Depends on the quality. High quality French toast can be transcendent. A decent Belgian waffle is always good. Finally, pancakes are like pizza. It's hard to entirely fuck them up, so even crappy pancakes are ok with enough butter and maple syrup.
While I agree with the statement, it’s funny how different I would paint it.
High quality pancakes can be transcendent. Decent French toast is always good. Finally waffles are like pizza (the right toppings can make up for anything). It’s hard to entirely fuck them up, so, even crappy waffles are ok with enough butter and maple syrup.
Imo, you can dip the cheapest wonder bread in beaten eggs, cook it, and cover it in butter and jam and it's still pretty damn good. Even burnt they taste good with syrup
Completely agree. French toast is so hit and miss I rarely order it. If I trust the place to do a good waffle that's a nice choice but any roadside diner can make pancakes I can choke down.
The best French toast I've had was made of slices of stale, rock-hard French bread soaked to saturation in a cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom seasoned egg and milk solution, fried on a very hot griddle with a generous amount of butter, then served with maple syrup and orange marmalade. It was slightly crispy on the outside and warm and dense on the inside.
It is true that if we fight to hold this hill we may die here. But if we succeed, le tricolore will wave proudly in the breeze long after we are gone, and that is enough.
Crepes are basically French pancakes, the best way to improve pancakes. Belgian waffles are improved waffles. French toast is improved toast. Does speaking French automatically elevate breakfast or something?
Because all of the others are jealous. Crepes are the svelte supermodels of the bunch. They intimidate those other doughy monstrosities--their proportions shouldn't even be possible.
French toast. I think the egg gives it a bit of a boost.
Honestly, I just looked up recipes for waffles and pancakes. The main difference I'm seeing is some waffles have vanilla extract... and that's basically the main thing. I prefer waffles, largely because of the texture and the little syrup pods, but otherwise I can go with either one.
That's why you get Kodiak Protein mix. 14 g of protein in just the mix, make it with milk and eggs instead of water and you've got even more. It's my favorite waffle/pancake mix they are so filling
If you think Americans are bad, check out Italy. Breakfast is small but it's typically a bread product or sugar laden pastry served with espresso or caffelatte. I have celiac and can't drink coffee without spazzing out for six hours, so I skip breakfast.
I don’t really like the sweet breakfast pastry concept. I guess waffles, preferable cornmeal or Belgian waffles. I’d much rather have a breakfast burrito with green chile or huevos rancheros though.
This is my main problem with waffles, although I still would order them differently. Trying to make waffles for my kids, I can’t seem to batch them without losing that crispness. Instead of joining the family for breakfast I need to feed the machine and make sure every waffle gets an immediate consumer, so it will be nice and crisp
Flat Food propaganda! Don't fall for this thinly disguised attempt to lead you away from the one truly spherical breakfast or anytime food, namely Aebleskivers. Eat them sweet or savory, eat them all day long!
Do you mean Ladoo? Gulab Jamun (my favorite)? Rasmalai? For minimizing surface area to volume ratio, it's spherical foods for me. :-D Ooh, I just found Bengali pantua - "soft, spherical dessert that is entirely drenched in cardamom-and-saffron-flavored sugar syrup."
Not even questionable. Pancakes turn into a disgusting gelatinous mess after like 10 seconds with syrup. They're too dense, so you feel like shit after eating them.
I'm a grown man but when I bring my kids to my mom's and we stay over she busts out the pancakes. Crispy edges, fluffy in the middle, the size of dinner plates. And you gotta dip in syrup, don't pour it over. And don't cut it up, just fork out a piece when it's time to eat.
Won't disagree about feeling full after, but I wouldn't eat any of these on the reg.
Personally it's Waffles > Pancakes > French Toast, but I like all three. That being said, if I'm in the US, it's none of the above. Those barbarians don't serve these items with maple syrup which is abhorrent to me as a Canadian.
I don't think I've been to a breakfast place that doesnt serve maple syrup with any of these.
With that being said tho, I never order any of these while I'm out to eat either because all of it in the US is low quality garbage oversaturated with sugar.
I always thought I disliked waffles until I was drunkenly peer pressured into ordering one in Brussels. Ugh. So good!
If I am cooking, French Toast because I can ensure quality. If my wife is cooking, Belgian Waffles because the waffle iron prevents user error. If I am at a restaurant, pancakes because they are always different and very few places make them in a way I dislike.
They're all great, but much too heavy for a breakfast. I'll take some yoghurt with a handful of nuts or cereal or dried fruit.
Maybe I'll take some pancakes for lunch later.
I can understand the sentiment, and have trouble eating too much in the morning myself, but really breakfast should be your largest meal. You need those calories while your awake not when your asleep. Weird how that got flipped
French toast. I've developed a terrible (as in, frighteningly bad for you) and amazing recipe by cranking up the fat content from other recipes and adding a little more spice.
6-8 slices of bread (decently thick Italian bread is what I usually use, but obviously French bread is good for French toast)
4 eggs
4 Tbsp butter
¼ cup half & half
1 Tbsp real maple syrup (don't you dare use fake stuff)
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp nutmeg
Leave the eggs and butter out so they get to room temperature. If the butter isn't super soft, melt it.
Whisk everything (except the bread) together well. If the ingredients are too cold, the butter will solidify in chunks. It's also a good idea to whisk between batches to keep everything evenly suspended. Dunk the bread slices for good coverage and cook them up on a griddle or pan preheated to medium heat until lightly brown on both sides. Top the finished product with maple syrup or vanilla ice cream. Or both. Schedule a cardiologist visit. Enjoy.
I'm not nuts about any of these to be honest. I make protein blueberry pancakes once a week as a treat, but regular pancakes have way too much sugar and very little protein.
My favorite breakfast foods are matzoh brei and quiche. I guess I just prefer savory!
If I had to pick one I'd probably go with pancake Beeeeecaaauusseee - they are the pancake-iest. I like waffles, but rarely get a good one at a restaurant. And usually the french toast is soggy and has one molecule of powdered sugar on it (if any).
The best thing I ever ate was a hot french toast casserole I had at a bed and breakfast in Ohio. It was made of very fluffy bread and had glazed pecans and a maple/brown sugar thing going on that was orgasmic. I wish I had that recipe.
Well it was the lady who owned the B & B who made it, it was almost 10 years ago I doubt she'd remember but I have found a few recipes for it online. I'm just working up the courage to try it because I'm hard on myself when my cooking isn't as good as other people's.
Waffles, but I have celiac so made of blue corn masa. If you haven't tried it, get some! It's amazing with blueberries, plus your house smells like popcorn as it's cooking.
To me nothing beats good old eggs and bacon and toast and coffee for a satisfying breakfast. Gotta have the meat, ya know. Or ham and eggs if the ham is good and not all fatty and gross.
None, corn flour with milk and water in the pan, stir it for couple minutes on fire and read to eat!(dont forget the salt) Ad some green cheese or fet for extra flavor.
Its a bit heavy but holds you half day.
My dod told me but I don't know how to write it, because it's in Albanian and I don't know how to write it.
They used to make it many years ago, mostly with water only.