We tested Haribo, partly because it was a fun idea (thanks Jess) but mainly because we wanted to eat Haribo and this seemed like a good excuse the parents of the land need to know which is the best tool for cutting these tasty sweets. Picture the scene: there’s one Haribo left and your kids are fighting over it. Clearly you have to divide it between them, and let’s face it - if you don’t get it right, thing’s ain’t gonna be pretty.
We broke out a packet of Starmix and examined each of the varieties: Fried Eggs, Cola Bottles, Rings, Gummi Bears and Hearts. Two of each type were selected for testing, the idea being to test each variety in turn and keep a mini-score between the utensils as we went along.
It was decided to cut the Cola Bottles and Gummi Bears lengthways so as to provide a more rigorous test of cutting ability. The Scissors started well, neatly splitting the Egg and Cola Bottle with somewhat less effort than the Pizza Cutter required. A mini 2-nil to the Scissors, then.
We found that in order to cut some of the chewier sweets with the Pizza Cutter, one had to exert fair pressure on said confectionary. This would be something of an inconvenience, not to mention a potential health hazard when trying to perform the operation with over-excited children in the vicinity. Hence, points were lost on the grounds of increased risk of blood loss.
The Scissors went on to score well on the Heart and the Gummi Bear, faltering only to half the point with the Pizza Cutter for failing to bisect the Ring evenly (though this may have been down to Rob’s cack-handedness). This left final mini-scores at 4½-½ in favour of the Scissors.
The Pizza Cutter didn’t manage to split either the Cola Bottle or the Gummi Bear evenly in two, and left the Fried Egg with a definite roughness its cut edges. With the Heart looking a little wavy down the middle too, there wasn’t much hope for our cutting disc here.
It’s a second win on the trot for the Scissors. As we head into the final third of our investigation, it’s getting close…
Thanks to Jess for the Haribo idea.
