Top Chef Finds Out Why We Dunk Our Digestives in Tea

Heston Blumenthal can’t just cook up a storm in the kitchen, he can also tell us why we love dipping our biscuits into a cuppa.

According to The Mirror, the chef has been doing a range of tests for his new show, which kicks off tonight on Channel 4, in order to work out why digestives taste better when they have been dunked.

Heston is known for being experimental with food.

He revealed: “When you re-hydrate your mouth, like when you have dunked a biscuit, the flavour gets released more because it is warm and wet. You get a quicker flavour release and it is more powerful.” Makes you want one now doesn’t it?

“If you have chocolate on one side, if it melts a bit, you get a velvety smooth texture and then the delicious flavour release,” he added.

In the series entitled Heston’s Fantastical Food the Michelin star chef supersizes foods including boiled eggs and biscuits. Now if that doesn’t sound tempting, we don’t know what does!

Heston's Fantastical Food is on Channel 4 tonight at 9.00pm.