The Ultimate Biscuit
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Sitting down to a nice cuppa tea is one thing, but sometimes you want that extra treat, a nice 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. This test aims to not only find the best biscuit but the optimum dunk time for each biscuit. Once again the results were interesting... |
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For this test Matt Green, Matt Curd and Callum Green were available. After taking a brief survey they narrowed the biscuits to be tested down to four brands. Unfortunately it would appear the Biscuit industry is run by only one company in the UK, McVities. So the contenders were: Plain and Chocolate Digestives, Rich Tea and HobNobs. 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.
As you can see the digestives and rich tea lasted for a similar time, they do have a very similar molecular structure so this was expected, the HobNob is a different kettle of fish... It is constructed from many different grains and sweeteners, it isn't bonded so well and collapses quite quickly. |
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Biscuit 01 - Plain Digestives |
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Matt Green |
Callum Green
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Matt Curd
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Taste: 9 Tea-Ability: 8 Consistency of Tea: 6 Total: 23 "I'd say McVities have really made a biscuit and a half." |
Taste:8 Tea-Ability: 9 Consistency of Tea: 7 Total: 24 "When this biscuit and tea go together they are unstoppable." |
Taste: 9 Tea-Ability: 7 Consistency of Tea: 5 Total: 21 "The refreshing taste of tea combined with the dry biscuit which go together to form an art." |
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Biscuit 02 - Rich Tea |
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Matt Green |
Callum Green
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Matt Curd
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Taste:10 Tea-Ability: 10 Consistency of Tea: 5 Total: 25 "Rich Tea is the real tea biscuit, hence the name.." |
Taste: 9 Tea-Ability: 9 Consistency of Tea: 6 Total: 24 "AH Bisto, god please, sod that.. AH RICH TEA!" |
Taste: 10 Tea-Ability: 9 Consistency of Tea: 8 Total: 27 "Extraordinary flavour, sweet as a nut, really suits my taste.." |
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Biscuit 03 - HobNobs |
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Matt Green |
Callum Green
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Matt Curd
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Taste: 10 Tea-Ability: 10 Consistency of Tea: 8 Total: 26 "Forget Rich Tea, theres a new biscuit on the block and it's here to stay." |
Taste: 5 Tea-Ability: 5 Consistency of Tea: 8 Total: 18 "Appalling! thats all I can say, God, I'm crying now" |
Taste: 6 Tea-Ability: 3 Consistency of Tea: 5 Total: 14 "With a dash of tea HobNobs have a wetter taste that they so solemnly need." |
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Biscuit 04 - Chocolate Digestives |
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Matt Green |
Callum Green
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Matt Curd
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Taste: 7 Tea-Ability: 6 Consistency of Tea: 2 Total: 15 "The Chocolate over powers the tea and it really doesn't make me want to shout 'Nice' I'd rather shout 'Oh'" |
Taste: 2 Tea-Ability: 2 Consistency of Tea: 5 Total: 9 "Someone help me escape this revolting taste!" |
Taste: 9 Tea-Ability: 6 Consistency of Tea: 5 Total: 20 "The Chocolate was hot enough to soothingly melt on my tongue, a result only tea could achieve." |
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So some rather variable results there. Well if this test hasn't found the ultimate biscuit it has found that a biscuit with tea is a very personal thing. Rich Tea does still hold its title when we look at the points but this test has not found an overall favourite, It has shown what some might expect but my suggestion goes back to the words of Neil Buchanan "Try it yourself" |
The Totals Digestives: 68 Rich Tea: 76 HobNobs: 58 Chocolate Digestives: 44 |