Making the World's Purest Cookie

[@NileBlue]

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.

[@OfficiallySnek]

I was afraid you ruined the cookie due the vacuum sucking all the succulent smells out

[@arjunandayush3832]

2nd to reply

[@thomaswburkhart]

alright

[@atpstorages6917]

All good!

[@the_sad_wallet1553]

Good call 👍

[@Deeply_Unhinged_Goblin]

The cameraman coaching Nile through basic baking practices was truly the blind leading the blind.

[@HansMaximum]

Truly one of the baking videos on KZbin.

[@Sniperboy5551]

@HansMaximum Some might even call it one of the baking videos of all time!

[@DarkCelestialConsciousness]

Lmfao op. But ya he should get a Guinness for worlds first lab cookie XP

[@PunkIAm]

That is why they would go with science degrees instead of culinary ones

[@TheOfficialTab]

Like watching a human explain to an alien how desserts work.

[@ames_virosa]

I’m glad that Nile has a cameraman who guides him through the human experience

[@XianMMD]

yea. god bless for cameraman!

[@FrozenFzt-qy2nd]

Mispelled Experience with Experiment

[@defectivepikachu4582]

the design is very human

[@crimsonscriticalcorner9048]

Yeah he has to constantly remind Nile how to be human

[@Kontra.1]

The camera man needs some help too fr

[@heikaikki4824]

I love how Nile can turn gloves into hot sauce and paint into soda, but not cookie dough into a cookie.

[@Fjordzt]

Ikr

[@Ed-zc5yt]

It was pain thinner into soda but yea lol😂

[@vatatheoanonymous3705]

Lmfao

[@llaronis]

Don't forget Diamonds into water!!

[@loadingresourcesdotdot]

@@Ed-zc5ythe did both

[@JuMixBoox]

Nothing is more devastating than watching this expensive, well-thought out process and realising slowly, a little bit more with each step, that the cookie is gonna be mid at best.

[@Fiveiron]

Contaminants make everything better, apparently

[@Tanekoshima]

Literally mid, not good, not bad. P U R E mid.

[@austinarmstrong1331]

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[@tomfitzsimmons7263]

I love how Nile genuinely seems more worried about the cookie cracking than he has ever seemed doing any experiment

[@nacly4654]

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."

[@onradioactivewaves]

Don't know, ive seen a few " I have this substance, and I *REEAAALLY* want to burn it" type videos.

[@LaEmporoar]

Ive been convinced that Nile has literally never seen a cookie in his life before

[@MrFadjule]

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)

[@vincedibona4687]

*Nigel

[@annafraser6894]

you can tell where nile goes from chemist to cook because his confidence immediately plummets

[@bl4cksp1d3r]

"IT'S CRACKING WE GOTTA GET IT OUT OF THERE"

[@gilded_lady]

Which is hilarious, because the precision of baking goes well with the precision of chemistry.

[@Odysseus1999]

The worst baker ever lol

[@annafraser6894]

low-key I wonder if the "failure" is just his inability to cook

[@cannedheat2264]

Cooking is a form of chemistry lmao

[@haniyasu8236]

Nigel treats his cookie the way we all would treat radioactive samples, and he treats his radioactive samples the way we treat cookies. He is truly a real chemist.

[@Eldante87]

​@chickenman thegod well i guess he eats some of them maybe💀

[@Ndiyafhi]

@@Eldante87this isn’t a joke, pls stab me

[@XTSonic]

He seems more disgusted by the cookie than he does by what's dubbed the worst smelling liquid in the world.

[@araara7139]

@chickenmanthegod1069 he drank cheery soda which was made by paint thinner and carbon tetrachloride which is internationally banned 💀

[@Flesh_Wizard]

​@chickenmanthegod1069ngl uranyl nitrate goes hard on the chips 😋

[@JmThor89]

As someone who bakes for a living, I can’t put into words the emotional roller coaster this video was. Super impressed by the idea but watching a lab baked cookie hurt my soul. And to be cheesy the missing ingredient was love

[@DangerNoodle815]

And butter lmao

[@hokiepokie333_CicadaMykHyn]

& a fume hood!!! Lol 😮😢😅 SFMF's 🦅🌎⚓

[@wanderfilho5443]

As someone who like to make cookies,seeing your complete desperation as the cookie cracks in the oven is like seeing a child worried that their pet fish is gonna drown

[@503PM9]

LMAOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@robloxserversded]

Nile is the type of guy that wants everything perfect

[@DaMonkeyKingooaa]

😂😂😂

[@billybobjoe-gv7jx]

No I take my pet fish on a hourly walk and put it in a water-free fishtank. Currently they are napping as they have been for the past 11 months since I baught him

[@lindsey4178]

I’ve read through comments and yours is my FAVORITE!it absolutely encapsulates te entire experience. lol..

[@warm_egg_salad5953]

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.

[@Theoneandonlyenelie]

I’m like, “what kind of non-cracked cookies does he eat?”

[@MrHeadcrab]

it's so funny seeing this experienced chemist being so clueless at something i'm familiar with

[@kartr9545]

Well think of the differences then. You are familiar with making cookies, and he knows how to make bombs easily in his lab.

[@BakaTaco]

@@kartr9545 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.

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

@@BakaTaco understandably so

[@spaghettiwizard2551]

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

[@THEBIGGUY5000]

You forgot that the cookie does not need to be smacked by a glass rod 😂

[@martyjehovah]

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.

[@ellis51773]

@@martyjehovahhe 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

[@Johny-JJI]

@@THEBIGGUY5000why not?

[@calvincarr1347]

XD

[@NoName-n8l]

Ok I can kind of understand never having baked cookies before but not knowing what cookie dough looks like is absolutely insane

[@AirGoddess1087]

It's actually pretty sad and concerning. I've never heard of somebody not knowing what cookie dough looks like! I mean, what kid has never watched their mother baking cookies before?? I thought all kids did that at some point growing up! I don't know why, but i have a feeling this guy didn't have an average childhood and never had a chance to be a kid and do average kid stuff like something as simple as baking cookies with a parent. Maybe he was forced to grow up too fast? I guess we'll never know 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@HelloWorldPrint]

​@@AirGoddess1087ikrr! It's genuinely rlly sad I definitely saw my mom make them when I was younger :( 14:16

[@peen2804]

@@AirGoddess1087it’s probably not that deep lol

[@srthebox4946]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@AirGoddess1087when he was a kid, he and his brother were more interested in making smoke bombs, firecrackers and shooting bb guns with his dad rather than stuff like baking cookies, he talks about it on the trash taste podcast, he certainly didnt have an average childhood but he did get to be a kid and do reckless kid things so I don’t think you need to be too concerned.

[@kween5600]

@@AirGoddess1087…you do realize in a lot of countries/countries they don’t do this shit, right? So not every kid watched their mom bake cookies. Yall are so dramatic istg.

[@MethosTR]

The fact that Nile is more comfortable with making super dangerous stuff like Chromyl Chloride than baking cookies is just hilarious.

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

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.

[@kingmorgan5047]

"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.

[@omarsayed993]

​@@kingmorgan5047not everyone lives in America, not everyone has cookies in their culture

[@arturnicaciodeandrade9861]

​@@omarsayed993 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.

[@SweetnSourSybil]

@@omarsayed993 Nile is Canadian.

[@arlenburton9490]

Watching two men who have never baked a cookie bake a $5k cookie is an experience

[@marvin19966]

you are a men watcher

[@nox6438]

@@marvin19966 we watch men indeed

[@kayburcky7146]

​@@nox6438i watch men watch men in the comments, we are not the same

[@ergile172]

nah the camera guy definitely baked cookies before

[@nox6438]

@@kayburcky7146 i watch men that watch men watch men in the comments, we are doppelgängers

[@dylanjonesSD]

I can’t believe Nile didn’t practice baking a normal set of cookies first

[@RAWvideos95]

It would’ve ruined the whole video. Watching them stumble through it is hilarious.

[@val_val_]

Exactly my thought. You would think he would test first with flower THAT'S NOT FUCKING 1000$

[@alanpeter5527]

@@val_val_ ah yes flower🌻

[@val_val_]

@@alanpeter5527 yes of course, everyone knows that you bake cookies with some good flowers lol

[@fiachrahackett]

Absolutely needs to be a control cookie, thats like basic science.

[@percival23]

When I first watching this channel, the science was the best part ...but now Nigel being Nigel is the best part.

[@darkentheday9655]

Man, the fact that he didn't try to bake regular cookies before making this one just to know the process is wild.

[@schlieffenman957]

Should've done that as a control, just to make sure it wasn't his lab equipment or something that ruined the taste instead of the purity of the cookie.

[@sfr2107]

It was irking the shit out of me especially considering how much those ingredients are

[@krh6239]

Hurts my soul

[@assmaster420]

fur reals, oh no its cracking oh no,,,,,,has he never even ate a real cookie?

[@ArtZ00]

You're expecting too much of this guy... Nile red in the other hand

[@mattgolman]

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.

[@sinenomine7405]

Nigel? 😂

[@BelindaShort]

@@sinenomine7405 That's his name

[@RPRosen-ki2fk]

You're so right. He also had access to an EXPERT CONSULTANT, Nana would have set him straight. Grandmothers everywhere are cringing.

[@coco864]

​@@sinenomine7405 did you just lost some braincell bro ?

[@TheGuyCalledX]

Using a vacuum oven when the whole point of baking soda is to create bubbles 🤦

[@miah2011]

im a pastry chef and this was absolutely hilarious to watch, especially nile freaking out about the cracks.

[@roborat]

I'm just a normal person who has baked a d I was dying at the freak out about cracks

[@Ur-BbyDoll]

lmao yes! as bakers we've made atrocities compared to the cute little clump nile made

[@phtmBlue]

He was saving the cookie

[@AzillaKiami]

Alchemy from Cookie Clickers.... The prophecies are commencing. He even got a boost from grandma. Stop him before it is too late. Dont let the demons emerge.

[@Cedar_Wolf]

The dude spent over $3000 on ingredients and didn't try making an actual batch of cookies with ingredients from his local grocery store. $3000 is like half to a quarter of the price of a used car.

[@removedsky]

19:19 “why would you do that?” “I DONT KNOW I DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE COOKIE”

[@xxeroc]

Poor guys such an alchemist he doesn’t know how to cook unless it’s meth

[@GoGoX1]

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

[@cretinousmartyr3522]

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.

[@muenstercheese]

aliens invading earth be like:

[@An_Attempt]

That appears to be the case.

[@nunyabisnass1141]

I like all of the comments pointing out that Nigel behaves as if he's never seen a cookie in his life.

[@schmingbeefin4473]

"I actually don't know what cookie dough looks like." I think you're correct.

[@FishSkeleton-]

I adore that they're prepared to spend thousands of dollars on these ingredients but they're seemingly unwilling/ incapable of watching a five minute cookie baking video to get an idea of what they're doing.

[@pewpewpandas9203]

Yet he looks up a video of distilling vanilla extract to determine the chemical composition. XD

[@kashy101]

dorks

[@mwater_moon2865]

Sadly, if they followed scientific procedures they would have make several batches, and hopefully figured out in that time that the coconut oil/butter needs to be SOLID since the physics they skiped (creaming the fat and sugar adds air, and butter at least, melting it will change it's crystalline structure to where it WON'T go back to what it should be) affected the taste.

[@alexanderelderhorst2107]

@@mwater_moon2865 That's a good point, I was annoyed that they melted the coconut too.

[@rubenvasquez8592]

​@@mwater_moon2865it would be amazing to see them try to make profiteroles with their just having the ingredients and proportions but no steps 😂

[@dylanevans9]

This is what I actually thought “making it from scratch” meant as a kid

[@coolieolulu]

100% same

[@andrewmackay907]

to truely create a cookie from scratch, you 1st must create the universe

[@lightningmcqueen1717]

@@BartekJuszczak all except the egg which is pretty neat to see it still worked as a powder

[@Bonhomme7h]

For a second, I naively thought he would try to make flour and sugar and... from lab ingredients 🥲

[@jockdouglass3824]

​@@andrewmackay907 I know what I must do

[@Therian_Puppy]

23:11 who could have known that putting multiple ingredients marked as not safe for human consumption would make cookies inedible!

[@garbagecan755]

It absolutely FASCINATES me how similar Chemistry and Cooking are and yet Nile is just completely out of his element the second it becomes food.

[@gemhunter498]

This video is hilarious compared to how ridiculously high quality his chocolate was

[@10RexTheWolf01]

Like Dr. Stone

[@KneeCapHill]

​@@gemhunter498 was it?

[@radicaldradcliffe4201]

@Sean Brogan Yeah those pure reference samples are ridiculously expensive

[@mistakay9019]

I think one of the things that differ is that cooking is very nuanced

[@lordstraplife5853]

This is how I imagine a distant future civilization would fabricate cookies based off of a page out of a cookbook in order to experience what it might have been like to be a human living on earth during this time.

[@dktrains3027]

“Honey, did they use chicken eggs at that time?”

[@spaz3320]

OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE! I can definitely imagine another future civilization creating cookies with this recipe in mind thinking that this is what we ATE!

[@dildoshwagins2222]

I sure hope the have a better cookie than this one

[@gravoxxavox7849]

This entire video feels like a creature unfamiliar with humans nervously attempting to recreate our food

[@wouldworkr]

except they will be buying non-pure ingredients for $1000 each

[@Robin-pn6bh]

Him calmly handling substances that could easily kill him but panicking about making a cookie is absolutely hilarious

[@leanna5733]

Fr😭

[@evelyncarsten6660]

Not all the substances that could kill him cost $5000 lmao

[@SomeRanDumbDude]

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

[@medali5615]

​@@evelyncarsten6660i'd rather lose 5k than burn my face

[@energy360msp9]

@@evelyncarsten6660 the person is talking ab other videos not this one

[@bradbutner8972]

As a cook and a science junkie,...this is the silliest thing I've ever seen

[@Hexra_]

Nile is the epitome of never setting foot outside of a lab. No way he doesn't know that cookies naturally has cracks 😭

[@rileymerson8781]

Nile has me literally rethinking the phrase: “Cooking is art, baking is chemistry”

[@maddieb.4282]

Dude other people in the comments were questioning it too…… like were people raised on mars?!!

[@Ripa-Moramee]

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.

[@Znivs5]

@@Ripa-Moramee to be fair he wasn't using butter

[@Ripa-Moramee]

@@Znivs5 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.

[@nopenottoday4190]

As a baker, Nile’s questioning of the cookie cracking had me stressed 😭

[@All.Natural.Dirt.]

Same, just yelling at my phone "it's fine!"

[@Mayough]

I was SCREAMING. That's just baking, baby!

[@mrthanos2404]

He sounded so genuinely concerned that he confused me, I was like, isn’t it supposed to cracked, what cookies does he eat that have no cracks.

[@JusNoBS420]

That’s how the cookie crumbles 😂

[@Catgoddess1401]

Not to mention that that was 100% dark chocolate, I'm honestly surprised it didn't turn out super bitter

[@lettersnstuff]

Nigel: *turns gloves into grape soda* also Nigel: *has never seen cookie dough*

[@SdSd.01]

Isnt it supposed to be nile

[@Altronic-]

@@SdSd.01 nigel is his real name

[@SdSd.01]

Oh ok this is my second time watching so sorry

[@CSpottsGaming]

​@@SdSd.01 You're good, I've watched him many times and also didn't know his real name until looking at comments on this video.

[@salmasuuu]

How has he never seen cookie dough 😭

[@ThatOneGamedev.-pi8or]

The reason why its cracking is because it's expanding wile drying out, its completely normal

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

I was skeptical the claim that Nileblue had “never seen cookie dough” but then I saw them try to press individual chocolate chips into the surface and I suddenly believed him.

[@rehmsmeyer]

He also presmashed the cookie into the cookie shape which it's what tipped me off.

[@bootymuncher420]

​@@rehmsmeyer should have made it into a ball shape

[@D.TheCreator]

when he started panicking about it cracking on its edges

[@Sir_Newkirk]

He also at one point in time did not know chocolate came from cocoa fruit.

[@LucaviHartley]

So basically Nileblue should study food science

[@alexclairmont]

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

[@Almighty_1]

Not knowing ANYTHING about cooking and baking at their age is depressing

[@madtownn7889]

​@@Almighty_1yeah but their alchemy offsets the depressing parts

[@gooseinatuxedo]

​@@Almighty_1I think you need to turn your empathy down a bit

[@Almighty_1]

@@gooseinatuxedo I don't think you understand the meaning of empathy

[@FiksIIanzO]

​@@Almighty_1I'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

[@jesanne]

I love the fact that Nile during the whole baking process feels like he has never even SEEN a cookie baking before. I'm somewhat sure the cookie was "grainy" since they used so little actual liquid ingredients

[@daphnea5447]

Yeah he didn’t dissolve his sugar at all either lol

[@lpqlbdllbdlpql]

And mixed with a little spatula in a beaker

[@devon12346]

wheat flour is grainy nearly every recipe uses white flour

[@kronos6948]

The problem is compound. When you "cream" the butter and sugars, the sugars dissolve while adding air pockets into the butter. So that never happened. Also, usually you're using a mix of brown sugar with the white sugar, which not only adds flavor, but also alters the texture. Not knowing what kind of flour that was used, we don't know how much protein (gluten) was in the flour...so that also adjusts the texture. But I think the main culprit is the dried egg. I would assume that some of the fats are missing from the yoik being dehydrated, and the albumen being dried more than likely added to it.

[@ldkmelon]

@@kronos6948 It was wheat flour. Wheat flour cookies aren't going to be automatically bad, but that alone would make a very different cookie from any regular one. Reminds me of one time at home I made brownies with olive oil because I was out of nuetral oil😅😂

[@nyther]

There is something poetic about two science men poking a lab created cookie with a glass stick trying to understand it.

[@parkerfiskar3589]

Nigel can turn gloves into grape soda but ordinary baking is completely beyond him 😂😂

[@choiyatlam2552]

He used vanillin to make hot sauce, but have not idea how to use it normally.

[@lileazy8916]

He can also make cherry soda with paint thinner

[@Ziyanani]

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'

[@sparking023]

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

[@tezzanoia]

​@@Ziyanani lmao, sounds like one of these recipes my autistic ass would look at and go "guess no cookies for me then" xD

[@ToxicAtom]

This feels like watching a 5 year old bake cookies with his dad but the 5 year old is somehow also a chemist with an adult vocabulary

[@cgguto]

So he's just Dexter from Dexter's laboratory lmao

[@refuto6006]

Young sheldon

[@ToxicAtom]

@guto dexter had a much different demeanor than your average 5-year-old

[@maineguide6975]

@@cgguto Poindexter

[@Sky_Guy]

Calvin and Hobbes.

[@DanNguyen-oc3xr]

We need a sequel where you just normally bake a cookie now.

[@dabiga2315]

"Baking an Impure Cookie"

[@Chris-rg6nm]

Yeah there was no control. Use the same ingredients form the store.

[@swinehorde9118]

@@dabiga2315 ThInK Of tHe fLaVoUrS!

[@jeffpayne4697]

I watched this guy absolutely butcher one cookie why would you want to watch him butcher another😢

[@T1GIB]

He needs to do it with his Grandma so that it for sure gets the soul that a cookie needs. Also, use her recipe which is the same recipe he used here, for consistency.

[@simonreed8986]

Who could’ve guessed that a laboratory synthesized cookie would have no soul and be flavorless. 10/10 video as always Nile!

[@AceSenpaiiii]

This feels like I'm watching someone from the future trying to bake for the 1st time an ancient recipe known as 'the cookie'

[@alexanderh8129]

literally😭😭

[@vintage-radio]

same

[@elazarpimentel5340]

That's why in The Matrix they think everything tastes like chicken.

[@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed]

Marvelous❤🎉

[@matthewlobel2421]

Can you synthesize grape soda from rubber gloves? Nile: Yeah, easily! Can you make a chocolate chip cookie? Nile: hell nah that shits hard

[@KZG.Silent_Scribe]

Harder than making hot sauce from gloves??

[@GAMINGOBRIEN69]

True

[@cyka6blat989]

Best comment

[@Dexanimus]

Step one: boil water Nile: "what am i a chemist?"

[@NarkySawtooth.]

You say that, but during the grape soda bit I kept thinking "Oh, he's just synthesizing this one component and knows that grape soda is, like, a lot more than it." And then he didn't. Oops.

[@EnigmaNL]

Tom Scott did a video on the Standard Reference Materials. They're not actually supposed to be pure, they're just standardized. Meaning that if you buy them, you get a list of the exact chemical make up of the material so you know exactly what's it in, down to the last molecule. They come with a certificate of analysis to prove this. That chocolate is just chocolate, but it comes with the most exact list of ingredients you can think of. Nile just made the most standardized cookie.

[@AdreaSnow]

It's not just a standard list of ingredients, it's usually a composite of a large amount of samples mixed into one, that has had very in-depth characterisation of all it's components performed. Not just what's in it, but how much of that thing, all done to an insane level of precision. These are the products used to ensure that your instrument that you're using to test a bunch of unknown species is giving the correct response when tested on something extremely well known.

[@flameboi7104]

A truly average cookie

[@tomc.5704]

It probably is the most standardized cookie ever made, but still nowhere close to NIST standards. No clean room? Spilling grains of sucrose on the scale? No calipers when forming the cookie? The ingredients and the oven were excellent, but the recipe and process have a lot of room for improvement.

[@AndromedaD]

Standardized cookie, but with baking chocolate instead of eating chocolate.

[@NobbsAndVagene]

Quite. The video is actually a little misleading (though clearly not intentionally) as this is indeed just the most standardized cookie, at least if you follow the author's recipe to the letter. I'm not sure it is any more 'pure' for that reason. In fact, you could make the opposite argument. Depends how you define 'cookie'. I can tell ya, my grandma's cookies are definitely pure cookies. They look, taste and smell like cookies, and they're made with cookie ingredients. This cookie on the other hand was made with the ingredients for cookie ingredients.

[@ultimate_pleb]

25:10 the lesson we learned here is purity doesn't necessarily translate to quality

[@jboogie_999]

Tell that to Walter White 😂

[@ultimate_pleb]

@@jboogie_999 that's why i said 'doesn't necessarily'

[@andrewbeck7744]

I feel like as a scientist he should have made a control batch of cookies from his grandma’s recipe before attempting this.

[@michielvansteenhoven7255]

yeah that would have been a good idea! I honestly think he just fucked up making the cookie and it wasn't necessarily the ingredients.

[@Caronage_]

for real

[@dradeel]

There's not too many ways he could have f-ed up just adding the ingredients together, unless all the equipment were contaminated in ways he as a chemist would make sure they wouldn't. Even if the ratios were wrong, things should still have tasted okay with fresh raw ingredients. It seems more likely that the insane lab grade purification of the ingredients stripped them of all moisture and complex natural aromas and left them extremely musty stale and ... woody. That said, it's hard to see how vanillin and sugar could not still taste of sweet vanilla essence, even if the flour, egg powder and chocolate would be entirely dead and tasteless. He should have tasted the ingredients.

[@Cerioth]

@@dradeel Funnily enough, the ingredients weren't actually lab purified. Those ingredients are expensive because the contaminants are extremely well measured so that you know exactly what's in there, allowing you to test to see if your own scanning machine is functioning properly.

[@elegy8187]

@@michielvansteenhoven7255 nah the recipe was fine, it was definitely the ingredients. the flour he used was over 10 years old

[@PeytonPearson]

Sometimes Nigel does or says things that make me curious as to if he's ever existed outside of a laboratory environment.

[@K.Arashi]

i wouldn't be surprised to find out that he was grown in a lab rather than birthed

[@OneCrazedSniper1]

@@K.Arashi born lmao

[@7nfiniti]

“i’ve never actually seen cookie dough before”

[@desu38]

"There are cracks in the cookie!"

[@jonnyogood]

Forms uncooked dough into cookie shape instead just making a ball.

[@titaniumblood408]

That's what happens when you synthesize the love out of the recipe

[@thoracicformula]

Imagine Nile as a child making his mother a cookie: "Mom, I wanted to create the perfect cookie for you. I pursued this idea of perfection through the purity of ingredients, drawing from my chemistry knowledge. But in doing so, I realized that the perfect cookie isn't just about the purest ingredients. Cooking is an art, and it's the balance of different flavors and textures that makes a dish truly enjoyable. The cookie I made might not have turned out as I had imagined. But through this journey, I've learned something invaluable: that the essence of cooking lies not just in the ingredients we use but in the love, creativity, and balance we put into it. I promise you that my next cookie will be baked with all of this in mind. I may have stumbled on this attempt, but I'm excited to try again and make a cookie that's truly special, not just in its ingredients, but in its essence."

[@emilyimbruglio3483]

Love is an impurity!

[@SJ-co6nk]

You replace the love of cooking with the love of SCIENCE!!!

[@AlyssaSoftPaw]

@@thoracicformula actually i think baking is more about emotion. i have my grandmas snickerdoodle recipe and it doesn't taste anything like hers unless you are beyond furious at someone. we call them spite cookies.

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

@@thoracicformula "That's cool, honey, can I taste it?"

[@seancarter6492]

I love the camera man, he clearly doesn't understand these things as much as Nile, but his interest seems quite genuine. I definitely respect that.

[@ZorotheGallade]

Nile is the guy who can recreate an entire chicken from a can of chicken stock and random chemicals, succeed perfectly, and then manage to burn it in the stove trying to cook it.

[@michaelwesten4624]

no, you can't do that, you ding dong. go to school

[@julzrulz11111]

​@@ProtiumPower same tbh

[@ZorotheGallade]

@@ProtiumPower Give him a few years

[@I_like_big_bombs]

I think he should just do a joke video like "Hey guys, this is how you take a live chicken, and turn it into a chicken nugget". Literally just a cooking video, but filming it like chemistry content. Putting everything in a fume hood, using gloves, even a respirator to ham it up.

[@threestrikesmarxman9095]

I think he was actually a guest on a different channel that tried to recreate chicken broth with nothing but laboratory chemicals. Can't remember it but I'm sure it's there.

[@Sxcheschka]

Just showed my mom and dad this video, my dad was legit getting into it, even was doing some calculations himself, even called it that it would taste bland. My mom was like why? just make a regular cookie, but was thoroughly entertained, it didn't even feel like 30 minutes to them. They loved it! My dad wants your grandma to show you how to bake a cookie.

[@tyroneroche14]

Same reaction from my mother. She was not impressed and kept questioning what he got out of it. She doesn't get science

[@jakeisblitz9664]

Thats wholesome 😌

[@ericconrad8854]

@@tyroneroche14 a video this is his job.

[@SpydersByte]

who *couldnt* call that it was gonna taste bland? lol

[@Sxcheschka]

@@SpydersByte To be honest, I was thinking it would have a taste.

[@QuirkeyJr]

This is everything I imagined a scientist trying to bake would be like

[@user-gu9yq5sj7c]

Nah, I think most scientists would act like regular people when cooking or at home.

[@sirkelendor5429]

​@@user-gu9yq5sj7ci think its more to the joke idea that scientists are hyper nerds about everything, not just about science

[@bagathplays27]

@@user-gu9yq5sj7c I dunno man I have been told by my partner that apparently measuring milk in a measuring jug by the meniscus isn't "how normal people cook" I just do it because that's how I'm used to measuring liquids

[@lylukk]

they do say that baking is a science

[@strategicfooyouagencyfirst8197]

Brother, there is nothing 100% pure in this world. The last time my buddy went to the chemical store to buy a bottle of impurities, it was only 99.99% pure.

[@wall_45]

So from what I understand, the secret ingredient to baking really is love. And some bug parts.

[@littlewolfblue1389]

How could someone spend so much money on making a cookie and do SO little research on what it looks like ot bake a normal cookie. I am blown away on so many levels. Well played.

[@DanteTorn]

I don't understand what it is about chemists being so bad at cooking. I used to think lowly of myself any my style of cooking cus of all the cooking chemistry stuff I ran into but since then I'm convinced that they're entirely different skill sets. I don't even bake that much and so many parts of this video were so painful to watch because it's clear he has absolutely no idea what he's doing. You'd think with thousands of dollars spent on this and so much time that he would but he just doesn't. At first glance it seems like Explosions&Fire is the more cowboy unprofessional channel but over time I'm coming to understand that he seems to do more research on his projects or at least understand the material better than Nile.

[@iughseduhifuihsdguihqwvjyu6489]

@@DanteTorn I mean I don't think that's a very bold statement to say. Any skillset you'll use in a lab will either be completely different or be applied very differently compared to in a kitchen. Cooking is chemistry in the same way keeping a pool clean is, it's not a lab skill.

[@iughseduhifuihsdguihqwvjyu6489]

@@DanteTorn Either way the fact he didn't know what cookie dough looked like or how to bake a cookie at all was still stupid on his part, I agree

[@JohnLeePettimoreIII]

@@DanteTorn one of my ex's (wonderful woman) is a PhD chemist and loves baking and cake decorating. and her baked goods are delicious!

[@chrislawson1233]

Sounds more like an engineer than a chemist

[@selltheworldgames]

I love how clear it is that neither of you have baked anything before.

[@miranda.cooper]

Idk it kinda seems like they've been baked themselves before lol

[@joshjje]

I hate baking. Sautee all day every day for me!

[@pangolian]

For some reason, I doubt that Nile has ever actually baked cookies before.

[@Nae_Ayy]

Dude's literally sweating because the cookie is cracking

[@MrBrutalMachinee]

For some reason, I think that he should learn true cookie baking now and follow granmas recipes till death

[@H3llsHero]

Based on his reaction, I'm pretty sure he's never even seen a cookie before now

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

Yeah, when the dough started thickening, and he added the chips so methodically, that pretty much clinched it.

[@tiarkrezar]

I felt more anxiety watching him struggle with basic baking skills than I ever have seeing him handle dangerous chemicals.

[@Eura_T]

This is shot and edited like an analog horror and it makes it so much better.

[@cranberryjuice960]

sometimes i get self conscious that i’ll never be as smart as people like him. but now i know at least i know how to bake a cookie

[@5050amd]

That's the spirit !

[@KardKimdashian]

I wonder how the pure water tastes

[@MatrakenKEN]

@@KardKimdashian it tastes pure

[@zaster101]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@KardKimdashian tasteless cause waters impurities give it flavor it’s like if you could drink pure air or air that you are used to, you don’t taste/smell anything just feel it’s physical attributes

[@saiboT805d]

@@zaster101 indeed, I miss water with the sense of metal.

[@janeyannachicken9053]

For some reason this is exactly how I'd expect a scientist who's never baked a cookie would bake a cookie.

[@Fried-Tofu]

Props to camera man for staying sane throughout the baking process.

[@lestat1491]

I would've had an aneurysm

[@roxi6809]

I admire his patience lol

[@Hatty_animations]

Rookie baker knows NOTHING

[@clix7925]

25:02 Conclusion the bugs make the cookie

[@scohspot]

I need a follow-up where he bakes actual cookies (with his grandma) and they go over what went wrong with the lab cookie

[@fallenaspie]

neeed

[@yty1941]

NileGreen content?

[@DarkYuan]

Good point, we need a control cookie to compare

[@theyeetus1428]

And she needs to try it

[@ashleynoble2880]

We need GrandmaNile!

[@KangaRuby]

The fact that this is probably the most "normal" thing Nigel's done and he seems more uncomfortable than in any other video is hilarious to me. 😂

[@DSoSJohnH]

wholesomely hilarious

[@TonyRueb]

idk who haven't made moonshine from toilet paper before?

[@Mikustan39]

⁠@@TonyRueb Or turned plastic gloves into hot sauce or grape soda?

[@CoupDeFri]

he cant be normal lol

[@ShinyPrimarina]

He made chocolate before which is another example of "nile does regular cooking and is incredibly clueless"

[@nomethodonlymadness9528]

This man can make food out of everything except food ingredients. Amazing.

[@ciprianpopa1503]

Those were ingredients.

[@kingsera6856]

that’s literally what the government does

[@technologicalelite8076]

@@kingsera6856 that'd be the food compqnies, bud

[@kbee225]

@@ciprianpopa1503 Yeah and I don't think OP considered that food. They are talking about Nile's other videos in which he tries to synthesize flavors and stuff from other chemicals and how when actually given ingredients to make a cookie, he couldn't.

[@saphire1sababy378]

Probably the shit we get in our system anyway from all the processed junk tho

[@1061shrink1061]

I want to thank you for making these fun videos. I've been going through a tough time lately, and these have both relaxed me, but also amused me and brought a smile to my face. You've got a new follower on all your channels!

[@Perichron]

This appears to be Nile's first encounter with a cookie of any kind. I love it.

[@Grim_Hz2]

Lmao🤣 thought the same

[@Tuh_qh90]

Nigel was terrified because of the cracks

[@ddd694]

​@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8amen

[@yourallygod8261]

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ no

[@expectoretardumconundrum3706]

The cracks forming on the cookies and Nigel panicking is the ultimate sign of how much of a perfectionist he is

[@saheilaanarzee5552]

theres cracks forming on it what will we doo???? meanwhile every cookie ive ever seen had more cracks than my local sidewalks

[@aliababwa3866]

no, it's a sign of how little preparatory research he did for such an expensive procedure. Very silly.

[@ncot_tech]

So the next stage is to run a batch of 1000 and quantify an acceptable number and size of the cracks.

[@Ami-jd9zg]

I mean it seems He spent a alot of money on it. if i were to buy something really expensive i would want it to be perfect

[@flameendcyborgguy883]

Well, cracks in the cookie are kinda unavoidable due to how it bakes with crust forming while inside still expands

[@danielmantell8751]

Lesson 1: Practice before Production Lesson 2: Taste your ingredients before adding them Lesson 3: Taste your batter if you aren't sure Lesson 4: Make small samples so you can adjust as needed Lesson 5: Never let Nile bake you cookies

[@friedchicken8440]

Lesson 3.5: Learn about Salmonella

[@willowarkan2263]

To be fair, with his ingredients I wouldn't taste the batter before it had spent some quality time at 220 C

[@afatchimp]

​@@friedchicken8440 Is there a risk of salmonella? Doesn't hurt to be safe, but I was hoping the "egg" was synthetic.

[@willowarkan2263]

​@@friedchicken8440 I'm fairly certain at the amounts you'd consume the batter you ought to be alright, just don't eat a lot of it. Plus with his ingredients salmonella is definitely not a concern, his eggs weren't exactly likely to be contaminated, or any of his ingredients really.

[@deeperlayer]

​@@willowarkan2263 heat kills microbes not dangerous chemicals for the most part knowing his ingredients are lab grade i would say they are safer to eat raw than regular food..

[@earlofnacho]

Seeing y’all agonize over the baking of this expensive, lab-grade cookie has seriously been the best part of an otherwise difficult day. Thank you for the much-needed laughter! I was just dying while it was in the oven and y’all were deliberating on particulars, with Nile bouncing between childish excitement and scientific concern over the cracks 😂

[@genuinejustin6269]

We NEED A REDO with food scientists!!!! Lets get him to make a part two of the worlds purest cookie!!!

[@lnorlnor]

or just, anybody who has baked before

[@nakynie463]

Yea pls- this pained me

[@building-agreekgod5948]

yea another 5k for another singular cookie.

[@hollieginoza7935]

He should have called Ann Reardon. She does a food scientist.

[@jorgealzate4124]

​@@hollieginoza7935 At minimum a follow up pointing what went wrong, or a Cookie Rescue Lab Edition

[@MYG]

Nile is so smart that watching him act in such an alien way towards normal life stuff is such amazing content

[@LarsonLake]

First video of his I've seen, and my exact thought was "I bet this is what it would be like for aliens to try to make cookies."

[@jondoe2542]

2 teenage aliens create human cookie with lab grade ingredients

[@madladdie7069]

He's min-maxed for chemistry it would seem.

[@pyrodelusions23]

Kinda like Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory

[@BrotherNeuro]

I love that Nile goes to all the effort and expense to buy all these ingredients but clearly didn’t even bother watching a “how to bake cookies” tutorial video. That said the few mistakes he made weren’t a problem. Love the content Nile

[@goldnutter412]

🤣

[@Sugarman96]

I'd think the vacuum oven is probably a major factor in why it didn't work.

[@MartinFinnerup]

@@Nighterlev Yes, it *is* a vacuum oven. They just didn't use the vacuum feature, but it always seals the door by ejecting a small amount of air. Not enough to do have any effect on the cookie.

[@werbnaright5012]

(His name's Nigel.)

[@willowarkan2263]

Idk i physically cringed at his fear of cracks. The egg wasn't whipped, it could have used more chocolate and maybe some other spices. And looks rather underbacked, I don't think much in the way of maillard reaction occurred, sure didn't brown.

[@hannahellis3771]

NileBlue is the type of guy NileRed would never let get NEAR his lab

[@retiredbeard]

Purity is the first thing that comes to mind when think about cookies.

[@esquizofreniasobrenatural]

​@Don't Read My Profile Picture i can't read

[@obvra]

​@@esquizofreniasobrenatural damn 😪

[@graeme.davidson]

Of course, cookies and cocaine you have to have purity.

[@filipbitala2624]

@DontReadMyProfilePicture.18 kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5vRqnVppJidoZo

[@OPOS-el7tj]

​@@obvra based username

[@Deutschebahn]

I have never been less convinced of Nigel's ability to cook regular foods 😂

[@MAYGETEVERYONEGETFUKED]

He has pee stored in the fridge

[@JustinRed624]

​@@MAYGETEVERYONEGETFUKED to be fair it's a science fridge

[@nicknevco215]

he did not know what dough looks like

[@oliverbingham4180]

I like how he can wait multiple hours for a reaction to happen but waiting ten minutes for a cookie is ripping him apart from the inside

[@afan64]

DAYS!

[@emilgustavsson7310]

Dude i love your setup on different topics, your personality, and your inquisitive nature. Keep it up bud! =)

[@crispypoliticians6180]

I don’t think Nile has ever seen a cookie before, let alone bake or eat one. Are we sure he hasn’t been locked in this lab his whole life?

[@bag_o_chip]

-he got kidnapped by mark rober for years to create glitterbombs- To be honest, we haven't seen him outside of his lab so yeah

[@JustaJackalope]

​@@bag_o_chipye we have seen him out of the lab

[@Deakytonk]

​@@bag_o_chipPolaroid

[@AngelaTheSephira]

@@bag_o_chip I mean, he *did* break into the Polaroid labs

[@hermy_style]

He grew up playing in his garage and making fireworks and crazy stuff. He did a podcast talking about his childhood! 100% recommend

[@aaronspencer5498]

as someone who’s been cooking by myself since i was 8 it’s absolutely hilarious watching this very intelligent man freaking out over small cracks in a cookie

[@SarahNova]

This video is 100% proof that just because you are smart, doesn’t mean you know everything!

[@whitetiana3022]

what makes you think he's intelligent?

[@RTort]

​@@whitetiana3022what entitles you to say he's not?

[@marsisgay936]

@@whitetiana3022 you must be new here

[@leshommesdupilly]

Because it's not a cookie, it's a 5K cookie lmao

[@hegedusmarton8485]

If someone's wondering. I checked every bottle and container shown on camera and seached for the chemical's prices to figure out how much this cookie actually cost. The SUBtotal was 4,995.08 USD and that doesn't include tax, shipping and handling costs so it's probably ~200-500 higher.

[@SpicyEngineer]

The funny part is that the products you buy on the shelf are actually more pure than the NIST products. The NIST products are not pure, they are repeatable. They are used for equipment calibration -- but are often contaminated with heavy metals and other nasties.

[@Ad1nfernum]

​@@SpicyEngineerThis! I learned this from Tom Scott's video about standard reference materials. Nigel should have watched that first lol.

[@frandurrieu6477]

@@SpicyEngineer Welp seems like Nigel finally found the one experiment that will be the cause of his death

[@inferno_raptorvr9896]

Doing gods work

[@SpicyEngineer]

@@Ad1nfernum I feel like he didn't do his research on this one -- which is curious since he usually does. Or maybe he's just looking for interesting content, which to be fair, this is.

[@InfernalBanana]

Here are a few issues that if addressed could potentially make the cookie better: 1)not creaming the oil like the recipe said and instead melting it. This prevented the fat from incorporating properly, so it all melted out during baking; not to mention the lack of incorporated air resulted in a denser cookie. 2) The pure flour looked like whole flour, not bleached AP flour, so it contained the germ and bran, making it more bitter. Adding more sugar than the recipe called for might have helped counteract that. 3) 100% cacao unsweetened baker’s chocolate was used for the chips, which again is very bitter. I would recommend doing something like heating the chocolate in a double-boiler in a ratio of maybe 60% chocolate, 30% sucrose, 10% coconut oil (kinda arbitrary, would need to be played around with) to create dark chocolate, pouring it out into a mould or something shallow, and then breaking it into chunks. 4) I don’t know for certain, but I wonder if pure ethanol would have made a difference over pure water for dissolving the vanillin. Basically, there wasn’t enough sugar, and due to the oil not being fully incorporated with the other ingredients, it all melted out. That’s where the flavor went.

[@oomay1925]

Nile freaking out the cookie had cracks and the cameraman trying to reassure it was normal, until they were both certain it would just crumble if they baked it more was the highlight of this video imo lmaooo

[@pinkusdean1178]

Camera man reassuring nile that the cracking and it being soft before it cools is just how cookies work was brilliant XD

[@codylawrence2176]

As a chef who has experimented using vanillin, cocao nib powder, natural cane sugar, cake/pastry flour and coconut oil as the odd ingredients lemme tell ya -its not easy. You have to roast your cocoa nibs,in your case you have 'pure baking chocolate' which most likely is only cocoa butter and cocoa powder somehow formed into a bar without heating.Start by breaking up the bar powder the broken bits and mix into your 'pure' powdered 3% milk that was mixed with a small amount of ' ultra pure' water. Then with 'pure' sucrose that is melted over a double boiler into a light syrup and gently blend into your chocolate milk mixture adding powder to thicken and sugar to sweeten testing as you go you can add vanillin in as well (if using ethyl alchohol mixture add 40× the amount if it asks for 1 tsp then 5 tbsp). From this you can achieve 'pure' chocolate chips. Since you are working with wheat flour you have a lack of gluten and an increase in iron and fiber.To improve flavor you have to sift flour evenly onto a metal tray and lightly toast it in the oven, this -like how whole wheat toast is,will activate the oils and add a nice flavor so long as you dont over brown it.Because you did this you need to remember to add water and extra sugar to your recipe to compensate for lack of moisture and sweetness the whole wheat flour, also your egg batter should be thicc for your 'pure' Powdered egg since it lacks long protein chains that unpowdered eggs have...im not advanced in chemistry to know how to resolve this (possibly add more or watered down meat glue?) When making the dough; first you need to put the sugar into a ninja blender and pulse until you make it fine otherwise your sugar will melt,caramelize and burn around the central blade base. Once your dough has been mixed be sure to refrigerate your dough,this will allow the coconut oil to solidify,this is so the chemical reactions in the cookie can happen properly.Make sure you check the softness of the cookie when testing,the outer edges will always be harder and the middle softer,to prevent the edges from burning be sure to oil your pan using the coconut oil with a very thin layer.Lastly the cookie should melt into shape from ball form if you created the dough perfectly...but we all know the first try rarely is perfect so shape it to a fat round disc.You will noticed I didnt give you the entire steps as the recipe you followed is basically the same thing you would follow again and these are just additions to help achieve an actual decently tasting lab cookie.

[@swimm8329]

We need to get this comment seen

[@PollyDavisStPollyGirl]

Wow you go into a lot of detail over a cookie, good job

[@clappingzz4298]

bro why hasn't this been pinned yet

[@paulinamorel2977]

Please I need to know what your educational background is I’m so intrigued

[@bingxuanfu8312]

Bro are you someone's grandmother?

[@antpage2]

This was a fun episode. They should do more of this

[@citter96]

Nile being always so sure about chemistry and having a breakdown about how to bake a cookie

[@videocliplover]

It was gloriously hilarious

[@JamesHernandez-hs7eb]

Hes the walter white of cookies he said his cookies are 99.99 precent pure

[@BoxStudioExecutive]

However, all cooking is chemistry.

[@UmNoobQualquer_Falsk]

i like how when nile is around dangerous chemicals hes chill, but while making the cookie hes always scared

[@brians1793]

I'm guessing that's the baking inexperience and expensive ingredients.

[@Pinkstarclan]

it's so good that nile has a partner here who has seen a cookie before

[@SMCwasTaken]

Its like Nile has been raised by Nerds 😵😵😵

[@maxmunich]

crazed man disappoints his grandmother by making the world's most expensive hardtack

[@Gaaaaaame]

Well made hardtack at least tastes good lol

[@DeathClawz]

What I've learned from this video is that FDA approved bug parts in our food is what gives everything it's flavor 👍

[@ikawba00]

And i have tried cooked bug. It is an official snack in France. The legs are like chewy chips. Not trying to gross anyone out though. Yes bugs are edible if cooked and processed properly.

[@DeathClawz]

@@ikawba00 Yeah I've seen a few different things made with bugs with most being a candy, so I haven't tried them. I couldn't imagine that I'd like sucking on a cricket lol

[@ScorpionClaws789]

You say that as a joke, but that's actually kind of true? Not bug parts specifically, but impurities are components of flavor, and completely pure reference ingredients would taste pretty shit.

[@TheMusicalFruit]

I'm not sure I can enjoy my cookie if it doesn't have at least a little mammalian feces in it.

[@kenny995]

And vanilla, he forgot the vanilla flavoring

[@7thsluglord363]

An alien attempts to blend in with human society by crafting a native favorite recipe, the kuukee

[@Jwaukechon]

Lol

[@youdeservethis]

Now I must eeeeet the kuukee and swalloh. Dam it swalloh. Blen in.

[@arli5438]

​@@youdeservethis😂😂

[@vintage-radio]

All of these comments are gold

[@a.e.3984]

How much could it cost, 5000 Earth Money? (P. S. I know USD isn't universal Earth money, personally I live in an Euro country and I've never even been to the US)

[@aliendragon17]

NileRed: Uses witchcraft to transmute plastic gloves into grape soda NileBlue: "What does cookie dough look like?"

[@Bananabanana347]

Those are two very separate skills.

[@Tulip_bip]

I love how this comment is right below the one you copied lmao

[@sarahrivera8869]

Haha you are too cute. "Should I stab this in?" 😂😂 I love the content you come out with. Whether it's NileRed or NileBlue, you're videos are not only informational and educational, but you are also very entertaining 🤭 I absolutely adore you and the work you do!

[@MsRevolverocelot08]

the more i see Nigel do something not chemistry related the more i think he was born inside a lab and never left before.

[@tjenadonn6158]

Nigel was synthesized in a lab from pure chemical ingredients. He is the only 100% pure human being.

[@Shonicheck]

I am more amazed that you doubt that fact.

[@adam6806]

lmao this got me good lol, that really is the vibe ha ha

[@celestialcressy]

hes like an alien who just landed on earth

[@joebob5336]

As a baker, watching the sugar be combined with melted fat was truly a pain upon my soul. This cookie is pure but my heart is no longer

[@jakobneirinck]

What’s wrong with that? Should it be mixed with egg first?

[@sagerobot]

@@jakobneirinck the sugar and coconut should have been mixed and then melted together.

[@beheroot]

as an absolutly not even home-cook i felt the same ;D i learned hard way that suggar DONT mix with fat...at least not that way :P

[@letao12]

I'm curious, can you explain why sugar shouldn't be combined with melted fat?

[@traviskrebs7551]

@@letao12 oil and water does not mix in general, however if you mix non-melted butter(oil) with sugar it creates space in the oil to hold the egg, milk, and other liquid ingredients(water). By melting the oil you made it a liquid and the sugar can’t make space for the water.

[@black_rainbow5471]

Fun fact: Nile is confused about baking a cookie, because he normally only eats chemistry

[@Emulleator]

his usual food is all made from random stuff like gloves or paint thinner, not actual ingredients

[@AgusMulyandi]

Nile's kid: Dad, where did you make this cookie? Nile: from the Lab with Uncle Reggie. With pure lab-grade ingredients from Grandma's recipe and YOLO measuring.

[@sammymb07]

NOTHING in the history of Nile's channel has given me more anxiety than these two trying to bake the cookie

[@literala2919]

There baking bad. Walter would be proud

[@AnnaRebeccaN9]

Nile making (kinda) food out of non food: calm Nile making food out of technically food ingredients: panic

[@James-vw9yy]

I bake cookies all the time. Notes: the flour was extremely fine, probably leading to a strange texture and flavor; the "egg" looks like literally just the chemicals in egg, which makes sense, but the structural benefits of eggs makes the cookie "cookie"; the sugar, I've really no idea how it didn't taste sweet, maybe just not enough sugar; normally, you need to whip the sugar and fat (in your case coconut) together into a sort of cream before adding egg, mixing more at that stage may've given better results; also no idea what went wrong with the vanilla, I use imitation vanilla all the time which works, but I'm not sure what the difference is between that and what you made. Overall, the cookie looked good, but by the reactions something went wrong. I would've added more sugar and chocolate. Maybe next time you've got a few thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket, you can buy more flour and try again.

[@ilajoie3]

He needed to use some purified molasses to make brown sugar

[@nicoruppert4207]

Powdered egg works just fine for baking purposes. The weird egg texture is just how a completely mixed egg looks like, as all the structure would be broken down. The only thing that matters is the reaction of the egg proteins when heated up, that's how high fat doughs like that retain the ability to firm up while baking.

[@stealthyfang3660]

alot of it may come down to lack of smell from the vacuum oven

[@NFSATALLA]

Usually vanilla is just there to remove the smell of the egg, not for flavor

[@jbisthedj]

​@@stealthyfang3660yeah I mean I'm literally just guessing but I think that baking something in a vacuum oven would lead to it tasting really weird

[@ferna182]

I love that instead of doing one batch of regular cookies as a trial first you just went yolo and made your very first cookie with the most expensive materials possible without knowing how it was supposed to look like lol. I love this channel so much.

[@isprobablyjobhunting]

Omg

[@marcinwitkowski217]

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[@kayburcky7146]

Only way to go