Cookie Pushers
At the end of July, Tony and I debated over beers. “Nestle Tollhouse Morsels make the best chocolate chip cookies, hands down!” I said.
Photo courtesy of Duane Storey (um, I think!)
“No way…a chocolate chip is a chocolate chip. I bet you couldn’t even tell the difference between different ones,” was his reply.
And so the challenge began.
Not long after Tony returned to L.A., a package arrived for me in the mail. In that packaged I found four Ziploc bags, each containing chocolate chips and marked A, B, C, and D, respectively. My challenge was to bake cookies with the four different kinds of chips and decide whether I could tell the difference.
Let me preface this by saying that, after purchasing said chocolate chips, Tony admitted that “Well, they do actually look different. Maybe you will be able to tell them apart.”
Tonight I dragged Becky over to my apartment and executed the challenge. Here’s what happened.
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Becky and I rated the four different chocolate chips in three different categories. We each ate a chocolate chip on its own, within the dough and then finally within the baked product. Each chip was given a score out of 10 by each of us in each of the three categories, and in the end, the scores out of ten were added up and chocolate chip “B” emerged as the winner by only a couple points.
Chocolate chip “D” was the loser, but with its odd flavour, Becky and I were convinced that Tony may have doused it in an illegal substance. Okay, maybe not, but “D” was weird. Chocolate chip “A” won a special award for Biggest Overall Improvement. It did worst out of all four chips in the stand-alone area, but within dough and within the baked cookie, it made leaps and bounds. In fact, within a cookie it tasted much like the cookies used to taste at Subway back when Subway cookies were actually good.
Tony, you need to post a comment and share with all of us which of A, B, C, and D really were. That is, of course, if you remembered to write down what you sent me.
And last but not least, in the spirit of all things “cookie,” here’s a flashback to the 80s with the girls of Troop Beverly Hills singing “Cookie Time.”
Video courtesy of YouTube
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I remember how you loved that movie…did you and Becky eat all the cookies?
Where are mine
it was Le Fun although now I have Le Belly Ache. We’ll have to wear Troop Bev Hills outfits next time :p
Troop Beverly Hills was my favourite movie when I was a little girl! That was a fantastic flashback!
you girls are amazing!!
this was funny, and i’m a little jealous of all the cookies.
Sounds like this was a really fun experiment!
I’m curious. Did you guys use the Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe?
Good question…I made the dough off the top of my head, but I do believe it originated as the Nestle Tollhouse recipe long ago.
Wow, you guys really follow through. Usually when I have a drunken debate it is already forgotten by the time I make it to the toilet to vomit.
I don’t know what looks more delicious - the cookies or you girls