I decided to try pan-frying a cookie.  Don’t ask me where…

1:50PM Two ounce ball, not very appetizing. this does not evoke baking cookies with my mom. Smooshed it down with a plastic spoon.

1:53PM 3 minutes in, I’m having trouble getting the spatula underneath, it’s too gooey. Knocking the heat up a notch. BAM!

1:55PM I have fucked it up! In a misguided attempt to shake the pan and see if the base has solidified enough to flip, I flopped the “cookie” over on itself. This has revealed the beginning of a burnt

2:02PM Oh hubris, thy name is Nathan! This cookie sucks.

I decided to try pan-frying a cookie.  Don’t ask me where the cookie dough came from; cookie dough just happens.  Here is the chronicle of my journey…

1:48PM Low heat (3 on my stove). I would use butter but I don’t have any, so olive oil spray…

1:50PM Two ounce ball, not very appetizing. this does not evoke baking cookies with my mom. Smooshed it down with a plastic spoon.

1:53PM 3 minutes in, I’m having trouble getting the spatula underneath, it’s too gooey. Knocking the heat up a notch. BAM!

1:55PM I have fucked it up! In a misguided attempt to shake the pan and see if the base has solidified enough to flip, I flopped the “cookie” over on itself. This has revealed the beginning of a burnt bottom. My cookie now looks like the phantom of the Toll House. Knocking the heat down a notch.

1:57PM Success! I flipped it! It’s… It smells like… Did I mention I don’t have a job?

2:00PM Pulled and left to cool. It’s basically two cookie bottoms. It’s holding shape though, more than I could have hoped for.

2:02PM Oh hubris, thy name is Nathan! This cookie sucks.

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