Lately I’ve found myself watching a lot of crime shows. We can thank Netflix suggestions because the moment you watch one show, they offer you a thousand other shows that are similar. It’s impossible to walk away! Unfortunately, this means that my dear readers will have to suffer the ponderings of Night Brain.

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Last night my brain became obsessed with knowing if a crime scene expert could get fingerprints from a pie crust. Not from the tin it was baked in, but from an impression in the actual dough that is now fully baked. Suppose this pie was at the scene of a murder and the neighbors tell police that the victim would have never baked her own pie. That means the murderer must have taken the time to bake a pie – maybe they had low blood sugar from all the stress and anxiety of doing their dastardly deeds.

Someone get the fingerprint kit, we’ve got a viable pie crust to test!

However, I think it would be near to impossible to get fingerprints from a dough crust that had been baked. The dough fluffs up and changes as it bakes – surely that would render any attempt at using the fingerprint useless. I imagine it would be impossible to determine what the original fingerprint looked like. Which is great news for any would be murderers who get a craving for some peach cobbler during a night of mayhem.

It could also be a handy murder weapon in the event the television show writers have run out of options. A bit of poison would take care of the target and the police would have no way to trace the baker.

On the other side of that argument, I’ve seen these crime scene experts take the tiniest piece of data and come to a shocking conclusion that the bad guy was the person we all least suspected. I imagine if they know they exact ingredients in the pie, they could calculate how much the dough has expanded. Then they could run the information into a computer which would spit out a shockingly accurate representation of the original fingerprint that was pressed into raw pie dough.

Your delicious snack preferences have led you to a life of prison.

I bet you’re all wondering why Night Brain pondered this. That’s where you realize you have been on a useless ride for hours – Night Brain doesn’t care about the usefulness or accuracy of its ponderings. Night Brain just ponders for the sheer joy of doing so.

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96 replies on “Delicious snack or perfect murder weapon…”

  1. It’s amazing whT our minds do at night. I’ve been watching alot of criminal kinds and I always wonder what I would do and how I would of escaped in that situation. I lay awakes sometimes and imagine my self in a situation and figure how I would solve it or escape ha. 🤦‍♀️ #dreamteam

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  3. I love your night brain. 🙂 it is a good question indeed. What might have survived is a bit of touch DNA on the sticky dough. And the oven might not have been hot enough to destroy the DNA… Then the fancy machines might find the murderer… #globalblogging

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  6. Netflix has sent my brain in some pretty bizarre directions as well.
    And can I say that whenever I visit here, I find myself smiling before I’ve even begun to read? It must be the great blog name and the reference to the dog . . .

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  8. This is both hilarious and fascinating. Perhaps you might leave DNA traces on the pie even if there was no print. What about other baked goods? Perhaps there is potential for a new TV show here – The Great Baking Kill Off, with different baked murder weapons each week? #globalblogging

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  11. My night brain gets obsessed with work, so I prefer yours! 😂 but… would the pie have DNA traces? You know, from all the skin flakes that end up in pies. What oven temperature does DNA get destroyed at?? So many questions! #globalblogging

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  12. OMG, your night brain is nuts. My night brain meanders and wanders and thinks about work. My night brain rarely tells my day brain where it has wandered. Pen x #globalblogging

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  14. Sounds like a possible script for the writers to ponder over lol! My night brain is way too active sometimes and I have to quell it with melatonin 🙂 #Thanks so much for hosting #Globalblogging Heather

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  18. Ha ha this is ace , reminds me of my sister , she’ll tell me some the things that she thinks about at night and really I don’t know how she ever sleeps! #globalblogging

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  20. They do have incredible computers that spit out all sorts of good info. What if the murderer didn’t bake the pie, but hastily ate some pie at the scene of the crime. Would the print be viable on said crust? Its a poser alright! #globalblogging xo

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  23. Oh my goodness, I feel like I am going to be pondering this for a while now in addition to other possible unusual scenarios! #DreamTeam

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  31. I don’t seem to have one of these “night brains”. At night my regular brain just buggers off and leaves me to fend for myself. It’s amazing that I can even find my way to bed. #DreamTeam linky

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    1. That’s brilliant! I feel like I might’ve watched a show where the killer used icicles because they left no evidence. I’ll try to remember which show that was.

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  37. Ha! I’m glad it’s not just my night brain ( a term I shall now be using) that does weird things. I suspect I’ll now be half-awake all night wondering what other food items might be useful murder weapons. Mostly now though, I want a pie…. #dreamteam

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  41. LOL I love the idea of night brain. I was suffering from it last night. But I’m sure I’d be thinking about eating the pie not getting fingerprints from it. I do miss a good pie, the dutch don’t do pies 😥 #dreamteam

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  43. Funny night brain, I’ll be pondering on pie crust all day now. Girls only thing in this house. Even my daughter at the age of 6 has night brain! #dreamteam

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  45. This is the exact reason why I try not to watch too many crime dramas! There’s way too many ‘but what ifs’ to contemplate. Having said that, I’ve just started watching Safe on Netflix. Have you seen it? Thanks for being a fab #dreamteam host xx

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  46. Night brain is also responsible for sleepless nights pondering insanity such as “did I really turn the over off?” … or … “is it a scratch, or is it just a dirty car?”
    #dreamteam
    p.s. – I’d totally be responsible for missing pie crust evidence if I were the detective assigned to pie-murder.

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  48. Do you get Midsomer Murders in the US? The crimes are always bizarre like being tied to the ground and bottles of wine are thrown at you with a trebuchet! I’m sure the writers use their night brain to come up with their ideas. #dreamteam

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    1. I’ve never heard of it, so I am not sure we get it here. I will have to look around to see if it’s available somewhere. I also might need to see if they’re hiring writers!

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  49. Hello Night Brain! When during the tiny periods of night my daughter does sleep, I lay awake and think about the most random things it’s amazing how imaginative you can be at night!

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