Because they are yummy?
You have your preference, I have mine. An underdone cookie is gooey and melty but still brown around the edges, best of both worlds.
Three things happen during baking that change the flavor of a cookie.
Maillard reaction, caramelization, and the melting of fats. There are more, but those are the three we’re going to talk about.
The maillard reaction takes raw flour and turns it brown. It absorbs some of the sugar in the process, and creates a more complex, nutty flavor. Caramelization also browns some of the sugar, giving it a smoky, bitter flavor. They also give the cookie a firm or crispy texture.
You also melt any fats, like butter, that are in the dough. Melted butter separates and spreads throughout the cookie.
There’s also often an egg that helps build structure for the baked dough, and sometimes baking soda for fluffiness.
This means uncooked dough is sweeter than a baked cookie. It has a soft, dense, and moist texture that disappears when fully baked. It’s butter and sugar held together with flour and egg, and it’s delicious.
flour and grease smear
Salty, sweet, greasy flour and egg mush. Mmmmm
calorie-dense nutrient paste
I often prefer slightly undercooked baked goods.
I like my cookies medium rare
Bloody.
Same, its like a cookie dough flavored cookie
Yay, food science!
Hypothesis: Want chewy cookies. Try cookie recipe, they come out crunchy. Bake for less time. Cookies chewy now!
Same reason people love raw cookie dough. They just like the taste.
I will never understand this.
It’s a ridiculous business model.
You’re a ridiculous business model.
Your mums a
rediculousbusiness modelThat’s not fair at all, his mom’s a savvy small business owner who does absolute numbers on OnlyFans. Have you turned your hobby into a career? Didn’t think so.
I don’t even sell flowers!
I mean, it clearly works if a lot of businesses do it.
Except for the fact that it makes a bunch of money you mean?
Based on what measure?
Millions of dollars in yearly profit by the food industry that makes and sell raw cookie flavors disagree with your business acumen.
We’ve been baking some cakes and cookies like that in the Netherlands for decades.
Not if you make it yourself. Saves baking time, cost of purchasing store-bought cookie dough, and cost of electricity.
Plus, it tastes better, because it doesn’t have to have weird shelf stabilizers.
I love these cookies personally. Soft cookies are so much better than hard crunchy ones.
Soft cookies can be make by changing the recipe slightly and not risk salmonella poisoning or other infections.
Ya but you can make soft cookies that are actually cooked
When you say trend, is it only on TikTok?
Crumbl cookies shops are popping up everywhere. Lines around the block.
Ah, they’re not over here. That’s why I’ve never heard of it.
I wonder if this trend will catch on to not cooking anything else properly?
First of all, that cookie looks absolutely baller. Secondly, damn you I’m going to get crumbl cookies now and fucking up my diet lol
My work here is done!
Child labor is bad and all, but like… Children making cookies is whimsical and fun. It’s not like toiling in the mines (which they yearn for).
Actually mines are where all the fairy dust is gotten from :/
So the mines are more whimsical :/
You should apologize :/
I apologize to the mines (which the children yearn for) for implying they aren’t whimsical and fun.
If you ordered a cookie and didn’t get what you want, that sucks and is indeed frustrating.
However I don’t know what that has to do with anyone else. If someone wants to eat an almost raw cookie, or a too soft cookie or whatever, I don’t think that should bother you.
I think what bothers him is that he had something that he liked and can no longer find. It may not be the case here, but companies (in the US) are en masse changing their recipes to be cheaper to manufacture and it’s affecting the end product.
In the case of something like a cookie which can be made 1000 different ways by 1000 different companies, finding what you like took time, luck, or both. When they change the recipe on you, it’s not a simple, “just buy a different cookie, dummy.” It’s a major undertaking. Sometimes you get lucky and this was the push that allowed you to discover a new, even better, favorite. More often than not though, it’s just another part of your day that got a little bit shittier than it was yesterday.
It’s annoying and I totally get it.
I suppose it’s so you can take them home and cook them the way you like them.
When you say trends, is it among people not baking long enough? I love gooey cookies as well, but that looks raw.
Recently I used store made cookie dough (because “safe to eat raw”!) in a cast iron pan to make it more like a brownie, maybe like this. Surprise, it’s much thicker than a standard cookie so needs to be cooked longer than the directions say
Salmonella brings people together.
Salmonella is eliminated at 165F. Cookies get to around 190-205F when fully baked. So there’s at least 25 degrees Fahrenheit between completely safe from salmonella and fully baked cookies.
You can get eggs from Salmonella vaccinated chickens, it’s just not the norm in north America.
It’s in the flour not the eggs. Eating raw flour is riskier than eating raw eggs.
Yep. Specifically it’s because the flour is not generally sanitized/processed in any way that removes bacteria from the grain or the finished product.
Flour is traditionally only used as an ingredient and will through the cooking process experience heat high enough to kill any bacteria.
If you want to make safe cookie dough to eat raw at home just spread the flour on a sheet tray and toast it in the oven at ~200 degrees for something like 10 minutes. There’s specific directions online.
Whoa, TIL
Yup the flour is very likely to contain e coli. The eggs are still a risk with salmonella but the e coli is a much greater and more potent risk
TIL
Give it to me raw
What’s cookies, precious?
And wriggling!
Ooh baby I like it raw
Bite the cookie, Im going in dry!
Breed Cookies.
It’s a trend? How many homemade cookies from how many households do you eat?
Cookie dough is tasty, idk.
This is specifically talking about stores like crumbl cookies I think (appears to be what the cookie in the picture is). Very fancy, quite overpriced, pretty tasty, but kinda doughy in the center IMO.