Why I like em' Soggy

I can't stop raving over the greatness of this below. Sheer awesomeness. Has been my staple for many years.





















Milk alone takes one beyond wonders, what more can be said with sweet delights. Each morning you expect that same old bland taste. Somehow I don't recall the Science textbooks categorizing milk amongst the four senses of taste and here I blog with a whacked theory of it being possibly sweet. Or what about umami? (recognized as the fifth basic taste also meaning tasty/savory) Each carton aromatically triggers different taste buds. Believe me or not you can tell its freshness not just by looking at the indicated expiry date. A blind person would be capable to differentiate its freshness, brand and even products of the same shipment. I guess this proves the maximized usage of senses.

Here's something more scientific, and interesting to note.

Biscuits are made mostly from sugar, flour (which is 60% starch) and fats. When you dunk your biscuit into your drink, the liquid is drawn up through the tiny channels and holes in the biscuit by capillary action. The liquid starts to dissolve the sugar that is holding the biscuit together and makes the starch swell. If you continue to dunk your biscuit without taking a bite, it soon won't be able to hold itself together - leading to a dunking disaster.

As all biscuits have a slightly different structure, they can survive a different number of dunks. Len Fisher from the University of Bristol found that you need to have a thin dry layer of biscuit within your dunked biscuit for it to stay in one piece. He also found that dunking your biscuit sideways gives you the most dunking opportunities as the drink takes longer to saturate the biscuit when soaking it from only one side.

Len Fisher went on to discover that milk was the best beverage in which to dunk a biscuit if you want maximum taste. Dunking your biscuit in milk releases up to 11 times more flavor than eating a dry biscuit. Milk is full of fat droplets suspended in water and fat droplets are very good at absorbing the flavor molecules that excite your taste buds. They also hang around in your mouth so that the flavor and aroma chemicals can sit on your tongue and be released up your nose giving you a better taste sensation.

So which biscuit is the tastiest? It's all down to personal preference, but the best beverage to use is a glass of milk!

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From Oreo's to Mcvities, digging into the flavors of weetbix and classic Banana Nut Crunch you can even spice it up with some fresh strawberries and modify it to a Sunday smoothie. Or have it with an enriched moist chocolate muffin, a banana cake, an apple tart and even for flavoring your coffee! Never is it possible to go wrong with milk. Universal. Now that's what you call a comfort food.

posted by Amelia Yeoh Jia Min @ 11:10 PM,

4 Comments:

At June 21, 2009 1:23 PM,  oXYmoroN© said...

Haha I can get fresh strawberries with real, fresh cream here :)  

At June 27, 2009 12:30 AM,  Amelia Yeoh Jia Min said...

i'm getting hungry.  

At June 28, 2009 3:40 PM,  oXYmoroN© said...

well, camp is only 2 months away...  

At August 14, 2009 7:45 AM,  Amelia Yeoh Jia Min said...

a week now.  

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