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Baking Cookies as a Modern Human

现代人的烘焙曲奇

Hold up . . . do you even own an oven mitt?

等等……你家里有烤箱手套吗？

ByNatalie Horberg

March 3, 2026

Kitchen timer ringing.

Woman opening smoky oven and coughing.

Woman's hand reaching in to hot oven.

Woman with hand on her chin thinking.

Hand holding phone screen that is displaying search results for oven mitt.

OVen mitts and clickbait headlines about oven mitts.

Screen displaying online shopping cart that contains oven mitts and accessories.

Thumb touching purchase on phone screen.

Woman looks over her shoulder and winces at kitchen timer on counter.

Woman walking up to The Stuff Store.

Woman talking to employee at The Stuff Store.

Bead of sweat running past furrowed brows and a roll of cookie dough.

Woman crouched holding oven handle staring at the cookies baking.

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Originally published in The New Yorker · Read original