2w ago

girl what rule

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I'm really loving the last one there. Somehow "shots" is their preferred unit of measure. Most cookies don't have any liquid ingredients, either, so milk is kind of a wild addition. Then they blame the recipe for being chunky, which I assume is due to the banana that they did a shit job of mashing. The cherry on top is that there is a rating out of five stars at the top (looks like they gave five stars?), but then they throw in a rating out of ten at the bottom. Should have given a thumbs up rating, but I assume the thumbs are busy in their ass.
- Sugar is a liquid ingredient
  
  The fuck kind of sugar are you using?
  
  Hey since no one apparently answered you:
  In baking, you typically have “dry” ingredients and “wet” ingredients.
  Sugar is considered a wet ingredient in the world of baking. In chemistry parlance, it’s hygroscopic so it is mixed with other wet ingredients before adding the dry ingredients.
  Gatekeeping is whack. It took me 60 seconds to give you the real answer.
  
  Oh wow thank you. Keeping this in mind will help me remember to stop mixing in the sugar with the dry ingredients before reading the rest of the recipe, then having to throw out all of it because I find out that the sugar should've been mixed with something else. This is something I've done way too many times cause I'm an idiot.
  
  Thank you. This excellent explanation also shows that SpaceNoodle's reply has absolutely NOTHING to do with what the original commenter was talking about above (measuring cookie ingredients in "shots"), so who knows what SpaceNoodle's smoking, but I think I'm good without whatever liquid they're using instead of sugar in their cookie recipes.
  
  Everything can be a liquid with the appropriate conditions.
  
  I do love me some supercritical sourdough bread
  
  I can see you're not a baker
  
  No, Dr. "Rather than explaining a patently ridiculous statement, I'm going to make a second vague statement in an effort to make other people feel stupid for kicks", I'm not a professional baker. I'm a chemistry teacher.
  So, since "I can see you're not a chemist" (see how pretentiously shitty that sounds?) and you are apparently just about as good at following recipes as the numbskulls here, let me teach you something: while you may be in your baker's la-la-land with your hard-won recipes and art, if you used simple syrup (or as you call it "liquid sugar", Chef Cordon-Bleu-At-Home) in ANY of the recipes here (or virtually any online mass-consumption recipe, I have yet to find even one that calls for it) instead of actual sugar, your shitty cookies would be more runny than Yoda's diarrhea in the swamps of Dagobah.
  Now, either let's see a common recipe made for lay-people that calls for simple syrup in cookies, or kindly fuck off with your sanctimonious gatekeeping pretense.
  
  Not sure why the person you’re replying to is refusing to explain. Assuming they’re not a TOTAL idiot, I’d guess they’re alluding to a baking rule of thumb for mixing order. Maybe they learned this rule but they don’t actually understand it well enough to talk about it?
  Generally, you include sugar with the “wet” ingredients while baking. It’s a timing thing, it tends to incorporate better and dissolve a little if you mix it with your butter, oil, milk, eggs, etc. Once that’s all mixed in you add your “dry” ingredients like flour and baking soda / powder. Those are easy to over mix so you add them last minute.
  Sugar is not a liquid ingredient, it’s just a rule of thumb, the person you’re replying to is being annoying.
  
  Thank you for the excellent explanation. It's such a shame that some people are apparently categorically incapable of explaining themselves, and feel the need to gatekeep instead to feel superior.
  This interpretation makes it clear that their comment was a complete non-sequitur, since it is NOT a liquid, and thus is not a "liquid ingredient in cookies" that might be measured in "shots".
  
  🙄
  
  "Wet" and "liquid" are not the same word
  (For the confused: with baking you put ingredients in specific orders. Sugar is usually included with the wet ingredients)

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