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the UK's deadliest biscuit

Posted: Thu 10th Sep 2009 07:56 pm
by Kermit

Posted: Thu 10th Sep 2009 08:08 pm
by Trichome_Dense
:lol: excellent stuff :lol: got a giggle outta me too mate! Rock On!

Posted: Thu 10th Sep 2009 09:02 pm
by Kermit
Yeh i am sticking to the Jaffa cakes in future, But are they a biscuit :? :lol:

Posted: Thu 10th Sep 2009 09:18 pm
by Kingdoc
Theres a bickie you can dunk for 30 seconds without it breaking up apparently :lol:.

Posted: Fri 11th Sep 2009 03:56 am
by cantona7
damn custard cremes i love those haha.

Posted: Fri 11th Sep 2009 04:08 am
by user54321
The deadliest biscuit is of course the air biscuit.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p ... ir+biscuit

1. ‘Fucking hell, I could pluck that right out the air and dip it my tea’

:lol:

Posted: Fri 11th Sep 2009 12:12 pm
by rks0
Kermit wrote:Yeh i am sticking to the Jaffa cakes in future, But are they a biscuit :? :lol:
Sorry mate, they're not. They are designated as a cake as determined by a court case in the UK in the early 90's. Which is a good thing because chocolate covered cakes are not subject to VAT, but chocolate covered biscuits are, and are therefore cost relatively more!
Bleedin VAT man!

Posted: Fri 11th Sep 2009 12:14 pm
by rks0
Kingdoc wrote:Theres a bickie you can dunk for 30 seconds without it breaking up apparently :lol:.
Dunking delights: the biscuit that soaks for more than a minute

A REVOLUTIONARY new biscuit that can be dunked for more than a minute without falling apart has been developed by a Worcestershire chef.

That means Felice Tocchini’s Worcester Feast Dunker has smashed the previous longest dunking time reported in Britain of 25.5 seconds which was achieved by a milk chocolate digestive.

The biscuit, which tastes of chocolate with cinnamon and a hint of ginger, was devised at the request of Worcester Feast, the city’s first food and drink festival, and will be officially launched when the Mayor of Worcester Councillor Andy Roberts dunks a Worcester Feast Dunker in a mug of tea at the opening ceremony on Friday.

Mr Tocchini, chef patron of Fusion Brasserie in Hawbridge, Stoulton, near Worcester, said: “The trouble with ordinary biscuits is that they were never designed to be dunked – a few seconds in hot tea or coffee and they simply disintegrate.

“There is nothing more off-putting than biscuit mush at the bottom of your mug. The Worcester Feast Dunker is made for dunking, and can be submerged in tea or coffee for twice as long as ordinary biscuits before it breaks up.”

Using his Italian biscotti know-how, Mr Tocchini has combined three ingenious ideas to enable the Worcester Feast Dunker to stay intact even in hot liquids.

Firstly, his dough, which does not contain oil or fat, is made of special ingredients including a unique blend of flour and finely sliced strands of sweet potato – the fibres of which act as reinforcement when the dough becomes saturated.

Secondly, he rolls together contrasting layers of dough to create a laminate which gives the biscuit extra structural strength when wet.

A cross section of the biscuit looks similar to plywood and the mix of doughs gives a unique wood-grain effect on the top and bottom.

Finally, the biscuit is coated during baking with a secret sugar and egg-based glaze which increases the biscuit’s water resistance.

It is claimed that in tests, the Worcester Feast Dunker routinely achieves a dunking time – that is the time the biscuit stays intact when at least half-immersed in hot tea or coffee – of one minute, although dunks of up to one minute 17 seconds have apparently been recorded.

Physicist Dr Len Fisher, a research fellow at Bristol University’s Department of Physics who has written a book called How to Dunk a Doughnut, said he thought the Worcester Feast Dunker “sounds fascinating”.

Posted: Fri 11th Sep 2009 02:23 pm
by Kingdoc
Yea thats it 8).

Posted: Fri 11th Sep 2009 10:49 pm
by ftcarer
Lol , the shit some people get paid to research. :D
And as for the prat that got stuck in cement :lol: was this the worlds fastest drying cement ever ? or were they just there to long picking up the crumbs?
Shit, they should of poured the rest of the cement over them and left them there as idiocy monument.

Posted: Wed 16th Sep 2009 07:02 am
by SoulRider
I laughed so hard at this thread I had to make this:


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:lol:

Posted: Wed 16th Sep 2009 10:44 am
by JMey
I'll stick to the Jaffa cakes then :| I like cookies

Posted: Wed 30th Sep 2009 09:13 am
by Rusty Shackleford
Wish i had a job testing biscuits... :(