The Cookie Experiment

For the month of December I plan to post here every day including Christmas and New Years Eve. Topics will range from politics to games, from business to cooking and from movies to movies I wish existed. If there is something you think I should cover feel free to comment and I will try and accommodate. Each day will end with what I will cover for the next day. So that is how December will run. Okay here we go…

The Cookie Experiment

So every time I try to make cookies at my apartment in my oven with non-baking sheet the cookies burn to the tray. So a few days ago I decided to try and see if there was a way for me to cook them so that they would come out non-burnt to the tray. To do so I took tinfoil and put it over half of the tray, then I sprayed the entire tray with Pam cooking spray (both tinfoil covered and non-covered sections), I then placed the batter to make two cookies on each section. Half way through the baking I re-arranged the tray so that the cookies in the back of the oven were now in the front of the oven and vice versa (in case there was a difference in temperature between the front and back). The results of flipping the tray at the half way point were promising, neither side looked burnt on the top at least, they cookies do look like weird blobs but that is because I am bad at forming cookie balls. It should be noted that I did not quite make the batter right; instead of melted butter I used un-melted butter which makes a difference apparently. After pulling the first batch out the results are pro-tinfoil as shown below. 

Non-Tinfoil

Tinfoil

As any good experiment conductor knows a key fact that makes an experiment an experiment is the ability to recreate the out some so I did a second batch. Batch two was the same so SCIENCE says that I should use tinfoil with Pam even though the differences are negligible. There is no noticeable taste difference either. I guess that is the way the cookie crumbles. 

Tomorrow: Election 2012