The 'what's the knack'? thread

[anonymous-user]

I thought I'd start a thread where we can share techniques to questions or problems within mundane life, first world problems.

Here's my problem

I like dunking chocolate digestives in my tea (one for the council thread)? I try to split them into equal halves but rarely achieve this often ending up with 3 broken bits. So, is there a knack to the clean break of a biscuit?

Feel free to post up your conundrums too

[BRISTOL86]

That ones easy. Lie the biscuit on a flat hard surface (table/placemat/worktop etc)

Four fingers under the biscuit, thumb on top, roughly halfway across the biscuit's surface area.

Press down with your thumb. Nice clean break.

Chocolate side up so you only have to remove chocolate from a thumb instead of four fingers.

[Jonboy_t]

Three fingers of each hand on the underside as close to the centre as possible, thumbs approx 10mm in from the edge of the tasty treat on the topside. Push up with the fingers, not down with the thumbs, using just the thumbs as a resistance point.

You're welcome.

[poing]

Don't try a laser cutter, doesn't work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gJykX0sKs&sp...

[2gins]

Meat cleaver. One good, solid stroke from behind the head and bam! Done. No cleaning chocolate off your fingers either.

[PoleDriver]

Biscuit cutter you say?

[mp3manager]

I say, take off and and nuke the entire biscuit from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

[bristolracer]

Whats the knack of cutting timber straight?
Or cutting tube straight?

[EnglishTony]

bristolracer said:

Whats the knack of cutting timber straight?
Or cutting tube straight?

Trade secret

[Doofus]

bristolracer said:

Whats the knack of cutting timber straight?
Or cutting tube straight?

If you don't have a mortar block, then the technique I use is to keep one eye on each side of the blade, rather than both on one side.

[jmorgan]

Eat half the biscuit first.

[BRISTOL86]

jmorgan said:

Eat half the biscuit first.

Which half?

[stackmonkey]

BRISTOL86 said:

jmorgan said:

Eat half the biscuit first.

Which half?

The first half, obviously.

[Benni]

Well, they were an 80s band but I only remember "My Sharona", hope this helps.

[AdamIndy]

poing said:

Don't try a laser cutter, doesn't work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2gJykX0sKs&sp...

That looks like a Jaffa cake to me. Someone needs to try it on a chocolate digestive just to be sure.

[shirt]

buy a bigger mug

[jmorgan]

stackmonkey said:

BRISTOL86 said:

jmorgan said:

Eat half the biscuit first.

Which half?

The first half, obviously.

I go for the left half.

[fathomfive]

shirt said:

buy a bigger mug

The only answer you need.

[Fleckers]

if you have 3 bits its 3 dunks in the tea rather then just 2 dunks


a 1/3 more dunking

[98elise]

Chocolate Digestive trivia.....

The chocolate is on the underside of a digestive, not the top!