I love making chocolate chip cookies, and have refined my technique so a batch of dough fills my two baking sheets perfectly without them smooshing together. The two tricks are using a little more flour and baking soda than the recipe says, so they’re a little fluffier and don’t spread out so much, and consistent ball size.
Bestagon cookies!
They’re the hexagreatest!
Hecks a good cookies.
Alright, as long as someone commented it!
Sing the song!
🎶 Hexagons are the bestagons
ONE. That’s how many cookies fit on that tray.
If you’re feeling generous you could break off some sections of your one cookie for your friends.
What part would you share? The crispy outer edge, or soft chewy center?
The overcooked back half.
Dude, if you get the nachos stuck together, that’s one nacho.
Someone hexed those cookies
No they don’t (necessarily))??
Notice how they didn’t spread the cookies evenly on the tray? If they had, it would’ve resulted in squares - not hexagons. On the left, some cookies look more like squares already.
Hexagons are just one possible way to tile the plane without gaps. The only reason bees use hexagons is because tiling a plane with hexagons results in the lowest possible total perimeter for equally sized shapes. And bees build the edges of their comb shapes using wax, which is expensive.
It’s not a plane 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 wonder if this relates to them having six legs somehow. Like, they’re able to measure where the next hex should be based on leg length and direction or something.
The bee doesn’t have to know anything about numbers to make the honeycomb. All it needs to know is how big to make the circle (bee-sized) and where the circle should be (touching two other circles). From there, the hexagons form naturally.
