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.
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.
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
True, given a choice of the three, I’ll take French toast most any time. I like them all though, pancakes have to be good ones, crappy ones are inedible. Waffles are good but unless it’s something fresh or that I put effort into at home, they are essentially eggos.
Okay you got me there, whole wheat is definitely a poor choice for French toast. Sourdough is surprisingly good though. I guess my previous comment should’ve said that even the cheapest white bread is decent for french toast. Obviously good breads are on a different level, but that goes for any food
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.
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."
Ooh, sounds tasty! Let's go get some! "Unni appam, (Malayalam:ഉണ്ണിയപ്പം) is a small round snack made from rice, jaggery, banana, roasted coconut pieces, roasted sesame seeds, ghee and cardamom powder fried in oil.[1] Variations of this organic and spongy fried batter using jackfruit preserves instead of banana is common from the late 90s. It is a popular snack in Kerala. In Malayalam, unni means small and appam means rice cake. "
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.
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!
You can get it at most decent stores. It’s quite a bit more expensive than the fake stuff but tends to be a lot better consistency and taste much better.
At Denny’s, sure. Probably at IHOP, but I don’t know cause I haven’t been in years. At any good mom and pop breakfast diner they do maple syrup. They tend to be a few bucks more a plate, but it’s well worth it.
Vermont, NY, and Maine all produce maple syrup. Betcha we could make loads in Alaska.
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!
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.
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