Recipe Station

Here are our four favorite facts about Oreo cookies. Number 2 was particularly distressing!

Check This Out…

1. It was created March 6, 1912
Oreos were first manufactured at the Nabisco factory in New York City on March 6, 1912. Oreo released two flavors that year including original Oreos and a lemon meringue flavor, which was discontinued in 1920.

2. Double Stuffed is a lie
Double Stuffed Oreos are supposed to be double the filling, however, they only are 1.86 times bigger than regular Oreos. Mega Stuf cookies, known to have three times the filling, only have 2.68 times the creme in reality.

3. More than 123,000 tons of creme is made each year
Oreo bakeries make more than 123,000 tons of creme to fill their perfect cookies. Each original Oreo cookie is 29 percent creme and 71 percent cookie.

4. It takes 59 minutes to make an Oreo
Each Oreo wafer is baked for exactly 290.6 seconds at a temperature of 400°F from above and 300°F from below.

5. Enough Oreos have existed to wrap around the Earth 381 times
If all of the Oreos ever manufactured in the world were stacked on top of each other, they would reach the moon and back more than five times.

Damn!

Those are certainly some amazing and unexpected facts about Oreo cookies. We never would've guessed some of these, but we'll certainly see these delicious cookies a little differently next time we indulge in them.

Tell Us What You Think!

Article Source: Spoon University