Traditionally, you’d eat an Oreo straight of the box, or sometimes very recently dipped in a glass of milk. The people at Oreo felt the need to show that their cookie is more diverse than that, however, so they put it in a bunch of weird recipes and made me eat the result in order to prove something about the future. Gizmodo tried these foods so you don’t have to.
If you reverse the process in one of those enlightening How It’s Made videos you get a fantastically funny How It’s Unmade parody series. This particular comedic episode shows how a delicious Oreo is extracted to provide half the United States with flour and harvested for cocaine, gunpowder, cocoa and sugar by wizards. It’s hilarious how much is hidden inside those cookies!
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You can forget the wheel, nuclear power, and even the internet. All of man’s greatest creations have been eclipsed by this pint-sized robot that’s able to make custom Oreo cookies whenever you have the craving.
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Oreo might be trying to push its snack-sized mini cookies with this utterly brilliant way to dunk, but there’s no reason this hack can’t work with full-sized Oreo cookies as well—or any reasonably-sized cookie, for that matter. You’ll of course need access to a clean french press, but the other components—milk and cookies—should be easy to come by.
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I’ve been dunking my cookies ever since Oreo launched their Twist, Lick, and Dunk campaign. Suffice to say, I’ve encountered a number of problems in the dunking process that you might have experienced yourself.
For example, spilled milk. When you’re dunking in a full glass of milk, there’s bound to be some spillage. Then there’s the opposite problem of too little milk left. You have to tilt the glass and push your hands as far into the glass as you can to dunk your cookie. Not a very pleasant experience.
So for these and all your other cookie dunking woes, there’s the Cookie Dunker.
Cookie Dunker looks like one of those wide-mouth cups that toddlers use to practice drinking from a glass, but there are a couple of marked differences: the rounded internal bottom, to fit the curve of your cookie perfectly; and the narrow cross section at the bottom that makes dunking in lower milk levels easier to achieve.
These are all first-world problems, of course – problems that we’re all very lucky to have.
The Cookie Dunker is up for funding on Kickstarter, where a minimum pledge of $23(USD) will get you a two-pack. Because one should never dunk alone.
For the past few weeks, we’ve seen some neat creations whose primary objective is to successfully separate an Oreo cookie. But today, we spotted an Oreo-related creation that wasn’t commissioned by Nabisco to create, which makes it even more awesome someone took time out of their day to create something like this.
Today’s creation comes from slingshot master Joerg Sprave and is, quite simply, a pump-action Oreo separation gun. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do as well of a job at separating Oreos as the previous creations since it pretty much just shoots the delicious treats at such a rate of speed, that they splatter, thus separating. (more…)
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We’ve been having fun with the viral marketing campaign that Nabisco has going right now and have seen all kinds of ways to separate the Oreo cream from its cookies. But the one thing we haven’t seen is a gun that can accomplish this important first-world task. Well, get ready to see the Oreo-separating shotgun.
This creation comes from Joerg Sprave who you will know from The Slingshot Channel on Youtube. He knows his stuff when it comes to weapon building, and has built an impressive gun to separate the Oreo cookies from the cream. A pump-action Oreo shooter. Just load some Oreos in the top and they fire from the bottom muzzle section.
This weapon hold 14 Oreo cookies. Just pull the slide to load one in the chamber, then pump it and unleash one of its delicious cookie bullets. So how does the gun separate the cream from the cookie? Okay, it doesn’t really. Well, it kind of does. When cookies hit an object, like a wall, it all splatters nicely and is separated. Just not in a way that is neat and edible. Joerg also tried to put a box-cutter blade inside the barrel to see if it would split the cookie neatly, but all he ended up with was a bunch of crumbs. Still, the idea of a gun that fires cookies is loads of fun.
The latest contraption to separate the cookies and cream from Oreo cookies is a robot named HERB, Carnegie Mellon’s butler ‘bot. He was built for performing household tasks, and what task could be more important than separating Oreo cookies?
HERB prefers the cream over the cookie, even though he’s a robot. Watch HERB work his magic on some Oreos in the latest Oreo Separator video. The team at Carnegie Mellon had HERB try a few different methods before they found the right way to do it.
At one point he can be seen stabbing the cookies with a kitchen knife. I’m glad that didn’t work – the idea of a robot with a razor sharp knife doesn’t sit well with me. Eventually they settled for the grab and twist method. I love how he pronounces the word Oreo. It sounds a bit like the HAL 9000.
[via Geekosystem]
Nabisco’s recent Oreo videos have been gaining a good amount of attention as they feature people who are passionate enough to create methods of separating the cookie and cream filling. We first met a man who built a machine which completely removed the cream filling and then met two people who invented a machine that allowed both cookie & cream lovers to co-exist. Today, we meet HERB.
Robotic researchers from Carnegie Mellon University built HERB, who is a Household-Exploring Robotic Butler, originally to assist people with their household duties, which we’re hoping one day includes doing the laundry and cooking up some Steak ‘Ems. HERB’s duties shifted a tad recently in order to help separate Oreo cookies, which HERB says, “Apparently, that is a big deal for humans.”
HERB attempts to separate an Oreo cookie a number of times, the majority of the time resulted in a crumbled Oreo. Ultimately, HERB not only learned how to successfully separate an Oreo cookie, but he also used additional tools that helped completely remove the cream to prepare it for human consumption.
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If you enjoyed Nabisco’s first video where David Neevel took his disgust of the cream part of the Oreo to a new level by building a machine that specifically removed the cream filling, then you’ll probably be happy to hear another video has been published.
The latest Oreo-related video highlights a machine built by Barry Kudrowitz and Bill Fienup who work as toy scientists in Minnesota. Unlike Neevel’s machine which completely eradicated the Oreo’s cream filling, their machine allows for both cookie and cream lovers to coexist, and in a way, help one another.
The way the Kudrowitz and Fienup machine works is by loading an Oreo cookie into its tray, where a small plastic piece is used to push the top cookie into the subject’s mouth. The cream is left exposed, which the machine proceeds to heat up the cookie and blast the liquified cream into the cream-lover’s mouth. The final step ejects the cookie, to which the cookie-lover proceeds to eat it.
The Oreo cookie separator machine isn’t as hardcore as Neevel’s contraption, but if it means both cream and cookie lovers can coexist, then we guess it actually might be a better machine in that sense.
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