Cooking Tips Reddit Chefs Bestowed on Amateur Cooks

All cooking is actually magic, but I digress. This poster and a previous one both stress that you have lots of leeways while cooking, but baking is a whole different matter. Density, flavor, structure, moisture, they’re all super important to baking to have the right finished result. One excellent example is cookies.

Fine Cooking, a food science magazine, recently went in-depth on how different flours and oils affected the quality of the cookies. From chewy to crispy to crumbly, your ingredients can heavily alter the cookie you make. Dry shortbread cookies require way less moisture than chewy chocolate chips, and if you’re craving one, you certainly don’t want to end up with the other.