Because I will eat fistfuls of raw cookie dough. Raw eggs are safe where I’m at anyways.
I think it’s more the risk from the raw flour than eggs.
It’s the flour.
Everybody knows that. Duh
It’s both in the US, uncooked eggs can give salmonella. But most places that have “edible cookie dough” use non-raw flour and no eggs so you can actually eat the dough raw safely.
You can make safe edible cookie dough pretty easily . The eggs aren’t the only issue, it’s the flour itself. If you bake it at like 275F for 30 mins in a sheet pan it’ll sterilize it. For edible cookie dough that won’t be baked you don’t even need eggs.
Having said that, I too have eaten my share of regular cookie dough.
Had no idea raw flour wasn’t safe. The store bought safe cookie dough always tastes like cardboard to me
If you bake dry flour , remember to NOT use convection.
Because of the fan?
Flour is flammable and light. If the fan makes a bunch of it fly around in your oven the heating element could ignite it. Search YouTube for “flour fire”.
Probably not super dangerous at if you’re just baking a sheet pan of flour, but good to be safe.
Well that’s much more catastrophic than I expected.
It tastes like cardboard because you’re eating it refrigerated.
Cookie dough you make yourself is often warm from the melted butter
Starting with my grandmother, I’ve been warned by the various bakers in my life for about 50 years that the various kinds of raw dough I have wheedled them into giving me or snuck off of their work area will give me a stomach ache or cause other issues. The most recent time I was warned in this way was surely less than 2 months ago.
So far so good, not a single problem, and I never pass up a chance to eat uncooked batter or dough. (Edited to add - if you haven’t tried basic homemade pie crust dough you haven’t lived. It’s not sweet, it’s just good.)
I am absolutely not saying the risk doesn’t exist, but the chance of it seems so minuscule (based on my anecdotal lifelong experience) that I only ever think about it when someone brings it up.
If I bought something prepackaged on a grocery store shelf, like from nabisco or whatever, that was undercooked, I wouldn’t eat it. From the kitchen of a relative or right from a bakery - has never given me pause.
Brownies too, I am not a fan.
I suppose it’s so you can take them home and cook them the way you like them.
That looks so tasty
Mmmmmm… Borderline raw cookies.
Mmmmmm… Borderline raw.
One thing to consider is that delivery and takeout are significantly more popular than they were 4 years ago. Some of these chains either anticipate or encourage you to heat your cookies just before you eat them and halfway cooking them gives the best results. A place just down the road from me encourages 1 minute on high in the air fryer or 3 in a toaster oven before eating
I had no idea this was a trend.
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.
I often prefer slightly undercooked baked goods.
Same, its like a cookie dough flavored cookie
I like my cookies medium rare
Bloody.
Yay, food science!
flour and grease smear
Salty, sweet, greasy flour and egg mush. Mmmmm
calorie-dense nutrient paste
Give it to me raw
What’s cookies, precious?
Breed Cookies.
And wriggling!
Bite the cookie, Im going in dry!
Ooh baby I like it raw
This is a trend? Then why all of the sudden can’t I find any cookies in my local grocery stores that aren’t hard as tits? This has been my cookie preference for my whole life!!
You need some gingernuts.
This isn’t a tits pun.
These look like Crumbl cookies which are sold in their own stores for ridiculous prices. One cookie can legitimately feed 4 people since they’re so rich (and delicious)
You’re fondling the wrong tits
There are no wrong tits, my friend.
my man if the tits you’ve been running into are hard, there’s something wrong
They work at a mannequin warehouse
Read that one right the second time
$50/hour ain’t a bad deal
Must be a local thing.
Yet when my sourdough comes out this way, everyone acts like i shit my pants
you can buy raw cookie dough thats meant to be eaten uncooked. and not some niche thing, its at all the big box grocery stores. its no stretch to imagine why a half-baked cookie might be a thing
I hate crumble cookies as well. Weak unsatisfying texture, and way too sweet before they even add all that syrup shit. Also they’re too big, I take like one bite and the sweetness is already unbearable.
I’m of the opinion that Crumble is only successful due to marketing and viral advertising from insta models. Just to double down on what you stated already: Their cookies are shitty, crumby, over sweet garbage that tastes like something out of the bargain bin at Dollar General. Actually, no. I’ve had delicious cookies from Dollar General. Bargain bin at Walmart bakery.
I’ve had delicious cookies from Dollar General. Bargain bin at Walmart bakery.
At least you pointed out your tastes at the end 😂
The point was that Crumbl is shit, not the socio-economic choices I make when eating cookies.
Agreed, I will take my mom’s homemade plain oatmeal cookies over these any day
Not to mention the fact that a single cookie is nearly half your daily caloric needs
That’s basically every cookie
Thank you. That’s the most insulting part. It’s a mediocre cookie at best.
I don’t order these and I can’t talk shit about them at home cuz I trying to be a better partner, so I do what normal people do and go vent on the internets.
I apologize to those who I have upset.
Personally I think the most insulting part is the price.
They make them big to try to justify it, but its still a bullshit high profit margin food.
I think people just like them because they are very fresh. Most places just sell you some cookie in a box made a couple weeks ago in a factory somewhere by robots so it is marginally better than that in theory.
Warm and soft cookies are the best cookies
