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May 6, 2015 9:22 PM   Subscribe

What happens when you actually bake Ben & Jerry's cookie dough?
posted by Chocolate Pickle (34 comments total) 12 users marked this as a favorite
 
What the what, did he actually eat cooked ice cream off a baking tray??? Groooossss. I don't know what's on my baking trays but it's certainly enough to make me cover them in a good layer of baking paper before actually cooking things in them.
posted by Quilford at 9:28 PM on May 6, 2015 [5 favorites]


I thought the same thing!! A piece of parchment paper would make the baked pint a lot better and less burnt.

Also much less cleanup.
posted by GuyZero at 9:35 PM on May 6, 2015 [2 favorites]


Ah, rats. I should have titled this "Baked Vermont".
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:00 PM on May 6, 2015 [25 favorites]


Quality reporting.
posted by carsonb at 10:11 PM on May 6, 2015


I suspect that the cookie dough used in ice creams and such don't have the raw egg that proper cookie dough does, because OMG DEATH (although I have consumed raw cookie dough for years and have not gotten ill yet).
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 10:29 PM on May 6, 2015 [5 favorites]


We sometimes bake a "2-ingredient ice cream bread": Stir flour & ice cream together and bake in a greased pan.
Very simple: Google the amounts/time, and enjoy.
posted by growabrain at 10:32 PM on May 6, 2015 [5 favorites]


What are you folks doing with your baking trays that they're so horrifying? Do you not wash them after you use them? Do you store them behind the toilet or something? You're probably not going to bake ice cream on the cookie sheet you keep your potted plants on. Not without at least a quick rinse.
Jeez.
posted by Mister Moofoo at 11:00 PM on May 6, 2015 [17 favorites]


I've totally done that. Not the whole pint or the big cookie, but I can attest to the fact that the little ones taste like cookie crisp. I used to smoke a lot of pot.
posted by [tk] at 11:13 PM on May 6, 2015 [10 favorites]


Would my wife get angry that I ruined a pan and made the whole house smell like burnt milk?

Burnt milk is an actual valid ice cream/candy flavor in Mexico. "Leche quemada" if memory serves.
posted by telstar at 2:53 AM on May 7, 2015 [7 favorites]


Yeah your baking sheet is routinely heated to 350 degrees. It's not bioactive. That crud is inert charcoal.
posted by spitbull at 3:57 AM on May 7, 2015 [7 favorites]


(Burn the giant, often animated, "sign up for our shitty newsletter because some 'social media guru' told us we needed to spam you" dialogs with fucking nuclear fire.

I need some cookie dough ice cream to calm down.)
posted by maxwelton at 3:58 AM on May 7, 2015 [2 favorites]


I never understood the appeal of raw cookie dough, and did not eat it when I baked cookies, so cookie dough ice cream is something I avoid. Just bake the dough, then eat the delicious cookies. I was vindicated when I learned that the raw eggs in cookie dough could sometimes be dangerous and make you sick.
posted by mermayd at 4:48 AM on May 7, 2015 [2 favorites]


I'm surprised that it's apparently real(ish) dough and not a glob of chemically thickened corn syrup with cookie flavoring.
posted by codacorolla at 5:15 AM on May 7, 2015


unless your baking sheet is full of beans, there's no need to overthink THIS one, metafilter. christ on a cookie.
posted by blue t-shirt at 5:43 AM on May 7, 2015 [2 favorites]


Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream in fact has eggs. Dollars to doughnuts those eggs are pasteurized, so shelf-stable and not at all dangerous. Pasteurized eggs, they're like magic.
posted by dis_integration at 5:46 AM on May 7, 2015 [3 favorites]


My baking trays ain't bioactive, just covered in a thin layer of weird brown grease that came from nowhere and is seemingly impossible to remove
posted by Quilford at 6:08 AM on May 7, 2015 [12 favorites]


Dollars to doughnuts those eggs are pasteurized, so shelf-stable and not at all dangerous.

Years ago, we took the brief "tour" at the Ben & Jerry's plant in Vermont (you stand in a little observation deck over the main production floor and watch the operation, then eat samples that they send up in a bucket directly from the line), and they confirmed that bit of information.
posted by briank at 6:11 AM on May 7, 2015 [4 favorites]


The more you know *******************
posted by Sophie1 at 6:32 AM on May 7, 2015 [1 favorite]


Did you know there is a salmonella vaccine for chickens? Would it not make the US a better place if we actually used it?
posted by OnceUponATime at 6:40 AM on May 7, 2015 [1 favorite]


The article did not answer the one question I have about the whole experiment, which is how the dough was extracted from the ice cream. I guess they were just dug out, but they look so clean, and it's somehow really confusing me.
posted by Tentacle of Trust at 7:02 AM on May 7, 2015 [4 favorites]


Salmonella is a bacteria and its prevalence is a symptom of factory farming pushed too far. It used to die simply from freezing. Now it's Satan.
posted by aydeejones at 7:35 AM on May 7, 2015


Tentacle of Trust, if you'd like to bring a pint over, I can show you how to cleanly remove the dough.
posted by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 7:36 AM on May 7, 2015 [2 favorites]


The merits and problems with salmonella vaccines are inside this walnut
posted by aydeejones at 7:37 AM on May 7, 2015 [2 favorites]


I could have sworn Cockeyed.com did this once too, but I'm not finding it now.
posted by Lentrohamsanin at 7:39 AM on May 7, 2015 [1 favorite]


New baking pans are really cheap.
posted by spitbull at 7:44 AM on May 7, 2015


Seconding Lentrohamsanin.
posted by 7segment at 7:48 AM on May 7, 2015


OnceUponATime:
Did you know there is a salmonella vaccine for chickens? Would it not make the US a better place if we actually used it?

If you're worried about salmonella from raw cookie dough, you can totally make it without eggs! Here's one way. Here are some other ways. If you're feeling lazy, Hampton Creek recently put out an eggless cookie dough.
posted by Gymnopedist at 7:52 AM on May 7, 2015 [1 favorite]


The article did not answer the one question I have about the whole experiment, which is how the dough was extracted from the ice cream.

Tentacle - melt the ice cream. Leaves you with tasty balls of dough.
posted by Sophie1 at 8:13 AM on May 7, 2015


Did you know there is a salmonella vaccine for chickens? Would it not make the US a better place if we actually used it?

The moment we try it, the hardcore all-natural, vegan, anti-chemical, anti-"toxin," anti-GMO, homeopathic warriors will be up in arms that vaccinating chickens will give children autism. Or something.
posted by dnash at 8:16 AM on May 7, 2015 [2 favorites]


I remember seeing Cooki Dough Pop Tarts for sale, which kind of baffled me. Once you toasted it, wouldn't the inside just become a cookie?
posted by jonmc at 9:19 AM on May 7, 2015


JonMC, toasting doesn't last long enough or get hot enough to actually cook the filling.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 12:37 PM on May 7, 2015


It's after one in the morning. I have to wake up before six. It's taking a lot of willpower to stop myself from driving to the grocery store and buying a tube of chocolate chip cookie dough.

I'm going to sleep now. Sleep: that's where I'm a Viking who can eat as much raw salmonella-free cookie dough as I want.
posted by double block and bleed at 10:19 PM on May 7, 2015


You folks are wimps.

EAT IT RAW!
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 1:15 AM on May 8, 2015


Ben & Jerry's can't sell their Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough flavor here in Japan because of the raw egg content. From what I gathered from the staff at the Ben & Jerry's shop, the law specifies a very short expiration date on products made with raw egg, and doesn't have any allowances for extending the expiration dates of pasteurized egg, so no go.
posted by Bugbread at 3:50 PM on May 9, 2015 [1 favorite]


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