Dunking

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

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!

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.

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!!!!

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!

Croutons!That's real posh.

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.

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

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 ?

What's double dipping?

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

Plain crisps dunked in tomato juice, yum!

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

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.

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.

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

"brung" not rung!!

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!

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.

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

Slightly off piste - last year we were given as a gift tickets to a Fawlty Towers experience. I loved the shows but not the experience where you got a meal and actors playing tricks on the diners.

Anyway to cut a long story short I found a set of plastic false teeth in the bottom of my bowl of tomato soup.

The moral of the story never drink soup that has floating objects in it.

Of course if we all put our teeth in, there would be no reason for all this dunking.

petallus that sounds like it could be a line from Jarvis Cocker's 'Common People'!

I always dunk my croissant into my coffee , is there any other way daaarlink ?

Of course I do. But I'm half French.