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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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[/quote]

The bakery makes them. And they are using great butter (I feigned an allergy and confirmed) and the chocolate is good because I can isolate and taste the chunks of it. A recipe at home doesn't make 24 of the size I can buy for $3, it makes 12 at that size. And our family doesn't need or want 12. So if we freeze 8 of them, I guess we have 8 mediocre thawed out cookies for the next two weeks, which nobody is very enthused about. I'd rather just buy the perfect fresh professional ones for $12 each time we all crave one. That's $36. Versus around $12 or so for the 12 from our mediocre homemade batch. $24 premium in a month to avoid all cookie cleanup, wasted time, risk, eat the best cookies, and support a small local business. Seems to be a no-brainer to me. ymmv[/quote]

Yes, ymmv. So why do you think your way is better and those who do this differently are wasting their time?

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Yes i do.  If you are going to bake with crap, just buy it[/quote]

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