When life is intent on squashing you like a bug, sometimes you need some levity to distract from how your entire body feels like a crackling exoskeleton. Sometimes, that takes the form of a cargo ship blocking up an important trade route and the veritable explosion of memes (and surprisingly well-written fanfiction) that follows. Sometimes, it’s taking a moment to laugh at yourself and your many, many culinary failures (fun fact: don’t cook gluten-free noodles made from beans in a crockpot to make mac and cheese unless you’re really into cheesy bean paste). Sometimes…sometimes it’s in finding your limit in an entirely different way and having a long, loud laugh that could also either be screaming or crying depending on the angle.
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The Chocolate Chip Cookie Gauntlet
I love baking.
I’m not particularly good at it, given my absentminded nature and the precision baking requires, but chocolate chip cookies are easy enough that they’re almost impossible to screw up, and as such have kinda become my calling card. I take great pride in my chocolate chip cookies. It helps that they’re my favorite dessert flavor. So, I thought, why not pit several different recipes against each other and see which one is best? Welcome to PostMordial Soup’s first food challenge: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Gauntlet.
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