The Recipe Nobody Actually Wants for Making Oreos at Home

This tongue-in-cheek “recipe” for homemade Oreos basically tells you to raid a chemistry lab instead of your pantry because what is mass-produced food if not, often, actual food?

According to the “recipe”, you first snag some glyphosate-sprayed crops and hexane that you definitely have at the back of your shelf, then add petroleum-born vanilla and palm oil until it sort of resembles America’s favorite black-and-white cookie.

Now, the whole point of this is to make you laugh (and maybe rethink how many Oreos you can down in one sitting). As @gfbeef pointed out in the video’s caption, this all is not how it’s actually done in the factory, but more how the ingredients are derived, used, etc.

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January 22nd, 2026