My husband’s been working a lot lately and I recently went on an Oreo binge. I love that they get soggy when dunked and I noticed that they get soggy very quickly. Why? Does it have to do with that layer of filling? Are the cookies particularly absorbent for some reason, like having more air in them? Or am I just over thinking the pleasures of a soggy cookie?
Have you compared Oreos with other dunkable cookies? Do they, in fact, get soggy faster than other cookies?
It’s easier to consume foods when they are mushed up. The mushier the more you consume. This is a plot 
Dog shit is mushy, and I never consumed any of that! I think you need to add a few more elements to your Conspiracy Theory, before it’s ready for putting up your nutter website… 
Did you try dunking it?
You consider dogshit to be a food? :dubious:
You have to be scientific about this. You need some controls. Have you tried dunking other cookies in milk? Have you tried dunking Oreos in things other than milk, like water, gravy, ketchup, castor oil, motor oil, etc.?
Dogs do.
While dunking Oreos in milk come a close second, I prefer taking 2-3 flat honey graham crackers* and dunking them. It makes for a nice mushy sweet cracker sandwich! Hehehe.
- They’re not really crackers, more like cookies or digestives.
No, but it’s Markxxx’s nutty conspiracy, not mine, so I don’t have to develop it into a plausible (but incoherent) theory.
No, but I never tried dunking it, either…
Where do they get the milk?
From bones
Heck, cookie dunking would make a good (and delicious) science fair project. Got any young kids?
I worked in a Nabisco factory in college. We made Chips Ahoy, Ritz, Premium Crackers, 'Nilla Wafers, pretzels, Cheez Nips (ot whatever the Nabisco brand is), Chunky Chips Ahoy and - yes - Oreos.
The dough is not dough at all. It is the color and consistency of very rich potting soil. There is a giant brass roller with an oreo shaped stamp. The mix is poured onto a belt, smoothed out, and passed under the rolling stamp, which makes oreo-shaped cookie slugs. The conveyor belt then passes through an oven which is about 100 yards long. The speed of the belt sets the cooking time.
They then cool and are sent to the cream machine. I have been there when the cream machine broke and spilled oreo filling all over the place. I mean - how many people can say they have been knee-deep (literally) in orea middle?
But if you open your oreo and look at the back of the cookie, you can see the impression of the conveyor belt as little hatch marks.
Side note - we could eat all we wanted while at work. After the 1st week you never wanted to see another Nabisco product again. Although it was nice from time to time to grab a wad of pretzel dough, shape it into something, and put in on the conveyor. The resulting pretzel was hot and delicious!
I have. Comparing them with Sam’s oreos, they get soggy much faster. IIRC, they also get soggier a bit faster than Hydrox. Can’t remember others, but, I think that they do get soggier faster than other like cookies.
Best wishes,
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I think I need to start doing some comparisons. I’ll weigh them before dunking, dunk for the same amount of time, weigh them again and see which cookies absorb the highest percentage of milk.
I want to test a couple kinds of sandwich cookies, but I want to test a comparable non-sandwich cookie. What kind of cookie would be comparable? Shortbread? Teddy Graham?
Also, even if I do the tests, it still won’t say why it happens. Hmm…
You have to be really fast though. The line between “nice mushy” and disintegrated is very fine.
False analogy, you must compare food with food
You mush up foods you can eat more. Oreos are much better all mushed up.
Try it. Put Oreo in mouth. Chew oreo, savour Oreo, swallow Oreo. Time ten seconds
6 Oreos in 1 minute or 360 Oreos in an hour.
Now for the other half
Put 360 Oreos in milk. Time 10 seconds. Wait 10 seconds. All mush. Swallow without chewing 15 seconds. Time 35 seconds
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DOG SHIT has been prominently suggested in this thread… Get on it Dr. Oreo!
I’ll start doing some comparisons, too. Just as a control group. I’ll weigh myself before dunking, dunk for the same amount of time, stuff my face, weigh myself again and see which part of my anatomy absorbs the highest percentage of newly-minted fat.