- We're gonna be making butter today.
- You gonna churn the butter?
- We're gonna be churning the butter.
- No, you're gonna churn the butter.
- No, we're gonna be doing it together.
- I'mma get you a little thing.
I have never made cookies from scratch before
because I'm a woman on the go.
I'm already nervous about that, but I also think
it might take too much time and
too much money to make it zero waste.
Zero z-zero z-z
uh zero waste.
I'm gonna try to make chocolate chip cookies,
but with zero trash.
I'm super excited to make these cookies zero waste.
I think I need to go to specialty places
and multiple places to get this package free,
so I think the level of time is gonna
definitely take longer than it would normally.
Money? I don't know.
So, we need to get some flour, sugar,
oatmeals and chocolate.
I'll get the white sugar you get the brown sugar.
- Okay.
- Look at us, a family.
- What's cultures?
I mean, not that I'm good at measuring,
but we can get kind of more exactly that we need
for the recipe rather than like, buying too much.
We're gonna take a picture of the PLU,
so then at the register we can tell them the PLU number
and they can also deduct the weight of the bag.
For some reason they don't have regular flour,
they only have almond flour so we're actually
gonna be having gluten-free cookies on accident.
We wanted the gluten, but,
it's okay, we can have gluten-free cookies.
- I love health.
Chocolate chip is my favorite cookie.
I love chocolate chip, you know why?
Because it's me and most of my hoes.
I'm the chocolate chip and they're the cookie.
We are making Alvin's cookies but zero waste.
So Alvin has two different kinds of
chocolate chips in his recipe,
but at our local eco-friendly grocery store
we can only find one, so Alvin,
you're only getting one out of us, okay?
- They're playing prince at the store.
♪ I would die for you ♪
- There's just something about fresh out the oven,
you in your nightgown, you got your bonnet on,
you know, your makeup is off.
You turn on your Netflix, you got a glass of milk,
oat milk though cause I'm eco-friendly hoe.
- We're gonna be making our oat milk with rolled oats,
it's very easy, 'cause we gotta have milk
with our chocolate chip cookies.
- Absolutely.
- We're gonna be making butter because
we couldn't find package free butter.
- Yes. I'm ready to churn that butter, daddy.
- We're gonna use heavy cream.
- This is in a returnable glass bottle,
so if we return it once we're done with it,
we can get some money back.
We found some vanilla extract in glass.
Feel that ASMR.
- Ooh, ooh glass.
Yes, highly recyclable.
If you want to be extra zero waste,
you can make your own with vanilla pods and alcohol.
- Wow, I didn't know that.
- Yeah, but we're just gonna get it in glass.
We went through the store and we found
the cheapest packaged versions
of what it would take to make chocolate chip cookies.
- Yeah, so we added up the total and it came out to $38.53.
- So we gotta see how the
package-free version stacks up now.
I don't know if it's gonna be cheaper or more expensive.
- We'll see.
So we got mostly everything package free,
except for the creamer and the vanilla extract
and of course the salt, I mean we already have at home so.
- Yes, and then the eggs,
I already got at the farmers market,
and baking soda I actually already have,
I got from a zero waste store called SustainLA.
So let's go make these cookies.
- Yeah, Alvin, I hope we make you proud.
How you feeling?
- I'm feeling great, we prepped everything,
so we have everything ready.
- Tasty style, tasty look.
- But we're not tasty producers.
- Not at all.
- Home chefs.
- We're doing our best here.
- That's right, don't judge us, leave us be.
- The first thing that we're doing is making the butter.
- Mm-hm, let's do that.
- So we have heavy whipping cream,
this is our first piece of trash,
this piece of paper and then also this seal.
- Wow.
Can nothing ever just truly be zero waste?
Society, get better.
So, what is butter?
- Butter is just like shaken heavy cream.
I think.
- You're lying.
- Well watch, we're gonna,
we're about to make butter right now.
We're gonna shake this until we get butter.
- For real?
- Yeah, dude.
- Dude, this is it.
- Start shaking.
- Shake it shake shake it,
shake it like a butter zero waste.
- I don't recommend doing this at home,
we're just really going for zero waste for you.
But like, honestly I'm sure you guys
have better things to do with your time than this.
It's like we're praying.
- Please.
- We're praying to the butter gods.
- Please, turn her into butter.
- Oh, I think I did it, I think I did it!
- Well I don't think I did.
- Look it!
- Wow, that's really butter!
- So this is how you know it's butter.
It's because the buttermilk has separated from the butter.
Did yours become butter yet?
- I don't know, I'm gonna shake it a couple more times.
Okay let's check it.
Hopefully I'm butter master.
- Whoa, your butter looks nicer than mine, look at yours.
Ooh.
- That literally took no time.
- But it was a decent amount of effort.
- It was. I gave it everything I had.
- We're pouring out our buttermilk.
Let's try it.
Mmm.
- Butter's just milk.
(laughs)
- So when I have butter on my bagels it's just melted milk.
How much is that?
- That is only 1/3 cup of butter. We need 2/3 cup.
- We're kind of tired after churning our own butter.
Proud of us, so we're going to put
this whipping cream in the food processor
and see if we can make butter like that.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Do you think it's butter?
- It's butter.
♪ Butter ♪
Now we're just gonna microwave this.
- 'Cause the recipe calls for melted butter 2/3 cups.
- Melted.
- Now, we're gonna make the cookies!
- Okay.
- Okay, so the first step is get the bowl.
- Okay.
- We're gonna get the two sugars,
now we put the salt and we mix it.
(laughs)
- Do you think we're making Alvin proud?
- Absolutely not.
- He just makes it look more graceful.
- I know.
Butter me up baby, homemade butter.
- Ooh.
- Ooh. I can smell that shell from a mile away.
Next is the eggs.
Ooh.
Next we're gonna put the vanilla.
- But we do have a safety seal.
Jeez Louise!
- I can't do it, 'cause these nails will break.
- How many, how much?
Look, surprise trash!
- Wow!
- Why--
Okay, we only need one safety seal.
- Yeah.
- Okay, we don't need two. Pick one, people.
Surprise trash.
- Surprise trash.
- One teaspoon of vanilla, it smells really good.
We got almond flour because we couldn't
find regular flour at that store for some reason.
Now we're gonna do the baking soda too.
- Mm-hm, and then we just
♪ shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy ♪
So this is pretty much now full-blown cookie.
- Alvin said to be like gentle when you're mixing it,
cause you shouldn't over mix it.
You ready for those choco choco chips?
- Choco choco choco chips.
Yeah, let's do it.
I'll pour, you stir.
- Okay. Okay, we gotta try the dough,
don't do this at home kids, 'cause it's raw egg.
- It's raw egg.
- Mmm.
It's like, decadent.
- Mmm, and very sweet.
- We're gonna use our bees wrap.
Which is an alternative to plastic wrap.
Reusable.
It's cloth covered in beeswax.
- Now we're gonna chill this for thirty minutes.
Okay, guys so we're gonna be making oat milk.
- Oat milk is actually really easy to make,
plant milks are easy to make.
You don't really need to buy them,
you can always just make them.
So, we have one cup of oats, and we have four cups of water.
So it's basically just one to four, that's the ratio.
So you can make a bigger or a smaller batch.
- Oh, wow.
- And we can have plant milk in like, thirty seconds.
Watch us go.
(blender whirring)
Okay.
- Wait, that's it?
- That's it, it's so easy, dude.
- What?
- You don't need to buy anything.
Now we just strain it.
And if you make hemp milk or cashew milk,
you don't have to strain,
so those are some even easier milks.
We're gonna pour it into this bag,
you use an old t-shirt even or you can use a nut milk bag.
You can use cheese cloth.
- Wow.
We're going to put the cookies on the cookie tray.
- We chilled our cookie dough.
- For la thirty la minutes.
- Now we're just gonna scoop out cookies.
- And we're gonna put them in the oven.
(soothing music)
- I'm gonna salt it a little bit.
- Love a good sea salt.
Let's do it.
- These are good.
- Mm-hm.
- The cookies, you know,
they didn't turn out as great as Alvin's.
- I mean, again, not tasty producers.
- I think the Almond flour compromised
the structure of the cookies.
They're kind of just like, falling apart.
(laughs)
- For sure.
- But they do taste really good.
- They do taste really, really good.
You know, zero waste is a journey, not a destination.
- So how much trash did we end up making?
- I would say that we did pretty good.
The only trash we had was from
the heavy cream and the vanilla.
- And the only compost was this one egg shell.
- Wash it down with some oat milk.
- Oh, it's really good.
- Mm-hm!
- How did we do on money?
- The zero-waste version actually came in cheaper
than the packaged version.
- Wow!
- Zero-waste came in at $9.64 less.
- I love that!
Do you think we'll get points with Santa
because we made him cookies?
- I'm gonna eat all the cookies before Santa gets any.
- Uh-uh! That's why you gonna get coal, hoe.
- We'll make him new cookies that don't fall apart.
We'll use regular flour instead of almond flour.
- You don't know if Santa's gluten-free.