Food Theory: Can you make cookies out of your Christmas tree?
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Last year I ate my Christmas tree. If you missed that, you should definitely watch it. This year, I wanted to take it a step further and ruin an icon of the season, the Christmas cookie. That's right Loyal Theorists, I used my Christmas tree to make COOKIES! No really, these cookies are made from REAL TREES! How did it go? Were they tasty? Should you do it? Watch to find out!
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The real question is: "How long was MatPat sleeping on the couch after secretly feeding his wife sawdust and recording the whole thing to post to the internet?"
1256 hours
96 hours or 100
A bazillion .287272 hours
Legend says that he is still there to this day all the next videos it’s a clone
230 nights
Matpat in the Christmas of 2030: “We are getting Gordon Ramsay to make a 5 course meal out of a Christmas tree.”
LMAOO
I now actually want to see Ramsay try and do this. If anyone could, he could.
make a whole iron chef-style competition gameshow
Yes
Cute profile btw! 🐸
Steph's expression is part exasperation, part disgust and part disappointment with just a hint of "I should have known..."
I love it
Hi
Ji
Cool
Fun fact. During the Great Depression, they used saw dust instead of flour. They usually used it for bread
Flour was too expensive at the time. People had to get creative.
@@myleswelnetz6700 Honestly, that had to be a shell shock for them, going from the roaring twenties to having to get creative just to eat
Awesome.
@@voidcat7752 "shell shock" very funny. (I'm taking this as a pun relating to tanks, being that following the GD was WWII.
@@majeriv5683...Yes. that is where the historical term shell shock came from
Steph: "I feel sick!"
Mat: "No, no. It's fine. It's edible sawdust. It's non-toxic, totally safe... for wood glue."
Hilarious
'War on Christmas - A Measured Response' must be the funniest video
i ever saw about the Holidays.
It's funny af, so i excuse me if i make this recommendation right here and now my holiday-gift for everyone
who reads this comment.
@@loturzelrestaurant omg! Thx for the pressie!!1!
So is Play-Doh, but your not going to live off play-doh
Poor Stephanie
Thanks for the spoiler
I love how MatPatt keeps saying "'WE' had a crazy idea" like this wasn't just his crazy idea like Bread Gloves.
It’s the Royal We.
Bread gloves don't sound so bad out of context, but Matpat hadn't even made them mittens, just finger-less PowerPuff hands. The video could've as well be called "try to live without fingers".
Gauntlets, though, those could be made from bread crust. In theory. Stupid Theory! Thanks for watching
Sans is Ness still haunts him
😂 facts
@@beatrix4306 whats that link?
Steph: panicking because she ate sawdust.
Mat: literally dying of laughter
MatPat: HAHA you ate sawdust!!!
Stephanie: 👁_👁
"Little does she know she's gonna be munching on a Two by Four"
~Matpat 2021
I love that Mat is actually adding sawdust to homemade cookies, when actual laws were made to prevent commercial bakers from using sawdust. You do you Mat.
Matthew Patrick, breaking food safety regulations since 2019-ish.
Lol
Those laws were likely put in place to prevent companies from using non-flour fillers to reduce costs, and using any number of loopholes to avoid telling people there product contain sawdust.
@@GeneralNickles well saw dust was used in bread back in the day when you didnt have enough wheat. Where in finland we call it "pattuleipä".
@@oscarcacnio8418 don’t expect to see him tomorrow
I love how Stephanie looked absolutely betrayed when she found out she was eating sawdust. Mat, you better get your wife something really nice for Christmas.
Edit: holy smokes you guy, I didn't expect expect to so many likes. Thanks.
unrelated but cute fursona
LOL
@@Anna-Sasin ruclips.net/video/jAkw7bLfg0g/видео.html
She's never letting him in the kitchen ever again
@@Anna-Sasin actually it's not mine unfortunately it's a character showtime from lupisvulpis I hadn't changed it since 2012
Our old trees actually do get eaten! They are collected and brought to the zoos for some animals to munch on - elephants love them for instance! You just need to make sure not to leave any tinsel in the tree.
Thats so cool!
Yeah that is very cool
Oh I love that.
It's almost Christmas boys! Time for round 3!
Heck yes! 😆
LETS GOOOOO!!!
YESSSS
😂😂😂😂😂😂 YES
Yesssss
Steph's reaction was the textbook definition of "I'm not mad... just disappointed", waiting for her to realise literally made me more giddy than waiting for Christmas. Never change, MatPat.
The fact that she did a literal karen face though at18:27
@@Br15c😅
"There's raw egg in here, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to eat it" He says, eating sawdust dough.
the sawdust was safe, not ment to, but safe. raw egg causes salmonella
My family has been eating raw cookie dough (raw egg included!) For years. Nobody has ever gotten sick or had an issue at all
@@MockiN6j4y it’s pretty rare especially from cookie dough but that doesn’t remove the risk completely
@@MockiN6j4y the flour with the risk of E coli is also a risk
@@tobi601 even so, nobody in my family has ever gotten sick from raw cookie dough
*mildly hysterical chuckling from Steph* "Did you bake something?"
"I did! I made you some Christmas cookies for-!"
*chuckling increases* "Oh, nooooo..."
I work in a bakery and when Matt was just trying to mix sawdust into straight Pillsbury cookie dough, I was weeping.
Edit: Omg. Noooooooo MATT! You sub the flour out by *volume* not weight! What are you doing?!??! Those aren't gonna be cookies, those'll be flakes. ;__;
He put way more saw dust than needed
I thought the same.
Honestly, I was saying the same. Sub out by volume, as that will be how the flour functions in the dough, then calculate the weight from that, as needed. That's why the texture changed. Honestly, though, with how the cookies came out, they reached the taste issue before the cohesion fell apart, so maybe it didn't matter in the end. Of course, you could add stronger flavors, get the volumetric mix in, cover it in icing and see when it fell apart next.
Thank you for confirming my thouths
@@mentaya11 He got insanely lucky because he was making extremely small batches. When you scale up the amounts for normal sized batches it will make a big difference.
It is because of this video that I would say that Rosanna Pansino's baking knowledge combined with Matt's scientific knowledge would make for an excellent Food Theory video. Just saying I think it would be cool.
Some verified dude stole your comment
Omg same, i thought a collab for this vid would’ve been perfect
Why am I not allowed to like a comment more than once?
@@jbluewind4727 dw I gave it a like for you
Seconded! A lot of substitute ingredients aren’t any good unless they’re replaced with the appropriate amount of the new ingredient. Applesauce can replace eggs in baking recipes, but it’s not a 1/1 ratio. It’s why Splenda now brags about being a 1/1 ratio to sugar now, because it used to take a math degree to make anything with Splenda. This collab would be amazing!
I’m starting to think matpat has an addiction to eating Christmas trees.
Wtf is with all these links…
Mat do you have pica?
@Mason Trimby I used to eat needles of a christmas tree and for addicted to that
Is this a world record of the amount of bots under a comment
@@yesnt-hu4jo ikr 😅
I love how Steph was so done with MatPat when he announced it was sawdust 🤣
Imagine buying a Christmas tree and two days later you buy another tree and they ask if you have a big house and they just say no we ate the first tree, like- 🤨..
This again?! I actually tried eating my Christmas tree last year and I made a spice out of the needles. It actually wasn’t that bad. The bark was impossible to make something out of but I was able to make a raindrop cake (a Japanese dessert) that tasted like Christmas.
Christmas raindrop cake sounds rad.
I actually recommend tea brewed from the needles with some ginger. It tastes really close to how the tree smells
That sounds awesome also sorry bout the bots
@@smiesznywalenty658 will try
So many bots? ???
"You can consume it but just don't breathe it in."
Well, yeah, that's also how water works.
What on erath
i mean. you're not... wrong? i dont like this.
and flour for that matter
So we can also replace the liquid in a cookie with sawdust?
Can’t wait to see this year’s Christmas tree shenanigans
YES
It's now almost Christmas again, is this getting another sequel? Will this be the year Mat succeeds?
There was a mistake in the final calculation. The weight of the tree includes the water in the tree. Evergreens are about 60% water, but sawdust is dried to about 20% water by weight. So you’re looking at about 6000 cookies for a tree.
Came here to say the same thing. The water weight drastic changes the calculations
@@jackedupjunkers1922 There is also the fact that there would be more than a single person per tree, at worst there would be 2 persons per tree. At most it would be a whole family.
And that’s including the weight of the needles which you probably wouldn’t add into the sawdust. Save that for the tea!
I don't think the needles account for too much of the tree's weight, but I'm not 100% sure
@@expnewlight1694 That too. Also if one really wants one could add like 1 or 2 neighbors to "gift" the cookies tooSo getting that number down would be possible. Let alone if you do the occasional bake sale.
Potential Food Theory: How much would Santa weigh after eating all the cookies and milk on Christmas
He would way nothing because....
He would die or he eats nothing the rest of the year
He’s most likely a fae creature, so I think the rules of digestion and food consumption work differently for him.
Starting by making a poll of which countries do this. (The whole cookied and milk thing for Santa is absolutely *not* a thing in my country, and I've only ever seen it in USA movies.)
@@Ace_Maus Good note!
I would love to watch that video
If you kept 900 cookies for yourself and then sold the rest for $2.00 each you could make $19332 in revenue and $19232 in profit (I just subtracted the price of the average Christmas tree, yes I did all the math I'm bored).
Wait, so you could have made a gingerbread house that’s also part wood… yet you didn’t. The witch that lives in the woods and lures in children with the promise of sweets is disappointed in you MatPat.
You’d literally be making a wooden house. Or why not make a log cake.
Hey MatPat. Little feedback:
So Trees have a lot of non-sawdust things in them, such as pine cones, leaves, and whatever else trees are made of that don't turn to sawdust. For next year, incorporate various other parts of the tree, such as adding the sweet resin to the icing or topping with pine cone seeds.
I really like this idea! Very resourceful!
Yoo, good idea
I like that we all just know that there will definitely be a next year for this.
These young girls completely undresses for no reason on the streets of Kingston
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Yeeettrus
Where there's a will, there's a way. Wouldn't be surprised if he made edible cookies out of Christmas decorations next.
Next video: " *Can you make edible cookies out of santa's flesh?* "
Hey wassup bingus long time no see 😃
Next vid : can we make cakes out of elfs on the shelf
Edit:this is as much likes I have had thx 🙂🙂🙃🙃
@@shadowsheder6519wow 👏
dont give him any ideas
I love that this is the only vein of theories where Matt is pretty much completely alone with no one else encouraging or supporting him in any way, and yet... he is just as energetic and determined as any other theory.
I like how she just joined, and the first thing she does is start laughing because she can already tell you did something absolutely wrong
Steph: "Mathew does not find kitchen activities relaxing..."
Editor: *plays montage of the past 16 minutes*
Audience: You don't say....
It is absolutely COMICAL watching Matt's facial expressions as he's trying cookie #3 and Steph just has no idea what's going on, and then as soon as she turns to look at him, he acts like everything completely normal
This was super entertaining to watch 😂
@@alarice9604 trash.
@@xo_miimin Just ignore them they're bots
@@Anna-Sasin nah. Gotta report them
You could try using the leaves like an herb or a tea this year! Thinking something along the line of what would be a rosemary cookie or (if you used rosemary) or an herb bread
Mat Pat : You can eat your Chrismas Tree!
Me : Staring down my fake plastic Chrismas tree
Whenever you substitute a dry ingredient in baking, you need to adjust the wet ingredients. Maybe if you'd added more butter with the higher sawdust quantities, you might actually have a good cookie.
That and doing it by volume instead of weight since sawdust and flour don't weigh the same I think would have really improved the results. I think he could stand to do this experiment again but bring someone who knows their way around baking and the science behind it. I'm sure no matter what it's still too much saw dust to feasibly put into cookies, but I'm curious now how much an experienced baker could sneak in there.
He did mention that it felt substantially drier at higher sawdust proportions so my first suggestion would be to just add a little more water and see if it has any binding properties when a little more moist compared to the dry sand he seemed to have made.
THANK YOU! The entire time I was watching him make the crumblier cookies I just kept thinking “More butter…you need more butter…MATT YOU NEED MORE BUTTER TO MAKE IT LESS CRUMBLY”
@@swordsmanthegamernine7973
I felt the same, except screaming that he's an idiot for trying to do it by weight while actively admitting that is obviously wrong.
He never produced anything under 20-30%... With some 80-98% up to sawdust...
It's even worse because bakers have been baking wood dust into food for ages... Its why we have the rules around food adulteration.
He can literally find endless recipes for adding sawdust to lots of stuff including cookies. It's regularly added to food even today, just look for cellulose, that's sawdust.
Even the slightest effort would have shown how stupid this really is.
Please don't give him any ideas
Oliver will feel comforted knowing that his dad tried to eat a tree, multiple times.
Waiting for part 2 where MatPat has him eat the cookies because we all know a kid is better at eating and tasting cookies than any grown up adult
I love how matpat spent actual time, brain power, and effort to figure out how much sawdust you could put in a cookie before someone notices. Like only matpat would hear about sawdust christmas cookies and say "okay bet." And then go all out on it. An icon of figuring out answers to questions people rarely had, i love it
This year Mat, make sure to include a small amount of "long" saw-dust, wood comes with long grains that are decimated entirely at the particle size you selected.
This is just a really fun video in general but Steph's "WHAT?!" when she was told that it was a sawdust cookie definitely makes the video for me.
I was surprised she wasn't more suspicious and less shocked. Especially since he said they all went in at the same time.
If I were her 'what's in these cookies' would have een the first words out of my mouth after he told me to put the mic on.
Lol
Mr. Beast: *wondering where all his trees went*
Matpat: *Hides cookies behind his back*
All 10,566 of them.
18:40 the “for wood glue” come on matpat, you are not making it better for yourself!
Maybe next year you can do a theory on how much saw dust you can put in a cookie by volume instead of weight.
I like how when she realizes there’s sawdust in the cookies she absolutely does a 180 and starts not liking them and saying she feels sick
Yeah a lot of it is really mental.
Disgusting bots. Also, I think its that effect where if you eat or drink something and you think of it as made the way you like, you'll like it, only if there isnt anything noticeable that changes the taste or texture . Then when you find it's made with something unfavorable, it feels disgusting
placebo effects
@@randomthings8732 ah thank you
@@epicninjacakez6716 np
Turns out this was done with cakes during the great depression... so yeah, this was already a thing... I shouldn't be surprised, my mom literally has recipes dating back to then, but it's still weird to hear that my mom critic me about how not only are you doing it wrong as you could add more liquid to make a 100% sawdust batch, but that I should know this.
This comment is seriously underrated.
I was looking for a comment like this, because they used sawdust in a lot of different recipes to make the flour go further, when they couldn't afford it.
@@ajrobbins368 ruclips.net/video/jAkw7bLfg0g/видео.html
Forbidden lore
that’s what i was thinking! if he cooked with intuition, he couldve added more butter or oil so the sawdust absorbs the liquid and it’s not crumbly, add that with icing and artificial sweeteners and a 50% sawdust cookie seems plausible!
Bakers in England during the Victorian period literally put sawdust in their bread and other baked goods, so its definitely possible. Whether its good for you/a good idea is a whole other question.
It's that time of year again!!!! And what about the pine needles? How much tea would one have to drink to use all those little needles?
*When you're just chilling and eating cookies made from your christmas tree but then you remember that your tree was fake:* 👁👄👁
This caught me sooo off guard 😂
Oops
I mean we all heard about mcdonalds and yoga mats, just because its all chemicals doesn't mean its inedible lol
Mmmm metal…. I don’t feel so go-
We love plastic cookies
Word of advice when making cookie dough: Don't use the whisk. Use the paddle attachment. That should make life much easier.
Him using the whisk was Upsetting
He should also measure the sawdust by volume not buy weight
@J i m i e Claw________💋 Get your grotesque content away from here. It has no place in civilized society.
These young girls completely undresses for no reason on the streets of Kingston
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Literally came to the comments to say this.
This next Christmas, I recommend turning the sawdust wood into those 'make at home' play-dough recipes, the ones people can back and turn into permanent decorations for their home. Bet Ollie would enjoy that, and that seems like a better use for an old tree then trying to consume it.
18:00
Stephanie: "W-What's in this cookie...."
Matthew: ".....ME"
18:38 - Literally me when I'm convincing myself to eat something I shouldn't
16:52 Mat making faces. And then he goes back to normal as soon as Steph looks at him. Those are some reflexes.
The look on Steph's face when he told her how much was in the cookie seemed like a tie between utter betrayal and am I sure I chose the right person to spend my life with 🤣
Edit: Over a year later and I'm just now realizing my mistake 😅 oopse haha
Lol "udder" i guess I may be milking this comment just to say that also matpat was wrong about saying a 2008 prius camera looks that bad, as I was in a friends old beater and the oem camera is a lot better than described for the ad lol
Amazing part 🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣
hate to be that person, but it's actually spelled "utter"
@@jeffsorrows was that a pun?
Little bit lol
Here’s an idea.
A single person probably isn’t able to eat 33 cookies a day for an entire year however, you could always volunteer for local festivals and parties
I think a notable thing is that when measuring by weight, the sawdust had a lot more volume, and soaked up the other ingredients more.
So to make the cookies better it may make sense to actually decrease the amount of flour/dust somewhat.
MatPat: *talking about how sad it is to see dead trees on the sidewalk after christmas*
Me who has a fake tree: *laughs maniacally*
me who has a tree shaped wall decoration >:)
As someone who bakes, I was watching this, and when he broke out the pre-made cookie dough, I said nope, need to start from scratch. Then he figured that out but replaced the flour by weight. I thought nope, you need to do the substitution by volume.
Yeah I was thinking it was an odd decision, he even laid out why kt wouldn't work when he said that the sawdust being lighter meant there was a lot more of the powder than the equivalent of flour, and was then surprised that the greater amount of dry ingredients were soaking up the wet ingredients more and making the dough dry
Painful watch for any baker 😅
Same here, I also love how surprised he was at the amount of butter. 1 stick is a cowards recipe.
Also how he used the whisk attachment instead of the paddle one.
I was stressed with him while mixing the dough. The amount of face palms and cringing was insane 🤣
Me trying to spend time with my brother:
B: what are you laughing at?
M: I'm watching a future divorce
B: huh?
M: A man is tricking his wife into eating cookies mad ewoth literal sawdust
B: 😮😂
M: no really come here.
Long story short, I need a lawyer. My younger brother almost died from laughing to hard at Stephanie realizing Matpat made her eat cookies made with literal sawdust.
Thank you Matt Pat! Both for the wonderful video and wonderful memory. (Also watching you and Steph together is adorable. Perfect chemistry.)
If I had a nickel for every time Matpat's tried to eat a tree, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it weird that its happened twice.
Thrice now!
Hey matt, so the thing is the sawdust flour your using has basically zero moisture content as its kiln dried while live trees are actually mostly water by weight so. You might wanna re factor that when doing your cookie per day calculation, also if you use wet sawdust jot kiln dried it would make it easier to add more by weight and still not have a crumbly mess. Just an idea for you, still loved the vid
That is what I was thinking as well.
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I came here to talk about what @Oliver has written more clearly than I could ever. soooooooo, seconded.
i think another thing they could add would be more wet ingredients in general, like cream cheese, corn syrup, peanut butter, or even more butter
This episode was delightful. Steph’s disappointment and like matpat chuckling talking about sawdust in the dessert just makes me so happy lol
Rumor has it, MatPat is still sleeping on the couch after secretly feeding his wife sawdust
Isn’t the “cellulose powder” that they add to other food products just sawdust? Maybe Mat Pat could eat his entire Christmas tree by incorporating the wood pulp into all kinds of foods for next year.
cellulose powder is just cellulose, or rather microcrystalline cellulose fibres which you get from refining wood pulp (the stuff that makes paper). sawdust on the other hand is just a bi-product of processing wood, like crumbs when eating bread or cookies. it's still "wood", which contains cellulose, but other impurities as well, like water or lignin. and pulverizing sawdust creates that fine, powdery wood flour.
in short, wood flour is just wood that underwent a lot of physical change, while cellulose has a lot of processing and refining before it becomes "food grade" stuff for industrial use.
fun fact, cellulose is made from long strands of beta-glucose, while starch is alpha-glucose. the main difference is how they are structured, which consequently makes them different substances molecularly and chemically.
I thought it was just fibre since laws are in place to prevent sawdust use
@@kommstein5692 *Claps in science* truly magnificent
Tip: don’t use weight when doing flour substitutes like this. If the sawdust is light that means you need more meaning less of stickiness.
For a better cookie yes. But if they did it properly the cookies would use much less sawdust even at the max % and it would take more cookies to eat the whole tree.
@@jarrethoglesbee4596 not really, since te amount keeps increasing, it means the same amount of flour+sawdust (at diferent percentages) will make more dough and therefore more cookies... I think 🤔 if I did the math right....
With tree I think you’re only adding to the stickyness of your meal
@@jarrethoglesbee4596 Yes but they would be (theoretically) better cookies. Since the sawdust is absorbing much more moisture than the flour, the way they did it not only you have increasing sawdust per batch, but you also get drier less cohesive cookies. Still, you would probably be able to tell the sawdust is in there since it doesn't disolve when you chew like the rest of the ingredients.
Boiling pine leaves can make good tea. Sapping (pun intended) all the flavor out of that pine is still using it!
i swear this is just Matpat discovering foraging and doing it in the weirdest way possible
also side note- those cookies don't work cause you measured them by weight and not by cups. if you used cups the wet to dry ingredient ratio would have stayed the same and it would have worked better, sawdust is lighter than flour and the average cups per cookie recipe is like 1 and a half to 2 cups of flour. so by measuring by weight what you've done is for your "30%" cookies actually made them with roughly 100% sawdust and some flour zest.
If you were wanting to optimize the amount of sawdust for your cookies, I’d say something with ingredients like cinnamon, brown sugar, ginger, molasses- stuff with stronger flavors as well as color to help mask the sawdust.
if you really want to eat a tree, get pine-cone syrup, so it'll taste like pine and add to the % of tree per cookie
oooh the molasses is prolly 100% the way to go imo. it will help with the consistency issue the 30% is lacking in and help offset that all natural wood flavor. i dont think anything would help enough to pull off a 40% cookie though.
@@Everlucky_Clover if he would have just added in more liquid ingredients to compensate for the wood absorbing better than flour, he could have gotten at least to 50% if not 75%.
@@JackDanyaKemplin problem is the sawdust becomes even more bad textured with the more absorption that you allow it to do. you pretty much go from a powder to sand sized nuggets. granted it might be a medium sand but the texture is now mealy and very noticeable. this ups the gag and barf factor since none of that water absorption added flavor and even prevents it from absorbing flavor the more you let it absorb water.
yes i used water because matpat was also going for cost effectiveness in his video. the only thing that barely adds a cost is tap water.
i will add that there IS a way to possibly do this but it involves fully hydrating the sawdust, using something to grind it down, then dry, then re-hydrating it and repeat till your sawdust no longer really absorbs. since that makes the particles too small. but this method may increase the amount of cookies you need to eat.
anyways the video was purely ridiculous so it isnt worth trying too hard to make it work >_< molasses still wins since it would easily make the 30% work well enough through flavor and texture manipulation. removing 100-150 cookies (out of 1500) is really signifigant.
Smart
Matpat in 2022 be like:
*"Can you LIVE as a Christmas Tree??"*
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@@user-bo2xy1oe7y They dont target specific users, its always like this on early comments: a graveyard of brain dead bots.
Dude, 4 bots in 20 minutes,
@@user-bo2xy1oe7y i didnt see that. some people, huh?
Bots slowly become faster than the average nine year old that types "FIRST"!!! on videos...
Her look of shock is killing me😂 Steph is just amazing 18:27
Best Christmas video EVER (18:25 was my favorite part)
Honestly watching Stephanie change from skeptical to supportive was so sweet and she clearly didn't know what was happening.
I’m curious to see how the results would be different if MatPat had swapped out sawdust by volume rather than by weight. I definitely think you would’ve had more passable cookies
The consistency would certainly be more accurate. I would also try a glutenfree recipe because the gluten in wheat flour probably has some influence on the baking. Sawdust - I assume - has no gluten in it and would behave differently.
My thoughts exactly
Pastry chef here. We use weight because it is so much more accurate and consistent. Try it out for yourself. Weigh two or more different cups of flour and notice there is a difference. Or scoop out a cup of flour. Now dump it in a bowl and rescoop that flour. Likely, you won't get the same level cup you started with. It's why professional recipes are written in weight, accuracy and consistency.
@@kathyw7369 it's not the volume of the ingredients, it's how ingredientes behave in a recipe. Sawdust absorbs much more water than flour, resulting in less water available for the rest of the dough. You can't swap sugar with salt either. The volume and weight will be the same, but sugar behaves like a liquid in baked goods, leaving the salt dough drier and crumbly as well. When changing a recipe, you need to understand how ingredientes behave. This is why you can't switch recipes from regular flour to gluten free and have it work out exactly the same
@@erickortiz765 I think her point was that splitting up the combinations to total 1.5 cups instead of 228 grams just would have been a totally different line on a taste/ratio graph
If all the cookies needed to be eaten a huge party where everyone gets cookies there and can take home a batch or two should do it.
Since the sawdust is so much lighter than the flour, you should try to do it by volume instead. you might be able to get a higher percentage in the cookies since like you said, the sawdust absorbs liquid faster than the regular flour, which made the higher percentage doughs too dry to form a cookie
I'm not a professional chef of anything, but might I suggest two alternative Christmas cookies that I think might work better?
1. Shortbread. They only have 3 ingredients: flour, sugar, and butter. A recipe for shortbread is both easier to make and it's easier to adjust for how dry the sawdust is. When it gets too crumbly just add more butter.
2. Gingerbread. You can make spices from the needles and use syrup from the tree sap rather than molasses. I don't know what other adjustments you might need, but it has the potential to use more of the tree than just the cellulose.
you are right about the more butter. He would need to offset the absorption factor with more moisture so as you said, more butter. by doing this i'm sure he could have made the 40% cookies.
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round 3 next year lets go
@@erikaholterman4144 its just a bot, ignore it and it will go away.
anyways, i was also under the impression if the dough is too dry, add more wet ingredients. but im not a baker so i don't really know, its just an observation.
I was curious about one thing. The 5th batch of dough, the one that just fell apart, could he have added more amount of binding agents like eggs and butter to give it more of a stable structure? I felt like if he did, the 50% one could've been made too.
Trees, non toxic
Nobody:
Matpat: "I can eat you."
can't wait for him to eat glue and make cookies out of them
If you think of drinking the tree, you can use the needles and infuse it to tea. Also maybe there could be a way to make an syrup out of the wood.
Oliver's pasta art on the fridge while MatPat puts sawdust into cookie dough made my day so much better
You could've tried altering the recipe with more "wet" ingredients to compensate for the sawdusts more absorbant qualities
The best way to test a single variable is to keep everything else constant.
Adding more of other ingredients would throw off the percentage of the cookie that is sawdust, so you may wind up with two batches that, when analyzed, actually have almost the same percentage of sawdust (even though one had more grams put in), but very different ratios of flour to "wet" ingredients.
Agree with this, also if he went with gingerbread instead of sugar cookies he might have been able to get away with more.
@@SgtSupaman Yes but not all substitute ingredients scale by weight. Sugar alternatives like swerve are about 1/4 the weight - its 1-to-1 by volume. Sawdust and flour have different properties and treating it as a 1-to-1 by weight alternative and declaring that you cant get away with higher ratios is wrong. More egg, different wood particle size etc are other ways to adapt.
@@SgtSupaman if the thing they are testing is ability to use wood flower the crumbliness of the dough because rhey didnt use enough water is an additional variable.
Honestly, the biggest problem was that he was going by weight instead of volume. If he kept the volume the same, the cookies would probably have turned out far more consistent. Sure, the first few batches would have a lower percentage by weight but he could make batches with more than 30% sawdust by volume to make up for it.
*spots matpat making christmas cookies*
"Hey mat, what are you baking?"
"Cookies!"
"Whats the flavor?"
*"Tree"*
list of mistakes:
1. trying to add sawdust to a premade mixture
2. substituting based on weight instead of volume
3. 10:07 using a cake batter mixer for cookie dough (that thing ain't powerful enough)
4. SOFTEN THE BUTTER FIRST
5. 13:26 how on earth did he mess up cookie cutters (look at the edges)
the reason the dough was so dark compared to the cookies was because of EMC or Equilibrium Moisture Content, the wood was absorbing the wet ingredients and they evaporated in the oven causing it to lighten up
I was wondering why. Thank you for the explanation.
I wish there was a Food Theory on Santa's caloric intake on Christmas Eve from all the milk and cookies from around the world.
Flying takes a lot of energy.
@@creeperizak8971 but aint the raindeers doing everything while santa just sits on the back?
@@TheAviationGuyID but where else could the energy come from?
@@creeperizak8971 the coockies
That would be an amazing theory
I'm suprised you didn't go over the history of sawdust in the baking industry especially considering it's still sort of used for low calorie breads and "high" fiber breads in the 80's-90's. It'd be perfect for a video on diet foods!
These young girls completely undresses for no reason on the streets of Kingston
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21:02 a way to fix that is to start a cookie delivery business. Since you’d be getting a lot of cookies out of 20% sawdust, by making regular cookies, and seasonal cookies for those special holidays, you could get rid of your tree faster, and be making money. Heck, you can even do a free cookie delivery service in your neighborhood so you won’t be eating those cookies alone. You can have it gone by the end of the year or sooner probably
There is nothing more chaotically charming than one type A personality playing a prank on another type A personality who's getting consistently more suspicious 😂😂😂
Steph: *sees cookies and immediately starts laughing* Did you BAKE something?
Mat: yes I did!
Steph: oh nooooo
True love my friends
@dream women❤ WTF
I always wonder how a guy who makes a living of kooky RUclips channels got a woman like Stephanie and then I remember that Matpat is actually a reasonably handsome man and I don't know how he ended up in this field lol
when you decide to do your science fair on anything food related.
everyone: "Can I eat something that's been on the ground for 5 seconds?"
MatPat: "Can I eat my christmas tree?"
Brew*
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So I’ve cooked with oat fiber before, which is exactly what it sounds like; just pure fiber. You can replace some flour with oat fiber to lower the calories in baked goods. It looks like the saw dust in the video works the same as oat fiber does.
The work around is adding a little more egg to help bind the dough together. If it gets too eggy, reduce the amount of egg and add some plain yogurt.
It’s never the same as the real stuff, but you can get some pretty decent cookies with more protein and fewer calories with some creative changes.
I like how steph gave the utter disgust of the cookie being fill with 30%, and 3 second later she is vibing to the video
I love how he’s turned the chaotic concept of eating your own Christmas tree into a scientific experiment with calculations to back up his work. Any crazy idea becomes science if you apply the right math to it!
well science always was yust becouse you can dosent mean you should
Yeah but it was a little disappointing he only used the wood part of the tree, he could have easily put the needles in the icing. And because of the way he made the dough, he should just have put some more milk/egg/oil in them to make a not too grumbly dough. 50% would have been possible with more liquid ingridients. But yeah it was a neat experiment, just more room up for next year
Credit to steph for keeping up with Matt’s bonkers insane theories
Whenever he says “my friends “it melts my heart
looking forward to this years christmas tree eating idea
I feel as though the experiment would be more successful if the sawdust to flour ratio would have been divided by volume rather than weight seeing as the sawdust weighed so much less than the flour. I'd love to see a revisit. It's plausible to end up with a feasible "dough" with 100% sawdust if done by volume (i.e. 1.5 cups "dry ingredient")
I think compensating in wet ingredients for the absorption factor might help also
yeah if not by volume maybe some changes to the amount of liquid. The amount of dryness is what makes it a bit impossible.
@dream women❤ Wtf
I was going to say this exact same thing. Good thing I checked the comments first. lol
For sure. Also, a page could be taken from gluten free baking. When you’re not using wheat flour and forming gluten to bind things together you need another binder to keep the dough from getting crumbly. A little xanthan gum could go a long way here if he really wanted to make this work.
Watching Stephanie eat those cookies not knowing what was in them, and then later being told, was possibly the most entertaining thing I've seen all year. (Sorry!)
MatPat obviously doesn't know what he's doing in the kitchen cuz he used a whip attachment instead of a paddle
Just sell 10,200 of the home baked cookies and put “plant-based natural flavors” on the label instead of “saw dust”
People never cease to amaze me when they freak out that there are 5 sticks of butter in that cake or that brownie or whatever. That just tells me they don't make any baked goods from scratch
It's like they think they are eating the whole thing at once.
wait, people use that much butter and stuff? you bois are unhealthy
@@maskrlzxw6823 you typically use hella butter if you want moist cake
@@maskrlzxw6823 Are you going to be eating the entirety of that dessert? Most likely not. So even if it took 5 sticks of butter to make it, each serving is only going to have a fraction of that
True true. I just tell them butter=flavor so never be skimpy on dat butter