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Epicurious's cookie panel could use a glass of milk

Everybody Eats blind-tests seven chocolate chip cookie brands, with softness, crunch and the bakery-versus-packaged distinction all up for debate.

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Can 8 People Agree on Chocolate Chip Cookies? | Everybody Eats | Epicurious

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0:14Chips Ahoy Original opens the tasting, prompting complaints about dryness and calls for milk.
2:14Pepperidge Farm Montauk divides tasters over soft texture and artificial-tasting flavors.
4:42Tate's crispy cookies bring buttery notes into the discussion.
8:15Famous Amos sparks childhood memories for Frank, alongside criticism of its texture.
12:45Kirkland Signature's bakery cookies arrive with chocolate chunks and a different texture.
15:23The panel names individual favorites, and the final scoreboard reveals the overall result.

Sari has a complaint before the tasting gets very far. "Eating this cookie without a glass of milk or any liquid feels like a form of punishment," the food critic says of Chips Ahoy Original. Epicurious's latest Everybody Eats episode makes the humble packaged cookie a surprisingly demanding assignment.

"Can 8 People Agree on Chocolate Chip Cookies? | Everybody Eats | Epicurious" was the most watched of the channel's two new uploads, reaching roughly 71,000 views. Its panel includes pastry chef Frank, athlete Yasir and tasters from different generations. Dryness proves troublesome, but softness isn't an automatic pass either: Pepperidge Farm Montauk divides those who welcome its texture from those put off by artificial-tasting flavors. Famous Amos brings back childhood memories for Frank, without escaping scrutiny over texture.

Viewers have their own questions about the experiment. Several wonder whether hearing other tasters' opinions influences the scores. Others want milk supplied, or question whether Kirkland's bakery cookies belong alongside shelf-stable packaged brands. The methodology is getting almost as much attention as the cookies.

The other new upload, "You Can Always Count on Wegmans," returns to supermarket mac and cheese. Meanwhile, Frank Proto's older meal-prep tutorial remains the channel's strongest daily draw, followed by the full frozen mac-and-cheese taste test.

Epicurious collected about 3.5 million views over seven days, while its subscriber count stayed unchanged. Daily viewing is above its usual pace, though nearby food channels BeardMeatsFood and Nick's Kitchen had much larger weekly audiences. Here, the week's distinctive pleasure was smaller: watching eight palates discover how little agreement a chocolate chip cookie guarantees.

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What viewers say

I genuinely wonder how much influence there was having a group of people in the same room where they can hear each other's points.
@sirvalentine8883See it on YouTube
Not giving them glasses of milk to eat their cookies with was a crime
@halalnewsSee it on YouTube
I feel like Kirkland doesn't belong as it's not shelf-stable, so it's more a cheap bakery cookie than a full factory cookie.
@DavidRokonSee it on YouTube

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I wish they had those Miss Universe noise-cancelling headphones while they were expressing their points.
@sugarfreak07See it on YouTube
Famous Amos cookies are really underrated. They have a shortbread type cookie flavor and I can eat a large box of them.
@davesecxSee it on YouTube
i like that millennial is a descriptor
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The facts

Channel: Epicurious
Subscribers: 6,320,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 3,479,851
Videos published this week: 2
Video published: October 21, 2026
Video views so far: 71,398
Views on its first day: 44,170

The numbers

Here is how Epicurious's uploads and audience moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

31,006,550

23,583,089

18,659,092

8,855,570

6,976,988

5,471,969

3,479,851

2,443,607

1,156,624

subscribers

6,320,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,851,397,255

views per day

616,070

typical day: 465,870

first-day views of each video posted this week

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44,170

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4,881

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

6,910,000

6,580,000

6,360,000

6,320,000

6,310,000

6,280,000

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As of October 28, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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