# Baking w/Chococlate Chips

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-w-chococlate-chips/79207>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 31, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-w-chococlate-chips/79207 "2001-08-31T22:14:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-w-chococlate-chips/79207/1 "2001-08-31T22:14:37Z")

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Ok, why don’t chocolate chips melt into amorphic blobs - instead of remaining as identifiable chips? My WAG: the chips do melt, but the surrounding dough helps them hold their shape until they cool, maybe?

- Jinx

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**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-w-chococlate-chips/79207/2 "2001-08-31T22:26:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Jinx \*  
> \*\* My WAG: the chips do melt, but the surrounding dough helps them hold their shape until they cool, maybe?
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> - Jinx \*\*

Absolutely. If you take a tray of cc cookies out of the oven and poke a chip sticking out of the surface, it will most definitely smear all over your finger.

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**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-w-chococlate-chips/79207/3 "2001-08-31T22:51:10Z")

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If the chips didn’t melt, chocolate chip cookies would lose a lot of their appeal. A good chocolate chip cookie is like a gift from God.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baking-w-chococlate-chips/79207/4 "2001-09-01T01:20:09Z")

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My all-time favorite is still the Toll House recipe on the back of the Nestle package. I’m making the bar cookie version for my grandkids tonight. I’ll be a hero. 🙂  
Oh yeah, the chips \*do]/i] melt, as mentioned above.  
My mouth is watering.  
Peace,  
mangeorge