When baking chocolate chip cookies, a little chemistry can go a long way

Baking is a science. Understanding what each ingredient does and knowing a little bit of chemistry can help you improve your skills.

Using a typical chocolate chip cookie recipe, Here & Now's Scott Tong and Lesa Tran, chemistry professor at Rice University who teaches a class on the chemistry of cooking, talk about how flour, sugars, and other ingredients come together to create the perfect cookie.