If I put a piece of bread into a bag with cookies, the cookies suck the moisture out of the bread: the bread gets hard and the cookies stay soft. Why doesn't the bread soak up the cookies' moisture and leave dry cookies?

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Morg the Army wife

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Cookies contain quite a lot of sugar, which is very hydrophilic (water attracting). They are then baked dry, sos the sugar is "hungrier" for water. The bread has less sugar and more water, so that it tends to lose rather than gain water.

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Anoname

Great question and a good tip on keeping cookies fresh.

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