sometimes crispy oftentimes chewy moist in the center but still crunchy on the outside
you'll find everything from chocolate to peanut butter to nuts and even dried fruit inside
what am i talking about one of your favorites and mine cookies
did you know that globally the cookie industry is worth over 30 billion dollars
and that's only projected to grow in the coming years americans alone eat over 2 billion cookies
a year we're celebrating everything inside the cookie jar this is modern marvel's cookies
i'm going to start right here with one of my favorite cookies on the planet
entenmann's original recipe chocolate chip cookies now entamons which is now part of bimbo bakeries
can trace its roots back to the 19th century as a baked goods purveyor out of my hometown of
brooklyn new york they produce over 120 products which you'll find in that famous see-through
window box in specially designated aisles at your local grocery in 1974 they introduced
the chocolate chip cookie and have become one of the best selling baked good companies ever since
they're letting me behind the curtain to witness the secret ingredients and
the magic making process and to see what goes into making entenmann's chocolate chip cookies
so perfect i'm going to meet with miss kathleen robbins who has been with entenmann's
for over 30 years so if anybody is going to know how entenmans works their magic it's kathleen
amazing
we're in this sprawling factory and it smells like a small bakery in the neighborhood
so we're gonna start up front and as a matter of fact it looks like
the first stage of mixing alex is here mixing the cookie dough nice to meet you man thank
you so much for letting me intrude on your work like any batch of cookies
the first step is to mix your ingredients but in this case it's on a bit of a larger scale
the bulk delivery of sugar oils and flour are stored in the giant silos outside of the factory
alex is the man in charge of weighing the precise bulk measurements of sugar butter and eggs into
the mixture but next he adds something i can't identify entenmann's super secret special sauce
so the liquid that goes in here on this stage i can't discuss because it's uh okay we gotta
protect the tradecraft i respect the game i respect the sacrosanct and demands knowledge fair
enough in the 1980s entemins hired a flavorist to come up with this balanced mixture of liquids
to enhance all the different ingredients in the chocolate chip cookies even though i can't tell
you for sure what's in the mix i can tell you that i definitely smell vanilla and maybe a hint
of brown sugar this smells so good i just kind of want to put my head in there amazingly these
1200 pounds of dough will be fully baked in under 30 minutes i can't wait to see how they do that
so 1200 pounds of mix makes how many cookies 50 000 cookies
50 000. in one year we make 180 million cookies it's gonna take a much bigger glass of milk
than i brought the next step on our journey from dough to cookie is to hoist 1 200 pounds
of entenmann's chocolate chip cookie dough to the top of the cookie depositor let us ascend
release the kraken there you go just see the the dough flowing out oh yeah would you look at that
and with that swift pull of a lever and with a little help from gravity
i freed the fresh cookie dough allowing it to flow down a series of rollers that flatten the dough
to the perfect thickness to be wire cut the wire cutting machine is equipped with 18 nozzles that
each extrude enough dough to measure 10 grams per cookie these 18 nozzles will stroke more
than 3 000 times before it's done measuring out all of the 1 200 pounds of cookie dough
longingly we wait for these sweet treats to cool just like at grandma's house this
is where kathleen says entem and soft baked chocolate chip cookies are at their best
so this is the first section of the cooling tunnel before they get to the secondary cooler so that
they're cool enough to pack the cookies must spend about 45 minutes here before moving on to be boxed
in that iconic see-through window box we all know and love if not cooled properly the cookies will
lose their shape and moisture and they can break apart no one gets to eat them before this cooling
process well except for me so this is the best place to taste them right here this is the exact
spot well this is your place milady would you mind doing the yes i will this is an epic day yes
a cookie from the cookie oasis not too hot not too crispy
that's like fudge inside when you take a tray of brownies out of the oven and
it's still chewy but it's almost like a caramel
oh sadly i'll have to say goodbye to these delights
as they make their way to be packaged in the iconic entenmann's window box
with that many machines and that many people taking part in the baking process
how does entenmann's maintain the high standard of quality for which they're known
well that is the concern of this very department quality control and this lovely lady to my left
susan thank you for having us can you explain how you do quality control on stuff like cookies and
baked goods absolutely first of all we're gonna weigh it we have weight standards that we have
to meet okay so it comes out to 3.42 our label weight is 3 40. we're good to go so what are we
doing next we're gonna look for the what the grain looks like on the inside of this cookie
see it looks a little doughy yeah we call that the bone
moist layer of dough right there and this cookie has good bone who knew that cookies have bones
so that's sort of how you can tell if it's been over baked or underbaked or something like that
is that an industry standard term or an anthem in standard term antennas
aside from weight and hunting for bones there are so many quality control checks susan will
go through like laying them out as though she were playing backgammon just to check the color
and checking the size against a chart to make sure they're not too small
but what's next is what i think makes susan's job a dream job one last test
we get to eat them now oh yes quality control is my favorite mmm good bones good cookie
it evokes home baked without question so before i let you go i'm just so cause this looks like a lab
this is sort of like cookie csi i'm looking over here and i see like little things that
are for like food evaluation use little crumbles and stuff what is all this stuff
inclusions they're just little bits that you put into your batter or don't
a chocolate chip is an inclusion well okay maple so is this maple something that is currently
being worked on or that they're trying to include i cannot say no
i thought i had a cool job i was very wrong do you like to taste it can i okay oh it's like little
crumbly bits of french toast and happiness oh is that good and super mapley all right maple lovers
keep an eye out because these little granules of joy are coming your way so what happens with
the rest of these they go in the garbage oh the hell they do may i take two more
oh cookies we eat more than two billion of them per year and that is just as americans globally
the cookies industry is worth over 30 billion dollars and it is no wonder cookies are marvelous
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