A Soggy-Resistant Biscuit May Change Dunking Technology
If you've been losing sleep over the soggification of biscuits after dunking them into hot beverages, you're in luck. Felice Tocchini of the Fusion Brasserie restaurant in Worcester, England, claims he's created a state-of-the-art biscuit able to survive up to one minute in a hot drink before disintegrating into mushy bits. According to Daily Mail, the current record is 25.5 seconds for a chocolate digestive.
Tocchini spent three weeks testing ingredients. Key factors included the layering of flour and oat-based doughs to build strength, adding sweet potato slivers to hold everything together, and coating the biscuits with an egg-based glaze before baking. According to Dr. Len Fisher, who wrote How to Dunk a Doughnut, dunking releases up to ten times more flavor than eating the biscuit dry. Would you buy a soggy-resistant biscuit? Or is this supposed to be one of life's little perennial problems we leave alone?
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Bu, but, but, how does it taste? If it was delicious, I'd sure dunk it. I'd dunk anything delicious.
Yamoo at 7:43AM on 08/31/09
This is biscuit as in a cookie? They don't speak proper English in the UK so it's hard to tell.
I like my cookies somewhat soggy. The new cookie I would have to soak for maybe half a minute to reach the desired level of sogginess, plus I wouldn't have the bits of cookie sog at the bottom of the cup to enjoy when I finished my coffee.
And I'm not sure if they can make Oreos using this recipe.
redfish at 8:29AM on 08/31/09
Isn't making the cookie soggy the point? Imagine a chocolate chip cookie that stays hard when dunked in milk or a biscotti that never softens in coffee. It sounds so sad.
KarynMC at 8:39AM on 08/31/09
Aren't there already state-of-the-art dunking miracles coming out of Italy, called "biscotti"? That does the trick just fine for me.
conky at 8:48AM on 08/31/09
If you're holding your biscuit/cookie in your hot drink for a minute before you eat it, you're Doing It Wrong.
And this flour/oat/sweet potato object sounds more like an Xtreme Baking stunt (or an edible brick) than something a person would really choose for their dunking pleasure, given a choice.
I think some taste tests are in order, not just a stopwatch demo.
benbenberi at 9:40AM on 08/31/09
I agree with the above comments--soggy biscuits is half the fun of tea.
jhoefl88 at 9:41AM on 08/31/09
I'm not the dunking type, but there's certainly more appeal for a soggy biscuit than a crispy one.
avaryne at 10:56AM on 08/31/09
I always thought people dunk their biscuits (or cookies or small, starchy snacks) because they like them a bit soggy.
emgroff at 1:36PM on 08/31/09
i like my cookies soggy, but i hate those little wet crumbs and smears they leave in your cup after you dunk them. a cookie that gets soggy but doesn't fall apart would be best.
Christina at 3:22PM on 09/01/09
"Dora's dunking doughnuts, Dora's dunking doughnuts, you'll be nuts about her doughnuts.
Dunk 'em in your coffee or any old drink, dunk 'em day and dunk 'em night and still they don't sink! ..."
Is anyone else reminded of that Shirley Temple short?
moonlyt at 8:41AM on 09/03/09