Dunking

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.

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

absent I would love a job like that.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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........

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.

BIG

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.....)

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.

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 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.