4 Levels of Chocolate Chip Cookies: Amateur to Food Scientist | Epicurious

It doesn't get much more classic than chocolate chip cookies. We challenged chefs of three different levels - an amateur, a home cook and a professional chef - to make their versions of the chocolate chip cookie. And then we brought in a food scientist to review their work. Which cookie was the best?


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[sunxiiro]

Level 1: *does something*
Level 2: DONT DO THAT
Level 3: *Technically does that but more professional*

[whosjohncorzine]

Amateur chefs: I'm going to add vanilla extract

Professional chef: I climbed into the rain forests of Tahiti to find my vanilla beans then cured them with the local indigenous peoples according to their ancient traditions.

[No-igkc]

"sea salt is great because it has some impurity still left behind and its in the impuritys where the flavor is"
*sheds a tear* nice.

[DaVillain]

LEVEL 1 CHEF: "Woww... that's amazing"
LEVEL 2 CHEF: "OMG!! That's a good good chocolate chip folks..."
LEVEL 3 CHEF: "I make a good cookie"

[visuallyvivi]

Level 5 Grandma: Did you make it with a lot of love?

[rawdha]

level 1: so i'm gonna microwave this
level 2: so this is room temperature
level 3: so i'm gonna SmOkE iT

[cjrench]

Officer : whatcha smoking


Me : Just some butter




Penny in the back: And some Salt

[Slipnegative]

Alina: all of us
Lorenzo:Best personality
Penny:literally smokes her water

[joannachantry]

Lorenzo maybe level 2 chef but his personality is level 100

[dropdestroy]

I'm glad Emily wasn't requested for this, she would have dipped her cookie in ketchup

[heiysted]

Hi I'm penny, I've been smoking butter professionally for 14 years.

[Pippa]

I love how the level 2 chefs are low key living their dream of being a tv chef. They make me so happy

[legostarwars]

“ hey. do you smoke?”

penny: “as a matter of fact, i do”

“oooh what do you smoke?”

penny: “ *butter* “

[alliejohnson]

The level 3 chef usually makes their food too weird for me, but I think Penny’s cookie looks so so good

[Corndog]

Usually the level 3 is unnecessarily complex but damn they do look literally perfect, might be worth it.

[psychemusings]

Other people: *Eats chocolate chip cookies with milk*

Penny: Maybe really good with a glass of bourbon next time.

[jahiemjones]

Level 1: Salted butter ?
Level 2: Unsalted Butter (ahaha)
Level 3: So I raised Sally and churned the butter myself

[vanshikakambhammettu]

Lorenzo isn’t a lvl 2 chef
is a lvl 3 chef that didn’t go to culinary school

[snippersmity]

Level 1 : IDK what I’m doing

Level 2: hahahahahahhaha

Level 3: I raised the cow that made the butter

[imlegitahuman]

Frank was to busy growing his cocoa beans that’s why he wasn’t here.