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	The science of biscuit dunking
		Biscuits have been around for about 2,300 years, but only very recently have we started applying science to biscuits.
		Thanks to physics, we have discovered which biscuits are best for dunking, and we've even discovered that tea and coffee are not the best liquids for dunking your biscuits in.
		He found that the best dunking time for a gingernut biscuit was 3 seconds, but 8 seconds for a digestive biscuit.
	seven.com.au /sunrise/fact_050922_biscuitdunking (564 words)

	FirstScience - The Science of Dunking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If recent market research is to be believed, one biscuit dunk in every five ends in disaster, with the dunker fishing around in the bottom of the cup for the soggy remains.
		The first question that we asked was ‘What does a biscuit look like from a physicist’s point of view?’ We decided to be reductionist about biscuits, attempting to understand their response to dunking in simple physical terms and leaving the complications until later.
		In the case of a biscuit, the channels are there because it consists of dried-up starch granules imperfectly glued together with sugar and fat.
	www.firstscience.com /site/articles/dunking.asp (462 words)

	Great Moments in Science - Biscuit Dunking Physics
		Biscuits (or what the Americans call "cookies") have been around for about 2,300 years, but only very recently have we started applying science to biscuits.
		Some new-fangled modern biscuits have a central creamy section which is prone to melting leaving behind two tasteless wafers, while other biscuits will simply collapse into a sloppy mess.
		Overall, his personal recommendation was to use a wide-brimmed cup filled almost to the top, to do horizontal dunking (so that only the bottom side got wet), and then to quickly turn your dunked biscuit upside down so the stronger dry side gives structural integrity to the wet side.
	www.abc.net.au /science/k2/moments/s97177.htm (852 words)

	Newsletter Archive
		Well, the first biscuit tested was an instant success with our aquatic friends, who not only swam straight over in large numbers to sample the delights of McVities finest, but actually seemed to prefer the oatey goodness to the large and expensive looking wholemeal loaf that was on offer by another of the park's visitors.
		Although the crowd that these biscuits drew was smaller than that of the hobnob, I believe that this can be attributed to the fact that the biscuits were a) stale, and b) dispersed in a less duck friendly area of the pond.
		Carr's were at the forefront of biscuit technology in the 19th century developing some of the first industrial machinery for the production of biscuits and credited with the development of the first continuous belt based ovens.
	www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com /newsletter (3012 words)

	The Biscuit Appreciation Society - Biscuit Dunking
		One point to note however, is that the pot does not need to be able to embrace the entire biscuit at once, because remember: you do need somewhere to grasp the biscuit with (unless you are using special biscuit- handling devices).
		Always use a saucer under your mug/cup: If the biscuit is large or especially crumbly, it may be also wise to put a large plate underneath the saucer, in order to catch any stray drops of dunk-juice or biscuit crumbs.
		Hard biscuits, such as ginger nuts do not become weak fast enough, meaning that you have to wait longer to enjoy the dunking phenomena.
	www.biscuit.org.uk /dunk (441 words)

	Scientists get the art of dunking down to a T \| Sci Tech News \| Connected \| Telegraph
		He investigated the way in which hot tea floods into either side of a vertically dunked biscuit, dissolving the sugar that keeps it glued together but swelling the starch grains, which gives it the temporary new strength that makes the post-dunk journey to the mouth possible.
		To examine the pores of biscuits, Dr Fisher, an honorary research fellow, coated one in 24 carat gold to reveal its minute structure with a scanning electron microscope.
		After the dunk, the biscuit should be removed in a smooth, fluid motion with the dunked half swivelled round so that it is supported by the dry section of the biscuit.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/1998/11/26/ecntea26.xml (621 words)

	The Biscuit Tin 2 - In Fact, Ah
		Wily biscuit purchasers will be well aware that buying them in one of the major supermarkets will ensure a good price and they are also frequently on special offer.
		The biscuit part is never over/under baked and the chocolate covering never fails to reach the circumference of each honeycomb base.
		A well-priced biscuit taking advantage of that under-utilised killer combo of honeycomb and chocolate.Dunking can often be a messy affair, however, and their branding strategy betrays their contempt for the art that is biscuit baking.
	www.infactah.com /2006/07/biscuit-tin-2.html (486 words)

	eG Forums -> The answer: The Dunk Mug
		I've seen one of those dunk mugs before, but with my accident prone track history and lack of gross motor skills, I would probably always end up with cookies in my lap! I don't think I have proper dunking technique, too, since whatever I dunk always disintegrates before it gets to my mouth.
		As to why dunk a chocolate chip cookie - well, yes, a freshly-baked oozing chocolate chip cookie does have a texture and quality all its own, but so does a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie dunked in milk.
		I'm not hugely "into" dunking foods into my drinks, but some pairings are too good to worry about crumbs in the bottom of the glass or cup.
	forums.egullet.org /index.php?showtopic=80463 (2371 words)

	Biscuits explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Biscuit comes from the french meaning twice-cooked but don't let that put you off, as the french don't really have a clue about making decent biscuits.
		Usually easily distinguished from biscuits by their sheer size however individual cakes can be a bit tricker, for instance the macaroon.
		Also the home of the Jacobs Club biscuit, although this is a sad shadow of its former self thanks to the French again.
	www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com /biscuits/index.php3 (507 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Sci-Tech - Scientists invent biscuit to slam dunk teatime rivals
		Dipping a biscuit in a steaming cup of tea may be a great British ritual, but there are few things more frustrating than watching a digestive disintegrate.
		The biscuits can be dipped into a cup of tea for up to 2.3 seconds and still keep their flavour and shape.
		Dr Fisher’s research showed that the most effective method for dunking was to dip the biscuit into the drink at as shallow an angle as possible.
	news.scotsman.com /scitech.cfm?id=348922005 (891 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Advice on Student Boredom
		When everyone is ready one of the contestants begins the game by saying "dunk." On this command each contestant will immeadiately dunk their biscuit into their tea/coffee.
		The winner is the last contestant to remove their biscuit from their mug without it breaking.
		It is widely known that certain types of biscuit are especially suited to the task of dunking.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A523324 (464 words)

	BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| No more flunking on dunking
		The study reveals precisely why we are drawn to dunking - it seems more of the flavour of the biscuit is released into our mouths if it has first been dunked in a hot drink.
		"You have got a race between the dissolving of the sugar and your biscuit falling apart and a swelling of the starch grains so that they stick together, giving you a biscuit which is purely starch but rather softer than what you started with," he said.
		In this case, the average pore diameter in a biscuit is equal to four times the viscosity of the tea, multiplied by the height the liquid rises squared, divided by the surface tension of the tea, multiplied by the length of time the biscuit is dunked.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/220400.stm (548 words)

	Biscuit of the Week
		Through Rich tea biscuits we learn that not all biscuits have been blessed with a fantastic taste, and that there is space in this world for dry bland biscuits that you can dunk in tea.
		Each biscuit is then wrapped in a square of colour coded foil, green for mint and orange for...
		The review biscuit is by no means atypical with most of the packet looking like they had been in some sort of biscuit construction fight.
	www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com /biscuits/previous.php3?item=31 (686 words)

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		The current biscuit has changed little from William Arnott's original recipe, which he brought with him from Scotland when he emigrated in 1847.
		Scotch Finger has traditionally been considered the biscuit to have with a 'cuppa' and is ideal to break and dunk.
		The biscuit has a lovely melt-in-the-mouth texture, which is the result of our bakers using a combination of butter, eggs, condensed milk and a special soft flour.
	www.arnotts.com.au /varieties/ChocolateScotchFinger.aspx (232 words)

	Roadfood.com Forums - Egg Dunking
		Split a large cathead biscuit and lay it on a plate, lay a fried egg sunny side up on each biscuit half and cover everything with sausage gravy.
		Have a flat surface that is well floured with your pre sifted self rising flour....prolly a cup or three, spread thin to accomodate the batter when poured.
		I don't know for sure but my grandma made her biscuits extra large in diameter and grandpa would exclaim "damn, them biscuits is bigger than a cat's head!" There you go.
	www.roadfood.com /Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17559 (1941 words)

	United Biscuits
		The first ever digestive biscuit was created by a new young employee, Alexander Grant.
		This brand is still unique within the everyday treat biscuit category and was the winner of the McVitie’s Dunk For Britain campaign in 2004 beating all other McVitie’s biscuits to win the title ‘Nation’s favourite McVitie’s dunking biscuit’.
		In 2004 McVitie’s biscuits reduced levels of sodium by an average of 10%.
	www.unitedbiscuits.com /80256C1A0047922E/vWeb/pcTSTT5EPGEC (456 words)

	Nike Dunk Lo
		In a slam dunk, the player, holding the ball in one or both hands, leaps off the floor andjams the ball directly into the basket.
		The slam dunk is one of the most visually impressive moves in all of basketball.
		A slam dunk is often referred to as "jamming"; this was the root of the title of the popular arcade game series NBA Jam.
	www.altvetmed.com /face/23508-nike-dunk-lo.html (422 words)

	The Biscuit Tin 11 Xmas Special - In Fact, Ah
		There is one biscuit that stands head and shoulder above the rest at Xmas time though, and that's the incomparable Chocolate Kimberley.
		When you dunk a biscuit, you want the hot liquid to have an effect on the whole biscuit.
		This is an utter shame as the hint of ginger in the biscuit coupled with the mallow centre would be a veritable mouth party.
	www.infactah.com /2006/12/biscuit-tin-11-xmas-special.html (406 words)

	Joints in chipboard - are biscuit joints suitable? [Archive] - Woodwork Forums
		Biscuit joints are totally unsuitable because of their method of creating a tight bond with the parent material is to expand.
		For those who doubt that, try cutting a biscuit slot (tight fitting), and instead of glue, dunk the biscuit in water (almost sounds like milk and cookies!) and quickly insert it into the joint and wait a while for the biscuit to swell.
		But biscuits are darn quick and excellent for aligning materials.
	www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au /archive/index.php/t-16783.html (382 words)

	Dunk, dunk low pro, dunk contest clips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Slam Dunk Science is intended to provide an introduction to many aspects of.
		dunk (biscuit), dipping of food into a beverage; dunking,.
		Dunk Island Resort is an island resort on a tropical island in North Queensland near the Great barrier Reef.
	www.foodhabit.net /dunk.html (231 words)

	An Aussie in America - Muffins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Inspired by the delicious baking powder biscuits served in Australia's exclusive Dunk Island Resort on the Coral Sea, the bakers at Oroweat bring you a quick, easy and versatile treat.
		These white flour biscuits have big soft holes like those of English crumpets, which are perfect for capturing pockets of butter and jam.
		I was searching for "Australian toaster biscuits" to show my friends in Europe what these are, and how they're different from English muffins and regular muffins.
	www.aussieinamerica.com /food/muffins.htm (1073 words)

	Dunking biscuits vs dry [Archive] - HEXUS.community discussion forums
		On the biscuit front, though, I came to the inescapable conclusion that there definitely are some sorts that are perfect for dunking and others that are utterly spoilt by it.
		Your classic american biscuit is the Oreo, which in status could probably be compared to the chocolate digestive.
		Hob-Nob's are the marines of the biscuit dunking world, this has been seen by nearly everyone including comedians, it's just a shame you seem to miss 1/2 a cup of coffee by dunking these.
	forums.hexus.net /archive/index.php/t-72143.html (2457 words)

	Kancept - duncan mug
		When you look at the way the english dunk biscuits your find this added handle space is only needed for the first dunk when the biscuit is too big to fit into the diameter of the mug.
		I found dunking biscuits occurs when they are waiting for there tea to cool down, so in theory there should be enough tea to soak up.
		Biscuit sludge is not a great way to end a nice relaxing cup of tea.
	www.kancept.com /kancepts/shows/duncan_mug--302 (1467 words)

	Lovemarks: Tim Tams/ Arnott's biscuits (Nomination)
		Dunk into a coffee or hot chocolate - and suck your beverage through the biscuit like a straw.
		Tim Tams are the ultimate choc' biscuit to have, at any time of the day.
		Bite the end off one of these Aussie bickies and dunk it in milk, leave them sitting next to a hot chocolate and watch them melt onto the side of the mug.
	www.lovemarks.com /index.php?pageID=20015&lovemarkid=341 (724 words)

	News \| Telegraph
		That is the question currently occupying the minds of some of the country's foremost young thinkers.
		With the nation divided on the social acceptability of dunking - and with the pro lobby itself hopelessly split over what biscuit makes the best dunker - the Cambridge Union will attempt to resolve the issue tonight.
		The discussion - with free biscuits on offer - coincides with the end of a "Dunk for Britain" campaign to find the country's favourite dunking biscuit.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/11/ndunk11.xml (279 words)

	The Ultimate Biscuit
		Often I've sat down and dunked my biscuit in my tea and noticed that I have absorbed very little tea or so much the biscuit has collapsed under its own weight and has to be scraped from the base of the cup after the tea is consumed.
		We put each biscuit to a little test to start with, we put each biscuit to the extreme and found out how much tea it could absorb before collapsing.
		Every 5 seconds the biscuits were taken out of the tea and gently tapped, if they collapsed that was their maximum optimum dunk time.
	www.nice-cuppa-tea.co.uk /tests/teatest02.htm (446 words)

	dunk \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Dunk is a term originating in the United States of America which can mean many things: match racesdunk (biscuit), dipping of food into a beveragedunking, a form of water torturedunk (70's era chevy), refers to a highly customized 70's era chevy, Popularized by Rapper Trick Daddy.
		a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket (synonym) dunk shot, stuff shot (hypernym) basketball shot (hyponym) slam dunkVerb1.
		make a dunk shot, in basketball; "He dunked the ball" (hypernym) shoot (hyponym) slam-dunk (derivation) dunk shot, stuff shot (classification) basketball, basketball game, hoops3.
	www.babylon.com /definition/dunk/?uil=English (254 words)

	The Sun Online - News: Are you a Dunk Hunk or a Dinkie Dunker? N (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Are you a Dunk Hunk or a Dinkie Dunker?
		Now McVitie's, Britain's favourite biscuit makers, have launched a nationwide search to find the biscuit that dunks the best in their McVitie's Dunk for Britain promotion.
		YOUR vote counts - visit www.dunkforbritain.com to vote for your favourite McVitie's dunking biscuit and be in with a chance to win a slam dunking trip to New York, which includes flight, bed and breakfast at a central hotel, spending money and tickets to a New York Knicks basketball game.
	www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,2-2004430541,,00.html (577 words)

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