{"id":40685,"date":"2014-01-09T18:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/researching-the-perfect-chocolate-chip-cookie.html"},"modified":"2014-01-11T12:51:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T19:51:29","slug":"researching-the-perfect-chocolate-chip-cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/researching-the-perfect-chocolate-chip-cookie.html","title":{"rendered":"Researching the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I can&#39;t say yet whether the research is correct, but I can definitely see myself dedicating a lengthy effort to recreating their results &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103389452828130864950\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"103389452828130864950\">Yonatan Zunger<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115807408325651692080'>California Science Center<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Food Lab baked 1,536 cookies to uncover the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Cookies are fickle and the advice out there is conflicting. Does more sugar make for crisper cookies? What about brown versus white? Does it matter how I incorporate the chocolate chips or whether the flour is blended in or folded? How about the butter: cold, warm, or melted?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>check out the science here: <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sweets.seriouseats.com\/2013\/12\/the-food-lab-the-best-chocolate-chip-cookies.html\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/sweets.seriouseats.com\/2013\/12\/the-food-lab-the-best-chocolate-chip-cookies.html<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-XsztKtZsOUU\/Us8flkrymNI\/AAAAAAAAKBE\/bir2DkQVORM\/4dssk.jpg?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'><span class='gpb-reshare'><br \/>This post has been reshared 1 times on <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/gWJcUeXKw8r' target='_new'>Google+<\/a><br \/><\/span> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/gWJcUeXKw8r' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#39;t say yet whether the research is correct, but I can definitely see myself dedicating a lengthy effort to recreating their results &#8230; (h\/t +Yonatan Zunger) Reshared post from +California Science Center The Food Lab baked 1,536 cookies to uncover the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe &quot;Cookies are fickle and the advice out there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/09\/researching-the-perfect-chocolate-chip-cookie.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Researching the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-food-drink"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27303,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/glad-we-got-our-cookies-when-we-did.html","url_meta":{"origin":40685,"position":0},"title":"Glad we got our cookies when we did","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Apr-12 9:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So Frontier Airlines had been serving warm chocolate chips to all passengers as part of their longer flights (e.g., California to Denver) since their merger with Midwest Airlines (which was about the only thing from Midwest Airlines that anyone appreciated). 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