# McDonalds Cookies
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 27, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010 "2012-10-27T04:55:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Jaclofo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaclofo)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/1 "2012-10-27T04:55:30Z")
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 😕
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/2 "2012-10-27T04:58:30Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/3 "2012-10-27T05:05:23Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> Would you believe that takes 120 seconds in a microwave?
How about five minutes in an Easy-Bake?
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/4 "2012-10-27T13:44:15Z")
Cookies at McDonald’s?
I never knew.
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### Author:  [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/5 "2012-10-27T13:50:12Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> Cookies at McDonald’s?
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> 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…
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/6 "2012-10-27T14:07:36Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/7 "2012-10-27T14:49:10Z")
McDonalds sugar cookies…nom, nom, nom.
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### Author:  [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/8 "2012-10-27T16:04:54Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/9 "2012-10-27T16:33:11Z")
As a kid, I loved the little cookies that used to come in the Happy Meals! Whatever happened to them?
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/10 "2012-10-27T16:34:36Z")
> [@Musicat](#):
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> 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?
They use microwaves at McDonalds? I’m not kidding; I genuinely did not think they did.
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### Author:  [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/11 "2012-10-27T22:22:21Z")
Wouldnt microwaving cookies make then go soggy? They wouldnt take long to heat up in a hot oven though. Maybe the apple pie warmer.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2012, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/12 "2012-10-27T23:57:44Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/13 "2012-10-28T00:07:22Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> They use microwaves at McDonalds? I’m not kidding; I genuinely did not think they did.
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).
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/14 "2012-10-30T23:11:05Z")
> [@TBG](#):
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> 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?
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### Author:  [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/15 "2012-10-31T03:26:11Z")
> [@TBG](#):
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> 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).
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.
> [@TheChileanBlob](#):
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> 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.
Original Toll House take 12 minutes in my convection oven.
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/16 "2012-10-31T04:00:07Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/17 "2012-10-31T14:43:14Z")
[These are the cookie boxes](http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonliebigstuff/3566172668/) that I remember. My Mom made better cookies so McDonalds’ weren’t a big deal for me.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/18 "2012-10-31T15:04:37Z")
> [@hrhomer](#):
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> If only the restaurant had some sort of board or sign on which they displayed their offerings and the price charged per serving…
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.
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### Author:  [@Clark\_Cello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_Cello)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/19 "2012-10-31T15:33:30Z")
Deep Fryer.
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### Author:  [@thatcatyouknow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thatcatyouknow)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2012, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-cookies/639010/20 "2012-12-19T22:11:55Z")
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.
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