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The Chewy
Alton Brown · Good Eats / Food Network · 2000 · Original Recipe
Part of Alton Brown's iconic 'Three Chips for Sister Marsha' episode. Designed scientifically for maximum chewiness: melted butter, bread flour, more brown sugar, extra egg yolk. No creaming = less air = denser, chewier texture.
5
chewiness
1
crispiness
1
cakeyness
3
thickness
3
spread
4
richness
4
sweetness
3
complexity
ultra chewydensemoistbrown sugar forwardno air incorporationmelted butter
Ingredients
bread flour2.25 cups (340g)
butter2 sticks (226g)
granulated sugar0.5 cups (57g)
packed light brown sugar1 cups (227g)
egg1 each (50g)
egg yolk1 each (18g)
vanilla extract1.5 tsp (6g)
whole milk1 tbsp (28g)
baking soda1 tsp (6g)
kosher salt1 tsp (4g)
semi-sweet chocolate chips12 oz (340g)
Total dough weight1.3kg
Process
- Mixing
- melted butter
- Butter
- melted
- Eggs
- mixed
- Bake Temp
- 375°F (191°C)
- Bake Time
- 15-17 min
- Chill
- 60 min
- Yield
- ~48 cookies
- Sheet Prep
- parchment
Recipe Radar
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Outlier Profile
Uniqueness score: 3.1. Shows how many standard deviations each ratio diverges from the mean.
Percentile Rankings
Where this recipe falls compared to all 621 recipes in the dataset.
Flour:Fat1.50 (52th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.20 (47th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar4.00 (98th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.20 (36th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.00 (61th percentile)
Fat %17.4 (67th percentile)
Sugar %21.8 (61th percentile)
Hydration0.28 (53th percentile)
Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)
Key Ratios
Flour:Fat
1.50
Flour:Sugar
1.20
Brown:White Sugar
4.00
Egg:Flour
0.20
Chocolate:Flour
1.00
Fat %
17.4
Sugar %
21.8
Flour %
26.1
Hydration
0.28