i don't know if it's too late to revisit that whole smashed bread scenarion, but i just wanted to say that if you buy real bread (you know, the kind with the short ingredients list made up of words you recognize and know how to pronounce and lacking any words that end in "-60"), you probably couldn't smash it thin like that and would therefore eliminate your fire problem. plus you'd probably feel better. because you'd be a bread snob. like me.