Name: Why We Dunk Cookies in Milk
Uploaded: 2019-01-23T09:57:20.000Z
Duration: 2 min 52 s
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In your cereal, in your coffee, in your glass.

But the best use for milk: dunking cookies.

I mean, who doesn't love a cookie dipped in milk?

But before we get into it, let's take a quick look back in time.

animals are domesticated and animals are milked. Great!

The milkman became a thing, yada, yada, yada.

Why the h-e-double hockey sticks do we dunk our cookies into milk?

When you dip cookies into milk, you change a number of things about those cookies that completely alters your eating experience.

By alters, Matt means, oh wait, let me introduce you to Matt.

Hi, my name is Matt Hartings, and I am a Professor of Chemistry.

And I teach a class on cooking chemistry here at American University.

By alters, Matt means when you dip cookies into milk, not only does the texture and flavor change, but the chemical composition does as well,

Chemists are fascinated in how taste works, and how all of the molecules that you're experiencing when you're eating food,

how they all work together, and lead to one thought in your brain.

There are specific ways to measure food chemistry,

things like an MS-Nose that tries to break down food aromas into their individual parts.

The MS-Nose is a tool that helps scientists understand how complex molecules come together to make flavor.

So what does all this fancy technology tell us when you dunk that cookie?

You add a creaminess to your cookie, and that makes your cookie taste completely different.

We will dampen some of the flavors that are naturally sharp in a chocolate chip cookie.

so we can universally agree, dunking chocolate chip cookies into milk is the best thing ever?

Speaking to my own experience, I am not a big dipper.

I take a bite of my cookie and then have a drink of milk.

You just had to be different, didn't you?!

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