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ELI5: How come chocolate chips will melt to mush if I hold them in a fist or leave them in a hot car, but retain their shape when baked in cookies in a hot oven?
gpt
Chocolate chips *would* melt in the oven...except they're surrounded by cookie dough, which keeps them in shape.  If you take chocolate chip cookies out of the oven and just barely touch a visible chip, it will immediately turn into a blorp.  By the time the cookies have cooled, though, the chips have also cooled and resolidified.