Your Guide To Our Guide (How the reviews are made)

COOKIES, we all love them, we all hate them too.
ONLINE REVIEWS, we look for them, we believe them, for the most part anyway.

In today's world where the internet plays a very big role in all industries, I find it useful to have a COOKIE REVIEW PAGE dedicated to the Philippine market.

We will be reviewing many products from hereon out. Why would I want to do this? Well, it has been very useful for me to know about things before I use or buy them, same thing with traveling, I want to know other people's experiences in a place where I plan to stay.

To cut it short, this is better than doing "Trial and Error." Nobody would want to spend money on anything only for it to become a huge disappointment. So here I am trying to help other people with my take on something a little bit trivial but can soothe a person's body and soul from pains, daily pressure and stress, and something that can generally make your mood for the rest of the day, Cookies.

So how do I this? Here are the factors that I look at:
Value for Money. In today's world of hugely inflated prices and soaring demand for commodities, it is really hard to get a good deal out of every hard earned peso. So, is it something worth spending big money on, or can you find something better at the same price?

Availability. We all crave for something at some points in our lives. Now is it easy to satisfy that craving? Can you just hop on a jeep to the nearest big grocery store or do you need to crawl through mind-numbing traffic just to get to that specialty outlet?

Quality (Texture, Contents, Taste). All of us have experienced being let down by a product at least once. We've all heard about promises of this and that only to become disappointed after the experience. Our question here is "Is the promise delivered?"

The rating scale.
We will use a 4-point scale. Why? So we can avoid being "somewhere in the middle" ratings. This scale is frequently used in surveys and studies too to come up with more definitive scoring and findings.

So, this things are what we would look at for quality:
Texture - Does the packaging say something about it? Is is supposed to be crisp cookies or soft ones? If none are indicated, you can see which category it belongs to (read: Cookie Types)

Contents - Again, what does the packaging say about it? Did it promise things like lots of nuts and fruits? Thousands of chocolate chips or fudge? If not then that would be an absolute letdown, and we do not want any cookie lover to experience that.

Taste - What does it give your mouth? Does it give you all sugar and nothing else? Does it taste as if margarine was all that was used in it? Does it taste anything like it is supposed to? If not, then it is a poor cookie. A good one should give you heaven from the first bite through the last.