That's weird isn't it!
2006-07-24 21:07:39 · 15 answers · asked by Mac 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
The image of soggy biscuits, I'm gonna be sick now...
2006-07-24 21:11:02 · answer #1 · answered by Chrissie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I have no basis to back this up - but I had a friend tell me one stoned night that the reason for this is the very definition of cakes and biscuits, as because the duty paid to customs for each is different, the decision for what falls into what category is that a biscuit goes soft and a cake goes hard.
Its why a Jaffa Cake, whilst plainly a biscuit in shape and the way it is sold is technically a cake.
As for why, like my learned friend above said, it is no doubt a moisture issue. Photons and **** and quantum mechanics.
2006-07-25 04:13:18 · answer #2 · answered by Caffeine Fiend 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is because the moisture in the air wil equalise through the cake/biscuit.
A biscuit is hard and has less moisture than the air so will soak up moisture making it softer.
A cake is moist so loses some moisture to the air making it go harder.
You will probably find that after 5 days both the biscuit and the cake have the same level of moisture, but because you expect the biscuit to be hard, it seems soft, and vice versa with the cake.
2006-07-25 04:29:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cakes lose moisture and harden cause of the egg in them,in fact the early churches used a batter of eggs, flour and Jaggery(a hardened sugar) for mortar in building .
biscuits on the other hand are a much different consistency, and the pores allow for moisture to be absorbed and retained within them
2006-07-25 04:19:31 · answer #4 · answered by El-rene 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's nature's way of letting you know the difference between a cake and a biscuit. In case you're ever unsure.
2006-07-25 07:25:39 · answer #5 · answered by Jaydee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the softer cake become hard by entering so much of air into it n the hard biscuit become soft by entering air into it,,,,
this air is changing everything
2006-07-25 04:11:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because from cakes water goes in atmosphere and biscuts soke water from atmosphere
2006-07-25 04:12:04 · answer #7 · answered by keerti 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll tell you something else that goes hard/crunchy, baby.
And it won't even take 5 days.
2006-07-25 04:12:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its weird i gvuess its cuz soft things go hard cuz they get tierd of being too soft and hard things go soft cuz they feel that theve been too hard for so long. hah
2006-07-25 18:50:45 · answer #9 · answered by julli b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
equalizing moisture to the surrounding air.
2006-07-25 13:56:04 · answer #10 · answered by answer faerie, V.T., A. M. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋