They're the hexagreatest!

Alright, as long as someone commented it!

https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY

Hecks a good cookies.

What part would you share? The crispy outer edge, or soft chewy center?

Dude, if you get the nachos stuck together, that's one nacho.

It's so dear of you to assume I have friends. That cookie is all mine, sweetie.

The toppings are also cursed.

Yeah, it happens when you pack the circles as densely as possible. If you place them in a grid, they will expand to a grid.

I don't think I've ever seen any household grade ovens really provide even heat, maybe if you use them with the rotating fan thing, but certainly not in standard mode. You need to spend the big bucks on professional kitchen grade stuff for that.

could also be a shadow?

how do you know that's the back and not the side?

But when I do this all the cookies fall out

I thought that was a shadow 😄

But you can get gooey and crunchy in one batch 🤣

I just woke up with my phone on this. My assumption is that remembering that optimal packing thing just caused me to pass out, presumably to protect myself.

Should the target area be square or should it also be a hexagon?

It can clearly fit 2⁵ hexagonal cookies!

Bees literally do not use hexagons, they make roughly round shapes and the force of the surrounding cells compresses them into hexagons. This is called self-organization and it's observable in bubbles as well.

It's not a plain tiling problem; it's a circle packing problem. The optimal euclidean circle packing results in each cookie having six cookies around it, and so when they melt, hexagons.

I just fill the pan and use cookie cutters after they're baked.

I eat the scraps.

btw anyone know what the onset signs of diabetes is?

Can also put the tray with cookies on it in the freezer, that can help keep them from spreading as much! Then throw it in the oven from frozen like. Or...firmed up like.