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.
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Original recipe and ingredients: gwern.net/doc/food/2022-goode...
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Nile talks about lab safety: • Chemistry is dangerous.

[@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 👍

[@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

[@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.

[@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)

[@literallycharlie8144]

As a baker this is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen. Two men bake the most expensive cookie on the planet, freaking out because it’s cracking on the edges

[@joshuecanary]

do you have any insights on why it tasted bad?

[@lovelessamphitheater4287]

Yeah me too I wanna know too

[@lizardobalagtasjr.]

probably the purity of ingredients kills the flavor mostly

[@aSipOfHemlocktea]

​@@lizardobalagtasjr.Also they did nearly every f****** step wrong

[@nugget9190]

@@joshuecanarybecause half the ingrediants literally said 'DO NOT EAT/ NOT FOR HUMAN EATING' so that probaly helped alot.

[@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

[@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

[@elementaldemon4624]

in their effort to make the purest cookie they forgot the purest ingredient of all. love.

[@acegamer7549]

That was filtered out as an impurity

[@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed]

​@@acegamer7549❤too much contamination with the red blood cells. Major breach in experiment

[@The_man_with_no_face]

Nah it has love the grandma made the recipe

[@Lovehandels]

Cute!

[@thecoolkittensarecool]

they replaced it with 99% concentrate alchemy powder

[@tentedeagle5401]

Hearing Nile freak out about the cracking is the funniest thing I've ever heard

[@SuperiorGT7]

,lol

[@bloob11]

it's definitely a science reaction

[@avokka]

I understand his reaction tbh, any reaction is noteworthy in chemistry

[@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.

[@chocolatlait]

How has he never seen cookie dough 😭

[@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.

[@DBUCKS1988]

"this doesn't taste like it has a soul in it" is such a culinary insult. These 2 have some awesome quotes throughout their videos.

[@xWatcher47x]

the ammount of times that i could tell neither of you had ever made cookies in your lives was astonishing

[@kyrab7914]

I think camera man has slightly more experience 😂

[@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 🤦

[@dylanjonesSD]

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

[@RAWproducions]

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.

[@brianbuddy2ACP]

Ultra Pure Chocolate: "Not for human consumption" Also Ultra Pure Chocolate: "Baking Chocolate"

[@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed]

Im guessing the label means not to eat it without putting it into something else. Dont just eat it out the package? Im grasping hairs here. I have no idea.

[@Nimacas]

The reference material was made for Science, to anaylse. But it should be safe to eat, just not intended for it. I saw a documentation of the facility that sells the ref materials, and I think to remember they said that so they dont need some health certificates or so. @@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed

[@pemanilnoob587]

It’s not pure It’s made for science use stuff The channel how to cook that made a video on this stuff

[@sydurgraham7760]

​@@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqedI think the idea is that when food companies are creating products, they use the products like these to create what would be the "purest form" of the product, so that they can test it for things like caloric content and have a model for what the product is supposed to be like.

[@La_sagne]

​@@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed no thats not what it means.. it just means the seller does not want to have to deal with the food and drug administration

[@fluffernaut9905]

This is really quite remarkable: My Mother is a Baker, My Father is a Research Chemist, Both were impressed by how bad this experiment was done. My mother because of the lack of a defined baking procedure for the cookie, the fact that you didnt watch a single video of how to shape a cookie on a pan, and the fact you made 1 single huge cookie instead of spreading the cookie dough to multiple cookies. My father from you lack of accuracy and how you handled the ingredients. You threw them around, dumped them, and "shot from the hip" when measuing for Vanilla extract and more things i dont understand. But i was just happy i got to see the shook and rattled look on their faces.

[@trekkiejunk]

I'm surprised that your dad, the ''research chemist'' didn't also tell you that none of the ingredients were actually pure, and the only thing this video shows you is ''Young guy makes cookie for first time." Those ingredients are simply control samples used to test lab equipment. They have not be certified ''pure," and the idea of this being the world's purest cookie is just 100% wrong.

[@fluffernaut9905]

@@trekkiejunk yeah that's something I don't know. I'm just happy, I should have taken a picture of their faces. It. Was. _Perfect._

[@RubALamp]

@@trekkiejunkbeing a pedant is just the best, right?

[@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

[@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

[@murilograciano7511]

The Alchemist freaking out with his humunculus cookie cracking is peak comedy...

[@cosasrandom880]

Fma reference spotted

[@Kittenquest]

Nile making a cookie shape instead of rolling it into a ball and freaking out when it started cracking. 😂 Such a beautiful project.

[@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

[@X420Niko]

@@lukeobrien3460 No, you are wrong!

[@crimsonscriticalcorner9048]

Yeah he has to constantly remind Nile how to be human

[@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.

[@user-vi5vn1gm6p]

“Jesse, we need to cook the purest cookie” -Nigelberg

[@mustafamalik4211]

Label: 'Not for human consumption' Nile: Thank you for the suggestion

[@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

[@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.

[@dontcallmenate2274]

@@omarsayed993 Nile is Canadian.

[@WhaIHuhWhatDoYouMean]

Glad to know this is the first time Nile has ever seen a cookie

[@shanefoster5305]

For your next $5000 cookie, you are not supposed to make a paddy out of the cookie dough. You make a ball and the butter with sugar melts it into a flat cookie. It cracked because it was flat and dried out too fast.

[@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

[@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

[@michaszalast6094]

I like how at first point you show that cooking process is almost the same as if you would do chemistry, but then we realise, that cooking is more than this. pretty informative episode that proves, that cooking is done by heart, not by the measurements

[@elizabethhicks4181]

That said baking is extremely accurate and precise. Small deviations can drastically change the product. It’s just that a lot of flavor isn’t just the ingredient itself, but the process to make it and the contaminants in it, funnily enough.

[@kyrab7914]

​@@elizabethhicks4181I would argue that much of baking is about learning how to fix the small deviations.

[@2much4thought]

This is absolutely ABSURD and I love it! 😂 Given how much fun they were having I choose to believe that they added the most important and purest ingredient of all, proteomics grade love ❤

[@sirshadowlama]

It's hilarious how Nigel can disappear for months on end, then reappear out of nowhere and start talking about pure cookies

[@BaldMancTwat]

It's not disappearing if it's expected and consistent with his history, it's literally routine. The opposite of disappearing.

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

...and have us hanging on his every word.

[@filipbitala2624]

“Not suitable for human consution” *i think i should eat it

[@gandalphf2026]

This is his IRL cookie clicker arc

[@ricky.888]

why else would you return

[@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

[@nataliehogue1276]

Watching Nigel cook always has me screaming at the TV like a sports game

[@louisx1x]

Im a science teacher and i think your projects are just sooooo cool! God i could use a lab like yours for my own projects. Keep up the good work.

[@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.

[@tacotuttle]

Imagine being hungry for a snack and opening Nigel’s fridge and you see 2 jars of pee, chocolate not for human consumption, and “egg powder” not for human consumption

[@OmerKing916]

Jarate

[@mrnice4434]

Yeah just drink the piss at least that was in a human at some time ;P

[@cbtillery135]

​@@OmerKing916 *jarate

[@OmerKing916]

@@cbtillery135 thanks

[@segala7853]

Looking for a nibble in a fuckin lab

[@Thatonepersonfrom]

This reminds me how cheese that’s too pure is considered bad because there’s not enough impurities to crate holes within the cheese

[@trekkiejunk]

Except none of Nile's ingredients were even remotely pure. He should have known this, but those lab packets are merely control samples. They are highly tested for content, with the intention of being used to test lab equipment. As a scientist himself, it makes me doubt his ability, knowing that he thought each ingredient was supposed to be ''the purest example possible for each ingredient.''

[@buttnuts2599]

​@@trekkiejunkit's just a silly video.

[@charlottes_joyride]

Love the calm pace in this video, wish more content were like this! Fun video!

[@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?"

[@haniyasu8236]

Nile 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.

[@chickenmanfy]

He eats radioactive samples???? (this is a joke don't stab me)

[@Eldante87]

​@@chickenmanfy 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]

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

[@bluexeyedxpassion]

you could always do use heavy cream, a resealable container and a lot of shaking. my 8th grade science teacher did this as a science experiment. It won't be the "purest" but its super fun to see the change from liquid to solid.

[@raincole5713]

I dont understand how these two seem to have never experienced a cookie happening before

[@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 😂

[@ImpastaLarry]

Man as someone who cooks and bakes yall did a really good job for yall first time baking. XDDD loved it

[@willthornberry4146]

Love your videos big fan, but everybody rewatch the first seven seconds. That is the greatest intro Ive ever seen you make. A very savy hand point sir.

[@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

[@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.

[@casualcanuck04]

Am I the only one thinking that this video proves that no matter how expensive your ingredients and cookware are, good food is made with love and care.

[@conorbaird9409]

This is what I love about KZbin. Super fun watch!

[@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

[@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

[@danielhulan3058]

Gosh you are literally a genius and your having this much trouble baking a cookie. I love it.

[@SkylabBeats]

3:35 ah, the age old debate of decent gaming pc versus whole egg powder

[@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.

[@sapphire4310]

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

[@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😢

[@TheHatmanMC]

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.

[@swayamjitsahu8964]

Watching this MAN doing the chemistry and changing anything to something else or make it pure I was like FOR THE SCIENCE BABY!!!!🎉

[@briangoldberg4439]

this was hilarious and absolutely made my day thank you

[@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!"

[@SaltyMayo]

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

[@Sir-Reborn]

Disclaimer: I have no predisposed knowledge in this, I'm not a chemistry major, but out of curiosity I did some research and I'm going to try to diagnose what went wrong based on both a chemistry / baking POV. References available at the end. This is besides the primary point of it probably being bad because the ingredients he used were for research and documenting if anything, and not for actual baking. Some of the ingredients may have been in there for years *Issue 1 with vanillin:* I believe you diluted the vanillin far too much, and added far too little. *[1], [2], [3]* Vanillin itself has some solubility issues, "Solubility of vanillin in ethanol (375.81 mg/mL), methanol (632.94 mg/mL), and water (30 mg/mL)." *[2]* I'm not sure what % ethanol you used, but optimally you should have used 95% ethanol to first dissolve the vanillin, and then added water to then dilute the vanillin-ethanol solution. The final solution should be something like: 35% ethanol, 60% water, and 5% vanillin (depending on how much vanillin you're adding) This isn't very relevant in your experiment, as the amount of ethanol you used (200ml) was waaaaay too much. Using the ethanol dilution ratio above (375.81 mg/mL) *[2]*, you only needed 3.46ml of ethanol to dilute 1.3g of vanillin [1.3g = 1300mg vanillin] [1300mg vanillin / 375mg/ml ethanol = 3.46ml] *issue 2 with the vanillin mixture* (just expanding on this since you pointed out the lack of any vanilla flavoring) • Generally, real vanilla extract is desired by bakers over imitation vanilla made from vanillin. Looking into this, it appears that vanilla pods contain some of 246 compounds; 78 of which are considered odor-active (including vanillin) *[1].* Also, this isn't much of a 'reference' but a supposed flavor-chemist pointed out on Reddit also pointed out that vanillin by itself isn't very strong, and Is very one-dimensional or "one-note" *[3]* *Issue 4: oil / sugar mixture* As others have pointed out, the sugar/fat mixture should have been mixed thoroughly, until a cream-like consistency is formed. It's not just a simple matter of "dissolve the sugar in oil". In fact, sugar doesn't like to dissolve in fat/oil in the first place, which is why when you poured out the sugar/oil solution, the camera could clearly see many sugar crystals left behind in the beaker. The purpose of this varies, but the main reason why is because you're also adding air into the mixture. The sugar crystals doesn't really "dissolve" when creating the buttercream mixture; however, they do melt when baking, leaving behind pockets of air where the sugar crystals used to be during the baking process. Some amount of air is also incorporated during the mixing process itself. The end result being a fluffier, less dense cookie. *Issue 5: cooling* This goes off the "oil/sugar mixture" issue above. It's fine to melt coconut oil, or butter during the mixing process. But you should generally cool the mixture in a fridge after you're finished making the dough. This is so that the coconut oil can re-solidify. Otherwise, the air pockets I spoke of above would just be immediately filled with the dough again. The cookie dough would also spread much more than it should during the baking process if it's not chilled *Misconception 1: wheat flour* This isn't really an "issue," more that it is a misconception due to using "pure wheat flour". Wheat flour contains whole wheat grains, meaning it contains the endosperm, Bran, and germ of the grain. This flour is much more nutritious due to the Protein and fiber content. White flour, incontrast, strictly uses the soft endosperm of the grain, and has a much milder taste The issue with wheat flour is that the Bran and germ of the grain causes a much more rough, "grainy" texture. White flour suits cookies more because it has a softer texture, and makes a much fluffier cookie. Using wheat flour is "fine" for cookies if you're trying to be healthy, but even then usually it's used as a mixture of wheat flour + white flour. *Possible issue 6: chocolate / sugar* I'm not sure if the bakers chocolate was "semi-sweet", "bittersweet" or "unsweetened". All of them are considered "bakers chocolate" but contain different amounts of sugar and cocoa. • semi-sweet contains 60% cocoa, and has more sugar • bittersweet contains 70% cocoa, and has less sugar • unsweetened has no sugar [4] Depending on which was used, you would have to compensate by adding more sugar to the cookie. Visually, It also looks like you added too little chocolate. But it's hard to tell just from the camera *References* [1] Zhang S, Mueller C. Comparative analysis of volatiles in traditionally cured Bourbon and Ugandan vanilla bean ( Vanilla planifolia ) extracts. J Agric Food Chem. 2012 Oct 24;60(42):10433-44. doi: 10.1021/jf302615s. Epub 2012 Oct 11. PMID: 23020223. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23020223/ [2] González, Cecilia & Mustafa, Natali & Wilson, Erica & Verpoorte, Rob & Choi, Young. (2017). Application of natural deep eutectic solvents for the “green”extraction of vanillin from vanilla pods. Flavour and Fragrance Journal. 33. 10.1002/ffj.3425. www.researchgate.net/figure/Amount-of-vanillin-extracted-from-vanilla-pods-using-methanol-ethanol-and-NADES-The_fig1_320217923 [3] www.reddit.com/r/foodscience/comments/jqfq8s/-/gbmqxop [4] www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Baker-s-100-Pure-Unsweetened-Chocolate-Baking-Bar/6000153706425

[@euchale]

Commenting on this so it gets further pushed up. Only thing Iike to add, maybe use more salt as that can intensify the flavor

[@ik2966]

Wow

[@karlmuster263]

I guess NileRed was under-qualified for this as a food scientist. I imagine they could achieve what they sought out to do with the right consultant. They also neglected a huge part of science, experimentation and peer review.

[@pajacas]

❤

[@ScAr_wlvrne]

I love the references 😂 1: study 2: study 3: Reddit 4: Walmart

[@charliefowler4874]

You need an acid to react with the bicarbonate, like cream of tartar. Grandma’s cookie recipe uses the acid in brown sugar to react and provide leavening.

[@HoverlyHonezt]

It is fascinating (and enjoyable) to watch the face I associate with "wow, chemistry is crazy" question what cookie dough looks like. Please make a video of you baking cookies with "Grandma Nile"

[@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

[@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.

[@Redstonefox7245]

I recently went on a trip to Costa Rica and whilst on a tour I got to try to freshly roasted cacao beans and they really do taste like dollar store dark chocolate

[@ActionPhilip]

Nile was so preoccupied with the chemistry that he forgot the love.

[@thebadshave503]

Instructions unclear, there was no Love on the composition sheet.

[@tomasjosefvela1]

AWE!!! Great point, really good point...

[@twobladedswordsandmauls2120]

Find him a bottle of Proteomics grade love and I'm sure he would have included it.

[@msteerie]

sadly can't buy lab grade love or he would have included it

[@Scroolewse]

he also probably forgot the chemistry. man did 0 research lmao

[@nathanderhake839]

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.

[@CapnBlud]

As the ones said, "L, I am pee. Say it. Discover."

[@Sp33dD3m0n]

Maybe for a future video? 😂

[@JohnDoe-fw9ty]

This mans life is on a whole other level

[@timsawyer9231]

I mean, what else would you keep in a minifridge?

[@KewleLiamYT]

i thought it said pet not pee😭

[@berkkarsi]

*Package:* Not for human consumption. *Nile:* Oh no. Anyway...

[@RayYoWTF]

This brilliant man that can solve equations with ease, turn gloves into soda but doesn’t know what cookie dough looks like or how to bake. Never change. ❤😂

[@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

[@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.

[@launchinglizard9903]

i love how i watch this right after a video talking about the standard ingredients, which are to base off of and specifically are not meant for human consumption due to them being on shelves for years on end. Maybe the cookie was the friends we made along the way.

[@jormun7633]

Veritasium actually did an episode on the institute of standards and all the stuff that you can get from there. if i remember correctly its not about that the stuff is the most pure but more of a controlled batches where they get the most common products and mix it in a giant blender till it becomes the most neutral/common/standard thing to compare to.

[@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)

[@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

[@Next605]

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.

[@freddierhodes8201]

I'm late, but a correction about NIST SRMs: its not that they're pure or perfect, but that they're normal and standardised. They're designed to have imperfections, but they tell you just how many impurities there are and what kind, so you can calibrate your testing equpiment. These aren't the purest cookies ever, they're the most normal they can possibly be.

[@ddmmyyyy3917]

What a beautiful video! The next video can be "Making an uncrackable cookie". By the way at 22:31 did you remember that most of the ingredients weren't supposed to be eated?

[@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.

[@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

[@ericrushton778]

That part at the end was powerful because it speaks to the definition of purity.

[@michaelspiteri2013]

Your voice soothes me

[@cerassplays6196]

Once he realizes baking is just chemistry, the empire begins

[@whimsicalplum3451]

This needs more likes

[@ThePhonkyGuy]

Here before this comment gets popular

[@ArchitMoharir]

Marking and saving my spot

[@AllmightyGigachad]

10:33

[@usermlgbzzcnm]

mark

[@katmarie7818]

Watching this as a baker is both fascinating and horrifying at the same time

[@lofaiskov]

As someone who consistently bakes cookies this was a rollercoaster for sure

[@halo253578]

I don't even really bake, but this was a wild ride for sure

[@apollomars1678]

no the impurity and yeast make it tasty

[@jameelamuhammad4250]

i was so upset that he didn’t make two balls and bake them as balls😭

[@robinmartincic289]

It was physically painful when he pulled it out too early and the cameraman didn't help my pain :')

[@sacheie1]

Now we need @ExtractionsAndIre to spend 11 months making an actually tasty cookie - but only half a milligram yield

[@ChaplainPhantasm]

My man just made the most complicated piece of Hardtack imaginable.

[@andrewolski5381]

Clack Clack

[@arjunyg4655]

I don’t understand how Nigel didn’t think to bake a normal cookie even once in his life before trying to make this video.

[@housemana]

the fact that you don't understand why he specifically did what he did, just shows your ignorance.... not his. look at all the comments. look at all the engagement. do you think any of this was "accidental"? Nile is not just a person. There's a whole team behind the scenes here. Think on a broader level, because your ego here really let you down. you feel superior to the actor in this video, but really, it's you that got tricked into engaging.

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

Yeah, and it would serve as a great control test as well. He's a chemist and reads research papers, but didn't show much scientific thinking in this one...

[@beastpatriots9569]

@@housemana bro what

[@K..C]

@@housemana You looked way too far into this brother. I'm pretty sure his team consists of like 5 people including him and the cameraman. "Think on a broader level, because your ego here really let you down. you feel superior to the actor in this video, but really, it's you that got tricked into engaging." Bro passing High School English with an A+ for that one

[@restart_life.]

@@housemana bro... its not that deep...

[@4jayco]

This feels like an episode of Jimmy Neutron where he would try to make cookies better than his mom with chemistry and realizes nothing beats homemade cookies

[@VeryRGOTI]

i wonder if such an episode exists

[@Okarabouzouklis]

LOL

[@hipjoeroflmto4764]

When the ai is good egnough store this idea to generate the video

[@EvilApple567]

Love is the most scrumptious chemical there is, and it always comes pure

[@nightmarerex2035]

@@EvilApple567 which is why they are taking the "human" out of everything. peaople can STOP it by REFUSING to work for FREE at self-checkout but see most peaople trendies just eating it up are there any fucking TRAILBLAZERS left in this world?!?

[@Fantalover-gt9ww]

Congrats on 2 Million subs!

[@emilydegiovine9644]

This took ‘baking is a chemistry’ to a whole new level!

[@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

[@kyellebantog7720]

If you've ever baked cookies, this'll feel like hell 💀

[@jeremyglover5541]

I hated every minute of it!! lol

[@torrluv]

It's actually EXCRUCIATING

[@nkanyezihlatshwayo3601]

bruh i know 😂 esp. at the end, like cover it and wait!!

[@czechmix221]

Nile can’t cook for shit

[@chewy6220]

It does

[@alanunruh7310]

I think cracking was due to egg. Egg is the binding agent. Helps hold together. So maybe the powder egg isn't as good as fresh

[@Dinjoralo.]

I'm pretty sure the reason standard reference materials exist is for calibrating food production machinery.

[@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❤🎉

[@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

[@excaliburcrusadegaming3534]

You're So right about that, And it's hilarious cause I only realized it when I read your comment.

[@CRIS_IS_ON_INFINITE_EARTHS]

Holydamn y'all are hilarious, I love this channel🤣

[@ellingtongriffin5521]

The result gives off the same energy as a Try Guys Without a Recipe episode, despite this very much having a suuuuuuper precise recipe