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Brown butter oatmeal choc chip cookies

Nagi · recipetineats.com · 2023 · Original Recipe

Against 612 chocolate chip cookie recipes

5/5 chewy and 2/5 crisp, with more chocolate than 89% of recipes and more egg than 86%.

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Recipe video above. This is extremely fast and easy, and ridiculously good. No creaming butter, no chilling cookie dough. Don’t pause to wonder if it’s worth the extra 3 minutes to brown the butter. I

5

Chewiness

2

Crispiness

1

Cakeyness

3

Thickness

3

Spread

3

Richness

2

Sweetness

4

Flavor add-ins

Scores are 1 to 5 across all 612 recipes. Chewiness, crispiness, cakeyness and thickness are computed from the recipe using a published-science rubric; spread, richness, sweetness and flavor add-ins are percentile ranks of the ingredient numbers. See how it works.

Why it scores this way

Every rubric factor that applies to this recipe, with the points it adds or removes. Hover a factor for the mechanism behind it. The displayed thickness score comes from a fitted model that agrees slightly better with authors' words; these are the rubric's reasons.

Chewiness

5/5 · +4.0 pts
  • +2.0brown sugar (100% of sugar)
  • +1.0browned butter
  • +0.4oats
  • +0.3fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.93)
  • +0.2baking soda
  • +0.1high hydration (0.39)

Crispiness

2/5 · +1.6 pts
  • +0.8fat-rich dough (flour:fat 0.93)
  • +0.4browned butter
  • +0.3baking soda
  • +0.2oats
  • -0.1high hydration (0.39)

Cakeyness

1/5 · -0.5 pts
  • +0.8egg-rich (egg:flour 0.39)
  • -0.8browned butter
  • -0.5mostly brown sugar (100%)

Thickness

3/5 · -0.6 pts
  • -0.5browned butter
  • -0.141 g per cookie

Scores are computed from the recipe using a published-science rubric. See how it works.

brown buttervery chocolatey

Ingredients

unsalted butter150g
flour140g
rolled oats210g
baking soda (6g
cooking/kosher salt0g
brown sugar140g
egg )55g
vanilla extract4g
dark chocolate200g
Total dough weight906g

Process

Mixing
brown butter
Butter
browned
Eggs
whole
Bake Temp
350°F (177°C)
Bake Time
11-13 min
Chill
None
Yield
~22 cookies

Recipe Radar

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Outlier Profile

Uniqueness score: 1.7, a single number for how far this recipe sits from the typical recipe across all ratios. Each bar is a z-score: how many standard deviations that ratio sits above or below the dataset mean.

Percentile Rankings

Where this recipe falls compared to all 612 recipes in the dataset.

Flour:Fat0.93 (9th percentile)
Flour:Sugar1.00 (26th percentile)
Brown:White Sugar0 (19th percentile)
Egg:Flour0.39 (87th percentile)
Chocolate:Flour1.43 (90th percentile)
Fat %16.6 (51th percentile)
Sugar %15.5 (22th percentile)
Hydration0.39 (81th percentile)
Bake Temp350 (41th percentile)

Key Ratios

Flour:Fat

0.93

Flour:Sugar

1.00

Brown:White Sugar

0

Egg:Flour

0.39

Chocolate:Flour

1.43

Fat %

16.6

Sugar %

15.5

Flour %

15.5

Hydration

0.39

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