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How do you stop your biscuit breaking and mixing with your tea when you dunk it in your drink?

Thanks to a new product that's a conundrum that might never trouble tea drinkers again.

A cylindrical mesh pouch has gone on sale that dips into your cup and catches any stray biscuit, letting you enjoy your drink in peace even after subjecting it to a gruelling dunking session.

A Watford-based entrepreneur has designed a teabag that catches crumbs. The £2 ($3.25) Cookie Catcher (shown) is a meshed pouch that is lowered into a beverage. When a biscuit is dunked inside it the bag catches any breakages. Using a string the drinker can then get the bag and the crumbs out of the tea

The device was designed by dad of two Andrew Tinsley from Watford, Hertfordshire. solved the age-old problem with a canny mesh pouch which is immersed inside a mug of tea.

The drinker dips their biscuits in the mug like normal but the pouch collects any unwanted bits that might float off during the dunking process.

And even if the biscuit becomes too soggy and breaks off altogether the gadget will guarantee drinkers are not left with a heap of biscuity sludge at the bottom of their cup.

Once the drinker has finished dunking they can lift the washable pouch out using an attached string and continue drinking the tea as normal.

Mr Tinsley apparently dreamed up the design after watching family members dunking their biscuits for too long.

He now hopes his product, called the Cookie Catcher, will become a staple in homes around Britain.

The products are made of so nylon they can be washed out and re-used.

Despite only launching the product two weeks ago Mr Tinsley has already sold more than 600 Cookie Catchers, which cost £2 ($3.25).

'The idea came to me when after a big lunch my family were all sat around drinking tea and tucking into a selection box of biscuits,' said Mr Tinsley.

'My brother had drunk a bit much at lunch and kept over-dunking his biscuits in his tea. Every time he left them in the tea too long and they would break off.

The device was designed by dad of two Andrew Tinsley from Watford, Hertfordshire. solved the age-old problem with a canny mesh pouch which is immersed inside a mug of tea. The drinker dips their biscuits in the mug like normal but the pouch (left) collects any unwanted bits (right) that might float off during the process

Once the drinker has finished dunking they can lift the washable pouch out (left) using an attached string and continue drinking the tea as normal. Mr Tinsley apparently dreamed up the design after watching family members dunking their biscuits (right) for too long

Even if the biscuit becomes too soggy and breaks off altogether the gadget will guarantee drinkers are not left with a heap of biscuity sludge at the bottom of their cup.

'We all said that someone should invent a device that catches the crumbs and stops your tea being full of bits.

'It got me thinking. I've always been entrepreneurial so I took the idea away and came up with this little mesh sack that sits inside your tea cup and catches all the bits.

'When you're done dunking you whip it out of the mug using the attached string and you can enjoy the rest of your tea with no bits in.

He adds that it can also be washed out and used over and over again as it is made from nylon.

'Anyone who has ever dunked a biscuit in tea will understand what this product is all about,' he continued.

'It's a British solution to a very British problem.

'We have only just launched and we've already sold about 600 Cookie Catchers, so they're obviously striking a chord with the tea drinkers of Britain.'

Despite only launching the product two weeks ago Mr Tinsley has already sold more than 600 Cookie Catchers, which cost £2 ($3.25)

This scenario shown, of a biscuit ruining a cup of tea, might never be a problem again