4 Levels of Sugar Cookies: Amateur to Food Scientist | Epicurious
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- We challenged chefs of three different skill levels - amateur Emily, home cook Beth, and professional chef Penny Stankiewicz from The Institute Of Culinary Education - to make us a batch of sugar cookies. Once each level of chef had presented their bakes, we asked expert food scientist Rose to explain the choices each of them made along the way - both good and bad. Which cookie would you sneak out of the kitchen just before bed?
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4 Levels of Sugar Cookies: Amateur to Food Scientist | Epicurious
Emily chilling and talking about her store bought dough while the other two make homemade dough is a vibe
😜
@@EmilyDuncan the ketchup queen herself!
Very proud of her for leaving the ketchup in the fridge! 😅
We love a queen that’s comfortable in herself
Vibe for a low life lazy human.
Penny really showed us why she's a pro level chef and Emily showed us why it's OK to do things in a simple manner.
And the chef?
@@superemillita2710 Penny is the chef
gold dont even have taste, they over measured the "level" of the chef.
And Beth showed shes the grandma we all want
@@nomedocanal8496 The presentation is as important as the taste. Ótimo nome de canal, nome do canal…
I love that like half of Emily’s presentation is just her chilling with us ❤️❤️❤️
Me, seeing Penny in the video: "How the hell is she gonna get alcohol into sugar cookies?"
I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING!!!! I was waiting for “I like a boozy sugar cookie!!” 🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking vanilla flavored vodka or like a peppermint schnapps in the icing.
You should watch Eugene from the Try Guys incorporate alcohol in anything 😭😩
@@andrewthezeppo in the icing, good idea
@@viji_ we need a 'without a recipe' collab, her as a judge being served Eugene's alcohol filled dish!
Penny: "Nothing's worse than cookies hugging"
Emily:
I love how Beth always brings her grandkids to the conversation. Best grandma ever.
i just like how Emily stays true to level 1, even though she would definitely be able to make a level two cookie (or anything, really)
Penny just made the most extra sugar cookies I've ever seen and I'm here for it. They were beautiful!
Was that the 3rd lady? Cause I think those are disgusting. They do look very pretty, but food is for eating, not staring at, and I would never want to eat the things she put on there - flower petals, metal? Uh, no.
@@Julia-nl3gq girl news flash we eat those materials regularly. In drink form and food
Emily: I made some cute, chocolate sprinkle cookies
Penny: MY VODKA GOLD COOKIES IS THE BEST
Emily is our fun sister we all love
Beth is the grandma we all deserve
Penny is the true professional we all want to have a drink with
I’d eat all the cookies and go into a sugar coma :D
The drink is in the baking.
Penny is that one Godmama that likes to get on the piss
Also Penny, after having a drink with you: *steals drink to incorporate into her next recipe*
Oh god, that’s best ever possible way to describe it 😱❤️😂 J
Beth's cookies are just so much nostalgia and the simple fun caring but not caring too much that was common for holiday sugar cookies - love em
It's like she cared more about the flavour and having the experience with her grandkids, she doesn't need to be super fancy but she likes to add in a little work. Pure grandma vibes and I love her for it
I can taste the little diamonds I wish they posted the recipes. I would make them into Christmas trees or pumpkins or whatever season it is.
The start of the video: "Oh I wonder how penny is gonna get liquor in a sugar cookie recipe" 10:40: "ALWAYS DELIVERS"
I find it so wholesome that Beth makes those cookies with her grandchildren ❤️😭
I would do a mashup of all three: take Beth's recipe, dip them in chocolate when I'm done, and then add toppings, although instead of the flower petals I would use candied ginger and orange peel.
That sounds delicious! I really want to try that now
My nana has a really old sugar cookie recipe that she makes every year around Christmas time and they’re so good, also starting last year I started helping her make the cookies because that’s when I started getting an interest in baking
I love how Emily is leaning into the level 1. Yeah, I'm not the fanciest, but I've got more time to have fun!
It never ceases to amaze me how Penny can manage to incorporate alcohol in almost any dish they ask her to make
i love Emily's total embrace of the Level 1 chef role, truly based
Me at the first minutes: oh penny isn't using booze this time
Penny 10 minutes later: VODKA TIME
I mean it makes sense this time the luster powder is typically mixed with alcohol
@@kc8724 I actually use water lol it works as well
@@toomacchi yeah but on cakes and stuff it’s better to use alcohol because because it evaporates quickly where the water might make it wet
@@kc8724 ye I don’t care cuz water is halal lol
@@toomacchi well same cause I’m Muslim too but I’m just saying it works better
Beth is like the grandmother we all need. Always a pleasure to see you Beth.
I was soooo nervous Penny won't use alcohol this time! But she is a true queen. :D
hahaha I thought the exact same thing
Wonder if Penny brings alcohol and desserts to a party.
@@Bisepx or just extra boozy dessert 😅😅
Almost every cookie has alcohol. Vanilla extract is literally alcohol.
she lives up to her polish surname
Just when you think penny isn't gonna use any alcohol
Then comes the vodka 🤣
Emily is definitely my favorite level 1 chef. Amazing sense of humor!!
Beth is just a sweet grandma and that’s why I would like to taste her cookies.
“Hi. I’m Emily”
Me: Omg yes!!!!
“Hi. I’m Beth.”
Me: OH MY GOD MY FAV. PLEASE BE PENNY NEXT?!
“Hi. I’m Penny.”
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Epicurious: " Is making a baking video "
Beth and Penny: "It's show time"
She adds roses and lavender on her cookie, and she is a professional chef.
Yet I try and add Garlic, and all of a sudden, I'm crazy?!?!?
your not crazy your adding Garlic, your crazy for adding 10 cloves of Garlic per cookie :p
Try ketchup
@@giuzeppeedreimeimban1019 that's an Emily move.
Just here for the ketchup jokes that shall never die. Poor Emily lol.
I don't see any of those jokes, but they might ketchup later.
I've been waiting to see it brought up! ;)
@@farrex0 I relish comments like this
Wait I haven’t watched these videos in a while can you remind me which video she used ketchup in?
@@nataleeisjustchilling2737 Pick one of the older videos in random, chances are she is going to use kethup in there. She added it to almost everythng. Until it became a meme, and then she stopped using it. But she occasionally makes a joke about using ketchup.
Beth could read me a bedtime story and I’ll fall asleep like a baby, her accent is great
Penny really inspired me. Who know sugar cookies could be so bougie?
Remember y'all, Emily has her own UA-cam channel. It's great.
Oh I didn't know. What's the name? Does she cook on it?
@@MissySimpleM Emily Duncan. She cooks a little bit. Other stuff on there too.
Cool she's whimsical and super funny
me when a level 3 chef does *more* than the level 2: "it is unfathomably astounding, their many ways of adding complementary complexity to their dauntingly daring dishes."
me when a level 3 chef does *less* than the level 2: "indubitably! the home chef has yet to learn that simplicity is truly sublime. extra components distract from the divine flavor palette."
underrated comment
Penny's Cookies are so pretty They're literally works of art.
Emily's cookies look yummy, and I honestly love sugar cookie dough. She even went an extra step with the decoration.
I feel like Beth doesn't get enough recognition for her understanding of food and for the way she really creates experiences with food. She's always talking about making things with her family and who likes certain recipes, and she explains why she does things in a simple and succinct way. appealing
Believe it or not, this dream team is like cooking with your sister, grandma and drunk aunt
Wishing you guys a very healthy and happy festive season !
Thank you hope you have a great time as well!
Emily, Beth, and Penny truly are the epicurious jackpot! 👑👑👑
Emily, lorenzo, and frank
Also Emily, David, and saul 😩😩😩
I always love Emily's energy in all her appearances. She is definitely one of my favorite chefs.
Everyone is talking about Emily and Penny, but what about Beth, she’s so precious 😭
"In true level one fashion" haha!
so we say:-
1- Over-simplified cookies
2- what you imagine cookies to be like
3- over-compilcated cookies
I liked the Donut shape, and the chocolate dip 😛
This series is incredible. Funny, entertaining, and a great way to learn! Thank you.
3 lessons i've learned from your channel:
1‐Food is truly a work of art
2‐It doesn't have to look good to taste good
3‐Vegetables are delicious no matter what.
Watching Epicurious for the past 5 years has taught me quite a lot about the beauty of cooking.
I will never be comfortable with edible gold. Not for reasons of digestion, but because of the value of gold. There is a limited amount of it. It's extracted from the ground at a real cost to the miners (or panned, that's easier) and once it is consumed it cannot be recovered or recycled.
also flavorless
It also has no taste whatsoever, and is a pure example of wasteful extravagance. Chopping up dollar bills as a topping would make more sense. It also contributes no flavor, but at least more will be printed for the foreseeable future. Eating gold effectively destroys it, because people generally aren't picking it out of their poop.
I immediately lost respect for the chef when I saw her decorating her cookies with gold. I don't want metal in my cookies. It doesn't taste good, and it's expensive. Sprinkles and other topping that are actual food are cheap and can be delicious. Eating gold is only done for tasteless people who want to demonstrate how they can afford to be lavishly wasteful by destroying wealth in a world where people all around them are dying of scarcity. Destroying a precious resource to no end but just because you can and being so wasteful looks fancy is sinful. I'm not saying it's like murder, but it's an advertisement of morally questionable poor judgement.
And I reiterate: gold is tasteless. It has no proper place on a sugar cookie unless you're a noveau riche schmuck who wants to literally eat gold as a symbol of extravagance.
Gold is so tasteless that I actually want to have a set of gold-plated flatware someday, because unlike other common metals it imparts no taste to the food. If I recall correctly, it also has a mild ogliodynamic effect, meaning it's self-cleaning by being antimicrobial in the same way silverware is.
agreed. it is a massive turnoff to see gold being used as an ingredient, especially as it adds nothing to the finished dish other than to point out that the person gains pleasure from literally wasting money.
Who cares about the metal but its rlly respectless to eat this and nature is getting destroyed 3rd world ppl are starving and you could do sth against it with your money bcs you obviously dont need it
But it's pretty badass to think you could literally sh💩t gold!!! Then wipe with a few Benjamins!!!
First World problems, right?
It feels inappropriate to say, but I would love to eat each one of these woman’s cookies.
Headcinema 😂😒😂
Oh please welcome to my life
My mommy issues screams at me eveytime i see Penny
I'll have Grandma's and Penny's . Emily was to casual about her. Almost as if she wouldn't care if her kitchen utensils were dirty and unwashed while using them!!🤣🤣🤣
Emily in this video…just…my mood…thank you. Thank you. I needed this.
Beth's cookies are what I aim for at my best, but I'm not above going for a quick fix with the premise frozen roll. Emily's dip-and-wiggle chocolate decorations sold me; I would totally heal for those at the office party. Penny's dough sounded great, but she lost me on the decorations. I really don't like royal icing, and culinary flower petals make me think too much of scented soap.
agreed
Comment section wrap up: Ketchup.Grandbabies.Booze.
I just realised when Rose said the gold sheet is not gonna be dissolved in the stomach. That means if I eat Penny’s cookies I’d have goldy poopy
Yes, and that's why ading gold leaf to food is _stupid_ Literally pooping out money
@@Brandyalla facts
@@Brandyalla but my poop is gold now, it is so cool
@@Brandyalla Not to mention that you risk perforating your stomach and intestines.
@@ErebosGR No, the stuff is only a few microns thick, not enough to do any damage. It's just a waste of gold for no reason other than for rich people to show off to other rich people
Emily is the absolute, perfect definition of Level 1 and Chef Penny is the perfect, extra AF Level 3. Perfectly balanced.
Epicurious: Penny, we'd like to have you come on for our sugar cookie episode!
Penny: what's your budget?
Epicurious: uh-
Penny: 24K GOLD!
There's just something about premade dough... I don't think I've ever made it into cookies, but it tastes so good raw.
Frank is too busy developing a chemical process that turns salt into sugar.
Penny still found a way to work in some alcohol! She did that for us :')
I find it wrong that she adds it to everything. I've been the partner of an alcoholic for over fifteen years, and so I'm very aware of our society's totally unhealth habit of making booze available in everything, and everywhere. It's not right to have it in things you would never suspect it of being in, it could totally ruin an alcoholic's quest for sobriety.
I wasn't too convinced about the whole gold thing, then I figured out that it was a fancy way to ensure that some alcohol was somehow involved in the recipe.
Anyway, I'm definitely going to give it a try by sticking to dried flower petals only.
All four of my favorite chefs and Rose in one video! Super happy with this!
Out of all 3 I want Emily's cookies. I have a tube of sugar dough in the fridge, and some chocolate in the pantry. They also just honestly look the best. Love the light browning, the sprinkles are always a nice touch. Don't get me wrong sanding sugar looks nice. But the posh ones look meh. Emily's just look proper good holiday cookie.
these are my favourite chefs from each level. loved it ❤
I love that everyone is calling Penny out for being an alcoholic chef 😂😂😂 I thought I was the only one who noticed hahahah
Frank was too busy growing his own sugar and flour.
I am once again asking to be adopted as one of Beth’s grandchildren.
As soon as I saw the title, I KNEW Beth would be here and I was right.
I'm not going to lie. My favourite sugar cookie is the pilsbury one from a roll. I can't buy it where I live, so I've gone to great lengths to replicate it exactly. Last time I even made a smiley face design inside of the cookie 😁
(Emily i love your haircut ❤❤❤❤)
I love baking and I've been studying all of the levels but I'm still going to level one. It seams like the least expensive and most fun! MERRY CHRISTMAS AMERICA! FROM THE UK
"Epicurious: So Penny, we're going to be making sugar cookies. We want you as our Lvl3 chef. Do you have any great ideas on how to hype up a sugar cookie?"
"Penny: Gold."
That’s pretty accurate 😂
Hey Epicurious can you do a video on a dish from middle east? Dishes like butter chicken, chana masala, or shakshuka
Every time they do this, the food snobs come out and nitpick every deviation from the one acceptable version of the dish that their ancestors carved into stone, so I can understand why they are hesitant. Hell, Frank had to push for a paella video and half the comments were either "That's just rice with stuff" or "The level 2 is trash for using chorizo" even though it never specified Paella Valencia
Yeah I understand but they could get chefs familiar to the dish because of their culture, like I recognize a few of them that come from those regions
I appreciate how Penny did the expensive version, and the everyday version
I love how emily is just saying “ sugar cookies are supposed to be simple right” ? “ How hard could you possibly make them”? Whilst penny is talking about royal icing peaks and 24 carat gold leaves.
That moment you realize Penny's cookie is worth more than your engagement ring 😅🤤
PEEEEENNY!!!!! huge fan !!!!
Just like her other dishes/videos- you can’t beat grandmas cooking. She makes things with love
level 1 chef: *simple, chill vibe coming from her*
level 2 chef: *daymn she knows stuff*
level 3 chef: *ALCOHOLIC WHO PAINTS COOKIES WITH VODKA AS AN EXCUSE TO GET ALCOHOL ON THE SET*
Experts are artists.they make food look good.but no one beats the home cooking of mom.they taste delicious
When Penny started cutting out her cookies, I really thought she was going to layer a regular circle shaped cookie, then some kind of fancy fruit jam, then on top of the jam one of the donut shaped cookies, then put something else fancy on top of the exposed jam in the center hole of each cookie, and lastly to sprinkle the tops with some fancy sugar mixture.
Unpopular opinion : putting gold on food is dumb and ridiculous.
Epicurious : We have Penny
Alcohol Enthusiasts around the world : THaT'S MaA GuUrrll.....
I'm sure these are all filmed at different times (and possibly different locations, too), but man I would love to see the 3 different "chefs" try each others meals! 4 levels is awesome!
I just love how Penny looks like she has been sober for the last three months. You go, girl!
Those level 3 cookies gotta be a freaking fortune, but they do look amazing.
Penny is the only Baker in America who is required to carry a liquor license.
Effing A+
Emily's cookies are what you make with a bestie or small children.
Beth's are what you get when you leave the older kids at grandma's so you and the spouse can have a date night.
Penny's I would get "for the gram" once just to say I did lol
All look great!
This video is wonderful in all the possible ways. They it cuts from Penny to Emily is hilarious
I wish they tasted each version so we could see what they think about it.
i really think they forced Emily to use premade cookie on this one, who would use premix on a show otherwise
same
Based on her videos with the channel she is basically a level 2 chef. She already has made complicated recipes. But hey, who would have been able to get Rosemary to talk about the food science of premade dough
Penny's cookies are something that you put me in insomniac guilt after the first bite for destroying such a visual treat.
EMILY IS TH FUNNIEST. EVERYTIME SHE MADE A COMMENT I LAUGHED OUT LOUD. I'd love to be friends with her. She's so funny lol
I love that Emily uses ready made store bought dough instead of making a dough. There were many times that level 1 chefs were still more advanced than the average consumer, like pie and stuff. To me, level one pie filling should come out of a can or comes from a pudding box. Lol
Emily Beth penny what a trio 😍
0:01 … they KNEW what they were doing 😰
I want Beth's recipe NOW 🥲
Theres a vid on yt that shows you how its done!. ..
Emily and Beth win. Sugar cookies don’t need gold, flowers, glitter, or vodka. Simplicity, in this case, is best.
24 carat-gold leaf..why is no one commenting on it? Penny is sooo extra...I love it.
5:08
Are Penny and Beth Related??
The walk off is uncanny like.
Emily is awesome !
The reason for using vodka instead of water is so that the glaze (which contains sugar) won't draw the water to it & become brittle, soggy etc. Because sugar is hydrophilic. This happens as well if you keep a glazed baked good standing in the open too long. It draws the water to it from the dough or air around it
Im sitting here thinking: "Hey! That's a Premiere, Penny not using Booze for once 😋"
"I have got some Golddust, and i'm using Vodka as solvent.."
Yes Penny. Yes you do.🤣
Its good to see Muriel again, IYKYK
I miss Penny! Glad she's back.
i need beth's recipe!!!
When you see flowers and gold on your dessert you know you're up for something awesome
I like Beth's cooking better than all the other guys
Beths are the best tbh bc there made with love with her grand kids ik penny’s look great but like cmon i think it’s so cuteee💕💕