People have been eating two food items - Oreo cookies - for a long time now. Just Oreo. And yet, has anyone tasted a freeze dried Oreo. Does freeze dried Oreo beat the OG Oreo? All this and more, on EatingOnlyTwoThingsAtATime. Join us on this new taste-test!

The Allure of Oreo Cookies

Oreo cookies – that chocolate wafer with the creamy middle and punctuation in its name – the pervasive children’s snack to which either an individual foil packet or whole party-sized box has conquered real estate on pantry shelving and the collective communion of lunchboxes when the rectangular crunch accentuates the monotony of a run-down day. From the backroom of kitchens and mechanic shops, the stealthy evolution of freeze-drying is advancing like an opportunistic bacterium.

Freeze-Dried Oreo Cookies: What's the Hype?

The square shuttles of freeze-dried cocoa, cream and milk are shipped around the world in protective tubs that ensure the same factorial outcome wherever the package might land: crunch. Not only are consumers getting hyper-cooled snacks with a pre-chewed texture, they’re assured the full spectrum of palate-pleasing flavours and nutrients, minus the classically dribbled-fortexture squish. Freeze-dried Oreo cookies come right out of the packet, practically chewed.

The Taste Test Showdown

Now for the mother of all taste tests: freeze-dried Oreos vs the real deal.

Round 1: Texture

A standard Oreo is a nice, beefy crunch‑cream thing. The technotexture of the freeze-dried Oreo is a particularly light, crisp, chocolatey cloud. Which one you like is a matter of taste.

Round 2: Flavor

The flavour of an Oreo is known. It is chocolate and sweet cream, thin wafer edges, perfect: The freeze-dried cookie is the Oreo flavour reduced to essence, rendered almost liquid. It’s actually richer, somehow sweeter than the prepared cookie – the taste experience is… well, intoxicating.

Round 3: Portability

A normal Oreo, even in a transit-ready pack, is quite fragile. Eating a fresh Oreo on the move is clumsy at best, impossible at worst. But the durable new evaporated structure of my freeze-dried Oreos is designed for travel, for keeping a bag handy outdoors, for scoffing on the go without flinching. They don’t leave your hands greasy.

Round 4: Health Factor

Delicious as they no doubt are, few would nominate Oreos to produce the best health food of the year. Air dried Oreos are still a treat; just the smallest nutritional point in their favour is that the process retains more nutrients than the standard drying process. So for the weightwatchers looking for a safe cookie, your pick of the year should go to the air dried ginger nut.

Round 5: Nostalgia

At the risk of sounding ludicrous, I simply cannot picture unwrapping a regular Oreo, swirling my tongue into its curve, then plunging the entire thing in a cool glass of milk. A freeze-dried cookie can’t compete with the static heat of memory, and if you’re looking for nostalgia, the classic wins that round too.

Buy it or Buy it!

And it all comes down to which Oreos – the ones in your mouth, or the ones in your emergency rations.

If you want the same frumpy Oreo feel – a chocolate cookie surrounding white, creamy middle, with a certain old-world crunch appeal – stick with the original. But if you want pant-ballooning layers of chocolate flavour than an old-style Oreo even promises, better, more interesting texture, or perhaps even an interesting thing happening in your face, then the freeze-dried Oreos are for you. A playful (or is that ‘play-dried’?) twist on the classic, and an easy-easy snack to haul along everywhere.

All in all, next time you’re torturing yourself with this dichotomy, when you get around to eating your Oreos, just keep both containers in your fridge – in the battle between cheese and cream, you can’t truly lose.

FAQs

1. Are freeze-dried Oreos as sweet as normal Oreos?

Since there is no moisture in the freeze-dried Oreos, they are usually sweeter than regular Oreos (more concentrated), which probably means they can be sweeter than regular Oreos.

2. Do pulverised fragments from freeze-dried Oreos make as good an ingredient as parts from non-freeze-dried Oreos in your recipes?

Yes, freeze-dried Oreos offer a cookie façade that a Mars bars crumbles can’t; and yes its intense flavour has an awesome crunch.

3. Do freeze-dried Oreos contain preservatives?

Since the preservation is done during the freeze-drying process, a commercial, mass-produced freeze-dried Oreo would not contain preservatives.

4 .FREEZE - DIED OREOS how many days are there ?

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5. Can you rehydrate them like the others?

No. They are tasty and enjoyable to eat while still crisp. They are not for rehydration like the other freeze-dried food.