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Q. I was making multiple batches of chocolate chip cookies in large plastic bowls. I was just washing the bowls when I noticed a small piece of plastic mixing from one of my bowls. I don't know which batch came from that bowl and I hate to think that I have to throw everything out....would the plastic piece rise to the top during cooking? One time I noticed a piece of egg shell in my finished cookie that had accidently gotten into my batter because it rose to the top of the cookie durng baking. I use a hand mixer for my cookies and then mix the semi sweet chips into the dough by hand....and then roll each cookie so I feel that I would have discovered the piece of plastic then....I'm hoping that it went down my sink. But I would like to know if anything of that nature would rise to the top of the cookie as the egg shell had once before. Thank you!
A. I hate kitchen mishaps such as this one. Especially when the cookies may have been intended as a gift! However, I am not so sure that your missing piece of plastic would "float" to the top. Depending on the density of the piece of plastic, and your dough, it may do just as the chocolate chips and stay embedded in the cookie. Cookie dough itself, is pretty dense and so if you have egg shell float to the top once, it was probably pretty near the surface to begin with.
However, unless you were going to give the cookies away, I personally don't think that your hard work was for nothing. You can still eat the cookies, just tear them in half before you eat and scout out that missing hunk of plastic. It would take more than that for me to throw out chocolate chip cookies!
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