I forgot to mention it in the video, but we did not pull a vacuum in the oven! It is just vacuum sealed and some air gets pushed out when it's closed. I think pulling a vacuum would have murdered the cookie.
Yeah, goes to show there's a reason why there's recipes for food. Cooking can be viewed as really complex chemistry with cave man crude production methods.
His cookie has just as many bug parts as any other cookie does. Those NIST products and their Standard Reference Material certification is not about purity, but accuracy. They are expensive because they have been tested a bunch of times so the molecular composition of them is fully known, so that they can then be used to calibrate other equipment. The only difference between what he bought and what you'd by in a supermarket, was the NIST stuff sits on a shelf for a decade while the supermarket stuff gets cycled out for freshness.
The secret ingredient is to have seen a single cookie in your life and not freak out about processes that are supposed to happen. Also making multiple batches simultaneously to spread out errors in the product. Ironic, in an attempt to make the cookie with the fewest errors, he introduced the error that is the hardest to erase through precision measurements: The Human Error.
Ohh yeah that's exactly it, I think they could've made better cookies with lab stuff and lab grade stuff if he brought his grandma or at least someones grandma, it had to do with the people and experience in baking. The sugar and flour probably needed to be ground down to be finer, probably needed a lot more of that vanilla powder, and should've sampled the ingredients side by side with their regular quality as well as the whole cookie. Could've milked this into a 2 hr video man. Maybe that'll be the next one and this will be the infamous video that spawns an (actually good tasting) pure cookie video.
As the son of a baker, it's hilarious to see someone so panicked about a cookie craking during baking. You did good for your first time making a cookie.
@@kartr9545 Yeah, exactly. When a homemade bomb "has a crack in it", it can be extremely dangerous, so his natural instinct was to panic when cracks formed on the cookie.
I always thought that he's kinda uninterested, since he asks so few questions but then again maybe he purposefully dials it down as to not annoy him/prolong the video/time to cut? I'm not a chemist, more of a astrophysicist, I'd ask him questions non stop. I'd be the worst cameraman.
@darkdraconis "Uninteresting" you aren't a word smith either apparently. Lol, I'm just messing with you Walter White. Seriously though astrophysics that's pretty fucking cool. What defines that anyway? Bro, you know what's weird!? I understand quantum mechanics more than I understand chemistry.
@@seancarter6492 No, I'm not a wordsmith, just a foreigner speaking English as his 4th language, typos and false friends still sneak in once in a while, even though I am c2 certified :) Astrophysics are the studies of everything that might or might no be happening in space. Quantum physics aren't what's hard to understand since IMHO people can still easily get a grasp at what's what. What really bugs me are things like the fact that I will never "see" a black hole with my own eyes, or the fact that I will never witness 2 neutron stars colliding. There are so many magnificent things on earth and the universe, so many events happening and humanity will see none of them. See as in with our own eyes :/ This realization nearly shoved me into my mid-life crisis
I think a lot of people don't or haven't baked a cookie. It's not as common as people think. Especially in a culture of some people hardly cooking at all and just eating lots of prepackaged foods, fast food, or junk food.
"I've never seen cookie dough before" immediately had me going "yes, that can happen when you've only recently arrived on Earth" because i have extreme difficulty believing anyone could live long enough to get a college education without ever seeing cookies being baked or ads for pre-mixed dough or something like that.
@@omarsayed993 most people on youtube has seen or eating cookies though. I'm brazilian, not one of the cultures within my country bake cookies, yet I still know what they are somewhat know how to make them.
No kidding , if I’m not mistaken he distilled mercury (that may have been Cody’sLab) but I’ve seen him distill stuff that would kill him and his parents whole subdivision in their garage … but watching them so out of their element is vary fun … I recommend the toilet paper moonshine video
This feels like a skit where two aliens try to do something really ordinary and basic to try and fit in with humans and many shenanigans ensue lmaooo I love it
@@Almighty_1I've been cooking my whole life and can easily eyeball the ingredients and cooking times of a stir fry, but I'd probably be just as confused at baking
As someone who bakes for a living, I can’t put into words the emotional roller coaster this video was. Super impressed by the idea but watching a lab baked cookie hurt my soul. And to be cheesy the missing ingredient was love
The fact that Nile knows how to clean up, properly dispose of, and how to neutralize an abundance of different chemicals, but doesn't know cookies tend to have natural cracks when baked is hilarious
It really did seem like he believed he needed to stab a hole in the center of the cookie with his glass rod at 19:15 , and not until his camera operator friend asked "why would you do that?" did it seem occur to him that was a ridiculous thought. You could literally see in his eyes the exact moment when he remembers that cookies don't usually have a hole in the center and that there was no logical reasoning behind his thought that he needed to stab a hole in the cookie.
@@martyjehovahhe was probably remembering his grandmother baking for him as a child and watching her stab the cake to check how done it was. Instinctually applied, incorrectly
As someone who like to make cookies,seeing your complete desperation as the cookie cracks in the oven is like seeing a child worried that their pet fish is gonna drown
No I take my pet fish on a hourly walk and put it in a water-free fishtank. Currently they are napping as they have been for the past 11 months since I baught him
You say that, but during the grape soda bit I kept thinking "Oh, he's just synthesizing this one component and knows that grape soda is, like, a lot more than it." And then he didn't. Oops.
he got pretty OCD about the superconductor having cracks in it too (which involved a fair amount of baking, and he legit bought an (($$$)) oven just for it)
@@TheFinalFrontiersman what does that have to do with anything. Inedible doesn't mean something is not safe for eating. It's just something not suitable for eating. Exactly what the srm packages say lol. They're not suitable for eating because they're really old. They're made to test equipment. The website has the exact dates the samples were processed and packaged on. The wheat specifically is from 2013 iirc.
I adore that they're prepared to spend thousands of dollars on these ingredients but they're seemingly unwilling/ incapable of watching a five minute cookie baking video to get an idea of what they're doing.
Sadly, if they followed scientific procedures they would have make several batches, and hopefully figured out in that time that the coconut oil/butter needs to be SOLID since the physics they skiped (creaming the fat and sugar adds air, and butter at least, melting it will change it's crystalline structure to where it WON'T go back to what it should be) affected the taste.
This is how I imagine a distant future civilization would fabricate cookies based off of a page out of a cookbook in order to experience what it might have been like to be a human living on earth during this time.
I love that Nigel apparently didn't think to try baking a normal cookie first to try the process. He just jumped straight to an inedible $2k lab grade cookie.
Here are a few issues that if addressed could potentially make the cookie better: 1)not creaming the oil like the recipe said and instead melting it. This prevented the fat from incorporating properly, so it all melted out during baking; not to mention the lack of incorporated air resulted in a denser cookie. 2) The pure flour looked like whole flour, not bleached AP flour, so it contained the germ and bran, making it more bitter. Adding more sugar than the recipe called for might have helped counteract that. 3) 100% cacao unsweetened baker’s chocolate was used for the chips, which again is very bitter. I would recommend doing something like heating the chocolate in a double-boiler in a ratio of maybe 60% chocolate, 30% sucrose, 10% coconut oil (kinda arbitrary, would need to be played around with) to create dark chocolate, pouring it out into a mould or something shallow, and then breaking it into chunks. 4) I don’t know for certain, but I wonder if pure ethanol would have made a difference over pure water for dissolving the vanillin. Basically, there wasn’t enough sugar, and due to the oil not being fully incorporated with the other ingredients, it all melted out. That’s where the flavor went.
Should've done that as a control, just to make sure it wasn't his lab equipment or something that ruined the taste instead of the purity of the cookie.
Alchemy from Cookie Clickers.... The prophecies are commencing. He even got a boost from grandma. Stop him before it is too late. Dont let the demons emerge.
The dude spent over $3000 on ingredients and didn't try making an actual batch of cookies with ingredients from his local grocery store. $3000 is like half to a quarter of the price of a used car.
Nigel treats his cookie the way we all would treat radioactive samples, and he treats his radioactive samples the way we treat cookies. He is truly a real chemist.
I knoe really? I want to watch him in the kitchen trying to figure out my old grannie's cookie recipe, which is a list of ingredients and a prayer that it turns out ok, no measurements, no method just 'put these things together and maybe cookies'
it's especially funny when a baking in specific is pretty much a chemistry experiment. you have exact quantities, orders of mixing and time of reaction
I was skeptical the claim that Nileblue had “never seen cookie dough” but then I saw them try to press individual chocolate chips into the surface and I suddenly believed him.
I want to thank you for making these fun videos. I've been going through a tough time lately, and these have both relaxed me, but also amused me and brought a smile to my face. You've got a new follower on all your channels!
I love the fact that Nile during the whole baking process feels like he has never even SEEN a cookie baking before. I'm somewhat sure the cookie was "grainy" since they used so little actual liquid ingredients
The problem is compound. When you "cream" the butter and sugars, the sugars dissolve while adding air pockets into the butter. So that never happened. Also, usually you're using a mix of brown sugar with the white sugar, which not only adds flavor, but also alters the texture. Not knowing what kind of flour that was used, we don't know how much protein (gluten) was in the flour...so that also adjusts the texture. But I think the main culprit is the dried egg. I would assume that some of the fats are missing from the yoik being dehydrated, and the albumen being dried more than likely added to it.
@@kronos6948 It was wheat flour. Wheat flour cookies aren't going to be automatically bad, but that alone would make a very different cookie from any regular one. Reminds me of one time at home I made brownies with olive oil because I was out of nuetral oil😅😂
And seeing him make the cookie into a cookie shape before baking was beyond painful. You are meant to just make a ball and as the butter melts, so does the cookie and then it spreads out into the cookie shape. After allowing it to cool, the butter solidifies and subsequently so does the cookie.
@@Znivs5 the coconut oil replaces this. Notice how the coconut oil was hard and he had to heat it up to melt it so he could get it out of the container? It works (kinda) the same way. It's a substitute. A vegan one, if you think about it.
I am now convinced that Nile has never seen a homemade cookie before, and thats just kinda sad. Anyone who is worried about cracks in a cookie has only ever had supermarket cookies.
Nile is the guy who can recreate an entire chicken from a can of chicken stock and random chemicals, succeed perfectly, and then manage to burn it in the stove trying to cook it.
I think he should just do a joke video like "Hey guys, this is how you take a live chicken, and turn it into a chicken nugget". Literally just a cooking video, but filming it like chemistry content. Putting everything in a fume hood, using gloves, even a respirator to ham it up.
I think he was actually a guest on a different channel that tried to recreate chicken broth with nothing but laboratory chemicals. Can't remember it but I'm sure it's there.
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c I dunno man I have been told by my partner that apparently measuring milk in a measuring jug by the meniscus isn't "how normal people cook" I just do it because that's how I'm used to measuring liquids
Brother, there is nothing 100% pure in this world. The last time my buddy went to the chemical store to buy a bottle of impurities, it was only 99.99% pure.
He needs to do it with his Grandma so that it for sure gets the soul that a cookie needs. Also, use her recipe which is the same recipe he used here, for consistency.
Just showed my mom and dad this video, my dad was legit getting into it, even was doing some calculations himself, even called it that it would taste bland. My mom was like why? just make a regular cookie, but was thoroughly entertained, it didn't even feel like 30 minutes to them. They loved it! My dad wants your grandma to show you how to bake a cookie.
There's not too many ways he could have f-ed up just adding the ingredients together, unless all the equipment were contaminated in ways he as a chemist would make sure they wouldn't. Even if the ratios were wrong, things should still have tasted okay with fresh raw ingredients. It seems more likely that the insane lab grade purification of the ingredients stripped them of all moisture and complex natural aromas and left them extremely musty stale and ... woody. That said, it's hard to see how vanillin and sugar could not still taste of sweet vanilla essence, even if the flour, egg powder and chocolate would be entirely dead and tasteless. He should have tasted the ingredients.
@@dradeel Funnily enough, the ingredients weren't actually lab purified. Those ingredients are expensive because the contaminants are extremely well measured so that you know exactly what's in there, allowing you to test to see if your own scanning machine is functioning properly.
I love how they're like "the cracks could spread and it could crumble". It's like hearing a scientist say "well, we can fully agree that the cookie does in fact crumble, we have the data to prove it"
I love that Nile goes to all the effort and expense to buy all these ingredients but clearly didn’t even bother watching a “how to bake cookies” tutorial video. That said the few mistakes he made weren’t a problem. Love the content Nile
@@Nighterlev Yes, it *is* a vacuum oven. They just didn't use the vacuum feature, but it always seals the door by ejecting a small amount of air. Not enough to do have any effect on the cookie.
Idk i physically cringed at his fear of cracks. The egg wasn't whipped, it could have used more chocolate and maybe some other spices. And looks rather underbacked, I don't think much in the way of maillard reaction occurred, sure didn't brown.
Imagine being hungry for a snack and opening Nigel’s fridge and you see 2 jars of pee, chocolate not for human consumption, and “egg powder” not for human consumption
Nile freaking out the cookie had cracks and the cameraman trying to reassure it was normal, until they were both certain it would just crumble if they baked it more was the highlight of this video imo lmaooo
@@KardKimdashian tasteless cause waters impurities give it flavor it’s like if you could drink pure air or air that you are used to, you don’t taste/smell anything just feel it’s physical attributes
How could someone spend so much money on making a cookie and do SO little research on what it looks like ot bake a normal cookie. I am blown away on so many levels. Well played.
I don't understand what it is about chemists being so bad at cooking. I used to think lowly of myself any my style of cooking cus of all the cooking chemistry stuff I ran into but since then I'm convinced that they're entirely different skill sets. I don't even bake that much and so many parts of this video were so painful to watch because it's clear he has absolutely no idea what he's doing. You'd think with thousands of dollars spent on this and so much time that he would but he just doesn't. At first glance it seems like Explosions&Fire is the more cowboy unprofessional channel but over time I'm coming to understand that he seems to do more research on his projects or at least understand the material better than Nile.
@@DanteTorn I mean I don't think that's a very bold statement to say. Any skillset you'll use in a lab will either be completely different or be applied very differently compared to in a kitchen. Cooking is chemistry in the same way keeping a pool clean is, it's not a lab skill.
Standard reference materials really aren't kidding when they say not for human consumption lmao they're meant to calibrate industrial machinery, they're so so old
I've gone to culinary school, hotel/restaurant management school, worked in F&B for decades...my man, this was fantastically difficult to watch. I absolutely adored it. The fact that it didn't smell like a cookie fresh out of the oven was the icing on the cake. Make lasagna next. I dare you.
Mind if I pick your brain? I’m a second cook at a country club, but I’m always interested in learning. Chef Rob Feenie only comes by now and again, but every time he does I learn something new.
@K9 Man they didn't pull a vacuum, so I think it's just that it's not made out of food. It's made out of chemicals that lack impurities that help give it flavor. Plus, it's lab grade and says "not for human consumption"
The intense fretting about the cookie exterior "cracking" as if it going to be used as a structural bridge support when finished, was hilarious. I'm not sure if he's ever made a baked good from scratch in his life.
There was an episode of Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom where the Queen baked cookies - or biscuits, I suppose? - which were so hard and dry they were eventually used as bricks and roof tiles. Maybe Nile watched it at some point and thought that's how cookies were supposed to be?
My wife watched this video with me and was aghast. She said, “this is painful to watch.” And at one point was yelling, “stop kneading it so much, you’ll make the cookie too tough!” 😂
This feels like an episode of Jimmy Neutron where he would try to make cookies better than his mom with chemistry and realizes nothing beats homemade cookies
@@EvilApple567 which is why they are taking the "human" out of everything. peaople can STOP it by REFUSING to work for FREE at self-checkout but see most peaople trendies just eating it up are there any fucking TRAILBLAZERS left in this world?!?
Tom Scott did a video on the Standard Reference Materials. They're not actually supposed to be pure, they're just standardized. Meaning that if you buy them, you get a list of the exact chemical make up of the material so you know exactly what's it in, down to the last molecule. They come with a certificate of analysis to prove this. That chocolate is just chocolate, but it comes with the most exact list of ingredients you can think of. Nile just made the most standardized cookie.
It's not just a standard list of ingredients, it's usually a composite of a large amount of samples mixed into one, that has had very in-depth characterisation of all it's components performed. Not just what's in it, but how much of that thing, all done to an insane level of precision. These are the products used to ensure that your instrument that you're using to test a bunch of unknown species is giving the correct response when tested on something extremely well known.
It probably is the most standardized cookie ever made, but still nowhere close to NIST standards. No clean room? Spilling grains of sucrose on the scale? No calipers when forming the cookie? The ingredients and the oven were excellent, but the recipe and process have a lot of room for improvement.
Quite. The video is actually a little misleading (though clearly not intentionally) as this is indeed just the most standardized cookie, at least if you follow the author's recipe to the letter. I'm not sure it is any more 'pure' for that reason. In fact, you could make the opposite argument. Depends how you define 'cookie'. I can tell ya, my grandma's cookies are definitely pure cookies. They look, taste and smell like cookies, and they're made with cookie ingredients. This cookie on the other hand was made with the ingredients for cookie ingredients.
as someone who’s been cooking by myself since i was 8 it’s absolutely hilarious watching this very intelligent man freaking out over small cracks in a cookie
How much could it cost, 5000 Earth Money? (P. S. I know USD isn't universal Earth money, personally I live in an Euro country and I've never even been to the US)
I bake cookies all the time. Notes: the flour was extremely fine, probably leading to a strange texture and flavor; the "egg" looks like literally just the chemicals in egg, which makes sense, but the structural benefits of eggs makes the cookie "cookie"; the sugar, I've really no idea how it didn't taste sweet, maybe just not enough sugar; normally, you need to whip the sugar and fat (in your case coconut) together into a sort of cream before adding egg, mixing more at that stage may've given better results; also no idea what went wrong with the vanilla, I use imitation vanilla all the time which works, but I'm not sure what the difference is between that and what you made. Overall, the cookie looked good, but by the reactions something went wrong. I would've added more sugar and chocolate. Maybe next time you've got a few thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket, you can buy more flour and try again.
Powdered egg works just fine for baking purposes. The weird egg texture is just how a completely mixed egg looks like, as all the structure would be broken down. The only thing that matters is the reaction of the egg proteins when heated up, that's how high fat doughs like that retain the ability to firm up while baking.
Imagine Nile as a child making his mother a cookie: "Mom, I wanted to create the perfect cookie for you. I pursued this idea of perfection through the purity of ingredients, drawing from my chemistry knowledge. But in doing so, I realized that the perfect cookie isn't just about the purest ingredients. Cooking is an art, and it's the balance of different flavors and textures that makes a dish truly enjoyable. The cookie I made might not have turned out as I had imagined. But through this journey, I've learned something invaluable: that the essence of cooking lies not just in the ingredients we use but in the love, creativity, and balance we put into it. I promise you that my next cookie will be baked with all of this in mind. I may have stumbled on this attempt, but I'm excited to try again and make a cookie that's truly special, not just in its ingredients, but in its essence."
@@thoracicformula actually i think baking is more about emotion. i have my grandmas snickerdoodle recipe and it doesn't taste anything like hers unless you are beyond furious at someone. we call them spite cookies.
As a frequent baker of non-lab grade cookies, this causes me both immense pain and chaotic joy. The proportion varies from moment to moment depending on what words are said in response to what it looks like
... no brown sugar ... somebody needs to educate those scientists on how a cookie is made... and I hate baking I've failed it twice in cullunary school so like I'm not even passionate about baking I just know better
I forgot to mention it in the video, but we did not pull a vacuum in the oven! It is just vacuum sealed and some air gets pushed out when it's closed. I think pulling a vacuum would have murdered the cookie.
I was afraid you ruined the cookie due the vacuum sucking all the succulent smells out
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All good!
Good call 👍
Watching two men who have never baked a cookie bake a $5k cookie is an experience
you are a men watcher
@@marvin19966 we watch men indeed
@@nox6438i watch men watch men in the comments, we are not the same
nah the camera guy definitely baked cookies before
@@kayburcky7146 i watch men that watch men watch men in the comments, we are doppelgängers
The cameraman coaching Nile through basic baking practices was truly the blind leading the blind.
Truly one of the baking videos on RUclips.
@HansMaximum Some might even call it one of the baking videos of all time!
Lmfao op. But ya he should get a Guinness for worlds first lab cookie XP
That is why they would go with science degrees instead of culinary ones
Like watching a human explain to an alien how desserts work.
you can tell where nile goes from chemist to cook because his confidence immediately plummets
"IT'S CRACKING WE GOTTA GET IT OUT OF THERE"
Which is hilarious, because the precision of baking goes well with the precision of chemistry.
The worst baker ever lol
low-key I wonder if the "failure" is just his inability to cook
Cooking is a form of chemistry lmao
So from what I understand, the secret ingredient to baking really is love. And some bug parts.
Yeah, goes to show there's a reason why there's recipes for food. Cooking can be viewed as really complex chemistry with cave man crude production methods.
His cookie has just as many bug parts as any other cookie does.
Those NIST products and their Standard Reference Material certification is not about purity, but accuracy. They are expensive because they have been tested a bunch of times so the molecular composition of them is fully known, so that they can then be used to calibrate other equipment.
The only difference between what he bought and what you'd by in a supermarket, was the NIST stuff sits on a shelf for a decade while the supermarket stuff gets cycled out for freshness.
And probably some mice parts as well
The secret ingredient is to have seen a single cookie in your life and not freak out about processes that are supposed to happen. Also making multiple batches simultaneously to spread out errors in the product.
Ironic, in an attempt to make the cookie with the fewest errors, he introduced the error that is the hardest to erase through precision measurements: The Human Error.
Yeah,but it's hard to find pure love
This feels like watching "scientist who has never seen or heard of a cookie is tasked with making one" for 28 minutes. loved every second of it
Ohh yeah that's exactly it, I think they could've made better cookies with lab stuff and lab grade stuff if he brought his grandma or at least someones grandma, it had to do with the people and experience in baking. The sugar and flour probably needed to be ground down to be finer, probably needed a lot more of that vanilla powder, and should've sampled the ingredients side by side with their regular quality as well as the whole cookie. Could've milked this into a 2 hr video man. Maybe that'll be the next one and this will be the infamous video that spawns an (actually good tasting) pure cookie video.
aliens invading earth be like:
That appears to be the case.
I like all of the comments pointing out that Nigel behaves as if he's never seen a cookie in his life.
"I actually don't know what cookie dough looks like." I think you're correct.
As the son of a baker, it's hilarious to see someone so panicked about a cookie craking during baking. You did good for your first time making a cookie.
I’m like, “what kind of non-cracked cookies does he eat?”
it's so funny seeing this experienced chemist being so clueless at something i'm familiar with
Well think of the differences then. You are familiar with making cookies, and he knows how to make bombs easily in his lab.
@@kartr9545 Yeah, exactly. When a homemade bomb "has a crack in it", it can be extremely dangerous, so his natural instinct was to panic when cracks formed on the cookie.
@@BakaTaco understandably so
Nigel: *turns gloves into grape soda*
also Nigel: *has never seen cookie dough*
Isnt it supposed to be nile
@@SdSd.01 nigel is his real name
Oh ok this is my second time watching so sorry
@@SdSd.01 You're good, I've watched him many times and also didn't know his real name until looking at comments on this video.
How has he never seen cookie dough 😭
I love the camera man, he clearly doesn't understand these things as much as Nile, but his interest seems quite genuine. I definitely respect that.
I always thought that he's kinda uninterested, since he asks so few questions but then again maybe he purposefully dials it down as to not annoy him/prolong the video/time to cut?
I'm not a chemist, more of a astrophysicist, I'd ask him questions non stop.
I'd be the worst cameraman.
@darkdraconis "Uninteresting" you aren't a word smith either apparently. Lol, I'm just messing with you Walter White. Seriously though astrophysics that's pretty fucking cool. What defines that anyway?
Bro, you know what's weird!? I understand quantum mechanics more than I understand chemistry.
@@seancarter6492 No, I'm not a wordsmith, just a foreigner speaking English as his 4th language, typos and false friends still sneak in once in a while, even though I am c2 certified :)
Astrophysics are the studies of everything that might or might no be happening in space.
Quantum physics aren't what's hard to understand since IMHO people can still easily get a grasp at what's what.
What really bugs me are things like the fact that I will never "see" a black hole with my own eyes, or the fact that I will never witness 2 neutron stars colliding.
There are so many magnificent things on earth and the universe, so many events happening and humanity will see none of them.
See as in with our own eyes :/
This realization nearly shoved me into my mid-life crisis
Do you really though, Sean?
@666lianne666 .... Uhh, yes? 😆
The fact that Nile is more comfortable with making super dangerous stuff like Chromyl Chloride than baking cookies is just hilarious.
I think a lot of people don't or haven't baked a cookie. It's not as common as people think. Especially in a culture of some people hardly cooking at all and just eating lots of prepackaged foods, fast food, or junk food.
"I've never seen cookie dough before" immediately had me going "yes, that can happen when you've only recently arrived on Earth" because i have extreme difficulty believing anyone could live long enough to get a college education without ever seeing cookies being baked or ads for pre-mixed dough or something like that.
@@kingmorgan5047not everyone lives in America, not everyone has cookies in their culture
@@omarsayed993 most people on youtube has seen or eating cookies though. I'm brazilian, not one of the cultures within my country bake cookies, yet I still know what they are somewhat know how to make them.
@@omarsayed993 Nile is Canadian.
Him calmly handling substances that could easily kill him but panicking about making a cookie is absolutely hilarious
Fr😭
Not all the substances that could kill him cost $5000 lmao
No kidding , if I’m not mistaken he distilled mercury (that may have been Cody’sLab) but I’ve seen him distill stuff that would kill him and his parents whole subdivision in their garage … but watching them so out of their element is vary fun … I recommend the toilet paper moonshine video
@@evelyncarsten6660i'd rather lose 5k than burn my face
@@evelyncarsten6660 the person is talking ab other videos not this one
This feels like a skit where two aliens try to do something really ordinary and basic to try and fit in with humans and many shenanigans ensue lmaooo I love it
Not knowing ANYTHING about cooking and baking at their age is depressing
@@Almighty_1yeah but their alchemy offsets the depressing parts
@@Almighty_1I think you need to turn your empathy down a bit
@@gooseinatuxedo I don't think you understand the meaning of empathy
@@Almighty_1I've been cooking my whole life and can easily eyeball the ingredients and cooking times of a stir fry, but I'd probably be just as confused at baking
As someone who bakes for a living, I can’t put into words the emotional roller coaster this video was. Super impressed by the idea but watching a lab baked cookie hurt my soul. And to be cheesy the missing ingredient was love
And butter lmao
& a fume hood!!! Lol 😮😢😅
SFMF's 🦅🌎⚓
Love is an impurity actually
Love. The secret ingredient
It was replaced with curiosity)
The fact that Nile knows how to clean up, properly dispose of, and how to neutralize an abundance of different chemicals, but doesn't know cookies tend to have natural cracks when baked is hilarious
You forgot that the cookie does not need to be smacked by a glass rod 😂
It really did seem like he believed he needed to stab a hole in the center of the cookie with his glass rod at 19:15 , and not until his camera operator friend asked "why would you do that?" did it seem occur to him that was a ridiculous thought. You could literally see in his eyes the exact moment when he remembers that cookies don't usually have a hole in the center and that there was no logical reasoning behind his thought that he needed to stab a hole in the cookie.
@@martyjehovahhe was probably remembering his grandmother baking for him as a child and watching her stab the cake to check how done it was. Instinctually applied, incorrectly
@@THEBIGGUY5000why not?
XD
I’m glad that Nile has a cameraman who guides him through the human experience
yea. god bless for cameraman!
Mispelled Experience with Experiment
the design is very human
Yeah he has to constantly remind Nile how to be human
The camera man needs some help too fr
I love how Nile can turn gloves into hot sauce and paint into soda, but not cookie dough into a cookie.
Ikr
It was pain thinner into soda but yea lol😂
Lmfao
Don't forget Diamonds into water!!
@@Ed-zc5ythe did both
I respect the fact that he's truthful. He could have just acted like it was the best cookie ever and we'd have no way of knowing if it really is.
As someone who like to make cookies,seeing your complete desperation as the cookie cracks in the oven is like seeing a child worried that their pet fish is gonna drown
LMAOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Nile is the type of guy that wants everything perfect
😂😂😂
No I take my pet fish on a hourly walk and put it in a water-free fishtank. Currently they are napping as they have been for the past 11 months since I baught him
I’ve read through comments and yours is my FAVORITE!it absolutely encapsulates te entire experience. lol..
Can you synthesize grape soda from rubber gloves?
Nile: Yeah, easily!
Can you make a chocolate chip cookie?
Nile: hell nah that shits hard
Harder than making hot sauce from gloves??
True
Best comment
Step one: boil water
Nile: "what am i a chemist?"
You say that, but during the grape soda bit I kept thinking "Oh, he's just synthesizing this one component and knows that grape soda is, like, a lot more than it."
And then he didn't.
Oops.
I love how Nile genuinely seems more worried about the cookie cracking than he has ever seemed doing any experiment
Nigel when the food he made isn't perfectly uniform in shape, color, texture and taste:
"I think this is ruined, so I'll just have to start over."
Don't know, ive seen a few " I have this substance, and I *REEAAALLY* want to burn it" type videos.
Ive been convinced that Nile has literally never seen a cookie in his life before
he got pretty OCD about the superconductor having cracks in it too (which involved a fair amount of baking, and he legit bought an (($$$)) oven just for it)
*Nigel
23:11 who could have known that putting multiple ingredients marked as not safe for human consumption would make cookies inedible!
They aren't marked 'not safe', just 'not' for human consumption, notably
@@TheFinalFrontiersman what does that have to do with anything. Inedible doesn't mean something is not safe for eating. It's just something not suitable for eating. Exactly what the srm packages say lol.
They're not suitable for eating because they're really old. They're made to test equipment. The website has the exact dates the samples were processed and packaged on. The wheat specifically is from 2013 iirc.
Tbf its marked not for human consumption because youre not supposed to eat anything in a lab.
@@maybelater1464lmao no wonder it's bland af
I adore that they're prepared to spend thousands of dollars on these ingredients but they're seemingly unwilling/ incapable of watching a five minute cookie baking video to get an idea of what they're doing.
Yet he looks up a video of distilling vanilla extract to determine the chemical composition. XD
dorks
Sadly, if they followed scientific procedures they would have make several batches, and hopefully figured out in that time that the coconut oil/butter needs to be SOLID since the physics they skiped (creaming the fat and sugar adds air, and butter at least, melting it will change it's crystalline structure to where it WON'T go back to what it should be) affected the taste.
@@mwater_moon2865 That's a good point, I was annoyed that they melted the coconut too.
@@mwater_moon2865it would be amazing to see them try to make profiteroles with their just having the ingredients and proportions but no steps 😂
This is how I imagine a distant future civilization would fabricate cookies based off of a page out of a cookbook in order to experience what it might have been like to be a human living on earth during this time.
“Honey, did they use chicken eggs at that time?”
OMG THAT'S HORRIBLE! I can definitely imagine another future civilization creating cookies with this recipe in mind thinking that this is what we ATE!
I sure hope the have a better cookie than this one
This entire video feels like a creature unfamiliar with humans nervously attempting to recreate our food
except they will be buying non-pure ingredients for $1000 each
I love that Nigel apparently didn't think to try baking a normal cookie first to try the process. He just jumped straight to an inedible $2k lab grade cookie.
Nigel? 😂
@@sinenomine7405 That's his name
You're so right. He also had access to an EXPERT CONSULTANT, Nana would have set him straight. Grandmothers everywhere are cringing.
@@sinenomine7405 did you just lost some braincell bro ?
Using a vacuum oven when the whole point of baking soda is to create bubbles 🤦
Here are a few issues that if addressed could potentially make the cookie better: 1)not creaming the oil like the recipe said and instead melting it. This prevented the fat from incorporating properly, so it all melted out during baking; not to mention the lack of incorporated air resulted in a denser cookie. 2) The pure flour looked like whole flour, not bleached AP flour, so it contained the germ and bran, making it more bitter. Adding more sugar than the recipe called for might have helped counteract that. 3) 100% cacao unsweetened baker’s chocolate was used for the chips, which again is very bitter. I would recommend doing something like heating the chocolate in a double-boiler in a ratio of maybe 60% chocolate, 30% sucrose, 10% coconut oil (kinda arbitrary, would need to be played around with) to create dark chocolate, pouring it out into a mould or something shallow, and then breaking it into chunks. 4) I don’t know for certain, but I wonder if pure ethanol would have made a difference over pure water for dissolving the vanillin.
Basically, there wasn’t enough sugar, and due to the oil not being fully incorporated with the other ingredients, it all melted out. That’s where the flavor went.
This is what I actually thought “making it from scratch” meant as a kid
100% same
to truely create a cookie from scratch, you 1st must create the universe
@@BartekJuszczak all except the egg which is pretty neat to see it still worked as a powder
For a second, I naively thought he would try to make flour and sugar and... from lab ingredients 🥲
@@andrewmackay907 I know what I must do
Man, the fact that he didn't try to bake regular cookies before making this one just to know the process is wild.
Should've done that as a control, just to make sure it wasn't his lab equipment or something that ruined the taste instead of the purity of the cookie.
It was irking the shit out of me especially considering how much those ingredients are
Hurts my soul
fur reals, oh no its cracking oh no,,,,,,has he never even ate a real cookie?
You're expecting too much of this guy... Nile red in the other hand
This feels like watching a 5 year old bake cookies with his dad but the 5 year old is somehow also a chemist with an adult vocabulary
So he's just Dexter from Dexter's laboratory lmao
Young sheldon
@guto dexter had a much different demeanor than your average 5-year-old
@@cgguto Poindexter
Calvin and Hobbes.
25:02 Conclusion the bugs make the cookie
Good point 😂
im a pastry chef and this was absolutely hilarious to watch, especially nile freaking out about the cracks.
I'm just a normal person who has baked a d I was dying at the freak out about cracks
lmao yes! as bakers we've made atrocities compared to the cute little clump nile made
He was saving the cookie
Alchemy from Cookie Clickers.... The prophecies are commencing. He even got a boost from grandma.
Stop him before it is too late. Dont let the demons emerge.
The dude spent over $3000 on ingredients and didn't try making an actual batch of cookies with ingredients from his local grocery store.
$3000 is like half to a quarter of the price of a used car.
Nigel treats his cookie the way we all would treat radioactive samples, and he treats his radioactive samples the way we treat cookies. He is truly a real chemist.
@chickenman thegod well i guess he eats some of them maybe💀
@@Eldante87this isn’t a joke, pls stab me
He seems more disgusted by the cookie than he does by what's dubbed the worst smelling liquid in the world.
@chickenmanthegod1069 he drank cheery soda which was made by paint thinner and carbon tetrachloride which is internationally banned 💀
@chickenmanthegod1069ngl uranyl nitrate goes hard on the chips 😋
I can’t believe Nile didn’t practice baking a normal set of cookies first
It would’ve ruined the whole video. Watching them stumble through it is hilarious.
Exactly my thought. You would think he would test first with flower THAT'S NOT FUCKING 1000$
@@val_val_ ah yes flower🌻
@@alanpeter5527 yes of course, everyone knows that you bake cookies with some good flowers lol
Absolutely needs to be a control cookie, thats like basic science.
11:28 "This is not an exact science." I want you to pause the video and look at what's happening here, then tell yourself it's not an exact science.
Nigel can turn gloves into grape soda but ordinary baking is completely beyond him 😂😂
He used vanillin to make hot sauce, but have not idea how to use it normally.
He can also make cherry soda with paint thinner
I knoe really? I want to watch him in the kitchen trying to figure out my old grannie's cookie recipe, which is a list of ingredients and a prayer that it turns out ok, no measurements, no method just 'put these things together and maybe cookies'
it's especially funny when a baking in specific is pretty much a chemistry experiment. you have exact quantities, orders of mixing and time of reaction
@@Ziyanani lmao, sounds like one of these recipes my autistic ass would look at and go "guess no cookies for me then" xD
This feels like I'm watching someone from the future trying to bake for the 1st time an ancient recipe known as 'the cookie'
literally😭😭
same
That's why in The Matrix they think everything tastes like chicken.
Marvelous❤🎉
"It tastes terrible. It must have been used only for ceremonial purposes."
I was skeptical the claim that Nileblue had “never seen cookie dough” but then I saw them try to press individual chocolate chips into the surface and I suddenly believed him.
He also presmashed the cookie into the cookie shape which it's what tipped me off.
@@rehmsmeyer should have made it into a ball shape
when he started panicking about it cracking on its edges
He also at one point in time did not know chocolate came from cocoa fruit.
So basically Nileblue should study food science
I want to thank you for making these fun videos. I've been going through a tough time lately, and these have both relaxed me, but also amused me and brought a smile to my face. You've got a new follower on all your channels!
I love the fact that Nile during the whole baking process feels like he has never even SEEN a cookie baking before. I'm somewhat sure the cookie was "grainy" since they used so little actual liquid ingredients
Yeah he didn’t dissolve his sugar at all either lol
And mixed with a little spatula in a beaker
wheat flour is grainy nearly every recipe uses white flour
The problem is compound. When you "cream" the butter and sugars, the sugars dissolve while adding air pockets into the butter. So that never happened. Also, usually you're using a mix of brown sugar with the white sugar, which not only adds flavor, but also alters the texture. Not knowing what kind of flour that was used, we don't know how much protein (gluten) was in the flour...so that also adjusts the texture.
But I think the main culprit is the dried egg. I would assume that some of the fats are missing from the yoik being dehydrated, and the albumen being dried more than likely added to it.
@@kronos6948 It was wheat flour. Wheat flour cookies aren't going to be automatically bad, but that alone would make a very different cookie from any regular one. Reminds me of one time at home I made brownies with olive oil because I was out of nuetral oil😅😂
It absolutely FASCINATES me how similar Chemistry and Cooking are and yet Nile is just completely out of his element the second it becomes food.
This video is hilarious compared to how ridiculously high quality his chocolate was
Like Dr. Stone
@@gemhunter498 was it?
@Sean Brogan Yeah those pure reference samples are ridiculously expensive
I think one of the things that differ is that cooking is very nuanced
Nile is the epitome of never setting foot outside of a lab. No way he doesn't know that cookies naturally has cracks 😭
Nile has me literally rethinking the phrase:
“Cooking is art, baking is chemistry”
Dude other people in the comments were questioning it too…… like were people raised on mars?!!
And seeing him make the cookie into a cookie shape before baking was beyond painful. You are meant to just make a ball and as the butter melts, so does the cookie and then it spreads out into the cookie shape. After allowing it to cool, the butter solidifies and subsequently so does the cookie.
@@Ripa-Moramee to be fair he wasn't using butter
@@Znivs5 the coconut oil replaces this. Notice how the coconut oil was hard and he had to heat it up to melt it so he could get it out of the container? It works (kinda) the same way. It's a substitute. A vegan one, if you think about it.
I am now convinced that Nile has never seen a homemade cookie before, and thats just kinda sad.
Anyone who is worried about cracks in a cookie has only ever had supermarket cookies.
For some reason this is exactly how I'd expect a scientist who's never baked a cookie would bake a cookie.
Nile is the guy who can recreate an entire chicken from a can of chicken stock and random chemicals, succeed perfectly, and then manage to burn it in the stove trying to cook it.
no, you can't do that, you ding dong. go to school
@@ProtiumPower same tbh
@@ProtiumPower Give him a few years
I think he should just do a joke video like "Hey guys, this is how you take a live chicken, and turn it into a chicken nugget". Literally just a cooking video, but filming it like chemistry content. Putting everything in a fume hood, using gloves, even a respirator to ham it up.
I think he was actually a guest on a different channel that tried to recreate chicken broth with nothing but laboratory chemicals. Can't remember it but I'm sure it's there.
This is everything I imagined a scientist trying to bake would be like
Nah, I think most scientists would act like regular people when cooking or at home.
@@user-gu9yq5sj7ci think its more to the joke idea that scientists are hyper nerds about everything, not just about science
@@user-gu9yq5sj7c I dunno man I have been told by my partner that apparently measuring milk in a measuring jug by the meniscus isn't "how normal people cook" I just do it because that's how I'm used to measuring liquids
they do say that baking is a science
Brother, there is nothing 100% pure in this world. The last time my buddy went to the chemical store to buy a bottle of impurities, it was only 99.99% pure.
Great grandma right there. Still cooks, still experimenting, and actually able to write out good detailed recipes
10/10
Nile: *this is potentially dangerous*
Also Nile: *goes in for a second bite*
Also also Nile: gives the cookie to someone else
Potentially
Certainly*
The label stated, "not for human consumption".
@@earlgrey4976 Jarate!
NileRed: Uses witchcraft to transmute plastic gloves into grape soda
NileBlue: "What does cookie dough look like?"
Those are two very separate skills.
I love how this comment is right below the one you copied lmao
We need a sequel where you just normally bake a cookie now.
"Baking an Impure Cookie"
Yeah there was no control. Use the same ingredients form the store.
@@dabiga2315 ThInK Of tHe fLaVoUrS!
I watched this guy absolutely butcher one cookie why would you want to watch him butcher another😢
He needs to do it with his Grandma so that it for sure gets the soul that a cookie needs. Also, use her recipe which is the same recipe he used here, for consistency.
This cookie contains no more than 0.00000001% love.
You won't find love in these cookies, but you will find science.
Fun fact: Nile is confused about baking a cookie, because he normally only eats chemistry
his usual food is all made from random stuff like gloves or paint thinner, not actual ingredients
Just showed my mom and dad this video, my dad was legit getting into it, even was doing some calculations himself, even called it that it would taste bland. My mom was like why? just make a regular cookie, but was thoroughly entertained, it didn't even feel like 30 minutes to them. They loved it! My dad wants your grandma to show you how to bake a cookie.
Same reaction from my mother. She was not impressed and kept questioning what he got out of it. She doesn't get science
Thats wholesome 😌
@@tyroneroche14 a video this is his job.
who *couldnt* call that it was gonna taste bland? lol
@@SpydersByte To be honest, I was thinking it would have a taste.
21:51 "Earthlings look, we made your 'cookie' ! "
Funniest comment ever
I love how clear it is that neither of you have baked anything before.
Idk it kinda seems like they've been baked themselves before lol
I hate baking. Sautee all day every day for me!
I feel like as a scientist he should have made a control batch of cookies from his grandma’s recipe before attempting this.
yeah that would have been a good idea! I honestly think he just fucked up making the cookie and it wasn't necessarily the ingredients.
for real
There's not too many ways he could have f-ed up just adding the ingredients together, unless all the equipment were contaminated in ways he as a chemist would make sure they wouldn't. Even if the ratios were wrong, things should still have tasted okay with fresh raw ingredients. It seems more likely that the insane lab grade purification of the ingredients stripped them of all moisture and complex natural aromas and left them extremely musty stale and ... woody. That said, it's hard to see how vanillin and sugar could not still taste of sweet vanilla essence, even if the flour, egg powder and chocolate would be entirely dead and tasteless. He should have tasted the ingredients.
@@dradeel Funnily enough, the ingredients weren't actually lab purified. Those ingredients are expensive because the contaminants are extremely well measured so that you know exactly what's in there, allowing you to test to see if your own scanning machine is functioning properly.
@@michielvansteenhoven7255 nah the recipe was fine, it was definitely the ingredients. the flour he used was over 10 years old
I love how they're like "the cracks could spread and it could crumble".
It's like hearing a scientist say "well, we can fully agree that the cookie does in fact crumble, we have the data to prove it"
"Not for human consumption" makes Nile very happy cause he knows it straight going in his stomach.
I like how he can wait multiple hours for a reaction to happen but waiting ten minutes for a cookie is ripping him apart from the inside
DAYS!
I don’t think Nile has ever seen a cookie before, let alone bake or eat one. Are we sure he hasn’t been locked in this lab his whole life?
-he got kidnapped by mark rober for years to create glitterbombs-
To be honest, we haven't seen him outside of his lab so yeah
@@bag_o_chipye we have seen him out of the lab
@@bag_o_chipPolaroid
@@bag_o_chip I mean, he *did* break into the Polaroid labs
He grew up playing in his garage and making fireworks and crazy stuff. He did a podcast talking about his childhood! 100% recommend
The fact that this is probably the most "normal" thing Nigel's done and he seems more uncomfortable than in any other video is hilarious to me. 😂
wholesomely hilarious
idk who haven't made moonshine from toilet paper before?
@@TonyRueb Or turned plastic gloves into hot sauce or grape soda?
he cant be normal lol
He made chocolate before which is another example of "nile does regular cooking and is incredibly clueless"
"This cookie is made out of 100% natural ingredients, no chemicals🥰🥰🥰"
Meanwhile, the ingredients:
I love that Nile goes to all the effort and expense to buy all these ingredients but clearly didn’t even bother watching a “how to bake cookies” tutorial video. That said the few mistakes he made weren’t a problem. Love the content Nile
🤣
I'd think the vacuum oven is probably a major factor in why it didn't work.
@@Nighterlev Yes, it *is* a vacuum oven. They just didn't use the vacuum feature, but it always seals the door by ejecting a small amount of air.
Not enough to do have any effect on the cookie.
(His name's Nigel.)
Idk i physically cringed at his fear of cracks. The egg wasn't whipped, it could have used more chocolate and maybe some other spices. And looks rather underbacked, I don't think much in the way of maillard reaction occurred, sure didn't brown.
Imagine being hungry for a snack and opening Nigel’s fridge and you see 2 jars of pee, chocolate not for human consumption, and “egg powder” not for human consumption
Jarate
Yeah just drink the piss at least that was in a human at some time ;P
@@OmerKing916 *jarate
@@skinwalker69420 thanks
Looking for a nibble in a fuckin lab
Camera man reassuring nile that the cracking and it being soft before it cools is just how cookies work was brilliant XD
LMAOOOO Bro is the happiest person on Earth, dude is always smiling lol
Nile freaking out the cookie had cracks and the cameraman trying to reassure it was normal, until they were both certain it would just crumble if they baked it more was the highlight of this video imo lmaooo
sometimes i get self conscious that i’ll never be as smart as people like him. but now i know at least i know how to bake a cookie
That's the spirit !
I wonder how the pure water tastes
@@KardKimdashian it tastes pure
@@KardKimdashian tasteless cause waters impurities give it flavor it’s like if you could drink pure air or air that you are used to, you don’t taste/smell anything just feel it’s physical attributes
@@zaster101 indeed, I miss water with the sense of metal.
I love how it's probably his first time ever baking cookies. The fact that his first cookie was made in a lab made me laugh
I was flabbergasted when he said “I don’t know what cookie dough looks like”
@@BengalGecko or when he was panicking about the cracks in the cookie 😂
I just hate it when my cookies aren't scientifically certified to be 100% pure cookie. Thank you for this tutorial.
The cracks forming on the cookies and Nigel panicking is the ultimate sign of how much of a perfectionist he is
theres cracks forming on it what will we doo????
meanwhile every cookie ive ever seen had more cracks than my local sidewalks
no, it's a sign of how little preparatory research he did for such an expensive procedure. Very silly.
So the next stage is to run a batch of 1000 and quantify an acceptable number and size of the cracks.
I mean it seems He spent a alot of money on it. if i were to buy something really expensive i would want it to be perfect
Well, cracks in the cookie are kinda unavoidable due to how it bakes with crust forming while inside still expands
Props to camera man for staying sane throughout the baking process.
I would've had an aneurysm
I admire his patience lol
Rookie baker knows NOTHING
How could someone spend so much money on making a cookie and do SO little research on what it looks like ot bake a normal cookie. I am blown away on so many levels. Well played.
I don't understand what it is about chemists being so bad at cooking. I used to think lowly of myself any my style of cooking cus of all the cooking chemistry stuff I ran into but since then I'm convinced that they're entirely different skill sets. I don't even bake that much and so many parts of this video were so painful to watch because it's clear he has absolutely no idea what he's doing. You'd think with thousands of dollars spent on this and so much time that he would but he just doesn't.
At first glance it seems like Explosions&Fire is the more cowboy unprofessional channel but over time I'm coming to understand that he seems to do more research on his projects or at least understand the material better than Nile.
@@DanteTorn I mean I don't think that's a very bold statement to say. Any skillset you'll use in a lab will either be completely different or be applied very differently compared to in a kitchen. Cooking is chemistry in the same way keeping a pool clean is, it's not a lab skill.
@@DanteTorn Either way the fact he didn't know what cookie dough looked like or how to bake a cookie at all was still stupid on his part, I agree
@@DanteTorn one of my ex's (wonderful woman) is a PhD chemist and loves baking and cake decorating. and her baked goods are delicious!
Sounds more like an engineer than a chemist
Standard reference materials really aren't kidding when they say not for human consumption lmao they're meant to calibrate industrial machinery, they're so so old
I've gone to culinary school, hotel/restaurant management school, worked in F&B for decades...my man, this was fantastically difficult to watch. I absolutely adored it. The fact that it didn't smell like a cookie fresh out of the oven was the icing on the cake.
Make lasagna next. I dare you.
I think the vacuum sealed oven took all the smells out.
Mind if I pick your brain? I’m a second cook at a country club, but I’m always interested in learning. Chef Rob Feenie only comes by now and again, but every time he does I learn something new.
@K9 Man they didn't pull a vacuum, so I think it's just that it's not made out of food. It's made out of chemicals that lack impurities that help give it flavor. Plus, it's lab grade and says "not for human consumption"
how does one acquire lab grade beef? 😂
From a lab grade cow, duh...
the more i see Nigel do something not chemistry related the more i think he was born inside a lab and never left before.
Nigel was synthesized in a lab from pure chemical ingredients. He is the only 100% pure human being.
I am more amazed that you doubt that fact.
lmao this got me good lol, that really is the vibe ha ha
hes like an alien who just landed on earth
The intense fretting about the cookie exterior "cracking" as if it going to be used as a structural bridge support when finished, was hilarious. I'm not sure if he's ever made a baked good from scratch in his life.
i mean, he said he's never seen cookie dough before
There was an episode of Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom where the Queen baked cookies - or biscuits, I suppose? - which were so hard and dry they were eventually used as bricks and roof tiles. Maybe Nile watched it at some point and thought that's how cookies were supposed to be?
He heard Carl Sagan say "To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" and decided to take it to heart
My wife watched this video with me and was aghast. She said, “this is painful to watch.” And at one point was yelling, “stop kneading it so much, you’ll make the cookie too tough!” 😂
NOTHING in the history of Nile's channel has given me more anxiety than these two trying to bake the cookie
There baking bad. Walter would be proud
Nile making (kinda) food out of non food: calm
Nile making food out of technically food ingredients: panic
Sometimes Nigel does or says things that make me curious as to if he's ever existed outside of a laboratory environment.
i wouldn't be surprised to find out that he was grown in a lab rather than birthed
@@K.Arashi born lmao
“i’ve never actually seen cookie dough before”
"There are cracks in the cookie!"
Forms uncooked dough into cookie shape instead just making a ball.
i like how when nile is around dangerous chemicals hes chill, but while making the cookie hes always scared
I'm guessing that's the baking inexperience and expensive ingredients.
This cookies life lesson: It's the flaws and impurities that makes a cookie delicious and special in it's own way.
I find it hilarious that Nile isn't scared of dangerous chemicals ect. but then panics over a cookie cracking :D
It's hilarious how Nigel can disappear for months on end, then reappear out of nowhere and start talking about pure cookies
It's not disappearing if it's expected and consistent with his history, it's literally routine. The opposite of disappearing.
...and have us hanging on his every word.
“Not suitable for human consution” *i think i should eat it
This is his IRL cookie clicker arc
why else would you return
This feels like an episode of Jimmy Neutron where he would try to make cookies better than his mom with chemistry and realizes nothing beats homemade cookies
i wonder if such an episode exists
LOL
When the ai is good egnough store this idea to generate the video
Love is the most scrumptious chemical there is, and it always comes pure
@@EvilApple567 which is why they are taking the "human" out of everything. peaople can STOP it by REFUSING to work for FREE at self-checkout but see most peaople trendies just eating it up are there any fucking TRAILBLAZERS left in this world?!?
never change man, this channel is art.
Nile approaches baking a cookie like he's only ever been told of cookies by old sailors returned from foreign lands.
the way he touched it with his glas rod. like something alien :D
This is simultaneously the funniest and the most accurate sentence I’ve read all day.
This is how a completely untrained neural network would attempt to make cookies.
Can we take a moment to realize Nile has a minifridge consisting of a singular muffin, thousands of dollars of ultrapure baking stuff, and pee.
As the ones said,
"L, I am pee. Say it. Discover."
Maybe for a future video? 😂
This mans life is on a whole other level
I mean, what else would you keep in a minifridge?
i thought it said pet not pee😭
The fact he was so concerned about the cookie cracking was hilarious.
If I put a 5K cookie in a pressurized oven and it started cracking up I would be worried too lol
Gotta get that thumbnail
That moment legit made me think that Nile has never seen or eaten a cookie before
@@OrangeSan I think it was the pressurized oven that might have caused the cracking.
@@shadowpulpfan1810 probably yeah
"These are all over a thousand dollars each and certified to be pure! :D" *grabs chocolate and flips it around barehanded*
We NEED A REDO with food scientists!!!! Lets get him to make a part two of the worlds purest cookie!!!
or just, anybody who has baked before
Yea pls- this pained me
yea another 5k for another singular cookie.
He should have called Ann Reardon. She does a food scientist.
@@hollieginoza7935 At minimum a follow up pointing what went wrong, or a Cookie Rescue Lab Edition
As a baker, Nile’s questioning of the cookie cracking had me stressed 😭
Same, just yelling at my phone "it's fine!"
I was SCREAMING. That's just baking, baby!
He sounded so genuinely concerned that he confused me, I was like, isn’t it supposed to cracked, what cookies does he eat that have no cracks.
That’s how the cookie crumbles 😂
Not to mention that that was 100% dark chocolate, I'm honestly surprised it didn't turn out super bitter
Tom Scott did a video on the Standard Reference Materials. They're not actually supposed to be pure, they're just standardized. Meaning that if you buy them, you get a list of the exact chemical make up of the material so you know exactly what's it in, down to the last molecule. They come with a certificate of analysis to prove this. That chocolate is just chocolate, but it comes with the most exact list of ingredients you can think of. Nile just made the most standardized cookie.
It's not just a standard list of ingredients, it's usually a composite of a large amount of samples mixed into one, that has had very in-depth characterisation of all it's components performed. Not just what's in it, but how much of that thing, all done to an insane level of precision. These are the products used to ensure that your instrument that you're using to test a bunch of unknown species is giving the correct response when tested on something extremely well known.
A truly average cookie
It probably is the most standardized cookie ever made, but still nowhere close to NIST standards.
No clean room? Spilling grains of sucrose on the scale? No calipers when forming the cookie?
The ingredients and the oven were excellent, but the recipe and process have a lot of room for improvement.
Standardized cookie, but with baking chocolate instead of eating chocolate.
Quite. The video is actually a little misleading (though clearly not intentionally) as this is indeed just the most standardized cookie, at least if you follow the author's recipe to the letter. I'm not sure it is any more 'pure' for that reason. In fact, you could make the opposite argument. Depends how you define 'cookie'. I can tell ya, my grandma's cookies are definitely pure cookies. They look, taste and smell like cookies, and they're made with cookie ingredients. This cookie on the other hand was made with the ingredients for cookie ingredients.
Bro was hungry 0:18
as someone who’s been cooking by myself since i was 8 it’s absolutely hilarious watching this very intelligent man freaking out over small cracks in a cookie
This video is 100% proof that just because you are smart, doesn’t mean you know everything!
what makes you think he's intelligent?
@@whitetiana3022what entitles you to say he's not?
@@whitetiana3022 you must be new here
Because it's not a cookie, it's a 5K cookie lmao
Nile is so smart that watching him act in such an alien way towards normal life stuff is such amazing content
First video of his I've seen, and my exact thought was "I bet this is what it would be like for aliens to try to make cookies."
2 teenage aliens create human cookie with lab grade ingredients
He's min-maxed for chemistry it would seem.
Kinda like Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory
An alien attempts to blend in with human society by crafting a native favorite recipe, the kuukee
Lol
Now I must eeeeet the kuukee and swalloh. Dam it swalloh. Blen in.
@@youdeservethis😂😂
All of these comments are gold
How much could it cost, 5000 Earth Money?
(P. S. I know USD isn't universal Earth money, personally I live in an Euro country and I've never even been to the US)
I just came from the coffee video, I’m ready to be in pain watching this one.
I bake cookies all the time. Notes: the flour was extremely fine, probably leading to a strange texture and flavor; the "egg" looks like literally just the chemicals in egg, which makes sense, but the structural benefits of eggs makes the cookie "cookie"; the sugar, I've really no idea how it didn't taste sweet, maybe just not enough sugar; normally, you need to whip the sugar and fat (in your case coconut) together into a sort of cream before adding egg, mixing more at that stage may've given better results; also no idea what went wrong with the vanilla, I use imitation vanilla all the time which works, but I'm not sure what the difference is between that and what you made. Overall, the cookie looked good, but by the reactions something went wrong. I would've added more sugar and chocolate. Maybe next time you've got a few thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket, you can buy more flour and try again.
He needed to use some purified molasses to make brown sugar
Powdered egg works just fine for baking purposes. The weird egg texture is just how a completely mixed egg looks like, as all the structure would be broken down. The only thing that matters is the reaction of the egg proteins when heated up, that's how high fat doughs like that retain the ability to firm up while baking.
alot of it may come down to lack of smell from the vacuum oven
Usually vanilla is just there to remove the smell of the egg, not for flavor
@@stealthyfang3660yeah I mean I'm literally just guessing but I think that baking something in a vacuum oven would lead to it tasting really weird
That's what happens when you synthesize the love out of the recipe
Imagine Nile as a child making his mother a cookie: "Mom, I wanted to create the perfect cookie for you. I pursued this idea of perfection through the purity of ingredients, drawing from my chemistry knowledge. But in doing so, I realized that the perfect cookie isn't just about the purest ingredients. Cooking is an art, and it's the balance of different flavors and textures that makes a dish truly enjoyable. The cookie I made might not have turned out as I had imagined. But through this journey, I've learned something invaluable: that the essence of cooking lies not just in the ingredients we use but in the love, creativity, and balance we put into it. I promise you that my next cookie will be baked with all of this in mind. I may have stumbled on this attempt, but I'm excited to try again and make a cookie that's truly special, not just in its ingredients, but in its essence."
Love is an impurity!
You replace the love of cooking with the love of SCIENCE!!!
@@thoracicformula actually i think baking is more about emotion. i have my grandmas snickerdoodle recipe and it doesn't taste anything like hers unless you are beyond furious at someone. we call them spite cookies.
@@thoracicformula "That's cool, honey, can I taste it?"
As a frequent baker of non-lab grade cookies, this causes me both immense pain and chaotic joy. The proportion varies from moment to moment depending on what words are said in response to what it looks like
Just like having some baking knowledge would have been helpful…
... no brown sugar ... somebody needs to educate those scientists on how a cookie is made... and I hate baking I've failed it twice in cullunary school so like I'm not even passionate about baking I just know better
@@ConstantChaos1 literally this man has never baked choco chip cookies in his life. Most ppl know better, its bare minimum knowledge
@Shanley Shoupe but it wasn't listed in the paper either how do none of them know
25:35 I'm up at 2am watching this video thinking this crazy chemist is saying purity isn't in the chemicals it's in the heart❤🎉