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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was teaching a friend some very basic recipes. We made chocolate chip cookies together and she didn't believe me that you need to combine ingredients in a certain order and though I was being super fussy to not just dump everything in and mix.[/quote]

You don’t “have” to. If you made two batches, one where you dumped and mixed and one where you properly creamed the butter and sugar and didn’t overbeat the flour, you’d probably find they were noticeably different but it might not be enough to care. [/quote]

You would be wrong about that.  I did this once - dumped everything together without creaming the butter and sugar - and you know what you get?  Crumb topping with chocolate chips in it.  Not cookies.  [/quote]

Or you have to overmix to get the ingredients to combine and you end up with a tough texture-those cookies that are little lumps. I guess for a lot of people a cookie is a cookie. I learned to bake while working a bakery and my dad was a professional cook, so the difference is clear to me. One time I was served a piece of peach pie at a dinner party, the baker said so proudly "the peaches are so sweet that I didn't have to add any sugar and I was out of minute tapioca so I used the large size tapioca." The result was...wow.[/quote]

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