The UK's Favorite Dunking Biscuits, Plus Dunking Tips
Telegraph reports the results of a survey to find the UK's top ten favorite dunking biscuits, the leader being the chocolate digestive. Compared to un-coated biscuits, the chocolate digestive's chocolate shell protects the biscuit from becoming soggy too quickly.
Physicist Dr. Len Fisher of Bristol University, who tested for the breaking point of the biscuits, offers this advice for successful biscuit dunking:
The best strategy is a flat-on approach, biscuit-side down to minimise chocolate bleed into your tea or coffee and to maintain the chocolate layer as a crack-stopper. [...] The biscuit—held as you would a penny—should be removed in a smooth fluid motion with the dunked half swivelled, so that it is supported by the dry section of the biscuit, to reach your mouth first.
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11 Comments:
Chocolate hobnobs are superior.
bobbob at 10:37AM on 03/03/09
I've never understood dunking in general. Why is it so important? Who wants a soggy doughnut/cookie/biscuit? Why does it intermittently emerge in public dialogue as something that has relevance, or rules, or superior vs inferior methods?
kevster at 11:07AM on 03/03/09
I vote for chocolate hobnobs as well. I have issues with eating something that's described as a "digestive". My British husband doesn't understand it, but it makes me think of words like "laxative" or "pepto".
jcrisco at 11:22AM on 03/03/09
When I lived in Ireland, my flatmates and I would buy packs of chocolate digestives and slather them with Nutella. Sure beats dunking, although I'm surprised that none of us had a heart attack.
flurie at 11:23AM on 03/03/09
Last time I was in England I only ate digestive biscuits because of $ vs £ :/
TurtleSoup at 11:24AM on 03/03/09
Chocolate Hobnobs are the best. I was thrilled when they started selling them in grocery stores in Michigan.
evemis at 1:38PM on 03/03/09
I am a huge fan of plain chocolate mcvities digestives. I have to have them every time I'm in England. And they taste great with tea, coffee, beer, wine, snakebites, vodka tonic, vodka soda, scotch, gin...I could go on.
chrismc at 2:07PM on 03/03/09
Yes to hobnobs, they maintain structural integrity even when wet. PG tips and a chocolate hobnob. YUM.
ChoitotheWorld at 4:35PM on 03/03/09
Mmm, chocolate digestives. :) I haven't had the chocolate Hobnobs of which you speak, but the plain ones are good dunking material, too.
@kevster It's a textural/taste thing. Some cookies are kind of boring and dry if you don't dunk them, but they get transformed into something interesting when slightly wet. I can't explain it if you're not a dunker, I guess.
missmanders at 5:03PM on 03/03/09
Agree with the chocolate Hob Nobs - or the Marks and Sparks Dark Chocolate covered oat crunchies - my favourite until M+S left Canada.... I did get some decaf Typhoo at the Superstore last week though.
PeanutButter at 5:32PM on 03/03/09
i'm all about the timtam slam.
dmarina at 5:56PM on 03/03/09