Jaffa Cakes affecting others in the tin?

[88888888]

Is this normal?

Edited by 88888888 on Friday 8th August 20:20

[Fort Jefferson]

You shouldn't store cakes and biscuits in the same container.

[MajorProblem]

Fort Jefferson said:

You shouldn't store cakes and biscuits in the same container.

Tax implications?

[schmunk]

MajorProblem said:

Tax implications?

Yeah, and definitely don't heat them up before serving.

[Shaolin]

Biscuits are hygroscopic, Jaffa cakes have water. Water moves from jaffa cakes to the drying agent - the biscuits. Soggy biscuits, dried out Jaffa cakes.

[88888888]

Damn.

[Murph7355]

88888888 said:

Damn.

And now you also know how to explain to kids why they must pay attention to Chemistry at school

[GreenDog]

Shaolin said:

Soggy biscuit.

Rugby player are you ? ;-)

[dazwalsh]

You should have eaten the jaffa cakes before you arrived home with the shopping, it takes a man with immense self control to let them sit in a bloody tin for a few days.

[TIGA84]

88888888 said:

Rather oddly after purchasing some biscuits yesterday, I have found that within 12 hours the Maryland cookies I placed in the tin have gone properly soft. They are only in there with 2 packs of jaffa cakes, all the biscuits went in together from sealed packets into an empty biscuit tin.

Is there something about the base of a jaffa cake that can do this as it appears to me the bases of the jaffas have absorbed something around the egde, and now the cookies feel like they have been left out for a week.

As has already been said, I admire your restraint on the Jaffa cakes for them to remain after 12 hours, ditto the Maryland cookies. A pack is a serving.

Both should have health warnings.

Add in a tube of Pringles and I could quite comfortably call that starter, main and dessert.

[Fort Jefferson]

MajorProblem said:

Fort Jefferson said:

You shouldn't store cakes and biscuits in the same container.

Tax implications?

Yes, there's VAT on chocolate covered biscuits, but not chocolate covered cakes.