Purple Memes

The eternal struggle of chemistry students everywhere! This cookie catastrophe perfectly illustrates what happens when you add too much base to your mixture - you get a BRIGHT PURPLE MONSTROSITY! 🧪 It's the baking equivalent of a pH disaster! While normal ingredients like butter, sugar, and flour create delicious golden cookies, adding too much base turns your treat into something that looks like it came from a mad scientist's laboratory rather than a kitchen. This is basically what happens in my experiments every Friday afternoon when I've had too much coffee and start eyeballing measurements instead of using my graduated cylinder. "Just a splash more base" turns into "congratulations, you've created a new element!"