annpat,

I am curious. Do you get squeemish when you see the hot dog eating contests going on? You know the ones where the contestants need to eat the entire hot dog and bun to get credit? They are provided with a few glasses of water that allows them to "dip" the hotdog and roll into because it makes the items easier to eat.

Imagine all those soggy rolls!

Mmmm, soggy rolls...... Yummy!

8-D

My Bread Banner is done......LOL

Oh by the way...I pulled another load of black gold from the bottom of my bins, now off to the finishing pile...I am telling ya Bread is the way to go.

Here is a link that might be useful: For Annpat

I fell for it. I clicked on the link. I'm as gullible as sheaviance! That was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen, berry. Forget the Puffy Sog! The tearing! The deep, shiny fingerprints in the bread! All the handling. I made cinnamon swirl raisin bread yesterday, and now I won't be able to eat it. I'll have to wrap it up and take it to the landfill.

I don't know who's sicker---berryman or greengardener! I was kidding before about reporting people, but I think that the hot dog contest comment crossed the line. N'est pas?

So you might want to gather up your things, greengardener. I'm pretty sure you're going to be getting your walking papers today. (Sheesh! People think that they can come here and just say any sick thing that comes into their heads.)

Berry, your grotesque joke was very funny, but you're the one who has to live with that puffed-up pile of white yuk in your back yard!! Kinda backfired on you, huh?

Who's laughing now!?

Oh, my, GAWD!!! berryman! Skeletal remains of Planarians, in a compost pile, spelling out Annpat! Photographic PROOF that, like, this is waaaaaay more deep and extraterrestrial and has like all kinds of psychic complexity than I'd thought! They arrange their dead to spell out their Goddess! Or maybe they crawl into that position and then croak, like some kind of Branch Davidian Planarian chapter.

Boy, have I got stuff to ponder today in the garden.

Oh gak! I backed away from the picture so fast, I didn't see all the little triangular heads!

Here is a link that might be useful: Dead planaria

Are those planarian or bread crust? They look too similar to tell the difference.

Here is a link that might be useful: What happens when you put bread in your compost?

Annpat, you could always compost that cinnamon swirl raisin bread.

Huh...Composting cinnamon swirl raisin bread...Never thought of it. Guess I will have to give it a try.

My son-in-law delivers wonder bread, and has ample access to stale products. Great idea! What is the recommended ratio of breads to greens? Are planarians good fish bait?

Not really.

Here is a link that might be useful: A Planarian eating a Crappie

Mendopete, you need proper moister content to get a consistent sog effect. This helps to create the slime that turns to compost at a higher rate than say grass. So add water until the bread gets bloated.
As far as bait, I have actually thought of it. Some of the panfish in this part of the country will be biting soon, so I may give them a try. I may just open a bait shop. Maybe a have a glass counter in the front of the store, so people can server themselves, have some soggy bread covered with planarians, so you can reach down and grab a dozen..Maybe...HMMMM...Just maybe...

I know something. I know that when you're writing all this stuff, you are getting sick to your stomach.

And that's punishment enough for me.

annpat - Your links are like bad auto accidents: you know it's gonna be bad but you can't stop yourself from looking.

I must be getting old because I find this thread to be kinda stale. I haven't chuckled once.

Lloyd

PT03, Nice Pun.

Hah! I've heard better.

Like my mother's when she ordered a martini at a restaurant once when I was a teenager. The waiter said, "Olive or twist?" to which my mother replied, "Oh you little Dickens."

She made it up, but I've since seen a la Google that it has occurred to other people as well.

Anyway, if we're doing critiques, I think that my mother's pun is far cleverer than Lloyd's.

I'm guessing if annpat invites the gang over for breakfast (the non-bread-composting folks, worthy of an invite) she won't be making french toast.

Lloyds wasn't intended as a pun. Although I must admit the "little Dickens" did make me smile.

Lloyd

"I must be getting old because I find this thread to be kinda stale. . . Lloyds wasn't intended as a pun."

Oooh that's too bad because wet bread is always more fun than a wet blanket.

patchwork, regarding French toast: It's like eating cheerios---speed is of the essence, no lollygagging in the milk bath.

Annpat I agree with you that sounds pretty disgusting ..I've been composting now for 5 years and never once considered bread in the compost,,,Give it to the birds before it molds ,and help them out

HAH!! Vindication!!

I'll add "wet blanket" to "curmudgeon, having half a brain, a baiter, a person to be ignored, a gas guzzler and a hijacker".

I'm gonna need a larger business card! ;-)

Lloyd

Bread is lovely but I really like putting left over noodles in my compost. Maybe I could check the dumpster behind the Olive Garden.

Mudman, LOL I never thought of that...noodles

berryman
Have you ever had your compost check by an extension agency ,I wonder what other crap you put in ,how does your lawn look....

Actually, I don't have a lot of faith in our Extension office. My neighbor was told to take some caterpillars that he found in his grass (local radio said too), to ID them and they didn't know what they were. He went to the local feed store and they told him right away what they were. I have also taken other plant issues to them and they were no help and actually seem annoyed that I bothered them. Finally spoke to some folks at the local arboretum, who helped....long story short No I don't talk to them, and Yes my grass looks great (better with each load). We put anything (not meat- grease- dairy-human feces ) that is organic we can find in our compost.
And if you must know, if we have a spaghetti dinner all the cleaned off plates of the noodles goes in.

(Water, since it is not foreign to a noodle's nature, makes the Noodle exempt. Nothing wrong with noodles. They are not Matter Out of Place.)

Annpat,
LOL, its funny that they are basically the same thing, just one is boiled in water and the other baked and then soaked with water, I think you are slowly coming over to the Bread...err I mean the dark side..

Berryman
I'm just asking if you ever had your compost checked,do you use a weed killer or do you have a garden ,where do you go with the weeds,maybe there aren't any weeds,just trying to get alittle more information ,seems like you have the hot topic on the forum....also you must like noodles...lol

applewood1,
I use chemicals very sparingly, on my grass. Only in the spring. I 'don't use the clippings for three to four weeks in compost, then the compost, from the those bins, the clipping go in, goes to a finishing pile that I keep separate for a year, and then goes on the grass or garden in the following fall. As far as what might be on the bread as far as preservatives or others I dunno.
My weeds in the garden get pulled by hand and go to a weed pile or tilled back in. My grass is getting thick enough I can get by with spot spraying only. Roundup is suppose to be safe but I try to use that even more sparingly (like on poison ivy). Question is do I check it? Now I am wondering, even thought I am very anal about chemicals, I wonder what it is tested at, what should I be concerned about. As I said in my post above my Extension office is not the best, so who do I turn too?

berryman
sounds to me like you have a good plan of attack in place, I guess when it comes to food one never really knows what they are eating...I wonder if you live in a farming commmunity were you could talk to an agronomist .I also use roundup springly along with a product called Mec a min D ,we don't have poison ivy but we have those dreaded dandelions , I wish there was a way to get rid of the weeds without chemicals...

I am checking on where i can soil test.
Of course this could be a ploy by Annpat to get inside my head, on possible side effect of wet bread.

As far as PH I have a tester, but think the finished stuff is close to neutral. I have never seen negative results when using my compost on nay plants.

Berryman
I guess the best test in the long run would be if your garden and lawn looks good you must be doing something right ,maybe the bread is blessed being you get it from the church...lol...

Oh Annpat...

Here is a link that might be useful: just for you

Lisascenic,
I dont see it?

We're getting a new Target grocery store, they sent out a coupon for a free loaf of white bread.

guess what Im planning for that......

AnnPat!

My compost pile will not be seeing any more bread (unless it is moldy).

I am proud owner of 22 HUNGRY chicks that LOVE bread...they nearly take my hand off when I open the door to their hutch to throw it in. LOL

The world will be a better place now, thanks to you, peg! (You're going to LOVE having chickens.) (doris, do you see the good example peg is setting? It's not too late for you, dear.)

The Church Pantry supplying me with old bread has been slack lately. I am trying to convince them to tell the patrons of the pantry not to take the bread as its high in carbs and empty calories, that would be better if they just passed it by....if the low supply of bread keeps up I may have to apply for a Bread bail out from the government...

Feed for livestock is certainly a 'higher and better use' than compost feedstock for the extensive resources that go into making and transporting foods. Sadly most of our food waste goes into landfills, that's the real challenge. I sure wish more of it went into pigs or chickens. I don't blame those of you who can get it for compost, and some if that is probably one step from the landfill, so it's a better destination. If you do have choices, consider the level of use you want to put those resources into.

End of "advanced wholistic resource management lecture". :-]

My thought on the bread, esp moldy bread, in a compost pile. Take it for what it's worth. The mold on bread is the same family of molds that are the basis for antibiotics. What wil the effect on what you want growing in a compost pile be? Yeah the pile will still rot, but will you not loose the beneficial "bugs" that you want in the pile?

Posted by sophie12 Jun 17, 10 at 0:39

The mold on bread is the same family of molds that are the basis for antibiotics.

So I can just eat moldy bread and save the copay at the MD and the pharmacy?

go for it albert----let us know how it works for you

I read it as "same family" not same mold

I'll bet a dollar if a person eats bread, they've eaten mold on the bread, it's just not visible yet.

;-)

Lloyd

P.S. And if you add one of them woims AP is so shy about to the bread, it's called a samwich!

u guys r insane!!! but when i need a laugh...........this is the place to come..yehhhhaaaaaaaaaaawwwww

I am feeling so misunderstood!

I have no problems with 1.) moldy bread (as long as it's triple plastic wrapped and deposited in farthest "landfill" or b.) planaria
(although I've noticed an impressionable few here do have problems with b.) planaria.
I come from the Impeccable, great, state of Maine where we have a ton of 1.) so what!? and no b.) because of our unscrupulous habits and neighborly good will compost-wise.

I don't want to infer a title upon myself, but were I to entertain such vanity, Miss Manners of the Compost Pile comes immediately to mind.

Just for your FYI, MMOTCP,
My tumbler was half filled with dead to green grass and leaves and doing nothing. I added my weekly supplement of bread to the tumbler and its burning hot again. Say what you want, I know the truth.

You're a bad influence, berry, a very, very bad influence.

("Infer"? I meant 'confer'. That must have been the Cabernet talking...)

The truth being, that you secretly compost bread. Its usually the ones who say they hate it, that compost it in secret. Its like a teenager who is actually in love but they mask their feelings through anger. So rather than sneaking out a midnight in tears, pulling each piece off the loaf and carefully hiding it under the grass clippings, come forth Annpat and join the true composters.