National Biscuit Day: What is the dunkability of Britain’s favourite biscuits?

What is the dunkability of Britain’s favourite biscuits?

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00:00The UK as a whole is estimated to scoff around 74 million biscuits a year. This works out

00:06as a whopping 578 million kilos. But I thought I'd conduct a little bit of research myself

00:11to find out the dunkability of Britain's favourite biscuits. From my study, I wanted to find

00:15out how each biscuit would hold when dunked into a typical cuppa. So I selected four of

00:21the best-selling biscuits in the UK to judge. I went for a chocolate digestive, a Jaffa

00:25cake, a sturdy hobnob and even a classic rich tea. Now, let's take to the kettle to

00:29see the show off. The variable I kept the same in this biscuity experiment was the three-dip

00:35dunk. So, each of my four biscuits, I made sure to dunk three times before taking a bite.

00:41I started first and foremost with a milk chocolate hobnob. Now, this biscuit kept its shape and

00:47didn't come out too soggy post-dip. When baked, it still maintained that typical biscuity

00:51crunch. Next up, I tried out the chocolate digestive. Now, this is my personal favourite,

00:57but I'll try not to be biased. The dunk felt sturdy but more moist than the former, so

01:02if you prefer a softer biscuit, then the digestive might be the one for you because any more

01:06dunks in my brew would be ruined. Then we had the Jaffa cake. Now, I'll admit I'm not

01:11one for dunking a Jaffa and it felt a little unusual to do it, so I can't say that this

01:16one had my seal of approval as a soggy cake doesn't quite take the biscuit. Now, I'll

01:21admit I am partial to a rich tea, but durability when it comes to dunking doesn't quite seem

01:26this biscuit's strong suit. As you can see, following the three-dip rule, the tea seemed

01:31to gather in the base of the biscuit, making it a little heavy and making for the soggiest

01:36dunk of all. I think a three-dip definitely seems the biscuit's limit. In research conducted

01:42by the BBC, they found that Jaffa cakes lasted for a whopping 116 dunks. This meant a full

01:493 minutes and 16 seconds before breaking. But does this even count as Britain continues

01:54to argue whether a Jaffa cake is a biscuit at all?