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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

+1. All store bought doughs are vile.

Anonymous wrote:We don't have any decent bakeries near us out in the burbs, so don't have the choice of buying decent bakery cookies.

I'm OP. The bakery is actually in a suburb! And not even the most convenient for us. But their chocolate chip cookies are aces, so we pop in when we're around there. We buy our bread and other more regular baked items at a much closer neighborhood bakery.

I’ve never had a bakery cookie taste as good as homemade.

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.

I think warm cookies are gross. They taste too raw, greasy (butter, I know) and cloyingly sweet when warm. They are so much better after they settle for a couple of hours at room temperature.

We don't have any decent bakeries near us out in the burbs, so don't have the choice of buying decent bakery cookies.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why so much defensiveness and insults for this post. Buying cookies is great for some people; for others, baking is better. For still others, it will vary from time to time. I cannot understand why OP started this thread or why some people responded so harshly. Can’t we all just get along?

No, OP was basically taking shots at anyone foolish enough to bake at home, going on and on about how superior it is to buy from a bakery. Did you not clock the “gluttonous” comment, as if anyone who bakes two dozen cookies is morally inferior to someone who buys four cookies? Yes, we’re all eating two dozen cookies in one sitting, OP.

And check the thread title itself. Buying cookies at a bakery is “better”?

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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.

Crumb cake, pancakes, and chocolate chip cookies are so easy to make great. Baguettes are easy, too.

Croissants are difficult.

But some of you just need better skills.

Because my kids have deathly nut allergies, and no bakery near us is nut-free.

Any other questions?

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why so much defensiveness and insults for this post. Buying cookies is great for some people; for others, baking is better. For still others, it will vary from time to time. I cannot understand why OP started this thread or why some people responded so harshly. Can’t we all just get along?

No, OP was basically taking shots at anyone foolish enough to bake at home, going on and on about how superior it is to buy from a bakery. Did you not clock the “gluttonous” comment, as if anyone who bakes two dozen cookies is morally inferior to someone who buys four cookies? Yes, we’re all eating two dozen cookies in one sitting, OP.

There are no bakeries within easy driving distance that cater to our family’s dietary needs, but good for you.

Are you sure they are baking them themselves? Many bakeries buy premade cookies or cookie dough. I work in the food business and know the shortcuts!

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why so much defensiveness and insults for this post. Buying cookies is great for some people; for others, baking is better. For still others, it will vary from time to time. I cannot understand why OP started this thread or why some people responded so harshly. Can’t we all just get along?

OP implied everyone was dumb for baking cookies. She deliberately started a fight on a forum full of mothers, who are usually a baking population.

I don’t understand why so much defensiveness and insults for this post. Buying cookies is great for some people; for others, baking is better. For still others, it will vary from time to time. I cannot understand why OP started this thread or why some people responded so harshly. Can’t we all just get along?

Unless you are baking in bulk and sourcing your raw ingredients in bulk, your small batch of cookies baked at home will be a lot expensive. Baking cookies at home will give you perfect results if you are very consistent in all measurements, ingredients, equipment, heat, procedures. I am a very good home baker and I make better cookies than what you can get at a bakery. I am often asked by family and friends to bake large batches of cookies for their special events. While they pay me for the cost of the ingredients, they don't pay my rent, labor, time, equipment, storage, transportation and profit.

Why bother knitting a scarf when you can just buy one?

Because I enjoy knitting! Because I enjoy gifting family members a cozy scarf and I get joy when I see them wearing it. Because I'm proud that I can knit. Because it's relaxing.

So many reasons to bake from scratch, op. This is a weird thread. If you don't enjoy it, that's fine, but why should the rest of us stop?