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The Cookie Monster Question

If I take 1 hour to cook a batch of cookies and the cookie monster has 15 ovens working 24 hours a day every day for 5 years, how long does it take the cookie monster to make 6000000 batches of cookies?

Well, to solve this problem, we first need to know how long it takes you to make a batch of cookies. You said one hour. Fantastic.

But how long does it take the Cookie Monster? That depends — is he making the same kind of cookies as you? Some cookies take longer to make than others. I mean, if you’re making chocolate chip cookies, after you’ve got the batter made, you have to mix in the chips. That’s hard work.

But before you can even mix in the chips, you have to do the work of getting the batter together. My wife bakes cookies a lot faster than I do — because she doesn’t actually measure anything. She kind of guesses! Sometimes she has good cookies. Other times, well, far be it from me to actually say how bad her cookies are.

Wait, we have to go even further. Is the Cookie Monster using an electric mixer? To make almost any kind of cookie, the first thing you have to do is cream the butter and sugar together. If you’re not using room temperature butter, that’s some seriously hard work. Heck, even if you are using room temperature butter, it’s hard work. An electric mixer will save a lot of time.

You do realize not all cookies bake at the same time and temperature, right? Some take 10 minutes, others take 20. And then after they’re baked, you’ll have to frost or decorate some types. Those look a lot nicer, too.

Furthermore, he’s supposed to make 6 million batches of cookies?! That’s a hell of a lot of cookies there, buddy. You didn’t even say how many cookies are in a batch. One big cookie is a lot easier to put on a sheet pan than 8 or 12 or 24. That takes time, too.

We haven’t even gotten to the storage problem yet. Where is he supposed to put all the ingredients? Did he buy all the ingredients already, or is he going to make a run to the store while his oven is still baking, thereby risking a fire and burnt cookies? Is he really so good at math that he can figure out how many grams of flour is in a cup, so to make 6 million batches he knows to buy z number of bags so he’ll have enough flour to make every batch of cookies? Then there’s all the other ingredients, so how many fluid ounces of vanilla extract is in a teaspoon anyway? The Cookie Monster must be rich to buy all the ingredients in one shot. And a math genius to boot.

And his oven is running 24 hours a day? When does this guy sleep?! And why the 5 year time frame on his ovens? Does that mean the math problem is supposed to be 5 years or less? What if it takes six years at 24 hours a day? Is that final year to be spent with an oven running only 8 hours a day, making him take three times as long to back the last year’s worth of cookies than the other previous years?

Not to mention that he’s somehow keeping up with 15 ovens at the same time. This guy is a, well, a monster!

Ok, ok, ok. Let’s just say he makes one batch of cookies in one hour with one oven, just like you do. He needs 24 hours to make 24 batches. So, he needs 6 million hours to make 6 million batches. But he’s got 15 ovens, so we can divide and find out how many hours it takes 15 ovens to do this deed. That’s 400,000 hours. To make that into days, we have 16,666 2/3 days. Divided by 365 days in a year, and you’ll get an answer that will be wrong. You didn’t account for leap years. However, I guarantee you he’s going to need a lot more years than 5 to make 6,000,000 batches of cookies.