Dunking

I never dunk (well, my mother is Mrs Bucket!) but DH does - did I marry beneath me?

Kitty do look at the Memories Forum I have just added under 'Things you don't see anymore'. I am sure you could add one or two items about your Mum's Mrs Bouquet moments.

Well, I was rung up to be posh and I always dunk biscuits in my tea.
I don't eat soup when I'm out, but I happily use bread to mop up any delicious juices or sauce on my plate.
Can't abide people eating with their mouth open though, that is beyond the pale!

"brung" not rung!!

When I was growing up, my dad would dunk his buttered toast in his breakfast tea, so of course, I did too!

Many years ago I was considering writing a book about dunking. Who dunks what, where you can/can't dunk. (Was planning to go for tea at Claridges, Savoy, Dorchester etc and do a bit of blatant dunking and check the results on a sort of raised eyebrowometer)

As a child my favourite dunk was Maryland cookies dunked in milk. When thinking about the book, I found that all butter danish biscuits were very good dunked in medium sherry

I'm surprised that no-one had mentioned the ultimate dangerous dunk...........Nice biscuits! Definitely not one for beginners, very much a precision dunk, imo.

I dunked my biscotti in my lovely black coffee in the Italian café yesterday - no-one seem to mind and it was delicious- wouldn't do that with soup in public though.

Take a tip from 6 year old grandson, who assured me that dunking his potato crisp in blackcurrant juice was 'epic!'

Plain crisps dunked in tomato juice, yum!

Surely Biscotti are made to be dunked or else you risk an expensive visit to the dentist?

What's double dipping?

Oh golly gosh ! Until reading this thread I didn't realise that dunking bread into soup was not the done thing ! I have never been put out of anywhere though so will continue to do so. How do you get the last bits of delicious soup out of the bowl without using the bread ?

when So glad my two haven't thought of that one yet!

I definitely wouldn't dunk if butter had been supplied because I would enjoy the buttered roll even more than the soup and would hate to tarnish it.

At home I find it easier to break the slice of bread up and put it in soup. Then eat with spoon.

Croutons!That's real posh.

Why not? Why is it rude?
We eat dips by dunking pitta bread or such into them. Restaurants supply flavoured oils etc, just so people can dunk their bread.

Why not dunk bread in soup? People have eaten soup or stew like that for centuries.
It's best not to dunk it in Soop though!

Double dipping, Marty, is when someone dunks a carrot stick or similar into the provided dip, bites the dunked bit off and then dunks again with the rest of the carrot stick after it's been in their mouth. Definitely not posh. Yuck!!!!

Double dipping in a buffet or such sounds bad when you think about it but I wonder if the small amount of contact time this takes actually gives long enough for much contamination.

It needs a proper experiment like the 5 second rule on dropped food.

I would suspect that ensuring safe temperature storage of the food products might be more important to avoiding bugs than a few seconds of dip. Then just practice good ordinary hand hygiene and avoiding anyone with a cold.

No wouldn't do in public - well might if I were out with OH for lunch but not in front of friends/strangers. I do like to break up my bread and put it in my soup at home rather than dunk. I like dunking digestives in a hot drink but certainly wouldn't do that in front of others, especially given my fail rate, ie 80% of biscuit disintegrates and falls into coffee, quite often splashing me in the process....Soggy biscuit retrieved via teaspoon and slurped off that - best done in private!

I'd be miffed if people came to my house and refrained from dunking my delicious, home made coffee rusks. Dunk away I say! So what if some of the biscuit lands up in the bottom of the cup, all it does is sweeten the tea

I can't see the problem with dunking. If you normally do then fine. If you normally don't then that's fine too. I personally would dunk bread in my soup but there again I'm not posh.

Would certainly dunk bread in an Italian restaurant - they would think you didn't like the food if you didn't slurp it all up. Biscotti are intended to be dunked in coffee or wine. I was having breakfast in a hotel in Italy and the very posh Milanese lady on the next table was busy mashing up biscuits in her caffe latte and eating the resulting mess.Looked revolting, but is quite acceptable there.

I like to dunk my bread in my soup, whatever flavour the soup, and my biscuits are dunked in my tea. It is after all my soup, and my tea, and the only bad mannered people around would be those watching with shock horror as I presumably performed the most distressing of all social graces.

I don't dunk biscuits as they tend to flop and the tea goes all mushy and I do like my tea unadulterated, however I do use bread to clean my plate if it seems appropriate - obviously I wouldn't do it if I was dining with Her Majesty or in posh polite company, but at home or with friends I do. I have a friend who eats from her knife - I am used to it (sort of) but do try to pretend it isn't happening and she is the sister of a very well known exPolitician, so heaven knows how he behaved when dining in high places if it was a family 'thing'. Come to think of it he would have dined at BP so I expect HM looked away as I do and pretended it wasn't happening (I suppose in some places it's ok to do that, but it just doesn't seem quite right to me.....)

Wicked, but a cube of sugar quickly dunked in espresso is magical, as is a ginger nut biscuit rapidly dunked in nice hot tea. Crusty bread in hot soup is fine, but not when dining with Her Maj.