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We all have our own way of eating Oreo cookies. But for a lot of us that involves splitting the 2 cookies and cream first, and now scientists have made it easier to do.
A group of smart people with too much time on their hands at MIT published a study on how to perfectly split the Oreo in 2. They have come up with an Oreometer, which splits the cookie with a specific ammount of force in order to get a clean cookie and one with all the flilling.
Study author Crystal Owens came up with the idea after using a rheometer, which measures liquid and substances’ responses to force. "One day, just doing experiments, and, all of a sudden we realized that this machine would be perfect for opening Oreos because it already has … the fluid in the center, and then these two discs are like the same geometry as an Oreo," she tells ‘USA Today.”
According to scientists, in order for the split to occur, the cookie needs to be from a freshly opened pack, and one must use a twisting motion. They note that the real key is the “adhesiveness” of the filling, which may change depending on how the cookies are stored, packaged, manufactured of shipped. Unfortunately, their experiments were unable to figure out how to split the cookie so each side had equal amounts of cream.