The best chocolate chip cookie recipe, according to science

Understanding a bit of chemistry can transform your baking skills. The perfect cookie is a matter of taste, but these tips and tricks can help you develop your perfect recipe. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. "Cooking is art--but baking is science," Bill Nye the Science Guy once said . While a batch of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies doesn't resemble anything you'd whip up in a chemistry lab (hopefully), there's plenty of chemistry happening in your oven.