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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t like most of those giant bakery cookies. Can’t they just be normal sized?

I tend to agree but these are in-between the too large ones (which are visually unappealing) and regular sized. They're perf.

Wow, it would take my 14-year-old about 10 minutes to come up with a recipe to yield a good-quality homemade cookie that size. She wouldn’t call them “perf,” though, she’s too mature for that. We’d have fun baking them, too, because we are good bakers and we don’t balk at kitchen clean-up.

I picture OP with flour all over her face, sweating and wringing her hands in the kitchen, as an infomercial announcer asks, “Has THIS ever happened to YOU?” Close-up on OP as she cries, “There’s GOT to be a better WAY!”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if you find a small business that makes something perfectly, it's actually silly to try and compete with it at home. We're not taking about a large sum of money. A good fresh chocolate chip cookie as good as they make it should probably be $5.

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Anonymous wrote:Our bakery charges $3 for big, amazing chocolate chip cookies. They're literally perfect. $12 when I buy 4 for the family.

To bake a batch of cookies requires time, cleanup, $6 in good butter and $6 in good chips. And they NEVER taste as good as the bakery. Often a lot worse. And the batch is more than we ever want.

What's the point?

I happen to enjoy the process of baking, especially with one of my kids. To me the process is the point. I also think there is about a 3 minute window when chocolate chip cookies are just out of the oven when they are heavenly, so I might be chasing that thrill.

But yeah, otherwise? It's just because I enjoy it.

One of my kids draws. He could take all the hours he draws, get a job and buy a ton of posters of artwork that's better than his at the National Gallery of Art gift shop.

Same thing.

[Anonymous]

I get your point Op. But you don’t know the ingredients “your bakery” is using. They may be using cheap bleached flour and shorting or a mixture of cheap butter and shortening. Probably a lesser quality chocolate too. They just taste good bc they hit the fat/sugar craving and you aren’t doing any work.

But let’s given them some credit and assume they are using European butter, King Arthur flour and good quality chocolate. You only have 1 cookie each and then done. Maybe that is what your prefer? But I have three kids. I buy the best ingredients and when I make cookies, I end up with at least 24. The kids can have a couple each, take one in their lunch, or I can freeze half for later. It just makes more sense to bake myself

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think if you find a small business that makes something perfectly, it's actually silly to try and compete with it at home. We're not taking about a large sum of money. A good fresh chocolate chip cookie as good as they make it should probably be $5.

Perfectly deployed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like most of those giant bakery cookies. Can’t they just be normal sized?

I tend to agree but these are in-between the too large ones (which are visually unappealing) and regular sized. They're perf.

Wow, it would take my 14-year-old about 10 minutes to come up with a recipe to yield a good-quality homemade cookie that size. She wouldn’t call them “perf,” though, she’s too mature for that. We’d have fun baking them, too, because we are good bakers and we don’t balk at kitchen clean-up.

I picture OP with flour all over her face, sweating and wringing her hands in the kitchen, as an infomercial announcer asks, “Has THIS ever happened to YOU?” Close-up on OP as she cries, “There’s GOT to be a better WAY!”

There is!

Step 1: Call bakery.
Step 2: "Hi! Have you sold out of chocolate chip cookies? No? Maybe I reserve 4 of them. I'll be right over."
Step 3: Pay $12.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think using shortening makes better cookies than butter (for the texture). Also, we get the tub of cookies at Giant for $4.00 and those taste good enough.

Disgusting. Check on the ingredients

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t like most of those giant bakery cookies. Can’t they just be normal sized?

I tend to agree but these are in-between the too large ones (which are visually unappealing) and regular sized. They're perf.

Wow, it would take my 14-year-old about 10 minutes to come up with a recipe to yield a good-quality homemade cookie that size. She wouldn’t call them “perf,” though, she’s too mature for that. We’d have fun baking them, too, because we are good bakers and we don’t balk at kitchen clean-up.

I picture OP with flour all over her face, sweating and wringing her hands in the kitchen, as an infomercial announcer asks, “Has THIS ever happened to YOU?” Close-up on OP as she cries, “There’s GOT to be a better WAY!”

There is!

Step 1: Call bakery.
Step 2: "Hi! Have you sold out of chocolate chip cookies? No? Maybe I reserve 4 of them. I'll be right over."
Step 3: Pay $12.

Sure, if you are a mediocre baker like OP who is a messy baker and clean-up is a huge chore, that’s what you do. For those of us who are good bakers who like to spend quality time with our kids, and who are clean-as-you go bakers so clean-up is no problem, we will continue to bake at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think if you find a small business that makes something perfectly, it's actually silly to try and compete with it at home. We're not taking about a large sum of money. A good fresh chocolate chip cookie as good as they make it should probably be $5.

I agree with this. There are several foods that are just much better prepared by competent professionals: crumb cake, almond croissants, pizza, baguettes, pancakes, all come to mind.

[Anonymous]

Nothing like fresh baked cookies straight out of the oven. I’ll bake cookies any day over the week as opposed to getting them at a bakery. There are some really great baking blogs out there.

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Sorry OP, but I don’t find $12 for 4 cookies plus a trip to the bakery worth it. I actually find that cookies are usually the weakest product from bakeries. They’re often dry and flavorless and overcooked. I can make a great batch of cookies in no time and everyone in our family enjoys cooking and baking. I prefer to go to the bakery for things that are more labor intensive and specialty items.

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing like fresh baked cookies straight out of the oven. I’ll bake cookies any day over the week as opposed to getting them at a bakery. There are some really great baking blogs out there.

+1. You can’t beat fresh-baked. The experience baking them, the smells, the taste, and sharing them with others—we always take some to neighbors. No bakery can replicate.

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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.

You sound fun.

[Anonymous]

Your tone and attitude are the problem here, OP.

You are not better or cleverer than those you address. No, you did not just discover something none of us realized before.

But I suspect you know this and just want to rile people up on this gorgeous Sunday morning. Too bad, I’m in a great mood!

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I don't l love bakery cookies. Never found any I love except a few times 10 years ago Heidelberg had very fresh M&M cookies then I stopped liking them.

I make nestle tollhouse and portion them out like break and bakes. We bake as desired.

It is NOT $6 for chips and butter. Even fancy butter if you shop sales. Safeway had Plugra for around $4 all fall. Regular butter is about the same, and you only use half for a batch. Chocolate chips are regularly 2/$5 or 6. I like nestle, but Ghirardelli isn't much more.