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Making the World's Purest Cookie
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In this video, we attempt to make the world's purest cookie and to see how it compares to a regular cookie. In my opinion, it has to be better, because it's pure.
Original recipe and ingredients: gwern.net/doc/food/2022-goode...
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I forgot to mention it in the video, but we did not pull a vacuum in the oven! It is just vacuum sealed and some air gets pushed out when it's closed. I think pulling a vacuum would have murdered the cookie.
I was afraid you ruined the cookie due the vacuum sucking all the succulent smells out
2nd to reply
alright
All good!
Good call 👍
Watching two men who have never baked a cookie bake a $5k cookie is an experience
you are a men watcher
@marvin19966 we watch men indeed
@Noxi watch men watch men in the comments, we are not the same
nah the camera guy definitely baked cookies before
@Kay Bürcky i watch men that watch men watch men in the comments, we are doppelgängers
Watching Nile freak out over the cracks in the cookie is so funny to me because I bake cookies all the time and the cracks are such a non-issue 😭
LMAO, homie still scarred over the Aerogel cracks.
I like how much thought and consideration went into the decision to put it back in the oven.
I dare say they're frickin normal 😂
I was seriously wondering if not only was he an almond baby, but if he’d _ever_ seen a cookie before 😅
@fudgems He have probably ate cookies before in hes life, but never gave his mind into how the cookies looked.
Can we take a moment to realize Nile has a minifridge consisting of a singular muffin, thousands of dollars of ultrapure baking stuff, and pee.
As the ones said,
"L, I am pee. Say it. Discover."
his grandma needs to put him thru a cookie making bootcamp right now
Grandma was the problem
Can we get a video of you two baking a "normal" cookie with your grannie? I think it would be pretty amusing
Collab with Adam Ragusea. Or if he can swallow his pride and pay big airfare, with Ann Reardon.
I want to see the a video with his grandma too. That would be hilarious! I'm done with Ann Reardon though unsubscribed months ago. She's systematically lost her respect and became the very things she's claiming to fight as she's constantly looking for clickbate, putting down smaller channels, and doesn't actually follow the scientific method or get any peer feedback as she's "debunking".
Reminds me of some of his older videos where he did a lot in the kitchen.
🙏🙏🙏
@Peter Knutsenlmao not Ann Reardon. The girl keep beating genuine people making genuine content while whining about big companies making click bait 👍
Knowing that he’s using 10 year old flour (and ingredients designed to calibrate machinery, not to be “pure”) really explains a lot about the outcome…
you arent even supposed to consume it lol
@Plan Bnice dazai pfp lol
@Mello nice brown cat pfp lol
@Hovs nice dog with a sword pfp lol
@LumineDraws nice layla pfp lol
Him calmly handling substances that could easily kill him but panicking about making a cookie is absolutely hilarious
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Not all the substances that could kill him cost $5000 lmao
No kidding , if I’m not mistaken he distilled mercury (that may have been Cody’sLab) but I’ve seen him distill stuff that would kill him and his parents whole subdivision in their garage … but watching them so out of their element is vary fun … I recommend the toilet paper moonshine video
@Evelyn Carsteni'd rather lose 5k than burn my face
@Evelyn Carsten the person is talking ab other videos not this one
As a baker this is both incredibly interesting and painful
If you've ever wondered why the cookie didn't taste good, "How To Cook That" just released a video explaining what went wrong (she's a certified Australian food scientist)... Spoiler...
It was the wheat, chocolate and egg powder
Yeah baking Chocolate itself is horrible if I recall, it has its purposes but as far as taste goes it's not good. I can't say much about the other two, but my grandma used Store bought chocolate chips or M&Ms if she couldn't find those. I tried some baking Chocolate as a kid thinking "oh but it's chocolate" and was very disappointed.
Aren't those the three labeled "not for human consumption" cause that seems pretty likely to me
@Kenny Styles true but I find it difficult to understand the actual reason for that. Baking chocolate is insanely rich and dark as he said. I'm not even a huge fan of dark chocolate because it's too much like coffee.
It's possible that they added things to the three to prevent human consumption but I have my doubts... Because that would make it harder to claim as pure... But pure baking chocolate as well as the other things just taste horrible...
@Velox Drake From what I remember, they're called pure because they've been measured so the chemical components are known exactly which is why it's so expensive... however they're the same as what you would get off the shelves at the supermarkets, and could be expired, hence the "not for human consumption" label
@Wasarella that is possible as well, great thinking. I had a thought on the oven myself. He said it was a vacuum oven, and while there's no such thing as a perfect vacuum on earth by my understanding of what a vacuum is in scientific term (not a vacuum cleaner) it could have caused some of the flavor...particles I guess for lack of a better term to be pulled out as well.
In the video where he made the gold teeth recently he pulled air bubbles out of the plaster with a vacuum, Just some wild speculation but that might be why it was so bland which I m assuming was a surprise to him because perhaps there was an aroma to the items before.
Not a perfect vacuum, but in space no one can smell your cookies... At least I think that's the saying.
Shorter version being taste and smell are incredibly closely related, if you remove the air from the cookie there's going to be little to no smell and likely little to no taste, but that's speculation.
Blame the oven also I guess
Nile literally took “baked from scratch” as far as it could possibly go 💀
56 likes and no comments? Lemme fix that
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe” (Carl Sagan)
Many years later:
Baking a cookie utilizing a molecular forge
Watching one of the smartest men alive struggle to bake a cookie was beautiful
“Smartest men alive”😂 the dudes a college dropout didn’t finish his chemistry studies to pursue his Clip-Share channel. He’s a Clip-Share scientist not a real one.😂
@BigMike My thoughts exactly. A friend of mine, who went to my same class dropped out on 2nd year of Computer science. The guy never paid attention or practiced any of the contents we learned. However, he learned enough to impress your average Joe who has zero idea on how programming works, so most people in his neighbourhood praise him as some kind of computer god just because he can print a message on screen or sum two numbers lmao.
@BigMike @MaddieMZ he dropped out of his post-graduate, not his bachelors. That’s a huge difference. Not smartest man alive, but definitely smart enough to be able to talk and present sound (bio)chemistry.
@BigMike Do you not understand comedic hyperbole?
I love how the science chocolate still came wrapped in pretty gold foil
The cameraman coaching Nile through basic baking practices was truly the blind leading the blind.
Truly one of the baking videos on Clip-Share.
@HansMaximum Some might even call it one of the baking videos of all time!
Lmfao op. But ya he should get a Guinness for worlds first lab cookie XP
That is why they would go with science degrees instead of culinary ones
I love this comment. I just wanted to say that. OP, you have won the comment lottery
You can really tell he's never actually baked cookies, and that makes it so much better.
ah yes. *Cooking* with Nile we definitely need a series.
Cooking with Nile doesn’t have the implication you think it does
I would love a whole series of Nile making pure foods with none of the cooking experience required
Also, "it's a bunch of chemicals" is now the quote I will use for everything
watching nile be so oblivious on how to bake a goddamn cookie is the funniest thing ive ever seen
Has Nile never seen his grandmother bake cookies before?!? 😅
you can tell where nile goes from chemist to cook because his confidence immediately plummets
"IT'S CRACKING WE GOTTA GET IT OUT OF THERE"
Which is hilarious, because the precision of baking goes well with the precision of chemistry.
The worst baker ever lol
low-key I wonder if the "failure" is just his inability to cook
Cooking is a form of chemistry lmao
I want a cooking show with just chemistry and two confused guys with cameras. 10/10 concept.
Tbf this channel is already headed in that direction and I LOVE that
ive never seen someone so stressed about the success of a single cookie 😂
I love how we can tell exactly how relatively expensive each ingredient is based on how cautious you are about measuring and transporting it to avoid losses.
Nile: does science.
Also Nile: this isn't an exact science.
I need a cooking channel between these two so bad LOL
Nile is the epitome of never setting foot outside of a lab. No way he doesn't know that cookies naturally has cracks 😭
Nile has me literally rethinking the phrase:
“Cooking is art, baking is chemistry”
Dude other people in the comments were questioning it too…… like were people raised on mars?!!
And seeing him make the cookie into a cookie shape before baking was beyond painful. You are meant to just make a ball and as the butter melts, so does the cookie and then it spreads out into the cookie shape. After allowing it to cool, the butter solidifies and subsequently so does the cookie.
@S_ynze to be fair he wasn't using butter
@Vinz the coconut oil replaces this. Notice how the coconut oil was hard and he had to heat it up to melt it so he could get it out of the container? It works (kinda) the same way. It's a substitute. A vegan one, if you think about it.
I love how nile being the genius he is knows nothing about cookies 🥰
“Now we got sugar everywhere” that’s the true baking experience 😂
I feel like nileblue is slowly turning into a cooking channel
I swear this is perobably one of the most fun videos I've seen for a while. Had a pretty good chuckle during the tasting.
Ive gotta know what the pure water tastes like
genuinely thought Nile was joking when he freaked out about the cookie cracking 😅
The fact that Nile is more comfortable with making super dangerous stuff like Chromyl Chloride than baking cookies is just hilarious.
I think a lot of people don't or haven't baked a cookie. It's not as common as people think. Especially in a culture of some people hardly cooking at all and just eating lots of prepackaged foods, fast food, or junk food.
"I've never seen cookie dough before" immediately had me going "yes, that can happen when you've only recently arrived on Earth" because i have extreme difficulty believing anyone could live long enough to get a college education without ever seeing cookies being baked or ads for pre-mixed dough or something like that.
@King Morgannot everyone lives in America, not everyone has cookies in their culture
@sungon most people on youtube has seen or eating cookies though. I'm brazilian, not one of the cultures within my country bake cookies, yet I still know what they are somewhat know how to make them.
@sungon Nile is Canadian.
This level of scientific precision invested into making something so common reminds me of the “perfect coffee” from Breaking Bad
I think the ingredients were probably fine, the ratios, ex: not enough sugar we're one of many issues you'd have known about if you had just tried to make plain normal cookies before the lab version.
Were* :D we're is we are ;)
@Tomaž DemšarI’m sure this person is aware of that… my phone autocorrects “were” to “we’re” all the time. It’s very annoying lol
You guys have beautiful smiles in your family.
Your grandma's smile made my day.
So as I understand it, the NIST reference materials aren't necessarily suppose to be "pure" per se, but more along the lines of a standardized average of that specific product.
Nile treating this cookie like it was his first born child was hilarious 😂 has he never had chocolate chip cookies before?
This feels like a skit where two aliens try to do something really ordinary and basic to try and fit in with humans and many shenanigans ensue lmaooo I love it
Not knowing ANYTHING about cooking and baking at their age is depressing
@Godyeah but their alchemy offsets the depressing parts
@GodI think you need to turn your empathy down a bit
@goose in a tuxedo I don't think you understand the meaning of empathy
@GodI've been cooking my whole life and can easily eyeball the ingredients and cooking times of a stir fry, but I'd probably be just as confused at baking
We need a series where e every month Nile bakes something with a co-host telling him the instructions
There’s a Tom Scott video where Tom follows cooking instructions.
You should've really took your grandma to the lab. It wouldve been soooooo wholesome
as someone who has baked hundreds (maybe a thousand atp) of cookies in my life the confusion at how cookies work is so so funny to me 😭 i just throw stuff in a stand mixer and then the oven and they taste heavenly every time.
Can you tell me the recipe you use
🙏
tollhouse! super simple. having good ingrediants helps. sometimes i make different kinds of cookies, but its mostly just tollhouse choc chip cos thats what everyone likes the most.@Lavzna 7
Also, the reason your cookie "smelled like nothing" the first time you took it out was because it wasn't done yet. If you can't smell it in the room, it hasn't been in the oven long enough
Nile makes things I could never think of. He makes a cookie and is extremely perplexed 😂😂
I love how Nile can turn gloves into hot sauce and paint into soda, but not cookie dough into a cookie.
Ikr
It was pain thinner into soda but yea lol😂
Lmfao
Don't forget Diamonds into water!!
@Ed 6072he did both
Bro nile's smile just makes my day!!
How he is upset that his cookie cracked is so humorous
The Canadian mom coming out in Nile while baking it is hilarious 😂
Future tip:
Don't premelt the coconut oil prior to adding sugar. The liquid oil essentially coats the sugar grains preventing them from fully dissolving in the mix.
Can we get his grandma to coach him though making actual cookies
Watching this as a baker is both fascinating and horrifying at the same time
I can’t believe Nile didn’t practice baking a normal set of cookies first
It would’ve ruined the whole video. Watching them stumble through it is hilarious.
Exactly my thought. You would think he would test first with flower THAT'S NOT FUCKING 1000$
@V K ah yes flower🌻
@Alan Peter yes of course, everyone knows that you bake cookies with some good flowers lol
Absolutely needs to be a control cookie, thats like basic science.
Nile really made a cookie that was so pure that there was no flavor 💀
the way the cookie was cooked is killing me. it needs to be in a ball
I thank you for your sacrifice in making this video! As a fellow scientist, I have often considered making "pure" versions of favored recipes; I now know, as you said, that attaining purity will be at the cost of many of the things that rightly make food delicious.
Nigel can turn gloves into grape soda but ordinary baking is completely beyond him 😂😂
He used vanillin to make hot sauce, but have not idea how to use it normally.
He can also make cherry soda with paint thinner
I knoe really? I want to watch him in the kitchen trying to figure out my old grannie's cookie recipe, which is a list of ingredients and a prayer that it turns out ok, no measurements, no method just 'put these things together and maybe cookies'
it's especially funny when a baking in specific is pretty much a chemistry experiment. you have exact quantities, orders of mixing and time of reaction
Dude looks like a kid in a candy shop for the first time being told “you can get whatever you want” he’s so happy making that cookie
watching nile make a cookie and freaking out over cracks is quite funny
Nile performs alchemy, transmuting gloves to hot sauce snd TP to moonshine, but he struggles this much making a chocolate chip cookie
Edit: Also requesting a follow up video where you two cook a normal batch of cookies with granny from average ingredients
If there’s anything I’ve learned from Nile Red it’s that nothing he makes in a lab actually tastes good. 🤣
I have been thinking about this forever and I’m so glad that you made it happen
I love how Nile genuinely seems more worried about the cookie cracking than he has ever seemed doing any experiment
Nigel when the food he made isn't perfectly uniform in shape, color, texture and taste:
"I think this is ruined, so I'll just have to start over."
Don't know, ive seen a few " I have this substance, and I *REEAAALLY* want to burn it" type videos.
Ive been convinced that Nile has literally never seen a cookie in his life before
he got pretty OCD about the superconductor having cracks in it too (which involved a fair amount of baking, and he legit bought an (($$$)) oven just for it)
from the coconut oil going in melted
the hand mixing dough
the straight baking chocolate
etc.
I knew this was gonna be fun.
Nile panicking over how good the cookie is so funny
how has he gone this far in life without ever seeing cookie dough?!
I was trembling with excitement when he pulled out the pure baking chocolate. That turned into laughing out loud during the ingredient mixing, mad cackling when he got afraid of the cracks and straight up maniacal howling during the taste test.
The lesson learned here is that science can't replace grandma's soulful cookie baking.
I love that Nigel apparently didn't think to try baking a normal cookie first to try the process. He just jumped straight to an inedible $2k lab grade cookie.
Nigel? 😂
@Sine Nomine That's his name
You're so right. He also had access to an EXPERT CONSULTANT, Nana would have set him straight. Grandmothers everywhere are cringing.
@Sine Nomine did you just lost some braincell bro ?
Using a vacuum oven when the whole point of baking soda is to create bubbles 🤦
Have neither of them eaten a cookie before? I think every cookie I've ever had has had cracks in it 😂
It doesn't taste bland... It tastes pure, pure of all flavor. As a baker this is both incredibly interesting and painful.
Seeing how much you enjoyed this made me enjoy the video so much more
"It also tastes like wood a bit"
That absolutely sent me! I have tears in my eyes from cry laughing
Shout out to grandma, the true heart and soul of the cookie 😔✊
The fact that Nile knows how to clean up, properly dispose of, and how to neutralize an abundance of different chemicals, but doesn't know cookies tend to have natural cracks when baked is hilarious
You forgot that the cookie does not need to be smacked by a glass rod 😂
It really did seem like he believed he needed to stab a hole in the center of the cookie with his glass rod at 19:15 , and not until his camera operator friend asked "why would you do that?" did it seem occur to him that was a ridiculous thought. You could literally see in his eyes the exact moment when he remembers that cookies don't usually have a hole in the center and that there was no logical reasoning behind his thought that he needed to stab a hole in the cookie.
@Absolute Terrorhe was probably remembering his grandmother baking for him as a child and watching her stab the cake to check how done it was. Instinctually applied, incorrectly
As I'm watching this, I realize Nile seems to have never had a homemade cookie in his life lol
You guys forgot the most important step!
You have to bake it with love ❤️❤️❤️
This is a perfect representation for the confusion and stress that every college aged guy goes through when learning to cook for themselves
Nah I’ve been cooking and baking since I was 9 I never had this problem lol
Hahaha dude, I don't know why but the moment he pulled those silver bags out the fridge and I saw the label, I keeled over laughing.
Dude really f'ing bought NIST standard reference materials to bake AN cookie 😂😂😂😂. And that is also when the price instantly made sense to me, NIST SRMs cost a dank amount of money. Veritasium uploaded a really cool and in depth video about them a little while ago. I am honestly surprised that they sold Nile anything, since typically they are meant for big companies who produce whatever they need any said SRM for.
Of course they missed the key ingredient that Grandma didn't think she'd have to write down. Love.
Nigel: *turns gloves into grape soda*
also Nigel: *has never seen cookie dough*
Isnt it supposed to be nile
@SdSd nigel is his real name
Oh ok this is my second time watching so sorry
@SdSd You're good, I've watched him many times and also didn't know his real name until looking at comments on this video.
How has he never seen cookie dough 😭
i’ve never seen someone so happy to make cookies in their life
This was actually beautiful and really deep
I love the fact that he went to buy chemically pure substance for the cookie, and when it comes to the recepie he went to grandma. As we all know, grandma recepie is the purest of pure cookies.
Watched this video while eating cookies. I enjoyed both the cookies and the video :)
This video has been reviewed by Ann Reardon. She explains why it does not taste good.
The video title is:
Debunking the World's Purest Cookie & more | How To Cook That Ann Reardon
It's at around the 8th minute of that video.
This feels like watching "scientist who has never seen or heard of a cookie is tasked with making one" for 28 minutes. loved every second of it
Ohh yeah that's exactly it, I think they could've made better cookies with lab stuff and lab grade stuff if he brought his grandma or at least someones grandma, it had to do with the people and experience in baking. The sugar and flour probably needed to be ground down to be finer, probably needed a lot more of that vanilla powder, and should've sampled the ingredients side by side with their regular quality as well as the whole cookie. Could've milked this into a 2 hr video man. Maybe that'll be the next one and this will be the infamous video that spawns an (actually good tasting) pure cookie video.
aliens invading earth be like:
That appears to be the case.
I like all of the comments pointing out that Nigel behaves as if he's never seen a cookie in his life.
"I actually don't know what cookie dough looks like." I think you're correct.
As a rather talented baker, this both hurts and fascinates me to watch.
i never have laughed so hard during chemistry before
This looks like something that a fine dining place would have on the dessert menu and have the entire process presented to the customer as someone dressed as a mad scientist.
One of my favourite Clip-Sharers debunking another of my favourite Clip-Sharers.
The fact that he's worried about cracks in the cookie are beyond me 😂😂😂
I’m glad that Nile has a cameraman who guides him through the human experience
yea. god bless for cameraman!
Mispelled Experience with Experiment
the design is very human
@Luke O'Brien No, you are wrong!
Yeah he has to constantly remind Nile how to be human
Nile feels the the B+ student that was just bitter AF. I love him.
When he mentioned wood, it brought me flashback of James making coffee from decades old beans. lol He said the flavour was "mega pencil".
Love your videos! But Ann Reardon (How to cook that) could've saved you so much money!😂
So two reasons why I didn't turn out right: not enough vanillan and definitely not enough egg. You would have definitely been able to taste the vanilla if you had enough vanillin also vanilla extract is about three or four times thicker than what you made. Oh and the cookie was probably cracking because you did not add enough egg powder. Coincidentally if you don't have enough egg powder the cookie also does not taste like a cookie and more like flour😂
You're a "Pure" genious.. with those - not for consumption ingredients.. :D Love ya..
As the son of a baker, it's hilarious to see someone so panicked about a cookie craking during baking. You did good for your first time making a cookie.
I’m like, “what kind of non-cracked cookies does he eat?”
it's so funny seeing this experienced chemist being so clueless at something i'm familiar with
Well think of the differences then. You are familiar with making cookies, and he knows how to make bombs easily in his lab.
@Kar tr Yeah, exactly. When a homemade bomb "has a crack in it", it can be extremely dangerous, so his natural instinct was to panic when cracks formed on the cookie.
@BakaTaco understandably so
The way the cookie stared at the camera the whole time was so funny to me
this was way too funny lmao. my face hurts from laughing xD
Nile! Ann Reardon, a food scientist, reacted to your cookie on her new video!
Niles reaction makes him look like it's the first time he's ever had food in his mouth