edit: I love how Europeans still struggle to believe that these are what America sees as pancakes. For context, these buttermilk pancakes were so big that I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one. If you went to our “International House of Pancakes(IHOP)” and ordered pancakes, this is what you’d get. America really is on another level.
I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one
Rookie mistake. Everyone knows the only way to eat pancakes is to stack them on top of each other and eat them all at the same time.
Precisely, hell at black bear if you get a volcano they stack the whole meal on em and you just do it all in one go
A few years ago I moved from the Southeastern US to the Pacific Northwest. The upgrade in diner food from Waffle House to Black Bear blew my mind.
In my opinion I’ve rather have waffle House than black bear anytime. Black Bear diner is bland boring old person food whereas waffle House at least comes with fights.
Ehh. Waffle House has the worst grits I’ve ever tasted, and there’s no excuse for that in the South.
It tickles the crap oudda me how aggro southerners can get over grits
Black bear is mid teir as well. The best pancakes are likely to come from your mom and pop place where the people cooking actually know how to cook homestyle americana well, not just random minimum wage workers
I wasn’t that hungry, ok? 😫
Behold, Spanish Christmas Pan Cake
Beholding in progress.
delish!
Now try to eat a single Japanese pancake. I’m a 6’3" 230lb man and failed to finish the large one. The shop I went to had 3 sizes, something along the lines of a 4", 7", and 10" diameter pancakes. Japanese pancakes are generally at least 2" thick.
Yeah that’s just a fucking cake at that point
I love that everyone comments about how the USA has too much sugar, but nearly every time I’ve watched a Japanese recipe they add just silly amounts of sugar to things.
Hell I watched someone add sugar to a scrambled egg.
Occasionally you see chirashi sushi boxes in supermarkets with pink sugar crystals sprinkled on them. I can’t for the life of me imagine who wants sugar on fish, but they persist in selling them
(couldn’t find a great picture of it)
Oh gods, when I was in japan on business that was the worst. I just wanted something nutritious and familiar for breakfast after a few days and so I tried the eggs at the hotel and they were so sweet. I imagine that’s how Europeans feel about our bread (I know I hate how sweet it is)
In Colombia, one of their traditional beverages is literally just hot water with a whole lot of panela (unrefined sugar) in it.
Cake, huh? Maybe some kind of cake that you cook in a pan? Some kind of pan-cake?
But it’s cooked in a pan rather than baked in an oven, so we need some way of differentiating between the two. So we’ll have cakes and bakecakes.
I’ll take a Korean pancake any day.
Called haemul pajeon. Korean seafood and green onion pancake. Packed with shrimp, squid, and clams (shelled) and green onions for colour and flavour. It’s the ultimate bar snack!
Oh damn. I used to make these years ago and have totally forgot about it since. I loved it. That is 100% going back on the menu.
Yummmmmmmmmm 🦐🦑🦪
Looks good. I’ll also throw Okonomiyaki into the pancake competition
There are a ton of Korean pancakes. Haemul pajeon, pajeon, kimchi jeon, gamja jeon, yuk jeon, bindaetteok, hotteok, buchimgae, etc.
All of them are tasty too, and lots of meatless and/or shellfish-less options.
Oh yes. Haemul pajeon is just the one I’ve had the most. I also really love pajeon and kimchi jeon. I need to try more!
The pancake pizza 🤤
I recently took a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains, popped into Crocket Breakfast Camp for… breakfast.
Kids pancake is a singular pancake, about 12" wide and 2"+ thick
Oh, man, I love that place.
pizza is just crepe with tomatoes and other stuff
(don’t change my mind)
but the defining property of a pancake is that it’s cooked in a pan or on a similar surface. A pizza could be a pancake, but isn’t necessarily one
oooooooh i get it now, pan-cake lol i never thought about that before
well here in austria we call them palatschinken so there’s no “pan” in that word at all.
i think the austrian palatschinken has it’s name from a hungarian language, so still a chance, that there is a pan hiding in there.
At home they’re about 1/2" thick, and 4-6" in diameter, that’s what you get most non-chain places too.
Can confirm the archetypal American pancake is much more like half an inch. OPs pancakes would def be considered thick.
They definitely were on the thicker side, but this was compared to European expectations of 1 cm being crazy. They came out looking bigger in the pic, so they were closer to 3/4 of an inch than 2 cm
These are Paul Bunyan approved type pancakes, your heritage has been stolen from you
Flapjacks, silver dollars, thic crepes
I love the pancake-posting but there is no reason to look down on crepe. We can have both.
Yes! I wasn’t looking down on them, just highlighting the difference
I think I will cook pancakes for tea time. These day, it feels like both Internet and my surroundings are conspiring to make me eat them…
That’s borderline a casserole cake.
You’ve convinced me. I think I would like European pancakes. Rolling without being to thin sounds like a great on the go food solution. I have tried folding American pancakes around sausage and they always end up breaking apart.
Dip the sausage in pancake batter and deep fry it
…I think this is supposed to be a joke, but calzone-style savoury pancakes are absolutely a thing.
I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one.
i have a bmi of 17 and can take down 5 with two slices of bacon, hashbrowns, and eggs over easy what is wrong with you
Just gonna leave this excerpt from the greatest 22 minutes of comedy ever recorded right here.
earwax
How thick are European pancakes?
Thicker than crêpe, thinner than american.
If they are 5mm, they are too thick
as far as i can tell there is virtually no difference, at least to swedish pancakes. Maybe crepes are thinner if you get really professional ones, but in practice it’s basically the same thing.
