All about Cookies: The perfect compromise between softness and crispiness
2025/03/29 by Sophie Rosu, Rosu, Sophie · 10 voices · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.SR #astro-ph.EP #astro-ph.GA
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.23114
Abstract
Cookies are enjoyed best when they are both crispy and soft. I investigate in which proportion the cookies are crispy and soft, and disentangle whether it makes them biscuits, cakes, or none of the above. I baked cookies for colleagues at KTH, Stockholm, and University of Geneva, Switzerland, adopting my mum's mum's mum's etc. recipe. I created a dedicated survey for my colleagues with three well-selected questions to answer while eating one cookie. The weighted-average mean of the crispiness and softness, weighted by the respective enjoyment of the cookie, over the whole population amount to 7.0 +/- 1.1 and 5.3 +/- 1.4, respectively. The enjoyment of the cookies amounts to 9.1 +/- 2.3. People like (my) cookies, and cookies are neither cakes, nor biscuits, they are just... cookies!
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- Glad to see that my impact on the field is being recognised. Thanks for citing my 2021 paper on whether Jaffa Cake's are cakes or biscuits, and thanks for blessing the arxiv with a delicious cookie re [bsky, 8 points, 1 comments]
- 🍪🍪🍪 Grosse étude, qui me parle aussi beaucoup... Et je suis persuadée que les participant·e·s à l'étude ne se sont pas plaint ! Alors, y a-t-il une formule optimale entre le croquant et le moelleux [bsky, 5 points, 1 comments]
- #arXiv #April1st All about Cookies: The perfect compromise between softness and crispiness arxiv.org/abs/2503.23114 The enjoyment of the cookies amounts to a weighted-average mean of the crispiness an [bsky, 4 points, 0 comments]
- Gotta love the Arxiv april fool's papers - my favorite so far "All about Cookies: The perfect compromise between softness and crispiness " arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23114 [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]
- All about Cookies: The perfect compromise between softness and crispiness (Rosu) Key takeaway: Sophie makes good cookies (enjoyment factor = 9.2 +/- 2.3, p-value acceptable) arxiv.org/abs/2503.23114 [bsky, 1 points, 2 comments]
- Check out this groundbaking research from the University of Geneva! 🍪 📖 arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23114 The Science Ground Segment team, who take the raw ingredients that #Euclid sees and transform it into [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]
- Attempting the impossible, making cookies better than your mum's. [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- #arXiv #April1st All about Cookies: The perfect compromise between softness and crispiness https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.23114 The enjoyment of the cookies amounts to a weighted-average mean of the crisp [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
- mira de verdad arxiv.org/pdf/2503.23114 [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]
- # arXiv # April1st All about Cookies: The perfect compromise between softness and crispiness https:// arxiv.org/abs/2503.23114 The enjoyment of the cookies amounts to a weighted-average mean of the cr [mastodon, 0 points, 0 comments]
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