NPR at The Salt recently asked one of the food world's
most crucial question: Do Cookies
Really Taste Better Dipped in Tea? This is the quandary no
less an expert than Heston Blumenthal "recently set out to
discover on his TV show, Heston's Fantastical
Food. With the help of a high-tech gadget inserted up the
nose, he found that a chocolate-covered biscuit dipped into hot
black tea did indeed have more flavor than an undunked
one."
In fact, he was extremely enthusiastic:
"'The results are astonishing!' he exclaims. The wet
biscuit not only released more cookie flavor, but the aromas also
burst into Blumenthal's mouth more quickly.' Dunking
makes the biscuit taste more biscuity,' Blumenthal says. 'That's
complete evidence that dunking is better than not
dunking.'
For a complete explanation, check out the
article. In the meantime, we'll add "biscuity" (or, for those of us
in the U.S. , "cookier") to our vocabulary.
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