The answer: The Dunk Mug

[Gifted Gourmet]

the Dunk Mug Is this not a great idea??

Biscuit.org

"Dunking" is a time honoured tradition amongst the working and lower class, although mistakenly frowned upon by some. ....

1. Select your plunge-pot carefully: The size of the pot ...

2. Always use a saucer under your mug/cup: If the biscuit is large ...

3. Select your dunk-juice carefully: A good starting point is always to use tea with milk in it.

4. Select your biscuit carefully: It is vitally important ...

5. Select your company carefully: The right company can make or break your dunking experience...

The thought of dunking a biscotti or a cookie in a liquid hot drink has long appealed to many ... so, upon viewing the clever and very utilitarian Dunk Mug, it made me reflect upon what things people are likely to dunk ...

I like to dunk cookies in milk and biscotti into tea or coffee ...

and you?

[Megan Blocker]

Madeleines into my hot chocolate...yum!

That mug is hilarious - it reminds me of the kind of objects combining the everyday with elegant, functional design that you see for sale at the MoMA store. Wonder if this will be the next addition to the collection?

[maggiethecat]

My Mummy told me that ladies don't dunk, so I don't. Ever. (Except for biscotti, which are made to be dunked.)

I do all kinds of things that my mother told me ladies don't do, but she was right on dunking: it's nasty.

[Gifted Gourmet]

I absolutely love the taste of a fresh baked chocolate chip cookie, still warm and oozing from the oven, soaked with just enough fresh cold milk to make the cookie a little bit soft. Sometimes I do this with doughnuts.

[JLam]

I'm dunking Oreos into milk as I type this.

So good. So good.

[maggiethecat]

I absolutely love the taste of a fresh baked chocolate chip cookie, still warm and oozing from the oven, soaked with just enough fresh cold milk to make the cookie a little bit soft. Sometimes I do this with doughnuts.

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Dear Melissa: Why?

That fresh from the oven cookie has its own lovely texture, likewise a reasonably freah doughnut? Why does dunking improve either? A biscotto or a Holland Rusk -- the dry, twice-cooked things are meant to be dunked --ok by me. But" "a warm and oozing" fresh from the oven goody? Whuffo? Milk or coffee on the side, please.

[mochihead]

I've seen one of those dunk mugs before, but with my accident prone track history & lack of gross motor skills, I would probably always end up with cookies in my lap! I don't think I have proper dunking technique, too, since whatever I dunk always disintegrates before it gets to my mouth.

[petite tête de chou]

Aside from biscotti I don't dunk either. The sludge at the bottom of the cup is unappetizing. I prefer to take a bite of the cookie (or what have you) and then take a sip of the beverage. My husband, however, loves to dunk, be it a cookie, doughnut or basketball.

[Gifted Gourmet]

with my accident prone track history & lack of gross motor skills, I would probably always end up with cookies in my lap! 

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I can definitely identify with this, mochihead! but I love this mug!

[Fresser]

I could use a passel of these Dunky Mugs, as I've been known to submerge everything from hamburger buns to wheat bread.

Is there a special edition Tim Tam Slam Mug?

[Gifted Gourmet]

I could use a passel of these Dunky Mugs, as I've been known to submerge everything from hamburger buns to wheat bread.

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oops, my bad ... should have checked more closely .. but I still think the mug is super!

[sazji]

Almost any cookie, but the all time favorites are definitely gingersnaps, grahm crackers, and almost any chocolate cookie.

As to why dunk a chocolate chip cookie - well, yes, a freshly-baked oozing chocolate chip cookie does have a texture and quality all its own, but so does a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie dunked in milk.

BTW nice glasses, Gifted.

[Jean Blanchard]

Ginger snaps in milk! I forgot about how good that is. My favorite though is biscotti in wine.

[I_call_the_duck]

My mom used to make a steamed, eggy cake that my brother and I loved to dunk into milk...until the day we got in into our heads that the bits that fell in the glass would make a great milk shake. So we proceeded to soak an entire piece of cake in our glasses. Bad, bad idea. What resulted was, as you would expect, a gross, soggy mess that we didn't want to consume. But alas, our sister came into the kitchen and made us drink this concoction. Somehow, many years later, she managed to conveniently forget the incident, but my brother and I still shudder at the thought of that cake.

Having said that, I've recovered somewhat, and enjoy dunking cookies in my milk, coffee, or vin santo. But just a little. Still shudder at the sight of the sludge at the bottom though.

[Chris Amirault]

The well-bred Ms. McArthur is right: dunking is lousy. Not only do you ruin the dunked item but it also compromises the liquid. Who wants to have their lovely glass of milk corrupted by cruddy crumbs?

[Fresser]

Having said that, I've recovered somewhat, and enjoy dunking cookies in my milk, coffee, or vin santo.  But just a little. Still shudder at the sight of the sludge at the bottom though.

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I like to drink the cookie sludge!

[Gifted Gourmet]

dunking is lousy. Not only do you ruin the dunked item but it also compromises the liquid.

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How to Properly Dunk an Oreo Cookie even offers step-by-step tutorials for the dunking novice ... perhaps better called The Cookie Rookie??

[Chris Amirault]

Oh, come on: even a six-second dunk with a fresh Oreo is gonna leave some of that brown dusty crumb floating on the top like an oil spill. Or do you only dunk with your cookies in cheesecloth?

[Megan Blocker]

Oh, come on: even a six-second dunk with a fresh Oreo is gonna leave some of that brown dusty crumb floating on the top like an oil spill. Or do you only dunk with your cookies in cheesecloth?

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You don't?

[Gifted Gourmet]

No, no, no, no! The idea is that it enhances the milk while bringing forth the subtle nuances of flavors in the Oreo ... See?

[rooftop1000]

No No No the image of my grandmothers tea mug with a crumby oil slick from dunking her toast is burned into my brain....I leave the room when my husband dunks.

One day I saw the owner of a lunch counter dump a bag of mini choc chip cookies in a glass of milk and eat them with an iced tea spoon...(RUN AWAY)

sorry, continue

t

[Gifted Gourmet]

No No No the image of my grandmothers tea mug with a crumby oil slick from dunking her toast is burned into my brain....

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Another long lost relative appears! You must have known my (and every other Jewish kid's) grandmother ...

[Megan Blocker]

No No No the image of my grandmothers tea mug with a crumby oil slick from dunking her toast is burned into my brain....I leave the room when my husband dunks.

One day I saw the owner of a lunch counter dump a bag of mini choc chip cookies in a glass of milk and eat them with an iced tea spoon...(RUN AWAY)

sorry, continue

t

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I love this thread! I had no idea people had such strong, visceral feelings about dunking. I was always taught that it was vaguely impolite, but never knew it grossed so many people out!

I feel the same way about chewing gum...narsty.

[spaghetttti]

Crullers, especially good Mexican/Chinese/Asian ones, are made for dunking into hot chocolate or coffee.

Sometimes I dip or swish, but most of the time I slam dunk!

[sazji]

I just witnessed a rather new take on dunking this morning. Yesterday a friend from the East who is visiting, had brought a box of tulumba, a sweet made of an eggy dough that is pumped out in short lengths into hot oil, and when done is dunked in syrup. Lovely, like a sweet sponge, crispy on the outside, diabetes and heart disease provoking on the inside. We were drinking our morning coffee, and instead of putting sugar in, he just took a whole tulumba and plopped it into his cup. (They are about 2 1/2 inches long.) After it had sat a bit, he fished it out with the spoon and made a single mouthful of it, a shiny dribble of coffee escaping down his chin.

Good thing Emily Post had the day off...