Making the World's Purest Cookie 

I forgot to mention it in the video, but we did not pull a vacuum in the oven! It is just vacuum sealed and some air gets pushed out when it's closed. I think pulling a vacuum would have murdered the cookie.

Nigel: *turns gloves into grape soda* also Nigel: *has never seen cookie dough*

The cameraman coaching Nile through basic baking practices was truly the blind leading the blind.

An alien attempts to blend in with human society by crafting a native favorite recipe, the kuukee

As a baker this is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen. Two men bake the most expensive cookie on the planet, freaking out because it’s cracking on the edges

This feels like a skit where two aliens try to do something really ordinary and basic to try and fit in with humans and many shenanigans ensue lmaooo I love it

Him calmly handling substances that could easily kill him but panicking about making a cookie is absolutely hilarious

I think the purest part about this cookie is the fact that he got his Grandmother to make a recipe for him.

in their effort to make the purest cookie they forgot the purest ingredient of all. love.

I love how Nile can turn gloves into hot sauce and paint into soda, but not cookie dough into a cookie.

I love that Nigel apparently didn't think to try baking a normal cookie first to try the process. He just jumped straight to an inedible $2k lab grade cookie.

Ultra Pure Chocolate: "Not for human consumption" Also Ultra Pure Chocolate: "Baking Chocolate"

"this doesn't taste like it has a soul in it" is such a culinary insult. These 2 have some awesome quotes throughout their videos.

Watching two men who have never baked a cookie bake a $5k cookie is an experience

Nigel can turn gloves into grape soda but ordinary baking is completely beyond him 😂😂

the ammount of times that i could tell neither of you had ever made cookies in your lives was astonishing

Hearing Nile freak out about the cracking is the funniest thing I've ever heard

As the son of a baker, it's hilarious to see someone so panicked about a cookie craking during baking. You did good for your first time making a cookie.

Man, the fact that he didn't try to bake regular cookies before making this one just to know the process is wild.

This is really quite remarkable: My Mother is a Baker, My Father is a Research Chemist, Both were impressed by how bad this experiment was done. My mother because of the lack of a defined baking procedure for the cookie, the fact that you didnt watch a single video of how to shape a cookie on a pan, and the fact you made 1 single huge cookie instead of spreading the cookie dough to multiple cookies. My father from you lack of accuracy and how you handled the ingredients. You threw them around, dumped them, and "shot from the hip" when measuing for Vanilla extract and more things i dont understand. But i was just happy i got to see the shook and rattled look on their faces.

The Alchemist freaking out with his humunculus cookie cracking is peak comedy...

Can you synthesize grape soda from rubber gloves? Nile: Yeah, easily! Can you make a chocolate chip cookie? Nile: hell nah that shits hard

Purity is the first thing that comes to mind when think about cookies.

“Jesse, we need to cook the purest cookie” -Nigelberg

Nile making a cookie shape instead of rolling it into a ball and freaking out when it started cracking. 😂 Such a beautiful project.

I can’t believe Nile didn’t practice baking a normal set of cookies first

The fact that Nile is more comfortable with making super dangerous stuff like Chromyl Chloride than baking cookies is just hilarious.

"All I need is just one pure cookie" spoken like a true addict

Label: 'Not for human consumption' Nile: Thank you for the suggestion

The fact that Nile knows how to clean up, properly dispose of, and how to neutralize an abundance of different chemicals, but doesn't know cookies tend to have natural cracks when baked is hilarious

I’m glad that Nile has a cameraman who guides him through the human experience

Glad to know this is the first time Nile has ever seen a cookie

For your next $5000 cookie, you are not supposed to make a paddy out of the cookie dough. You make a ball and the butter with sugar melts it into a flat cookie. It cracked because it was flat and dried out too fast.

This feels like watching a 5 year old bake cookies with his dad but the 5 year old is somehow also a chemist with an adult vocabulary

Nile is the epitome of never setting foot outside of a lab. No way he doesn't know that cookies naturally has cracks 😭

I like how at first point you show that cooking process is almost the same as if you would do chemistry, but then we realise, that cooking is more than this. pretty informative episode that proves, that cooking is done by heart, not by the measurements

This is absolutely ABSURD and I love it! 😂 Given how much fun they were having I choose to believe that they added the most important and purest ingredient of all, proteomics grade love ❤

This is everything I imagined a scientist trying to bake would be like

This is what I actually thought “making it from scratch” meant as a kid

Im a science teacher and i think your projects are just sooooo cool! God i could use a lab like yours for my own projects. Keep up the good work.

I dont understand how these two seem to have never experienced a cookie happening before

I adore that they're prepared to spend thousands of dollars on these ingredients but they're seemingly unwilling/ incapable of watching a five minute cookie baking video to get an idea of what they're doing.

This feels like watching "scientist who has never seen or heard of a cookie is tasked with making one" for 28 minutes. loved every second of it

This reminds me how cheese that’s too pure is considered bad because there’s not enough impurities to crate holes within the cheese

you could always do use heavy cream, a resealable container and a lot of shaking. my 8th grade science teacher did this as a science experiment. It won't be the "purest" but its super fun to see the change from liquid to solid.

This feels like I'm watching someone from the future trying to bake for the 1st time an ancient recipe known as 'the cookie'

I love how Nile genuinely seems more worried about the cookie cracking than he has ever seemed doing any experiment

Watching Nigel cook always has me screaming at the TV like a sports game

Love the calm pace in this video, wish more content were like this! Fun video!

Imagine being hungry for a snack and opening Nigel’s fridge and you see 2 jars of pee, chocolate not for human consumption, and “egg powder” not for human consumption

NileRed: Uses witchcraft to transmute plastic gloves into grape soda NileBlue: "What does cookie dough look like?"

Man as someone who cooks and bakes yall did a really good job for yall first time baking. XDDD loved it

3:35 ah, the age old debate of decent gaming pc versus whole egg powder

That's what happens when you synthesize the love out of the recipe

I feel like as a scientist he should have made a control batch of cookies from his grandma’s recipe before attempting this.

Now we need @ExtractionsAndIre to spend 11 months making an actually tasty cookie - but only half a milligram yield

Am I the only one thinking that this video proves that no matter how expensive your ingredients and cookware are, good food is made with love and care.

We need a sequel where you just normally bake a cookie now.

It absolutely FASCINATES me how similar Chemistry and Cooking are and yet Nile is just completely out of his element the second it becomes food.

Love your videos big fan, but everybody rewatch the first seven seconds. That is the greatest intro Ive ever seen you make. A very savy hand point sir.

This is what I love about RU-vid. Super fun watch!

I was skeptical the claim that Nileblue had “never seen cookie dough” but then I saw them try to press individual chocolate chips into the surface and I suddenly believed him.

you can tell where nile goes from chemist to cook because his confidence immediately plummets

*Package:* Not for human consumption. *Nile:* Oh no. Anyway...

Watching this MAN doing the chemistry and changing anything to something else or make it pure I was like FOR THE SCIENCE BABY!!!!🎉

Nile treats his cookie the way we all would treat radioactive samples, and he treats his radioactive samples the way we treat cookies. He is truly a real chemist.

Can we take a moment to realize Nile has a minifridge consisting of a singular muffin, thousands of dollars of ultrapure baking stuff, and pee.

this was hilarious and absolutely made my day thank you

I recently went on a trip to Costa Rica and whilst on a tour I got to try to freshly roasted cacao beans and they really do taste like dollar store dark chocolate

Nile was so preoccupied with the chemistry that he forgot the love.

he was more nervous eating a cookie than he was tasting cherry flavor from paint thinner

It is fascinating (and enjoyable) to watch the face I associate with "wow, chemistry is crazy" question what cookie dough looks like. Please make a video of you baking cookies with "Grandma Nile"

It's hilarious how Nigel can disappear for months on end, then reappear out of nowhere and start talking about pure cookies

This is how I imagine a distant future civilization would fabricate cookies based off of a page out of a cookbook in order to experience what it might have been like to be a human living on earth during this time.

The way he poked the cookie with the glass stick 🤣🤣🤣

This brilliant man that can solve equations with ease, turn gloves into soda but doesn’t know what cookie dough looks like or how to bake. Never change. ❤😂

For some reason, I doubt that Nile has ever actually baked cookies before.

As a baker, Nile’s questioning of the cookie cracking had me stressed 😭

Holydamn y'all are hilarious, I love this channel🤣

Veritasium actually did an episode on the institute of standards and all the stuff that you can get from there. if i remember correctly its not about that the stuff is the most pure but more of a controlled batches where they get the most common products and mix it in a giant blender till it becomes the most neutral/common/standard thing to compare to.

Watching this as a baker is both fascinating and horrifying at the same time

Nile is the guy who can recreate an entire chicken from a can of chicken stock and random chemicals, succeed perfectly, and then manage to burn it in the stove trying to cook it.

The sponsorship Segway at the end was phenomenal.

Congrats on 2 Million subs!

im a pastry chef and this was absolutely hilarious to watch, especially nile freaking out about the cracks.

If you've ever baked cookies, this'll feel like hell 💀

What a beautiful video! The next video can be "Making an uncrackable cookie". By the way at 22:31 did you remember that most of the ingredients weren't supposed to be eated?

i love how i watch this right after a video talking about the standard ingredients, which are to base off of and specifically are not meant for human consumption due to them being on shelves for years on end. Maybe the cookie was the friends we made along the way.

Watching Nile freak out over the cracks in the cookie is so funny to me because I bake cookies all the time and the cracks are such a non-issue 😭

What I've learned from this video is that FDA approved bug parts in our food is what gives everything it's flavor 👍

"To be pure, you must sacrifice everything that makes it worth it....." -nilered

My man just made the most complicated piece of Hardtack imaginable.

Disclaimer: I have no predisposed knowledge in this, I'm not a chemistry major, but out of curiosity I did some research and I'm going to try to diagnose what went wrong based on both a chemistry / baking POV. References available at the end. This is besides the primary point of it probably being bad because the ingredients he used were for research and documenting if anything, and not for actual baking. Some of the ingredients may have been in there for years *Issue 1 with vanillin:* I believe you diluted the vanillin far too much, and added far too little. *[1], [2], [3]* Vanillin itself has some solubility issues, "Solubility of vanillin in ethanol (375.81 mg/mL), methanol (632.94 mg/mL), and water (30 mg/mL)." *[2]* I'm not sure what % ethanol you used, but optimally you should have used 95% ethanol to first dissolve the vanillin, and then added water to then dilute the vanillin-ethanol solution. The final solution should be something like: 35% ethanol, 60% water, and 5% vanillin (depending on how much vanillin you're adding) This isn't very relevant in your experiment, as the amount of ethanol you used (200ml) was waaaaay too much. Using the ethanol dilution ratio above (375.81 mg/mL) *[2]*, you only needed 3.46ml of ethanol to dilute 1.3g of vanillin [1.3g = 1300mg vanillin] [1300mg vanillin / 375mg/ml ethanol = 3.46ml] *issue 2 with the vanillin mixture* (just expanding on this since you pointed out the lack of any vanilla flavoring) • Generally, real vanilla extract is desired by bakers over imitation vanilla made from vanillin. Looking into this, it appears that vanilla pods contain some of 246 compounds; 78 of which are considered odor-active (including vanillin) *[1].* Also, this isn't much of a 'reference' but a supposed flavor-chemist pointed out on Reddit also pointed out that vanillin by itself isn't very strong, and Is very one-dimensional or "one-note" *[3]* *Issue 4: oil / sugar mixture* As others have pointed out, the sugar/fat mixture should have been mixed thoroughly, until a cream-like consistency is formed. It's not just a simple matter of "dissolve the sugar in oil". In fact, sugar doesn't like to dissolve in fat/oil in the first place, which is why when you poured out the sugar/oil solution, the camera could clearly see many sugar crystals left behind in the beaker. The purpose of this varies, but the main reason why is because you're also adding air into the mixture. The sugar crystals doesn't really "dissolve" when creating the buttercream mixture; however, they do melt when baking, leaving behind pockets of air where the sugar crystals used to be during the baking process. Some amount of air is also incorporated during the mixing process itself. The end result being a fluffier, less dense cookie. *Issue 5: cooling* This goes off the "oil/sugar mixture" issue above. It's fine to melt coconut oil, or butter during the mixing process. But you should generally cool the mixture in a fridge after you're finished making the dough. This is so that the coconut oil can re-solidify. Otherwise, the air pockets I spoke of above would just be immediately filled with the dough again. The cookie dough would also spread much more than it should during the baking process if it's not chilled *Misconception 1: wheat flour* This isn't really an "issue," more that it is a misconception due to using "pure wheat flour". Wheat flour contains whole wheat grains, meaning it contains the endosperm, Bran, and germ of the grain. This flour is much more nutritious due to the Protein and fiber content. White flour, incontrast, strictly uses the soft endosperm of the grain, and has a much milder taste The issue with wheat flour is that the Bran and germ of the grain causes a much more rough, "grainy" texture. White flour suits cookies more because it has a softer texture, and makes a much fluffier cookie. Using wheat flour is "fine" for cookies if you're trying to be healthy, but even then usually it's used as a mixture of wheat flour + white flour. *Possible issue 6: chocolate / sugar* I'm not sure if the bakers chocolate was "semi-sweet", "bittersweet" or "unsweetened". All of them are considered "bakers chocolate" but contain different amounts of sugar and cocoa. • semi-sweet contains 60% cocoa, and has more sugar • bittersweet contains 70% cocoa, and has less sugar • unsweetened has no sugar [4] Depending on which was used, you would have to compensate by adding more sugar to the cookie. Visually, It also looks like you added too little chocolate. But it's hard to tell just from the camera *References* [1] Zhang S, Mueller C. Comparative analysis of volatiles in traditionally cured Bourbon and Ugandan vanilla bean ( Vanilla planifolia ) extracts. J Agric Food Chem. 2012 Oct 24;60(42):10433-44. doi: 10.1021/jf302615s. Epub 2012 Oct 11. PMID: 23020223. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23020223/ [2] González, Cecilia & Mustafa, Natali & Wilson, Erica & Verpoorte, Rob & Choi, Young. (2017). Application of natural deep eutectic solvents for the “green”extraction of vanillin from vanilla pods. Flavour and Fragrance Journal. 33. 10.1002/ffj.3425. www.researchgate.net/figure/Amount-of-vanillin-extracted-from-vanilla-pods-using-methanol-ethanol-and-NADES-The_fig1_320217923 [3] www.reddit.com/r/foodscience/comments/jqfq8s/-/gbmqxop [4] www.walmart.ca/en/ip/Baker-s-100-Pure-Unsweetened-Chocolate-Baking-Bar/6000153706425

Fun fact: Nile is confused about baking a cookie, because he normally only eats chemistry

I've never seen such a brilliant chemist so obviously have never cooked before in his life before.

I think the simple reason this cookie did not turn out great is because it was cooked in a vacuum oven. It probably somehow sucked out flavor chemicals or changed the way they were structured chemically to where they lost their ability to bond with our receptors... both scent and taste etc. Do this again but cook it using a regular oven.. most likely a guaranteed improvement.

Once he realizes baking is just chemistry, the empire begins

This feels like an episode of Jimmy Neutron where he would try to make cookies better than his mom with chemistry and realizes nothing beats homemade cookies

watching poor nile make a cookie, something he’s somehow never made, is entertaining. especially how he complained about it cracking, someone get this man a grandma who will cook in front of him. 18:24

My guesses are; the graininess is from sub-par mixing, the cracks from the oven humidity being too low (stick a water bath in there to help) and the lack of soul would be because a lot of the volatiles present in regular food would have been absent from the lab standards. It's also possible you got flour with an inappropriate gluten ratio for making cookies.