Hello.
Has anyone got any good resources for bread magic? Toast is ok / No buns - familiar with coin in bun (or loaf) which is good, but not where I'm headed.
Thinking bread. Many patter possibilities, obviously. Thanks!

You can make small balls out of bread "on the fly" and perform many effects like Benson Bowl, Chop Cup and Birds of a Feather.

A slice of toast can serve as a platen to mask an object for other effects like Two marshmallows under the toast, one in the pocket.

but, there has to be a reason for using toast and even bread as opposed to other available objects

Magic at the camp table is a viable theme, but the opportunities rare.

I have done this, but have found poor audience amongst the bleary eyes of dawn.

Magic with cooking objects like eggs, and vegetables works too, but toast doesn't fit in.

you can bake a cake in a hat, and a loaf of bread could work -- if you then do something wonderful with the bread.

I seem to recall seeing video of a performer producing a loaf of bread as a comedy bit -- any method for a bottle of wine would work.

"Let's offer a toast - no, that wont work! I'll try again. Magic words, 'bubbly bubbly' -- yes, Champaign will be perfect."

Ken! You "made" my morning! hee hee!

Thank you funsway. Great toast.
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How about a play-on-words? Bread to money, etc.

Man, we magic folks do ask some weird questions, don't we? And people actually ANSWER them!

[quote]On Jun 14, 2015, MJE wrote:
How about a play-on-words? Bread to money, etc.

Sounds like your in the dough!

Ray

Even better, you can subtly prompt a spectator to offer the phrase, "You're in the dough."

I have also heard from spectators, 'Getting a rise out of this." "A 'hole' bun is a donut" "Egging me on." and a whistled, "Spoon full of sugar."

Well how about pushing your middle finger through the middle of a piece of bread, haing it lay flat, put some catchup around it and at a party show it to a guest and ask if she would like one.

Well how about pushing your middle finger through the middle of a piece of bread, haing it lay flat, put some catchup around it and at a party show it to a guest and ask if she would like one.

You know that routine where the magician produces an endless number of bananas (sponge bananas) or endless carrots , endless pickles ? Well if you have the skills to carve and paint a set of foam breadsticks you could do the same thing with bread sticks. Maybe Alan Wong or Magic Latex could be talked into producing a set of breadsticks.




This is an interesting exercise , to come up with some "tricks with bread" . I realize some of these involve some preparation or props , so not truly impromptu , but off the top of my head here are some ideas:

I don't have a method yet , but it seems to me that a torn & restored bread effect could be worked out ... rip up a piece of bread into four pieces and then visibly restore it .

Levitating breadstick (figure out something with loops ; this is impromptu as long as you are set up with loops) .

The "Magnetic Cigar" effect (magically clings to your fingers) but in this case performed with a bread stick. David Ben has a great handling of the Magnetic Cigar in the Genii October 2012 issue . Maybe combine that idea with the finale being that the breadstick floats between your hands (again with the loops) .

With a hard breadstick you could make it vanish and reappear with Flipstick moves.

Thread a rope through a Pretzel , cover it with a napkin , reach under the napkin and the pretzel is magically removed from the rope .

Chop Cup routine with a coffee cup , with rolled up balls of bread vanishing and appearing under the cup ... and the final load is a muffin or a bread roll.

It might be possible to work out a sequence with coin manipulation moves done with various types of round crackers ("Ritz" crackers or round Melba toast). Here are some round crackers fabricated from resin.

If you could fabricate a realistic foam breadstick with one side being a "twisted" breadstick and the other side being a straight (non-twisty) breadstick it might work for a trick where a twisted breadstick turns into a non-twisted bread stick using the paddle/color-changing knives move .

Several companies make "fake food" props which could be adapted for magical effects. For example :

http://www.decorcentral.com/fake-breads/

http://www.propsamerica.com/products.asp......nd+Rolls

http://www.displayfakefoods.com/store/pc/Fake-Breads-c51.htm

http://www.justdoughit.com/AWSCategories......nd-Rolls

How about two plain pieces of bread which are shown front and back , wrap them in a napkin , then when you unwrap the napkin a full ham & cheese sandwich is revealed .
Or have a hamburger with cheese, lettuce and tomato appear between two previously empty buns ?

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Glad to see you joinin gin, David. Great idea.

and it caused me to remember doing a Zombie effect with a dinner roll and a fork and napkin.

Not orginal -- just don't recall where I read it first.

Depending on the performance, the bread could be a running gag. Something like the bread always ends up in weird places..?
Produce a roll from your mouth (spongeball technique), a loaf from your shoes (earth shoes), a bag of breadsticks from a spectator's purse...Just spitballing the first few things that come to mind.

I remember that zombie levitation you are talking about. Great impromptu magic. Also, there is the old gag where you "bounce" a roll off the floor.

Interesting question...hope this helps.