Some of us divorce ourselves too severely from the simple pleasures of childhood.
Having kids is for many an exercise in reconnecting with those old joys: baking cupcakes from a Tom and Jerry-branded cake mix; making giant bumblebees out of papier-mâché; scribbling aimlessly on the walls; screaming at the top of our lungs because we’ve been told not to eat grass.
Those were the days!
Making cookies is another underrated pastime that you might have left behind, and if you’re still partial to the practice then you might at least have abandoned the humble cookie cutter.
After all, dolloping some biscuit mix on the baking tray and calling it a day will suffice for most baked confectionary fans.
But why deprive yourself of the joy of having a perfectly Mickey Mouse, Christmas Tree, Danny Dyer, or Snoopy-shaped cookie? What are you trying to prove?
While you chew on that one, now’s a good time you point out that you’ve also likely missed out on the intrigue of how cookie cutters are made.
It’s a surprisingly satisfying process, at least as far as the metal ones are concerned. Check it out below.
The video from Business Insider runs through the production process at a family-owned cookie cutter factory that makes 2,500 of them per hour.
Off The Beaten Path, the company in question, demonstrates the process early on in the video, showing a ring of metal laid over various Christmas-themed moulds before a series of machine arms punch the ring into shape around the mould.
Once they’ve been shaped, they’re welded together before being packaged up to be shipped off to home bakers.
Once the cookie cutters have been shaped, they’re welded before being packaged up to be sent to budding bakers.
“Is it just me or is it super satisfying watching the rings get punched into shapes?” asked the top comment.
Another commenter shared: “I've never considered cookie cutters just a Christmas thing. I have Halloween ones, cars, lots of shapes!”
“Real professionals use their mouths to cut cookies,” said one deviant, while another chimed in with: “It’s really cute when each of the segment knows which parts are loose and need to be punched again. Like ‘oopsie my bad’.”
“I need so many more videos like this. The sound of the machine running is perfect,” said another.
To be fair, this video might be more satisfying than using a cookie cutter ever could be.
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Rachael Davis