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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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Luke Barats
Editors: Pedro Freitas, AbsolutePixel, and Forrest Lee
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (Caiterpillart)
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

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[parsee]

Matpat in the Christmas of 2030: “We are getting Gordon Ramsay to make a 5 course meal out of a Christmas tree.”

[ctomsky]

I love how MatPatt keeps saying "'WE' had a crazy idea" like this wasn't just his crazy idea like Bread Gloves.

[izzysmith]

Steph's expression is part exasperation, part disgust and part disappointment with just a hint of "I should have known..."
I love it

[voidcat]

Fun fact. During the Great Depression, they used saw dust instead of flour. They usually used it for bread

[Trust]

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?"

[alexheldman]

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.

[wilderwatz]

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.

[PigBee]

Steph: panicking because she ate sawdust.
Mat: literally dying of laughter

[sophykitten]

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.

[shadowsniper]

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.

[Zhariri]

"Little does she know she's gonna be munching on a Two by Four"

~Matpat 2021

[__breh__]

It's almost Christmas boys! Time for round 3!

[oscarm]

Steph: "I feel sick!"
Mat: "No, no. It's fine. It's edible sawdust. It's non-toxic, totally safe... for wood glue."

Hilarious

[Pteriidae]

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.

[mariacargille]

*mildly hysterical chuckling from Steph* "Did you bake something?"
"I did! I made you some Christmas cookies for-!"
*chuckling increases* "Oh,

[Littlepup]

I work in a bakery and when Matt was just trying to mix sawdust into straight Pillsbury cookie dough, I was weeping.
Edit: Omg. MATT! You sub the flour out by *volume* not weight! What are you doing?!??! Those aren't gonna be cookies, those'll be flakes. ;__;

[darkwolfag]

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.

[teamcyeborg]

"There's raw egg in here, so I'm not sure if I'm supposed to eat it" He says, eating sawdust dough.

[okteia]

I love how Steph was so done with MatPat when he announced it was sawdust 🤣

[-mindlesscontent-]

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- 🤨..