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i_v | 1 year ago

NileRed has a humorous YouTube video where he bakes cookies using only NIST reference ingredients. It costs something like $2000 to bake a single cookie and has all the flavor of cardboard.

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markild|1 year ago

I really love the channel, but I can't help to feel that he was held back by his, ehm, limited knowledge of cooking.

calmbonsai|1 year ago

Perhaps he was simply "playing it up" for the camera, but I thought it was hilarious how worried he was about his cookie cracking.

hatthew|1 year ago

Yeah, I would have liked to see a "control cookie" with normal ingredients. I suspect it wouldn't have been much better.

TheRealPomax|1 year ago

Unfortunately he had no idea how to bake, let alone bake cookies, and his recipe made no sense at all. It was kind of a waste of money.

dylan604|1 year ago

> It was kind of a waste of money.

Isn't that the entire point of everything done? Crazy wild ass things nobody in their right mind would try, but getting to watch someone else do it drives those views.

sumtechguy|1 year ago

Yeah his recipe was very odd. That sort of cooking is very fiddly. I rubbished a whole batch of cookies a few weeks ago just by cooking them ~2 mins too long. Sweats seem to be very exacting one what you need to do to make them come out correctly. Other kinds of cooking you can +/- a lot of things and still get something good. Sweats on the other hand. You better get it 'just right'.

buildsjets|1 year ago

If you are baking cookies using standard reference ingredients, you had best be using a standard reference recipe.

https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/TroopSupport/Subsi...

If you please, I request Type III, Style D, shape (d). Low-fat sugar cookies in patriotic shapes, including but not limited to Uncle Sam, Bald Eagle, Torch of Liberty, Letters "USA", American Flag, Statue of Liberty, etc.

emchammer|1 year ago

I'll settle for an ANSI standard pizza and an ISO standard cup of tea.

UncleMeat|1 year ago

He makes a big deal of the cookie being pure, like the ingredients he is using are superior to ordinary ingredients. But they aren't. They are reference ingredients, merely intended to be precise rather than pure. You can buy human waste from NIST too.

The reference flour is like a decade old. Not exactly optimal for actual baking.