Cookie Catcher Hands-on Report
Always up for an excuse for a cup of tea, FrequencyCast looks at a new tea dunking safety device. Here's our review of the Cookie Catcher:
Listen to FrequencyCast Show 72, featuring Cookie Catcher |
Catching Cookies
Here's the transcript of our hands-on look at this novel tea-dunking accessory, from show 72:
Transcript continues from Netflix UK Review
Carl:
All good advice. Now, you seem to have a little bag there - what's that for?
Pete:
Mmm - any guesses?
Carl:
Well, it looks like it's some sort of useless pop shield for a microphone.
Pete:
Well, we've still got Mike with us. Mike, can you describe this weird thingy for us?
Mike:
It would be a mesh device, sewn with a band top, bottom, white in colour, with a piece of string approximately seven-and-a-half inches from the top.
Pete:
Would you care to guess what it's for?
Mike:
I would say it's for, something to do with washing, in a washing machine, or dunking something in a cleaning solution?
Carl:
Go on then, Pete - put me out of my misery. What is this thing?
Pete:
Well, have a little listen to this stereo creation I put together.
Carl:
Oh, it's a teabag, isn't it?
Pete:
Well, you're close.
Carl:
No, but I get the feeling we're off to the kitchen now, aren't we?
Pete:
As some of you may know, tea dunking, the art of putting a biscuit in a cup of tea, is one of my favourite things, and we got this through our letterbox. It is the Cookie Catcher. If you take it out of the packet, what you have is basically a small, white, cup-shaped net, and what you do with this is, you slide it into your freshly-made cup of tea, like this.
I appreciate the sound doesn't really come out, so we've put up a video clip of this on our website, but what I now have is a cup-shaped net inside my freshly-made cup of tea. Now comes part two of the plan: opening the biscuit barrel. Ooh - chocolate chip cookies, or a ginger nut? I'm going to take a ginger nut, and I'm going to dunk my biscuit in my cup of tea.
Now this, as you know, is a very dangerous pastime, because you are likely, if you get the dunking time wrong, to have something of an accident. What's happened now is my biscuit has deteriorated, so that I now only have - oh, that's it! - it's all gone. I've now got a third of a biscuit in my hand, and two-thirds in the cup.
Now comes the clever bit - I move over to the sink, I pull the bit of string that comes with the Cookie Catcher out, and at the bottom of my little net are the remains of my biscuit, so I have saved my tea from a fate worse than biscuit crumbs.
Carl:
Hold on a minute - don't give that to me, I'm not playing soggy biscuit with you.
Pete:
If you're interested, go and have a look at our little video creation up on the website. It will make you smile, and if you want one of these things, the Cookie Catcher - £2! thecookiecatcher.com
Carl:
If you know of a more ridiculous device, then let us know.
Listen to FrequencyCast Show 72, featuring Cookie Catcher |
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