Why does bread get hard after a while, but cookies become soft?
In: Chemistry
Cookies with a high oil content might go soft, and these are designed with a higher oil content specifically to not go stale, but ordinary ones tend to go hard.
Oil doesn’t evaporate as easily as water and bread has a high water content, but little or no oil, so the water evaporates more easily than the oil. The water also emulsifies with the water in cookies, so keeping it more moist.
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