sarasquares

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why does bread go hard but biscuits go soft if you leave them out?

sarasquares

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an answer would be good

daddyscoob

It's all to do with the molecular structure of the component parts of each.......


To be honest I have no idea BUT have you noticed that in years gone by if you left bread it went hard and you could make breadcrumbs, but now it goes mouldy first......

SiPie

Was discussed on Radio 1 this very afternoon

Wasn't listening properly so missed the answer

richiewong

Probably something to do with losing and absorbing moisture

Ask Carol Vorderman, she's got spare time now

skoobidude

****** do both - depends on who else is in the room at the time

...runs out of the house/

FLAT ERIC

iTrader: (1)

Relative moisture content of the object in proportion to the ambient air around the object in question. Well you did ask.

Fresh bread is moist so gives up moisture & becomes hard.

Biscuit is dry so takes in moisture & becomes soft.

If you leave the biscuit long enough it will turn dry though.

Mark

richiewong

Whats the difference between light and hard?





You can sleep with the light on.

Follows skoobidude out of the house

Nate

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^ I'll stick with what Mark said

sarasquares

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exactly the same here i missed the answer

sarasquares

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shall i get all of your coats?

Spooky Mulder

It is one of the definitions of cake and biscuits. There used to be different tax treatment of cakes and biscuits and there was a court case to prove that Jaffa Cakes were biscuits.

The accepted definition is that cakes go hard when left, biscuits go soft.

I am not sure about Millie's cookies as they are soft and stay soft

Leslie

Bread dries out while biscuits tend to absorb it from the air.

Les

Removed.

Biscuits don't go soft, well, not when I'm around. They get eaten too quickly, although as I'm an avid dunker, then technically they do I suppose. My head hurts, I need a biscuit.......








PLAIN CHOCOLATE HOBNOBS RULE!


Goes searching for recent biscuit thread

sarasquares

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i have learnt not to put cakes in the biscuit tin with the biscuits

FLAT ERIC

iTrader: (1)

Try putting your biscuits in the cake tin instead.

Or just bung everything in the bread bin.

Mark

Jye

Is it's something to do with bread on folks heads, and erogenous zones?

Or was that something else?

sarasquares

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i wonder what they would do in the bread bin?

FLAT ERIC

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Probably have an identity crisis.

Then turn mouldy.

Mark