trend seen in Saveur Magazine this month

[grasswire]

So I picked up the latest issue of Saveur at Barnes and Noble the other day to peek inside while I waited for my coffee drink.

Gee!!

An article on using burnt toast scraped crumbs as a seasoning for certain dishes! What a crazy idea.

Vanilla ice cream with burnt toast crumbs. Some savory dishes with burnt toast crumbs.

I didn't buy the magazine, but I should have. I can't get that surprising trick out of my mind.

My mother always told me that burnt toast would make my hair curly, but that was an epic fail.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I would have never thought of that, myself, but it does sound interesting.

I wonder if it lends a grilled flavor to foods. It might be fun to play with the idea.

[japple]

2. My mother would have probably come up with something like this if she

were still alive. She was a child of the depression, saved everything and always found a way to use up every last bit!

[Phentex]

3. i love burnt toast. but i thought burnt stuff

Was supposed to be bad for you. I like the burnt parts of a lot of things but I think I read they are carcinogenic.

[BarbaRosa]

4. My Mom always said the brunt toast parts

were good for your teeth.

[Warpy]

5. I scrape the burnt part off toast and cookies, alike

because I dislike the taste, it has the same bitterness as coffee and I hate coffee.

Using it as a flavoring for jaded palates seems vile, but I guess if those palates require ten cups of espresso per day along with ridiculously overprepared food, they can have it.

It looks like just another cheap trick to keep people with more money than brains coming back.

Yuck.

ETA: the charcoal might do something for their breath after a night of overseasoned, garlicky offal, but I doubt it.

[grasswire]

6. today my grilled cheese sandwich was a little dark

I thought about scraping it onto some ice cream. Next time I will. Just for the laugh.

[cbayer]

7. I can see it. YOu have to give updates when you try it out.

[Luminous Animal]

8. My mother burnt our toast every morning. I wouldn't let her scrape my piece because I loved the

taste of burnt toast. I now weep at all the opportunities flush down the drain from my sibling's toast.

Since I've been cooking on my own (45 years), I haven't burnt any toast and the OP reminded me how much I liked it so I might have to give this a try. I can picture my morning mix of oatmeal, granola, and blueberries with a crunchy burnt toast topping. Or baked potatoes! Or pea soup (I love homemade pea soup). Stewed tomatoes...

Actually, I can't think of anything that might not be good with burnt toast scrapings.