Dan Souza and Andrew Rea Make Pancakes with a Robot | What’s Eating Dan?

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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.

Special thanks to Autodesk, a research and development workspace in Boston, for constructing a genius robot to help us with this special project.

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  3. 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 !

  5. 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.

  22. 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!)..

  26. 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.

  28. 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!

  49. 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!

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