Baking cookies is a waste of time. Better to just buy them at bakery

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am good at baking and make really good cookies. And I can make them for a lot less than $3 a cookie, even with inflation costs of groceries.

It sounds like you just aren’t very good at baking and don’t like it, which is fine. But other people feel differently.

Sure, a (potentially mediocre) home recipe produces more than 4 cookies, but what family needs a dozen+ cookies? Diminishing returns, you know. And gluttonous. Between the potential for mediocre cookies and too many sweets and all the time and cleanup, wiser to just go buy 4 really spectacular cookies. Support a local business, too.

NP. Ohhh you’re a troll. Got it.

You weirdos with your troll snark need to go for a walk and breathe fresh air. I’m sorry I don’t want my family wolfing down dozens of cookies. Or even want the mere temptation of them in our freezer (as if frozen and thawed cooked cookies are ever good anyways). It’s just pure gluttony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am good at baking and make really good cookies. And I can make them for a lot less than $3 a cookie, even with inflation costs of groceries.

It sounds like you just aren’t very good at baking and don’t like it, which is fine. But other people feel differently.

Sure, a (potentially mediocre) home recipe produces more than 4 cookies, but what family needs a dozen+ cookies? Diminishing returns, you know. And gluttonous. Between the potential for mediocre cookies and too many sweets and all the time and cleanup, wiser to just go buy 4 really spectacular cookies. Support a local business, too.

NP. Ohhh you’re a troll. Got it.

You weirdos with your troll snark need to go for a walk and breathe fresh air. I’m sorry I don’t want my family wolfing down dozens of cookies. Or even want the mere temptation of them in our freezer (as if frozen and thawed cooked cookies are ever good anyways). It’s just pure gluttony.

It's only a temptation if you have no willpower.

A little ironic, that accusation of gluttony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am good at baking and make really good cookies. And I can make them for a lot less than $3 a cookie, even with inflation costs of groceries.

It sounds like you just aren’t very good at baking and don’t like it, which is fine. But other people feel differently.

Sure, a (potentially mediocre) home recipe produces more than 4 cookies, but what family needs a dozen+ cookies? Diminishing returns, you know. And gluttonous. Between the potential for mediocre cookies and too many sweets and all the time and cleanup, wiser to just go buy 4 really spectacular cookies. Support a local business, too.

NP. Ohhh you’re a troll. Got it.

You weirdos with your troll snark need to go for a walk and breathe fresh air. I’m sorry I don’t want my family wolfing down dozens of cookies. Or even want the mere temptation of them in our freezer (as if frozen and thawed cooked cookies are ever good anyways). It’s just pure gluttony.

If you’re not really a troll I feel so, so bad for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am good at baking and make really good cookies. And I can make them for a lot less than $3 a cookie, even with inflation costs of groceries.

It sounds like you just aren’t very good at baking and don’t like it, which is fine. But other people feel differently.

Sure, a (potentially mediocre) home recipe produces more than 4 cookies, but what family needs a dozen+ cookies? Diminishing returns, you know. And gluttonous. Between the potential for mediocre cookies and too many sweets and all the time and cleanup, wiser to just go buy 4 really spectacular cookies. Support a local business, too.

NP. Ohhh you’re a troll. Got it.

You weirdos with your troll snark need to go for a walk and breathe fresh air. I’m sorry I don’t want my family wolfing down dozens of cookies. Or even want the mere temptation of them in our freezer (as if frozen and thawed cooked cookies are ever good anyways). It’s just pure gluttony.

Wow, your whole family can’t resist the temptation of frozen cookies in the freezer, that you don’t even think are that good? Do you all have a binge eating disorder? That would be really hard to deal with, I’m sorry. I understand why you can’t keep cookies in the house now.

[Anonymous]

I agree OP. I bake from scratch pretty often because it's healthier and it's a fun activity to do with my kids, but my cookies are objectively worse than cookies from a nice bakery.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is a really odd post. I have no problems with someone buying the cookies/baked goods at a bakery. I love a good bakery as much as the next person. But, to say makes such a broad, sweeping generalization that it's better to buy cookies at the bakery, is just wrong. Sure, it's convenient and you sometimes get specialty cookies that aren't easy to make at home. But, it's also more expensive and a lot of pleasure and rituals can surround the baking of cookies.

I just did a calculation of what a base sugar cookie recipe would cost me - less than $6 for a batch without chocolate chips. You don't have to even use 'good butter'. I didn't include the cost of using the oven because it's just pennies. Nor did I include the cost of mortgage or utensils because those are sunk costs - I'd pay for them whether I made cookies or not. I also didn't include the cost of my time because it wouldn't take me any longer to bake cookies than to run to the store to get them and I'm also avoiding the cost of gas.

^^PP here. I calculated the costs using the prices on Costco's website. I didn't include the cost of salt/soda because the amounts are so small and cheap. I also use the imitation vanilla recommended by America's Test Kitchen and it's just as cheap. It's only pennies that are missing from here and not worth wasting my time to calculate.
1.17 Eggs
0.20 flour
1.67 sugar
2.25 butter
5.28 Total

Um, the good dark or semi sweet chocolate chips?

As noted, the cost above is a base sugar cookie recipe. A bag of Ghirardelli Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips is $3.99 at Wegmans. A bag of Toll House is $2.50. So, a batch of chocolate chip cookies with 'good' chocolate chips is still less than $10. If you were to buy chocolate chips in bulk or with coupons, it'd be a bit cheaper.

There's also risk involved with at-home cookies. No risk involved buying at bakery you're a repeat customer at.

Yes ... no risk at all buying a product made at a commercial outlet, as that "never" goes the wrong way, does it?

Contamination doesn't occur often at commercial bakeries, that's true. In the US, they are pretty safe to buy from. But you know where contamination occurs even less frequently? My own kitchen.

I mean, PP is obviously talking about the risk that the cookies burn or have a bad texture or don't turn out for whatever reason

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am good at baking and make really good cookies. And I can make them for a lot less than $3 a cookie, even with inflation costs of groceries.

It sounds like you just aren’t very good at baking and don’t like it, which is fine. But other people feel differently.

Sure, a (potentially mediocre) home recipe produces more than 4 cookies, but what family needs a dozen+ cookies? Diminishing returns, you know. And gluttonous. Between the potential for mediocre cookies and too many sweets and all the time and cleanup, wiser to just go buy 4 really spectacular cookies. Support a local business, too.

NP. Ohhh you’re a troll. Got it.

You weirdos with your troll snark need to go for a walk and breathe fresh air. I’m sorry I don’t want my family wolfing down dozens of cookies. Or even want the mere temptation of them in our freezer (as if frozen and thawed cooked cookies are ever good anyways). It’s just pure gluttony.

Wow, your whole family can’t resist the temptation of frozen cookies in the freezer, that you don’t even think are that good? Do you all have a binge eating disorder? That would be really hard to deal with, I’m sorry. I understand why you can’t keep cookies in the house now.

ok, everyone on this thread is acting crazy now

[Anonymous]

I personally find bakery cookies, almost always, to be sort of tasteless and bland. Small batch cookies are always better than larger batches.

A good homemade cookie >>>> baked cookies.

I do disagree with the person who said frozen cookies are always bad. That is false and entirely dependent on the cookie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am good at baking and make really good cookies. And I can make them for a lot less than $3 a cookie, even with inflation costs of groceries.

It sounds like you just aren’t very good at baking and don’t like it, which is fine. But other people feel differently.

Sure, a (potentially mediocre) home recipe produces more than 4 cookies, but what family needs a dozen+ cookies? Diminishing returns, you know. And gluttonous. Between the potential for mediocre cookies and too many sweets and all the time and cleanup, wiser to just go buy 4 really spectacular cookies. Support a local business, too.

NP. Ohhh you’re a troll. Got it.

You weirdos with your troll snark need to go for a walk and breathe fresh air. I’m sorry I don’t want my family wolfing down dozens of cookies. Or even want the mere temptation of them in our freezer (as if frozen and thawed cooked cookies are ever good anyways). It’s just pure gluttony.

Wow, your whole family can’t resist the temptation of frozen cookies in the freezer, that you don’t even think are that good? Do you all have a binge eating disorder? That would be really hard to deal with, I’m sorry. I understand why you can’t keep cookies in the house now.

ok, everyone on this thread is acting crazy now

This is almost every food thread. Come read about the beef stew!

[Anonymous]

I don't find bakery cookies to be worth my calories. My cookies are fantastic.

[Anonymous]

I'm diabetic so I prefer to bake my own.

[Anonymous]

Preteen DD found a recipe and made a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. They came out perfectly
Having someone else bring you an unexpected, warm homemade cookie: priceless!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do large glass baking dishes make better chocolate chip cookies? Whenever I use baking sheet pans, it seems like half the time they get too hot too quickly and overcook the bottom.

No, don't use glass. You likely need better quality baking sheets. The two are recommended by America's Test Kitchen. They're not cheap but I have gotten the Vollrath on sale for half price. The difference between cheap shets that overheat and these is dramatic!

https://www.amazon.com/Vollrath-68085-Wear-Ever-17-Inch-Aluminum/dp/B00CHTX8PG/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=JBC35G5ADW8&keywords=vollrath+baking+sheet&qid=1674007603&sprefix=vollrath%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-3

https://www.amazon.com/Fat-Daddios-Cookie-Platinum-Anodized/dp/B076MHBCL9/ref=dp_prsubs_1?pd_rd_w=DZ5qM&content-id=amzn1.sym.06b8d2bd-b957-4356-8d7e-bccd9ef248a2&pf_rd_p=06b8d2bd-b957-4356-8d7e-bccd9ef248a2&pf_rd_r=A7HXFAATAHZN8Y7ABA2J&pd_rd_wg=1enV3&pd_rd_r=4819f2d8-e3ad-493d-ad12-bb1f57143098&pd_rd_i=B076MHBCL9&psc=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a really odd post. I have no problems with someone buying the cookies/baked goods at a bakery. I love a good bakery as much as the next person. But, to say makes such a broad, sweeping generalization that it's better to buy cookies at the bakery, is just wrong. Sure, it's convenient and you sometimes get specialty cookies that aren't easy to make at home. But, it's also more expensive and a lot of pleasure and rituals can surround the baking of cookies.

I just did a calculation of what a base sugar cookie recipe would cost me - less than $6 for a batch without chocolate chips. You don't have to even use 'good butter'. I didn't include the cost of using the oven because it's just pennies. Nor did I include the cost of mortgage or utensils because those are sunk costs - I'd pay for them whether I made cookies or not. I also didn't include the cost of my time because it wouldn't take me any longer to bake cookies than to run to the store to get them and I'm also avoiding the cost of gas.

^^PP here. I calculated the costs using the prices on Costco's website. I didn't include the cost of salt/soda because the amounts are so small and cheap. I also use the imitation vanilla recommended by America's Test Kitchen and it's just as cheap. It's only pennies that are missing from here and not worth wasting my time to calculate.
1.17 Eggs
0.20 flour
1.67 sugar
2.25 butter
5.28 Total

Imitation vanilla? As if!

I have more confidence in ATK than an anonymous DCUM poster
https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/6229-vanilla-extract-vs-imitation-vanilla

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a really odd post. I have no problems with someone buying the cookies/baked goods at a bakery. I love a good bakery as much as the next person. But, to say makes such a broad, sweeping generalization that it's better to buy cookies at the bakery, is just wrong. Sure, it's convenient and you sometimes get specialty cookies that aren't easy to make at home. But, it's also more expensive and a lot of pleasure and rituals can surround the baking of cookies.

I just did a calculation of what a base sugar cookie recipe would cost me - less than $6 for a batch without chocolate chips. You don't have to even use 'good butter'. I didn't include the cost of using the oven because it's just pennies. Nor did I include the cost of mortgage or utensils because those are sunk costs - I'd pay for them whether I made cookies or not. I also didn't include the cost of my time because it wouldn't take me any longer to bake cookies than to run to the store to get them and I'm also avoiding the cost of gas.

^^PP here. I calculated the costs using the prices on Costco's website. I didn't include the cost of salt/soda because the amounts are so small and cheap. I also use the imitation vanilla recommended by America's Test Kitchen and it's just as cheap. It's only pennies that are missing from here and not worth wasting my time to calculate.
1.17 Eggs
0.20 flour
1.67 sugar
2.25 butter
5.28 Total

Imitation vanilla? As if!

I have more confidence in ATK than an anonymous DCUM poster
https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/6229-vanilla-extract-vs-imitation-vanilla

Gross. Can’t believe you’d buy that and feed it to your family if you can afford real vanilla