Thinking about eating toast?

What goes through your mind when you prepare to eat a piece of toast? Even before you begin to eat what process do you follow cutting your toast? Do you cut the bread at all? If you cut it do you cut it in squares, rectangles, triangles or do you... Well, keep reading.

To work with toast you will need a knife, some sort of toasting device (toaster, toaster oven, or just an oven), and bread. Toasting the bread is simple. 

Four triangles
Start with a slice of toasted bread.

then cut it once from one corner to the one opposite to it.

Then, go to the opposite corner and cut it in way that it will create an X. Like so...

Simple squares
Some other times I like to create special rectangles, called squares. Again you start with a slice of toasted bread.

Then you cut the bread with the knife once starting from the middle of the one side and ending the cut directly opposite to it.

Then, you make a similar cut by going to the other side of the bread thus creating the shape of a cross. Now you have formed four squares.

Then, feel free to add your favorite jelly and distribute it by using your knife all over the four squares.

The inner circle
Again you start with a toasted piece of bread.

Then, use a knife to cut a circle in the middle of the bread. Please take you time in doing so because having a nice circle is critical.

Continue to make four additional cuts starting from the middle of the edge of each side to the circumference of the circle. Like so...

 Now, feel free to use the jelly of your choosing and spread it throughout the bread.

At this point you can eat each piece individually of you can eat the circle first and then make small sandwiches like so...

The trapezoid
Start with a slice of toasted bread and make a cut across it starting from the middle of one side and ending up in the middle of the opposite side.

Then, starting from each corner create cuts that will create this pattern...

The original half is separated in three parts. The middle part is a trapezoidal shape. Again, use your favorite jelly. As you can see my favorite is raspberry. Yum!

Sometimes I like to play with my food and I create these interesting structures that resemble Egyptian hieroglyphics.

By the way, trapezoid is a Greek word and means table like. Can you see the shape that is like a table? Perhaps the legs of the table are crooked but ancient Greeks did not have precision tools.

I hope you have enjoyed this yummy display of eatable geometric shapes. Next time you eat a piece of toast please remember that the options are endless. So, don't just settle for a boring shape. Go for something a little different.