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Scientists from MIT reveal 'the best way to eat Oreos' with new device, have suggestion for makers

MIT students have come up with a new device called the Oreometer for finding the perfect way to eat Oreos

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: Students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology have now introduced a new method to eat Oreo the perfect way. Oreo has become one of the favorites of the world with its advert that had the "Twist, lick, dunk" slogan.

The biscuit has been in the news for various reasons, including for their collaboration with Lady Gaga and also over their 'Trans people exist' tweet that sparked a controversy in recent times. The recent method introduced by the students will have one of the wafers to be completely devoid of the creme.

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What is the new method invented by MIT students?

MIT students have come up with a new device called the Oreometer. "I've always been annoyed that I have to twist them apart and then push creme from one side onto the other," said mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Crystal Owens. Owens developed the Oreometer along with her friends using pennies and elastic bands. The device was inspired by the 'rheometer' which is a real instrument that measures how fluids deform under twisting forces. The team tried on the best method by experimenting with more than thousands of Oreos. They experimented on regular, dark chocolate, and 'golden' flavors, as well as Double Stuf, Mega Stuf, and Team USA Triple Stuf levels of filling. One of the initial findings of the team was that they found the majority of the filling would stick to one side about 80 percent of the time. Owens also said, "I had in my mind that if you twist the Oreos perfectly, you should split the creme perfectly in the middle. But what actually happens is the creme almost always comes off of one side."

The Oreometer was made purely based on rheology. "It is the study of this material deformation for soft solids including creams, cheeses, and more, and a rheometer is the machine we use in a laboratory to measure this property, which is characterized as viscosity (for simple fluids) or rheology (for complex or non-Newtonian fluids that have a non-constant viscosity)," as per the GitHub page. The team noticed that the machine cranked up about 100 times faster than a human could twist, and at this point, the creme was separated from both sides. Owens also told, "We also tested the cookies by hand—twisting, peeling, pressing, sliding and doing other basic motions to get an Oreo apart. There was no combination of anything that we could do by hand or in the rheometer that changed anything in our results." Owens also claimed, "If you try to twist the Oreos faster, it will actually take more strain and more stress to break them. So, maybe this is a lesson for people who are stressed and desperate to open their cookies. It'll be easier if you do it a little bit slower," as per Daily Mail.

Owens also claimed, “My 3D printing fluids are in the same class of materials as Oreo cream,” she says. “So, this new understanding can help me better design ink when I’m trying to print flexible electronics from a slurry of carbon nanotubes, because they deform in almost exactly the same way. As they are now, we found there’s no trick to twisting that would split the cream evenly." Meanwhile, this research was supported by the MIT UROP program and by the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program, as per MIT News.

It was revealed that the creme adhered to the wafer that was facing the inside of the box that it came in, rather than its nearest box edge. Owens claimed, "This may indicate that environmental impacts (ambient heat or mechanical perturbations) influence the cookies in individual boxes, having the greatest influence on cookies near the perimeter." Further, she added, "Videos of the manufacturing process show that they put the first wafer down, then dispense a ball of cream onto that wafer before putting the second wafer on top. Apparently, that little time delay may make the cream stick better to the first wafer."

What is the conclusion derived by MIT?

The researchers conclude their study by suggesting how Oreo's parent company, Mondelēz International, could stop the splitting of the creme issue. It stated, "If cookie manufacturers would like to influence creme distribution themselves, providing wafers with through-holes or texture on inner surfaces should promote creme–wafer adhesion onto both halves. Our results and methods of investigation may also have widespread application in understanding other torsional events in the kitchen, from braided breads and mixing dough to ideal opening kinematics of stubborn jam jar lids." Michelle Deignan, vice president of Oreo US at Mondelēz International, wrote to them saying, "We want to congratulate these amazing scientific minds and applaud their dedication to our cookie twisting ritual. The reality is that there's just not one 'right' way to eat an Oreo cookie."

'The best way to eat Oreos is to...'

Various debates and discussions have taken place on the Internet over what is the best way to eat oreos. Earlier, a user stated, "Split then dunk." "Frozen, then crushed and sprinkled on ice cream," added another. A user claimed, "Dunk them. That goes for pretty much all cookies." "Split & eat some of the filling. Get Double Stuff. I rarely buy them because I need to lose weight, but once in awhile.," read a comment. "I put an Oreo in mouth with a big swig of milk.," said another. "Split them... rake each of the sides of the creme off with your front teeth... then put the cookies back together and eat those.," stated another. A mother wrote, " BEST WAY TO EAT OREOS My daughter discovered this life hack. I’ve been eating @Oreo cookies wrong my entire life! #LifeHack." "The best way to eat oreos is to dunk it into orange juice," claimed another. One of the funniest comments read, "The best way to eat Oreos is dipping them in peanut butter while discussing parental divorce rates in the 1990s. #NationalOreoCookieDay."

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