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Why does almost everyone want their cookies soft and gummy?

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Hawkeye10

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I am eating a Pepperidge Farm Snicker Doodle, soft and gummy. Never in my 54 years have I had a soft Snicker doodle, and I have to say, it kinda sucks. I used to see fairly often in the DFAC young soldiers object to homemade hard cookies, they wanted the Grandma's factory cookies that we often had (all soft), but when I was growing up with the exception of a few kinds such as sour cream cookies and fig newtons they were always hard once they cooled.

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Hawkeye10 said:
I am eating a Pepperidge Farm Snicker Doodle, soft and gummy. Never in my 54 years have I had a soft Snicker doodle, and I have to say, it kinda sucks. I used to see fairly often in the DFAC young soldiers object to homemade hard cookies, they wanted the Grandma's factory cookies that we often had (all soft), but when I was growing up with the exception of a few kinds such as sour cream cookies and fig newtons they were always hard once they cooled.

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I'm with you. I still have my teeth and I like working them. ;)
 
I prefer most cookies crunchy, but I like soft oatmeal cookies.

And I like snatching soft, gooey Toll House chocolate chip cookies off the cookie tray right as my wife takes them out of the oven.

That said, I will not turn my nose up at other types of soft cookies in the absence of crunchy cookies.
 
Captain Adverse said:
I'm with you. I still have my teeth and I like working them. ;)
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Not just missing the crunch, but this is seriously the worst tasting snickerdoodle I can remember ever eating, other than some burned ones when I was very young so as to not offend my mom.
 
when it comes to cookies, i dig everything from a big soft chocolate chip cookie to chips ahoy. Mom used to call those "cardboard cookies," but i still like them.
 
Helix said:
when it comes to cookies, i dig everything from a big soft chocolate chip cookie to chips ahoy. Mom used to call those "cardboard cookies," but i still like them.
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Arn't you younger? Is there anything to my suspicion that younger people dont want hard cookies? I wonder if I walk into any University Food Service Operation and my chances of finding a hard cookie approach zero.
 
I'm with you.... I actually like crispy cookies... borderline burnt.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Arn't you younger? Is there anything to my suspicion that younger people dont want hard cookies? I wonder if I walk into any University Food Service Operation and my chances of finding a hard cookie approach zero.
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i'm an 80s kid; currently aged 41. i guess i grew up during a transitional cookie period, so i like both types. either that, or i just like cookies in general.
 
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Some I like softer like chocolate chip and sugar cookies and some I like firmer like thin mints.
 
azgreg said:
Some I like softer like chocolate chip and sugar cookies and some I like firmer like thin mints.
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Thanks for that but I am after some specific information here.....do we overall like our cookies soft now? Do young(er) people like them soft? Have you had the experience I have of serving a great homemade cookie and having the only response being a complaint that it is not gummy? Sometimes even a refusal to eat it once they found out it was not gummy?

Any information you or anyone else can come up with would be helpful.
 
If I had to choose one way or the other it would be right out of the oven soft, and I'm no youngin.
 
I like all my bakeries and pastries soft and gummy, and cookies are no exception.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I am eating a Pepperidge Farm Snicker Doodle, soft and gummy. Never in my 54 years have I had a soft Snicker doodle, and I have to say, it kinda sucks. I used to see fairly often in the DFAC young soldiers object to homemade hard cookies, they wanted the Grandma's factory cookies that we often had (all soft), but when I was growing up with the exception of a few kinds such as sour cream cookies and fig newtons they were always hard once they cooled.

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I like homemade soft and chewy cookies.But I do not like prepackaged soft and chewy cookies. They don't seem to have the same texture.
 
When I ate cookies, I preferred soft and gummy.
 
jamesrage said:
I like homemade soft and chewy cookies.But I do not like prepackaged soft and chewy cookies. They don't seem to have the same texture.
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I think they have to do un-natural things to packaged cookies to keep them soft, I think they add a lot of salt.
 
There is usually a batch of Toll House Cookie dough in the fridge.
We got a new convection microwave, that can turn out 6 perfectly cooked
cookies from the fridge in about 8 min.
May it is a bit too convenient!
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Thanks for that but I am after some specific information here.....do we overall like our cookies soft now? Do young(er) people like them soft? Have you had the experience I have of serving a great homemade cookie and having the only response being a complaint that it is not gummy? Sometimes even a refusal to eat it once they found out it was not gummy?

Any information you or anyone else can come up with would be helpful.
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What's your idea of younger? I'm 39 and I like crispy cookies.
 
longview said:
There is usually a batch of Toll House Cookie dough in the fridge.
We got a new convection microwave, that can turn out 6 perfectly cooked
cookies from the fridge in about 8 min.
May it is a bit too convenient!
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Do the cookies come out crispy or chewy?
 
Groogrux said:
What's your idea of younger? I'm 39 and I like crispy cookies.
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The soldiers turning up their noses at hard cookies that I noticed were born sometime around 1985. Is that about when this trend to soft cookies started, if it actually be a trend because we have not been able to establish this?
 
Groogrux said:
Do the cookies come out crispy or chewy?
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Very soft and chewy! Just like toll house out of a regular oven, but about 2 min quicker.
FYI, the oven does not use the microwave in convection oven mode, but still uses the rotating plate.
 
You people are ill. Soft cookies are da bomb! Hard cookies suck sweaty balls. Especially, as one person said, chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven. In my house they don't even get to room temperature in going from the oven to my mouth.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
I am eating a Pepperidge Farm Snicker Doodle, soft and gummy. Never in my 54 years have I had a soft Snicker doodle, and I have to say, it kinda sucks. I used to see fairly often in the DFAC young soldiers object to homemade hard cookies, they wanted the Grandma's factory cookies that we often had (all soft), but when I was growing up with the exception of a few kinds such as sour cream cookies and fig newtons they were always hard once they cooled.

What Gives?
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I prefer it crunchy and use starch while making cookiee

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