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Nigel Braun (NileRed/NileBlue) is a Canadian chemist and science communicator residing in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
He's recently off hiatus and back with more crazy antics. Historically he mostly covered interesting chemistry reactions but he's branching out.
In this episode, Nigel mistakes NIST standard ingredients for pure and fresh ingredients and makes the worlds worst cookie
I've posted a companion video by Veritasium further explaining the NIST ingredients the Nigel is using here.
The comments on the video randomly call out a lot of things. I think the recipe itself was fine, but he didn't handle the substitutions right. The majority of his experience seems to be tasteless and grainy. I think the bicarb needed to be ground finer, the oil substitution wasn't 1:1 and the scaling the recipe was a bad idea. Powdered eggs work in baking, but it's probably not 1:1, the chocolate needed to be larger chunks. It's super hard to take a 4 cup recipe and turn it into a single cookie.