diff --git a/toml/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/toml/ParserTest.java b/toml/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/toml/ParserTest.java
index e3b0f878..6cc9e2ca 100644
--- a/toml/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/toml/ParserTest.java
+++ b/toml/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/dataformat/toml/ParserTest.java
@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.JsonReadFeature;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.util.BufferRecycler;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.util.BufferRecyclers;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.json.JsonMapper;
@@ -1030,9 +1028,7 @@ public void unknownEscape() throws IOException {
 
     @Test
     public void chunkEdge() throws IOException {
-        BufferRecycler br = BufferRecyclers.getBufferRecycler();
-        char[] chars = br.allocCharBuffer(0);
-        br.releaseCharBuffer(0, chars);
+        char[] chars = new char[200];
         int bufferLength = chars.length;
 
         ObjectNode node = toml("foo = \"" + repeat('a', bufferLength - 19) + "\"\n" +