The Director of Product Development at M&S, Kathryn Turner, gives viewers a behind-the-scenes tour of the company's culinary center. She introduces Harry, the expert behind the brand's popular cookies, and engages him in a conversation about the quality control process, the two-year development of their best-selling milk chocolate cookie, and his personal favorite flavors, while also announcing future product release dates.
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Meet Harry from Cookies!
From our Milk Chocolate to our Gingerbread and White Chocolate, our Cookies are one of a Kind, and it’s all down to our very own Harry from Cookies!
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Transcript
Hi. I'm Catherine, director of product development at M and S, and you've asked to come behind the scenes. So let's go into our culinary center. Oh my goodness. I smell cookies, which only means one thing. So this is one of our test kitchens, and he is tier, Harry from cookies. Harry from cookies. How are you, Catherine? I'm alright. What are you up to? We're just doing some quality checking, Catherine. We're just making sure that all of our cookies that are baked in store look absolutely perfect all day. Well, I thought everybody would probably like to meet you because there's a lot of love for your cookies. We sell a lot of cookies, Catherine. Today, we're just we're just quality inspecting. Like, we always look after our quality, Catherine. So we're just making sure we're happy with what's going into tier, and we're gonna have a taste test of our custard cream chunks loaded cookie. Fantastic. But tell everybody, what was the hardest cookie to develop? The hardest cookie, Catherine, was our milk chocolate cookie. My favorite. It is the absolute favorite. It's like how do you make the OG cookie. It took us two years. I know. I remember Harry. Yes. Yes. Better Harry. Quicker Harry. Yeah. Two years, but perfection is what it's all about. Six days training on chocolate to understand the perfect recipe to tier chocolate, then into the cookie, then how to manufacture the good. It's our number one selling cookie. What's your other oh, your oven's ready. Better than the OG Oven? What has been your favorite flavor so far? Catherine, my favorite flavor is the gingerbread and white chocolate. Is it? It's all those nostalgic flavors Yeah. And it's in one cookie, one bite, and I just absolutely love it. Brilliant. And we're bringing that back for Christmas again, aren't we? That's come that's coming back in September. Yeah. Our next cookie drops Cheers.