Some people have way too much time on their hands....

Scientists have finally discovered how to stop your dropped toast landing buttered side down.

Perhaps stop dropping it in the first place may be a start

The secret lies in the spreading technique.

How quickly is it spreading? And why is it harbouring secret lies?

The more vigorously you apply the spread, the less likely it is to fall butter side down.
That is because pressing firmly with the knife creates a convex indentation in the bread which affects the way it falls.

Surely if you carry on spreading it hard enough, you just spread the butter right off the toast. Therefore it will never land on the butter side, because there is no buttered side
Still, it's a prudent warning: The more vigourous you spread them, the more you are likely to bend in the middle!

The test was carried out by TV science show Mythbusters.

Oh well, that proves it. If it's done for a TV kids show it must be scientific.

Its experts found that the buttering method resulted in toast landing butter side up 29 times out of 50.

Is it my imagination or does 29 out of 50 not sound like a great amount of times to prove anything. Thats just a little off 50/50, which is a random amount. (I could go into Null Hyptheses here, but I may fal ..... )

Presenters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman explained: "Our research showed that the slices landing butter side up were ones that had been pressed in from the buttering, forming a sort of dish in the bread.

"Just like when a leaf falls from a tree, it will always have a tendency to land with the curved sides up."

Now they are buttering leaves? Is this the vegetarian version?

For the Discovery Channel show, the pair built a mechanism which replicated toast accidentally being brushed off a table - the most likely way for toast to fall, according to the programme.

Wow. They went to all that trouble to build a mechanism to model someone dropping toast. When really they could have....er... used someone dropping toast

A thermometer was used to make sure each slice was exactly the same temperature.

Which really means that there was a third person who really wanted to be involved, so they made up a job for them to do. "Here you go. Take this thermometer and measure their temperatures. What's that? Of course it's an important part of the experiment. No, We're not taking the piss"....D