Episode 1: Chocolate Chip Cookies

About this episode

The hosts explore the best chocolate chip cookie through discussion and taste testing of various recipes.

In the Test Kitchen is back with new hosts and a new show! In this premiere episode, hosts Lan Lam, Bryan Roof, Nik Sharma, and Lidey Heuck, dive into all things chocolate chip cookies. They chat about texture, size, and cookie thickness and ask: What makes the best chocolate chip cookie? Along the way, the quad taste tests 3 separate chocolate chip cookie recipes while dissecting the history, science, and nerdy aspects of recipe development. ATK Recipes Mentioned in today's episode: Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies, Levain-Style Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Lan Lam, Bryan Roof, Nik Sharma, Lidey Heuck

Topics covered

• chocolate chip cookies
• baking
• recipe development
• taste testing

Keywords

• texture
• size
• cookie thickness
• history
• science

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies, Levain-Style Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

Books & works: In the Test Kitchen

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