The Thin

Name: The Thin
Cook time: 11 min
Yield: 48 cookies
Ingredients: 2.25 cups all-purpose flour; 2 sticks butter; 1 cups granulated sugar; 0.5 cups packed light brown sugar; 1 each egg; 1 each egg white; 1.5 tsp vanilla extract; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp salt; 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips

Alton Brown · Good Eats / Food Network · 2000 · Original Recipe

Designed for thin, crispy, lacy cookies. Melted butter, more sugar relative to flour, egg plus extra white for structure without richness, oat flour for lace-like texture. The crispiest of the Alton trio.

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Ingredients

all-purpose flour2.25 cups (281g)

butter(melted)2 sticks (226g)

granulated sugar1 cups (200g)

packed light brown sugar0.5 cups (110g)

egg1 each (50g)

egg white1 each (33g)

vanilla extract1.5 tsp (6g)

baking soda1 tsp (6g)

salt1 tsp (6g)

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: 9-11 min
Chill: None
Yield: ~48 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7. 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:Fat1.24 (29th percentile)

Flour:Sugar0.91 (19th percentile)

Brown:White Sugar0.55 (43th percentile)

Egg:Flour0.29 (63th percentile)

Chocolate:Flour1.21 (80th percentile)

Fat %18.0 (71th percentile)

Sugar %24.6 (80th percentile)

Hydration0.29 (55th percentile)

Bake Temp375 (86th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

1.24

Flour:Sugar

0.91

Brown:White Sugar

0.55

Egg:Flour

0.29

Chocolate:Flour

1.21

Fat %

18.0

Sugar %

24.6

Flour %

22.3

Hydration