So I ordered some McDdonalds Chocolate Chip Cookies, which they had to “bake” due to being out of “fresh” cookies. The crew told me that it would take two minutes to make a new batch of cookies. I have been told this on a few occasions. So my question is… how do they bake them in only 2 minutes? Do they have a special oven? Are they microwaved (I dont think so?) or What??? It just baffles me that they can be baked in only two minutes… Thanks 
Many fast foods are pre-cooked or pre-baked. All they have to do is warm 'em up and make it look like they are fresh-baked. Would you believe that takes 120 seconds in a microwave?
How about five minutes in an Easy-Bake?
Cookies at McDonald’s?
I never knew.
If only the restaurant had some sort of board or sign on which they displayed their offerings and the price charged per serving…
I am old and out of touch. Last time I heard about cookies at McDonalds they were tiny, stale chips of supposedly-edible carbohydrate packaged in a cardboard box.
McDonalds sugar cookies…nom, nom, nom.
Real cookies that you bake at home don’t take more than a few minutes in the oven. Maybe they have a convection oven at McDonald’s.
As a kid, I loved the little cookies that used to come in the Happy Meals! Whatever happened to them?
They use microwaves at McDonalds? I’m not kidding; I genuinely did not think they did.
Wouldnt microwaving cookies make then go soggy? They wouldnt take long to heat up in a hot oven though. Maybe the apple pie warmer.
Um, maybe somebody noticed that they were out of cookies a few minutes before Jaclofo ordered and they were already half baked. They make considerable effort to stay caught up but aren’t always successful.
The company that sells the ovens and dough to McDonald’s also rented me the setup for a company event and it took about eight minutes.
They’ve been using microwaves at McDonalds for at least 20 years. I had a friend who worked there then and he was always complaining about the place, and one of his complaints was how they weren’t allowed to call the microwave a microwave. They had to call it a Q-ing oven (or maybe queuing oven, he never wrote it down, just talked about it).
Huh. I’d always assume that term referred to some sort of hot lamp type situation. They were put in a queue so that you’d take out the one that had been in the longest.
Is it really just a standard microwave, or is it at least some sort of assembly line type of thing that uses microwave radiation?
Maybe “staging oven”? I worked there as a child, and the microwaves were just coming into the stores as I left to join the army.
Original Toll House take 12 minutes in my convection oven.
Oh man I really have a hankering for some of their sugar cookies now. I used to really like biting the heads off the mascots as a kid. Do they even sell them anymore?
These are the cookie boxes that I remember. My Mom made better cookies so McDonalds’ weren’t a big deal for me.
Yeah but there are like 30 things on various menus on 3 different walls. Plus not every MCDonalds has the same items.
But I bet they’re not better than Subway’s chocolate chip cookies.
Deep Fryer.
I worked at Mickey D’s in 93-95 ish (grill/prep). From what I remember, EVERY single sandwich went through the queuing oven before it was placed in the warming station/slot/sandwich queue. The queuing oven was a scary beast. Could cook something in a few seconds. 90 seconds would burn almost anything. It is a high powered microwave IMO. The one I worked at had six queuing ovens back to back right behind the warming station. There was also a convection oven used for apple pies. Unfortunately they didn’t have chocolate chip cookies back then. My guess is they bake them in the convection oven, it’s already pre heated.
Not to switch topics, but I was always concerned with the fluorescent green, steaming liquid that MUST be present at all times in the bottom of the meat bin. It was a powder we had to add. The management called it a preservative… ?!? …
Made me choke if I inhaled any.