Pt 2 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Closer Looks

 

"Pt 1 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dolloping" primarily describes using a cooky press to push out chocolate chip cooky dough. As presses don't gracefully dispense dough having add-ins, my method incorporates a DIY food bottle funnel. Let's look more closely.

Closer Looks at Cooky Presses

I looked on the web for a means to push out chocolate chip dough. I spotted some presses that included piping nozzles in addition to dough disks. Amazon displayed a few such devices, the magic find word being "biscuit", which British commonly refer to stateside "cookies" Another site is Ebay. Weirdly, seems many US companies sell cooky presses and icing decorator guns separately.

I actually own Wilton Dessert Decorator Pro Stainless Steel Cake Decorating Tool So far, I tried it once, thinking I could pipe nice angel food cakelets. Big fail, as the oven temperature totally collapsed the edges. Interesting discovery: the screw-on collar fits my Wilton cooky press. Some day I'll try the decorator collar with my press and see about squeeze-triggering chocolate chip cooky dough.

Funnel Formations

The following slides from "Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dolloping" video explain just about everything needed to DIY cooky press funnels.

In the cooky dough dispensing stage (squeeze trigger, pinch dollop, deposit), I decided to skip on trying the soda bottle funnel. I favored the other two because the diameters were bigger, and the distances from dough tube to spout were shorter.

Mini and Regular Chocolate Chips

For thIs recipe, I've used most of the same type dough. I varied on using mini chocolate chips for one batch, and regular chocolate chips for the other. Notice side-by-side contrast for size and quantity between them.

"How Many Chocolate Chips in a Cup? (standard, mini, jumbo, & chunks)" contrasts quantities of chocolate chips per cup portions depending on the size of the chips. Minis are much smaller than regulars—"About 6½ mini semi-sweet chocolate chips equal 1 morsel-sized chocolate chip."

"How to Measure Chocolate Chips Correctly (2022)" further states: "Chocolate chips are measured by weight, volume, or count. The most accurate way to measure chocolate chips is to weigh them on a kitchen scale."

A related link is "How Many Chocolate Chips in a Tablespoon? (Depends on chip size)" provides details about factors that affect counts, including molds, ingredient variations and chocolate type. The table lists "1 Tablespoon (14 grams)". My mini chips bag (Nestle) lists one serving as 1 T (14 g), 70 calories. My regular chip bag (Hill Country Fare) lists one serving as 1 T (15 g), 70 calories.

The article shows a table for chips per tablespoon (14 grams). The minis count is 135, and the regular chips (standard) count is 28. Thus, a mini weighs a smidge more than .1 gram, and a standard weighs .5 gram.

More Chocolate Chip Nibbles

"0.1-3g Chocolate Chips Making Machine Fully Automatic" looks to be a marketing site that describes a chip-making machine's capabilities, with spec overviews. I'm thinking the machine is likely able to make chips as small as minis. FWIW, I never see fractions or tolerances for grams in nutrition tables.

"How are Chocolate Chips Made in a Factory? 4 Steps" summarizes the chip-making process that starts with melting the ingredients together and ending with creating the morsels. Both sites have the same embedded YT video of the machine in action.

"How Hershey's Chocolate Is Made and Packaged HD" shows interesting details for variety of their products., especially WRT mass manufacturing and packaging.

Cooky Bitefuls

I got curious about cooky mass production. Lookit those cookies go!

• "How It's Made: Chocolate Chip Cookies" provides details about "puck" dimensions and baking time near the 4-minute mark.
• "COOKIES PLANT" starts showing dispensing (extruding) pieces onto trays starting about 1:25 (6 rows). Note some nozzles rotate to form some cooky types. About 3:10, the shows wire-cut drop cookies.
• "TerraSana visits cookie factory" provides an an abbreviated look at huge-quantity cooky production.

Potentially Squishy Calories Calculations

The calorie counts were problematic for this recipe primarily because of stats for chocolate chips. Nutrition tables for my bags of mini chocolate chips and regular chocolate chips stated calories per tablespoon. One brand stated a tablespoon as 15 grams, and another brand stated a tablespoon as 14 grams. Formulation can affect stats. Imho, gram weights and small serving sizes for items as teeny as chocolate chips can leave lots of room for inaccuracies.

The stats in the Calories and Sodium section in "Pt 1 Cooky Pressing Choco Chip Cooky Dough, Not One-at-a-Time Dolloping" is theoretical. I don't really know how much tolerance is in gram weights per tablespoon. Another big factor in stats "slop" is the size of my cookies. They're not factory-made exact; some are undersized, some oversized. All were yummy!

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