Alton Brown Has a Strange Cookie-Eating Habit — For a Very Sweet Reason — Cookies

This weekend I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Judge John Hodgman, and heard something I just had to share. If you're unfamiliar, John Hodgman plays a fake internet judge in a fake court that's open to hearing various disputes from listeners. Although the lawsuits are not always food-related, there certainly are a lot that are. Perhaps the most well-known case included two people arguing whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich. (The court ruled it is not.)

Back to this weekend: I was listening to episode 358 (cheekily named Chips Annoy!), featuring a couple who disagreed about how well-done chocolate chip cookies needed to be before they could be pulled out of the oven. Alton Brown was a guest witness, so naturally I was even more enthralled than usual.

He had lots to say about the process of making chocolate chip cookies. The biggest takeaway, however, came around 32 minutes in ... and it was more about the eating of the cookies than the making.

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