Dunking

Well, if Her Maj comes here for lunch and gets tomato soup, she's welcome to use her bread either to dunk or to clean the bowl, as we will be doing it too.

I bet Prince Phillip dunks, and wipes the plate with his bread!

Nonu (and soontobe )
Dahling, I do so hope that this person wasn't tipping her soup plate towards her as well, just so non-U!

I do think one is permitted to dunk one's gingernuts into one's Earl Grey as otherwise one could crack one's expensive crowns on said biscuit.

I rarely eat biscuits but do like to dunk a gingernut if I am by myself, but hate soggy bread dipped into soup. When I stayed with a French family I was surprised to see the younger ones dipping their bread in the mornings into a bowl of hot chocolate drink.

Dunking toasted soldiers in a boiled egg must pass the test of politeness. . Even her Maj must do that.

Oh!Yes, NanKate, the toasted soldiers buttered of course!

BIG

We GNrs should experiment and compile a chart to give us an idea bout how long any particular variety of biscuit can safely be dunked for before it falls off into the cup.

We would need a selection of different varieties of biscuits and a hot drink.

A thermometer, to make sure we are all testing the liquid the same temperature as it might affect the result.
If this is the case, we would have to make our dunking chart include these results as a variable which affects drink temperature on biscuit disintegration time.

We a need a stop watch to measure disintegration time.

Having calculated the disintegration time we could then scale back dunking time second by second until we reach the time point where the biscuit would hold together for long enough to be conveyed to the mouth without falling down your jumper.

GNers could then make a fortune by selling a biscuit dunking time app for mobile devices.
This would ensure fewer cups with soggy biscuit at the bottom and cleaner jumpers.
Is anyone interested enough to invest in this project? We might even win an Ig Nobel prize.

There's progress for you, as posted earlier years ago I was thinking of writing a book on dunking, now here's Nellie with her app!

Still maintain that Nice is def. not for beginners........

phoenix Do you want a job as a research assistant? Tea and soggy biscuits provided, as well as bibs to protect our jumpers!

I'll invest a pack of rich teas, Nellie.

I have to confess that when young, I loved dunking what were called "stuck biscuits", which were 2 rich reas stuck together with butter

The fatty buttery globules rendered the tea undrinkable, but the dunked biscuits were lovely!

As might be said in my part of the country..... ye' s aren't wise

Agree, Def don't dunk with a Nice biscuit without practice !!

Bourbon biscuits dunked in hot chocolate are the epitome of luxury dunking.

Nelliemoser I have a feeling that Breakfast TV or some such programme interviewed a Researcher in Pointless Experiments some while ago who had been working to find the perfect dunker and the perfect temperature of tea (not sure about coffee) for dunking. However, as far as I know, an app had not resulted.

absent I would love a job like that.

I cannot take part in any experiments like that, as I do not eat biscuits !!

I do dunk biscuits, and hate it when end up with horrible bits of biscuit sitting in bottom of the mug. There must be the optimum dunking biscuit out there somewhere- brandy snaps pretty good!

I dunk biscuits. And bread into soup. And have been known to wipe the bread around the bowl when no one was looking and it was good soup. Even in posh restaurants.

But I would never break the bread into bits, submerge it into the soup and then eat it from the spoon as my grandparents used to do.

I don't think HM likes soup and always requests that it is not served when she comes to lunch chez nous.

I must admit that dunked chocolate digestives are yummy (just melting chocolate and soft biscuit) but I haven't eaten them for years.