A companion for a rainy day or a fair-weather friend, our favorite cuppa is the first thing to kiss us ‘good morning’ and our escort through late nights. How we take for granted that warm comforting beverage that is almost always just a kettle away! Whether milky or black, bagged or binned, how we like our tea is absolutely up to us. But there is never a fuss when a cup of hot tea is married with a crunchy, sweet biscuit. We become little children anticipating sogginess that is just right.
Here’s rounding up the best biscuits to go with your sophisticated or cutting chai. We also have the optimum dunking time calculated, so you will never have to dig for soggy swimmers.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the 9 best contenders for your beloved cup of tea:
(Please read ODT as Optimum Dunking Time)

1. Marie Biscuits:

This one is a true classic, loved by the young and the old alike. It was my favorite as a child, and it still stands at number 2 for me. This is probably the best suited biscuit for your perfect cup of tea. It has clean crisp flavors that draw in and probably enhance the flavor of your tea. The best part is its ability to withstand a dunk. You could stick it in and forget about it for about a minute, and you still won’t lose any but of it.
ODT: 61 seconds

2. Plain Digestives:

These biscuits date back to 1876. So they were probably eaten and loved by our fathers’ grand fathers too. Word has it that these beauties were invented almost at the same time as milk chocolate (1875). While chocolate has taken over to be the world’s favorite, digestive biscuits hold their own place, and are absolutely delicious with tea.
ODT: 35 seconds

3. Nice:

Yummy coconut infused into light, crispy biscuits that are freshly baked and topped with a sprinkle of sugar – Truly NICE, aren’t they? Contrary to a belief that these were invented in NICE, France, these were first baked by an Australian. While you needn’t worry about the engraved NICE, you should just sit back and nicely enjoy your tea.
ODT: 39 seconds

4. Milk Biscuits:

Remember I told you that Marie Biscuits were my second favorite? Well, that was because Milk Bikkies are my absolute favorite with a hot cup of tea. These sweet treats are so smooth and soft that they almost melt in your mouth after a quick dunk. Spreading smiles since the 1920s, these biscuits are sure to win your heart – with or without the dunk.
ODT: 7 seconds

5. Oat Meal Biscuits:

Those tough, crust oats give you a lovely textured sensation in your mouth when they are dunked in tea. They are not too soft, and not too crispy, and therefore give you an exciting experience. The oaty flavor also goes extremely well with the crispness the tea. You are sure to be pleased with this brilliant combo.
ODT: 1 minute, 20 seconds

6. Chocolate Digestives:

And then people got more adventurous and coated the humble Digestive with a layer of rich, creamy chocolate. Now imagine that burst of chocolaty biscuit tea in your mouth. An accidentally devilish dessert that you totally deserve.
ODT: 1 minute, 5 seconds

7. Ginger Snaps:

To spice up your experience with tea, pick ginger snaps and go with it. It adds a peculiar zing to your palette, totally livening up the teatime. Now whether you want it to snap in your mouth or not is totally up to you.
ODT: 1 minute, 38 seconds

8. Bourbons:

There is no one who hasn’t grown up eating the creamy chocolaty bourbons. This being a childhood classic, it entails the curiosity of deconstructing and licking, with or without the tea.
ODT: 2 seconds

9. Custard Creams:

These butter-cream filled biscuits sit elegantly on the china beside your tea. But they are an absolute whammy when dunked. These treats are totally worth the try.
ODT: 5 seconds
Now that you are a “chaibiskut” expert, you can ace all those teatime woes. Live it up at tea time!