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    4 hours ago

    I love these cookies personally. Soft cookies are so much better than hard crunchy ones.

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    18 hours ago

    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.

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    15 hours ago

    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.

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    19 hours ago

    Same reason people love raw cookie dough. They just like the taste.

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    14 hours ago

    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.

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      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.

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      14 hours ago

      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.

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        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.

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      16 hours ago

      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.

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      19 hours ago

      You can get eggs from Salmonella vaccinated chickens, it’s just not the norm in north America.

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        It’s in the flour not the eggs. Eating raw flour is riskier than eating raw eggs.

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          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.

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          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

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    18 hours ago

    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!!

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    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

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    This is how I’ve loved cookies for my entire life. I’m just happy they are easier to find now.

    Edit: I’m sincerely amused that someone downvoted me for expressing my opinion on the kinds of cookies I like. I didn’t know this was a “ketchup on steak” level issue. 🤣

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      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.

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          It tastes like cardboard because you’re eating it refrigerated.

          Cookie dough you make yourself is often warm from the melted butter

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          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.

          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.

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    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