Biscuits: The Important Difference Between Flaky and Fluffy | What's Eating Dan?
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2019
- Cook's Illustrated editors Andrew Janjigian and Andrea Geary join Dan to reteach everything you thought you knew about making biscuits.
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Andrea calling it a dream biscuit just filled my heart with joy, what a treasure of a human
Agreed!
I always feel smarter and hungry after watching these videos. Great fun job Dan. Thanks
Cutting biscuits into squares is so brilliant. Having to cut out and re-roll scraps is the total wet blanket of the baking world.
Jay I’d always wondered why this particular aspect of making biscuits was a big deal when watching chefs on tv as we always used the scraps and made a full pan- but it occurred to me we don’t reroll them, we push the scraps together and slightly push and cut again and these are the “ugly ones” for some reason, I was partial to the ugly ones, they seemed more crispy to me as a kid lol
But now I understand that my family must’ve learnt to not rework that last bit of dough and to keep them tender, just push them together
@@ChoochooseU True, it's not so bad if you do it that way. But still an extra step I'd rather avoid because the scraps absorb too much extra flour, get misshapen, etc. To be fair, it's way more of a pain when it comes to cut-out cookies. Square cookies in my future!
@@ChoochooseU You're not the only person that loves the ugly biscuits! Then there are those of us who love to eat the scraps.
I roll my dough into a circle and cut the biscuits into wedges.
I wish I could LOVE your post. My dad was a great biscuit maker as was his mom. I always hung around when Dad was making biscuits so I could eat the scraps although he'd make a cathead biscuit out of some of them. I can make fairly good biscuits, but they are nowhere as good as Dad's or Grandmama's were. I do love watching Carrie Morey's show How She Rolls and see her making biscuits. I always get so hungry!
Everyone needs to learn a biscuit recipe. Those drop biscuits look perfect for breakfast. Biscuits n gravy worthy.
Mmmmmmmmmmm, biscuits and gravy...
and they were so easy to make
They're my goto biscuit recipe now - couldn't be easier. The one warning I'd give is that if they seem too dry, don't be afraid to add a touch more warm cream. That really seems to improve the texture and the flavor. The first time I made them they were a bit too dry and the flavor wasn't as good. The wetter dough does spread out a bit more, but the end product is better.
Yes, the flaky biscuits look wonderful, but the Dream biscuits you can make in your Saturday robe.
@@AxelQC 😊
I was taught flakey, but I have embraced drop biscuits because they are easy and delicious.
I need to try Andrea's recipe
Agreed, but how you could get that tang that buttermilk has in the flaky biscuit? Could you add lactic acid to the drop biscuit recipe without changing the Baking soda/powder combo? Or would adding shredded cheese accomplish the same taste? All I'm saying is "Dan, help"
@@camedm58171 butttermilk powder!
i embrace them all, flaky, fluffy, drop, butterswim/butterdip, sweet potato, angel, fried, dumplings, scones (the ones that look like American biscuits...I LOVE THEM ALL!!!
I forgot cornbread and beaten biscuits!
@@d.lawrence5670 I'm right with you--on all of these! I love to make--and eat--bread!!!
When it comes to biscuits im team "i love biscuits"
I'm on "All the above"
This is a great video. Very informative. Thanks, so much for taking the time to put this together for us.
Great informative video as always!
I’m a huge flaky biscuit fan - especially topped with some whipped honey butter 😍
I have to go make biscuits and honey butter now, thanks a lot!
we made the flakey one in culinary school in Germany and i had never eaten anything similar before and it is soo good
Love this
Dan your new video here is downright incredible in detail. Excellent!!!
Flakey, the only kind to make or eat! Thank you Dan
Your best video yet. Coming from a southern background, I love both. Thanks you cleared up a lot of questions and misconceptions. My Dad's mother used raw milk, with perhaps a lot of the cream, where my Mother used room temp. crisco, and of course we always topped with copious amounts of butter, or honey, or molasses, or apple butter, or jelly, or preserves, or any combination of the above. The BISCUIT, appetizer, main meal staple, or desert, not to mention squirrel gravy and biscuits.
Whoever is writing these scripts, thank you. Dan's style of humor is already cute, but this is wonderfully entertaining. "Who's DOING that?!" :D
Thanks! It’s me!
Thanks! It’s me!
@@DanielJSouza And what a master! With self-deprecating wit, perfect leavening!🤗
I LOVE ATK...& Dan's sports on the show! Great learning tool!
This biscuit tutorial is GREAT! Loved it!
Can't wait to make some FLAKEY biscuits! Those looked AMAZING... will try Drop Biscuits next time!
Love this guy.
I am for easy all the way! 😂 I tried the dream biscuit and I was floored of how moist and delicious it was 🤤! Thanks for sharing.
Oh man, those dream biscuits are a game-changer. So easy and so delicious!
this is exactly what i needed, biscuits all day err day!
I always love whichever biscuit I’m with!😳
hahahahaha!!
OMG! I'm super excited for this episode. I LOVE biscuits and I don't make them nearly often enough. Give me that sweet biscuit science!
those drop heavy cream dream biscuits are fantastic!!!! just made them today, thank u for sharing the recipe with us!!!
Dan: I think we can all agree that this is how to make biscuits.
England: ...
England knows damn well they're called cookies and if they had anything to say otherwise they present me with an English dish that people eat outside their nation for any reason other than to put on a bad impression of Dick Van Dyke's horrendous attempt at a cockney accent.
Scott Wittie I mean, I’m Irish but tea time biscuits are spectacular. Tbh most biscuits taste more refined and dainty than something like a chocolate chip cookie does to me 🤷🏻♀️
@@fakechemicals We do not know damn well anything! A cookie?! A cookie?! The custard cream? The bourbon biscuit? Dear lord, next thing you'll be calling a Jaffa cake a crisp! And then not content with mocking our tea time biscuit and throwing our tea into Boston harbour you insult our cuisine (the finest in the world). I have sent a Facebook message to the Queen, she has assured me that Dame Judi Dench is on her way to you now, holding a delicious, British Tikka Masala with a side of pork scratchings. A traditional English feast...A cookie, indeed!
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Monica Horton It's America's Test Kitchen because it was started in and will always be in America aka The United States of America. If it was in England, it would be called England's Test Kitchen. Lol
I could listen to Dan talk about food all day.
When you have an expert bringing in 2 other experts to teach you about the science of making a good biscuit. I'll follow the easy route. Thanks Dan.
Well, butter my biscuit. I like any as long as they are fresh out of the oven with honey butter or butter and preserves.
Nessa Rossini butter+honey>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> honey butter
You had me at Biscuits !! 😋🥰💜
Wow, that's fascinating! Thank you for this video!!
I love Dan!
Dan, I love you man!!
Finally a video that I was rooting for. Biscuits were always mystery to me. Thank you Dan.
Can you do dissection of Simple soups. Tomato Basil, French Onion and Clam Chowder.
i've never had a biscuit, what do they taste like? what do you eat them with?
Gravy. Honey. Gravy. Salty ham. Gravy. Grape jelly. Gravy. Sausage. Gravy. Eggs/cheese. Gravy.
Isn't the extra baking powder there to react with the acid in the buttermilk to provide extra leavening?
Im so glad I saw this video. Biscuits have always been a challenge for me, and I hated them because of how challenging it was to make the perfect biscuit. Im going for flaky and layers. Im hoping for the best :) Thanks for this informative video Dan!
The heavy cream and flour is the easiest recipe--if you're looking for easy. And they're very good.
also- great seeing Andrew and Andrea, can we nickname them And and And?
I recall a previous ATK biscuit recipe that used mayonnaise as the fat/moisture. It was super easy and very good.
Wow.. The first time I made biscuits was apparently the "laminate style".. I had no idea but it makes sense now. No wonder they came out that way.. I'm gonna have to go back and bake some "Dream biscuits"..!
Thanks for the bit of science behind it. Liked and Subbed!
I like to eat both. I like to make drop style, but I'm definitely going to heat up my cream from now on! Love it!
I loved this video - it truly is all about personal preference isn't it?
very informative video and I love biscuit.
The softer wheat in self rising flour has always been the secret to the biscuits my granny made. They were delicious, bready and the perfect vehicle for gravy.
Oh Dan. I learned how to make biscuits when i was 20 or 21. I made thwm every day for mo ths. The bacon wasn't bad either.
But you, you explain the whys. You win out here over Chris I am glad to say. I understand he is sharing history and traditions. More is richer. Viva.
I am both. I love the way you put your own spin on explaining cooking techniques and procedures and recipes
ahhh finally, i found the way to see what the traditional way of doing american biscuits. Although i initially had arecipe that combined both, i'll do it right this time and see what the effects are. i usually cut the cold butter into my APF before adding cold buttermilk, and then rolling it just a bit before cutting them into shapes. Yet i called what i made american biscuits. i'll include sugar so i can get my browning right. and do it the traditional way to make the fluffier and bready biscuits as opposed to the flaky and crusty ones.
thanks for giving lots of details regarding the effects and chemical reactions the ingredients gave. loved it.
I don't know where you live, but if you can find White Lily self-rising flour, buy a small bag (until you try it!) and use the recipe on the back of the bag. The bag says White Lily is "soft, winter wheat" and the biscuits turn out great every time. The flour can also be used for baking cakes (that is the only kind of flour I use) and it is wonderful. Their biscuit recipe uses buttermilk, flour and crisco. Extremely easy and delicious! I've used that recipe for years (I'm very old!) and it is wonderful. (PS: No, I don't work for that company--I have just used that brand for years and after I read your comment, I wanted to help, if I could. Try it if it is available in your area. Blessings!)
So bummed they didn't show the two llamas boning to represent the baking soda and acid reacting
Wow, I am defiantly “BOTH” now! Thanks for the great recipes...
Easy!!
love!!!
Wow!
This is so much fun. Thanks for doing this Dan!
Flaky guy here. Nothing wrong with soft and tender cream biscuits at all. But I prefer the flaky ones even if they are a little more work.
Maybe next episode should be flaky VS. Tender pie crusts. Hmm id definitely like to see that one.
I love the science behind cooking/baking!
The editor of this has amazing future ahead.
My favorite is my grandmother's baking powder biscuit made with lard. Cut the lard into the flour mixture and add a little milk. My dad is lazy and after the dough is shaped he uses a pizza cutter (square biscuits) and you put them in a hot glass baking with melted lard with a turn over in the fat for a light baste. This gives you a cakey light biscuit just waiting for butter and honey or homemade jam! Mmmm, making me nostalgic! 😀
I love this videos
BOTH! As long as someone else is baking them and I reap the benefits!!! 👏🏽👏🏽🤣
Great video, Dan. Are the recipes in the ATK Seasons 1-19 Cookbook?
This is a Cook's Illustrated recipe, so it's on our website!
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Same!
Same, what's eating Dan is the ONLY series that's worth watching on this channel
I love all the uploads. But I especially love the science in this series.
Either biscuit will do because they both looks great! Yum.......
I gotta try those drop/cream biscuits!!!
FrugalOverFifty I just made them for strawberry shortcake. So delicious and so easy, just have to make sure they are in the cylinder form on the baking sheet so they don't spread
@@j.rangel1457 Brilliant!
When I think of my mom in the kitchen, it is her kneading and rolling out biscuits. Cutting them out with a drinking glass. She lost her mom when she was 13. I had her until I was 45. Never was concerned with the rise or flakiness just if there was enough for everyone. There was and they were delicious.
Love cream biscuits, been making them ever since I discovered the recipe. For the dream biscuits, can melted butter and milk be used instead of warm cream?
This video has so much going for it -- appealing host, solid facts, great camera work, clever graphic insets, sprightly music, and intense appetite appeal! Perfection.
I'd love to try Dan's biscuits 😏
For dinner I'd want those flaky biscuits. But for a great biscuit for breakfast, the tender one would be my choice. Good video.
Cream biscuits but patted out and cut. Yum!
I'm a biscuits and gravy type of guy. Illeat either type of biscuit you illustrated so long as it's got bacon or sausage gravy on top of it. Yum!
um-hmm!
My go to is the ATK Best Drop Biscuit recipe, but I can't wait to try the Andrew's flaky biscuit/ croissant recipe now!
Those biscuits look delicious. I usually do a drop, but I want to try the flaky. I think the drop would make great dumplings for stews as well as just eating right out of the oven.
BTW, I love all the ATK videos.
The Dream biscuit has become my favorite biscuit. I can’t believe it-and, still soft the next day!
Suddenly, science is fun!
Very much a tender biscuit lover
Lovely Andrea's hair! I have used the melted butter into cold buttermilk recipe for drop biscuits and love them too. I love all kinds of biscuits.
The stuff that gets all clotted and weird looking, I remember that one too. It's a very good method.
I love watching you Dan. Thanks for making cooking fun.
Def easy, here in TN a slight variation is called spoon bread
If I have the time I would make a flaky biscuit, but if I'm rushed I would make the drop biscuit. And if I decide at the last minute I want biscuits with dinner, I make the 7-Up Biscuits.
Loved this video. Best one yet!
What a great video!!! I love listening to you, Dan!!
Your video might be 4 years old, but it’s still great! Love your style, fun and informative without dragging on forever! I’m interested in flaky this time! 😊
Great information, plus highly entertaining.
"are you flaky or easy"
*sobs*
I'm gluten free.
Thoughts and prayers.
I combined both concepts, I used frozen suet for the cold part, then mixed very quickly in warm half & half and spooned them into a cookie sheet and they came out very nice. Both easy and flaky! I used just a bit of sugar in the batter, maybe a small palm full, for a little extra crunch on the bottoms and tops.......It did not make them sweet, just taste good.
and I heated the 1/2 & 1/2 in the microwave, till it was warm, it seemed good enough.
Sorry about your loss. :(
that's no life
That was awesome, could you do scones next? :D
Dan is so dreamy 😄
awesome techniques Dan!!!!
I've never found so much clarity on biscuits anywhere! Thanks Dan!😍❤️
Please keep these videos coming
I did the flaky biscuit recipe, hands-down the best biscuits I’ve ever made
very well done, i like this format
Love those llamas!
instead of sugar u can use barley malt. i buy commercial bags of flour, some for bakeries, some for restaurants, but its all home use for me. anyways, the restaurant ones contain malted barley flour for browning and some bakery ones do too
Can I be flaky and easy with self rising flour and butter flavored Crisco?
Allergic to wheat. Does your method work for alternative biscuits? Coconut flour or a nut flour?
I like the easy type. Squishy and soft.
Absolutely LOVED this video. I’ve been a home baker for about 15 years, and once I found ATK and Cook’s Illustrated, my confidence skyrocketed. (I started baking as a teenager, I’m 27 now!) I’m so happy not only to find a funny video, but I learned something, too! Thanks for including the recipes in the description, because I’m going to try them both! I’m always up to find my family’s favorite biscuit recipe. I have a ATK recipe with buttermilk I make now that we love as strawberry shortcake or plain, but I love to experiment. Keep these food insights coming! ❤️
After making 7 batches of black raspberry jelly, 6 batches of peach jam and jelly this weekend I believe that I will make both.
Drop biscuits when I'm lazy or when it's a warm day. :) Dan, could you & the test kitchen folks do a similar analysis for pie & empanada doughs made with chilled vs. melted butter/fat? I've always wondered about the differences (apart from spreading, I guess).