For the biggest episode of What’s Eating Dan yet, we teamed up with Andrew Rea from Binging with Babish to learn how to make a giant stack of pancakes, inspired by the movie Uncle Buck with John Candy.
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"He was like, born to make big pancakes" – nicest thing anyone's ever said about me
lol
That big one takes the cake but would be better as a crepe . Light and fluffy is ok but not as good as sweet or savory can be with much thinner crepes. You forgot to tell us about distinctions here. So another video about making crepes. Please. I like them both the French way Like Suzettes or Icelandic Pancakes – aka Pönnukökur. So rolled with lots of melted butter and brown sugar. Or even better as savory with a filling like St Jacques made with shrimp and mushrooms. Yum !
You are a true icon and this is the sort of content that we need more of on the internet.
If you want a more cloud cake like pancake experience, you turn to the Japanese and Korean cooks for guidance. Theirs may or may not still have chemical leavening, but they also contain eggs, which have been separated and whipped into stiff peaks and extremely frothy yolks. Then the yolks get mixed with the dry ingredients and milk and then it gets folded and stirred into the whites to result in a ludicrously light and fluffy batter. Depending on how perfect you want them to look when you're done, you can also grease up and preheat some pastry rings on the griddle and pour your batter into the pastry rings to ensure perfectly perpendicular sides and an extreme rise.
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Seriously! The BEST episode of “What’s Eating Dan?” And I have enjoyed them all. Dan, you’re hilarious and smart and fun to watch. Keep ‘em coming!
Agree to disagree Dan. I like my pancakes with a crusty edge and the only way to do that is to use a good set of fat it in the pan. I shan't be wiping most if it off
I wish i could see the recipe. i hate paywalls just for mundane stuff like recipe
Pete Davidson was great in this
Epic. Absolutely epic. And I'm a French toast guy, truth told.
This is such a happy video. My first time clapping and cheering for a cooking video.
Anyone else like adding corn to batter?
I love this video so much!!!
God that was fun to watch. Well done everyone!!
I wasn't trolling, just contributing a little humor. Sorry if I offended anyone. Sometimes I can't help myself.
There is a pubic hair on my giant pancake….no wait…it's a beard hair. WTF (Where, not "what") did that come from!!!???
Too much oil…who would have thought!
Harold's Deli in NJ has pizza size pancakes on their menu. Everything there is big! It's a fun place to go.
Yes, Dan, I did enjoy this video!
As a Bostonian, I'm proud that the first ever Uncle Buck Giant Pancake Robot was created here lol.
For ultra light, fluffy, and delicious pancakes, pour half a good beer into the batter. The foam in the beer aerates the batter, and the pancakes turn out like fluffy clouds of deliciousness! (The alcohol cooks out, and it doesn't taste like beer; it just tastes better!)..
Better with butter 🧈❤️ not butter with better 😁
They are such a cute couple! We should call them "Dandrew"!
After watching this episode, i am now headed to my kitchen wanting to make pan cakes and its 5 in the afternoon 😂😂😂
Back in the day my mother would make waffles very crispy waffles and then she would stack them. In between was almost a chili like filling and she would cut it into pieces and that was supper. I still make it and it's delicious there is hamburger and onions and peppers garlic tomato but it's very loose so it will run down the waffles on each layer.
Flip it like it owes you money! 🙂
Maine where I was born and raised is a maple syrup producing state. I prefer a crisp Belgian waffle for my maple syrup and put it in every little square along with butter. :-). Yum! Pancakes are okay I never was a big pancake enthusiast but if someone were to make me a plate of hot chocolate chip pancakes I would not say no!
how many hungry kids could have been fed with all of that effort and resources?
August 2019. Dang. Those were the days. No masks, no freaking out about stuff.
This started out for me as just a nice video to learn the science of pancakes and it just kept escalating and escalating.
Nice vid and very interesting but my quest for the perfect sourdough panckes continues…
I hope there will be an episode of the best meats to grind to make the best ground beef!! Love the shows and series
I feel like that's the song from Mickey & the beanstalk where they sing "pancakes piled up til they reach the sky!"
Short stack of giant pancakes? Sure. Coming right up! That will be $387.19 please. [Just a guess]
I love it when Dan and Andrew turn cooking into an engineering project! They’re such nerds, lol.
6:23 That robot is angry! He doesn’t want to make pancakes.
Awesome!!!! Best [ in ] show! 💕🥞
loved it!!
The USA is looking for the Pancake Olympic team. Surprised there was no TWIST to the pancake recipe: no orange or lemon zest, no cinnamon or nutmeg, no chocolate chips, no cream cheese?
❤ this video sooo much for sooo many reasons (ex: the science, the excellent scripts, the humor, the guests, yay Babish!, etc.,)!
Love all your videos
I haven't had so much fun watching a cooking video since I don't know when. Congratulations to you and your incredible team for such a peace spectacular achievement. 😋😋😋😂
That looks like so much fun!
Why am I buying pancake mix?
Yay!
I just raised double celebratory Breakfast Club fists at 8:20 on a Sunday night sitting in my recliner over a robot flipping a pancake.
You know, it is easier to engineer a panini press that clamp down and heat on both side than to use an ABB to flip a giant pancake
Pancakes have been one of my favorite foods since I was a kid and I'm 60 now. I can eat pancakes anytime of the day or night. In my 20s when I was going out to clubs a lot, my friends and I would spend countless early mornings in diners and I would almost always have pancakes included in my 3-4 am breakfast. Great memories!
In fact, I'm making banana pancakes today using a couple of very ripe bananas I have left. Happy Holidays!