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Being American and having been raised in a very German family along with a three year tour on Ramstein Flugplatz I've had both in my lifetime and have to agree that both are very good depending on mood.
Spot on. They're both delicious. An American pancake with maple sirup and some berries is mindblowing. But so is a German Pfannekuchen with a mushroom-cream sauce. It's stupid to make a competition. They are very different dishes, after all. Yummie!😂❤
You can get the effect of double-acting baking powder by combining cream of tartar (Weinstein) with single-acting baking powder. Sometimes you do see Weinsteinbackpulver in German supermarkets, and that's double-acting.
I grew up on the American style since I live in Canada, but when I was in Germany for 3 weeks last summer (visiting my best friend), I fell in love with the German style - and savory all the way with them - YUMMY. We have the pancakes I am used to for breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner as well.
German here. When I eat Pfannkuchen I always play around with the toppings: Nutella, cinnamon, fruit yoghurt, apple sauce, cherry or plum compote and so on. I like the variety. But you also may use marmelade, honey, maple sirup, nuts, icecream, chocolate (sauce)....
Canadian here - nice to see our maple syrup in Germany! The pancakes I grew up with were pretty much the same as those that Deanna made. Schöne Grüße aus Ottawa. 🇨🇦
I'm from the (north) west of Norway (Sunnmøre), we have both french-style pancakes, or crepes, and something resembling American pancakes, called "svele", made with Kefir or other soured milk, and leavened with ammonium carbonate (called "hornsalt" in Norwegian). The svele is served as a dessert either with jam or with "brunost" which is a whey product resembling cheese.
Bei uns in Mittelfranken isst man meistens Pfannkuchen; auch genannt "Pfannakoung" mit Erdbeermarmelade, Zimt und Zucker oder Apfelmus. Manche essen sie auch herzhaft mit Schinken und Käse. Ich mag die deutschen und auch die amerikanischen gleich gerne, kommt immer drauf an, auf welche man Lust hat.
13:32 Deanna, "This is why we can't have nice things." 🤣My Mom (in TX) would say that every time we kiddos broke or damaged anything during play. Between American style pancakes, French style crepes or Belgian style waffles...My vote is on the waffles because they allow you to load up the toppings without so much spillage. My personal fave is sliced banana, chopped roasted pecans and maple syrup. Yummy, or as we say in the South .. 'Larapin'. Hahaha cheers youze guys.
My mom and grandmother would peel green apples and slice them thick. Regular granulated sugar thinly covered the pan, and in went all of the apples (covered the bottom of the pan). Then the batter went in on top of the apples and sugar. The batter was thicker than yours. After the sugar and apple caramelized, and the batter stiffened, they flipped it. After plating they sprinkled a bit more sugar and cinnamon on top. Delicious. My mom was from Dusseldorf.
I like the idea of less ingredients and less/no sugar in the pancake batter though fresh fruit added in the cooking process. Yum. Great job on both and Deana can work in an American and German pancake shop
Growing up in the States with an Army mess hall cook for our father and a German mother we had both kinds of pancakes. Loved both. Dad always offered peanut butter with pancakes and sometimes we had Karo syrup instead of maple syrup. Mom’s German pancakes were so good! We always had them spread with grape jelly and rolled up then sprinkled with powdered sugar. Kid heaven! I later experimented and tried them with maple syrup and they are great that way too!
I feel like UK pancakes are very similar to the German ones, however I’ve never heard of putting apple sauce on! We eat apple sauce with roast dinners and Christmas dinners! UK pancakes are usually crepes with sugar and lemon on top or nutella. New to the scene is Biscoff. Have you guys tried this? American pancakes are just perfection aren’t they! Maple syrup and blueberries are great! We just went to Alberta and we had fluffy pancakes with Saskatoon berries and all Canadian maple! I also find it’s often hard to find decent maple syrup that North Americans approve of in the UK, but I found some in Lidl in all places last week.
Love the friendly marital competition. Cultures are all different for the most part. In the end we are all human and should experience and appreciate. Keep up the great content!
Thanks for the recipe für American pancakes. I always wanted to cook them and I love maple syrup. 👍👍👍 I think nearly every family in Germany has their own pancake recipe. Mine is like Phils, an apple pancake but the dough is slightly thicker (I take less milk if I add water) and I add much more apples instead of apple sauce. A little bit of butter in the pan is a must. Give a little bit more dough into the pan and take it off the heat/stove. I take much more Appleslices (peeled) and press them a little bit. Heat it again and turn it carefully 🙃. Now the most important thing is: The apples should get a little bit of brown color. Let them caramelize but not burn. Now the apples are soft. If it is not sweet enough, spread the sugar after cooking, and if you like, add a little cinnamon to the sugar first. Then you have the taste of brown butter, the apples can be a little sour, and the sweet topping. 😋
Looking at the ingredient list, it's clear to me that my favorite is the German pancakes. No sugar! Whereas the American pancakes have sugar and syrup.
i'm from the US and grew up eating pancakes. i like them with lots of fruit cooked in them. i have also had the german style pancake and also like those. i agree, they are very different. you could eat them together like Phil said, one for a hearty dish and one for dessert.
South of Europe. My family used to do it German style, but a bit thicker. Rolled up with sugar and cinnamon and a lil bit of sugar in the batter. They were a rare dessert food. Not breakfast. Nowadays though when you get pancakes in any brunch place or cafe that started selling them in the last 10 years, it is american style. But I do not think we do them well. They tend to be drier (you /need/ a drink). I prefer the version I grew up with or a basic thin crepe with ice cream and strawberries. BUT the US ones ARE MUCH prettier. At home I often do "healthy" american pancake style (basically banana, oat flour, egg, stacked up with yogurt and blueberry) for breakfast.
Bei uns am Niederrhein gabs immer Apfelpfannekuchen, aber nicht so dünn und die Apfelspalten (auch nicht so dünn) sofort mit rein dicht gedrängt rund herum, so dass die nach dem Wenden auch etwas karamelisieren. Kindheitserinnerungen … 😀
When I grew up, in my family (German) pancakes were a typical Friday lunch dish. We would either have the hearty and savory version with for example ham, salami, or apples baked in, or the sweet version with for example sugar and cinnamon, strawberry jam, or Rübenkraut (sugar cane syrup) on top. Another version were smaller ones (size like the American pancakes) with cooked noodles baked inside of them, then topped with sugar and cinnamon. Those were called "Nudelplätzchen".
I am not a traditional pancake person, although I do prepare crepes once in a while. However, I am a big fan of German Potato Pancakes. My wife's family loves those and I prepare those whenever we visit together. My wife prepares apple sauce from real apples (not from the jar) and that is a delicious meal.
Same here from Austria, and in the summer sometimes we put vanilla icecream, grated hazelnuts, chocolate sauce inside and whipped cream ooutside on the top!
I'm Swedish and we have thin pancakes here that are similar to the German ones. We also have a version cooked in the oven which is made from a similar batter but then baked in oven in a casserole dish and like the thin pancakes it can be either sweet or savory. I mostly make the oven pancake because it's less effort to just toss it into the oven compared to frying individual pancakes, and I also often add some fried bacon to the batter before putting it into the oven
Denmark and by looks closer to Phils. And still eat it sometimes. Some are desert pancakes, others for a mainmeal. Difference is how sweet they are made. Desert pancakes are covered in multiple ways. Plain suger, marmelade of your choice, vanilla icecream, syrup, nutella, and a few using ketchup ;-)
In our region, i.e. in the Ruhr area, we also like to put cinnamon and sugar on the apple pancakes. That takes it to another level. Pancakes with leftover boiled potatoes from the day before are also popular. Bake the same way as the apple pancakes, only with slightly thicker slices. For my taste you are a bit too shy with your amount of salt. I put a lot more into it. They could also stay in the pan a little longer to be a touch browner
My way of remembering the recipe for German pancakes: Where I live, we usually call them Eierkuchen. Now I combine this word with the word for two: "Zwei". Zweierkuchen. - Two eggs / Zwei Eier - 200ml milk / Zweihundert Milliliter Milch - 200g flour / Zweihundert Gramm Milch - (optional) 1/2-1 TSP backing powder / 1/2-1 TL Backpulver - (optional) Shot of mineral water / Ein Schuss Mineralwasser If still runny, add more flour bit by bit until it is slightly viscous. Then put into a pan with a bit of oil, so that you get a little crust.
I am from Vermont, USA. More familiar with a version similar to Deana. I also prefer mine with blueberries cooked in the batter. To get a nice balance, you sprinkle the blueberries on after you put the batter in the pan, rather than mix it in with the batter. And also being from Vermont, real maple syrup is a where it's at. Often I do like a small amount of butter on the hot cake as well. I am very familiar with applesauce on pancakes or even waffles though! So good! I am a preschool teacher of three year olds and serve pancakes and waffles to them with applesauce rather than syrup (the school only serves the fake syrup--bleck!) what Phil made looks more like the crepes I know, which we have usually with strawberries, maybe some nutella, and whipped cream and usually on Valentine's Day for some reason--probably because of the chocolate and strawberries.
I'm German and my mum often made Pfannkuchen when I was a kid. In our household it was common to roll up the standard Pfannkuchen with a slice of ham. We never ate it with apple sauce though, that's how we had our Reibekuchen. And I wonder why you didn't peel the apple before you sliced it, we always peeled it. And another tip for the turning part: slide it out of the pan on a plate, then take a second plate on top, switch it and then slide it back into the pan.
Using buttermilk helps with the fluffing of the pancakes. I find the baking powder and soda to not be as strong as I like, and the buttermilk helps add that extra acid to activate the soda.
Take your thumb, middle and index finger to grab the salt. Grab almost as much as you can and there you have it a pinch of salt.😁 Normally it's just the thumb and index finger but that just doesn't cut it.
I like them both. We usually had pancakes on Sunday morning. At times, my parents would go out for dinner or to a friends house for dinner. My mother grew up in Germany, so she would make schmarn and affelmuss for dinner for my bothers and me before they went out
I haven’t had the German pfannkuchen but I did have Dutch pannekoeken once (which appear to be similar or the same) and loved them. I love American pancakes too though especially with butter and real maple syrup (not pancake syrup).
I think jugs are very useful for pouring pan cake batter. I reckon you can find vanilla extract. Over here in NL we have vanilla extract in supermarkets.
In Deutschland ist der süße Pfannkuchen sehr beliebt! Vor allem mit Apfelmus aber auch mit Nutella oder einer leckeren Marmelade! Aber auch der herbe Pfannkuchen ist sehr lecker mit Schinken, Zwiebeln oder kleinen Salamistückchen und Käse! Ich liebe sie beide!👍😋🇩🇪🇺🇲 Grüße aus Ratingen!👋
Not a fan of American pancakes but we make what is called a German pancake. Basic same ingredients but we pour the batter into a 13" x 9" pan that has a half a stick of melted butter and bake it. Squeeze some lemon juice over it and serve with fruit or syrup or both! Sometimes I add apple when baking if my mom is coming over. She grew up in Bavaria and seems to prefer the apple version. It remains thin like your German pancake in the middle but puffs up around the edges. I have not yet had anyone say they don't love it.
When I visit The Netherlands, I have to have a savory Pfannkuchen. Honestly, I have not seen a northern-style Pfannkuchen here in Wiesbaden, but there are a lot of Americans/Brits here in this area.
Dutch pancakes are thin ones or poffertjes . My mom made a mix between the american and dutch pancake with raisins in it . That is my favorite. Thicker pancakes with butter, raisins and topped with fruit or jam or "schenkstroop" with powdered sugar. Also big fan of "hartige pannekoeken" so the savoury ones like with cheese in the batter melting together yummy🎉
Palatschinken! Mmmmh 🤤 But we ate them most of the time with sugar & cinnamon or strawberry marmelade. Then we rolled them up like a wrap and cut them into mouth fitting pieces. And for the apple pancakes, my mom made so called „Apfelküchle“ (small apple cakes) but with the pieces of apple already in the batter. And afaik the recipe is a little bit different. But they were also the best with sugar & cinnamon.
Watching Phil roll up a pancake reminded me of another American pancake use..."pigs in a blanket." Basically a small pancake rolled around a link breakfast sausage (with or without syrup). Yum!
@@hollywebster6844 Yes I am from the USA. Look up on the internet Stuffed cabbage pigs in a blanket. Stuffed cabbage being called pigs in a blanket goes back hundreds of years. Hot dogs wrapped in pastry or a sausage wrapped in a pancake being called pigs-in-a-blanket is a more recent thing that goes back just a few decades.
@@jeffhampton2767 I'm old...but not hundreds of years old. My entire life PiiB has been sausage wrapped in dough. When you mentioned the cabbage version I Googled it. Nearly every picture was sausage wrapped in dough. Here in Texas (and back in Indiana)...you guessed it...wrapped in a dough.
I am from the U.S., and my family had American pancakes for breakfast every Saturday when I was a child (my Dad usually cooked them). Love them! Now as an adult, my husband makes homemade waffles occasionally, maybe twice a month. The German pancakes look really yummy, and I imagine that they are similar to crepes if another egg or two were added to the batter. Phil, if American pancakes are too sweet for you, perhaps you could reduce the amount of sugar in them. Let the maple syrup and/or fruit help sweeten the American pancakes.
I'm in my sixties and growing up we never ate pancakes for breakfast, there were five women in the house and they were all concerned about their weight. They were all trying to stay nice and thin. I think in my entire life I eat pancakes maybe five times and did not even like them that much.
As an American born in the South, we had regular pancakes with butter and syrup, but on special occasions we made them with blueberries, butter and Smuckers Blueberry syrup. I've never had German pancakes, Swedish with lingonberry preserves yes, so I will have to give it a go. Have to say though the German pancakes remind me of a crepe, and the Swedish is like a small crepe. Thanks guys!
I'm Australian, and we make them Phils way but no soda water. I like lemon juice on top with sugar sprinkled on top. That's what we had growing up. We do have German influence here though.
Dial back the sugar if the NA pancakes are too sweet for your tastes, especially if you use maple syrup. Both pancake styles look great. I’d happily eat either!
I grew up on Dutch pan cakes. But recently I've dabbled with home made American style ones using spelt flower. You'll get a heavier pan cake, but using baking powder it has a good rise and had a bit of a nutty flavour. Spelt batter smells nutty and has a slight nutty taste when baked.
The thin pancakes are so much better, consider other toppings though, whipped cream, strawberry jam(or other jam), real vanilla icecream and berries(dont use the big american blueberries ones in the video though, use wild picked smaller ones with some taste). Toppings can be used in any combination the go to at least in Sweden is whipped cream and strawberry jam, ingredients is close to the German ones, thick sugary pancakes are as bad as pan pizza is to regular Italian pizza.
US pancake styles widely vary. I put only 1-2 tablespoons of sugar and no vanilla in a batch of 10 pancakes. We like our pancakes made with buttermilk, soured milk or sourdough. In the South, we often eat pancakes with molasses or sorghum syrup. Yum!
As a child of an american and german we grew up having both versions. The american was for breakfast and the german for dinner. Also Phil a little butter when making yours would help with the browning and also we start with let the batter sit in the frig for at least 4 hours before making and that helps with them. The american need to sit in a warmer environment for the baking soda to act.
Phil, next time first the batter in the pan and you mount the apple slises on top. when you turn you, bake the apple side. and maybe alittle more brown?
Deana did a great job her pancakes are beautiful. The only thing missing is butter. Phil's look very nice but look more like crepes. I would probably like them both. Phil's would look good filled with something. Some fruit or ricotta cheese.
I'm German but spent quite a lot of time in the US (Derby, KS and Greer SC) I know the difference between both, because i had em both a lot. whenever I'm in Germany I crave the US Pancakes (and american and mexican food in general) and vice versa when in the US 😅 😵💫the grass is always greener on the otherside 🙃
In Australia I grew up having crepes with butter, sugar and lemon juice. We would role them up then cut and eat them. We would also have piklets or drop scones which are fluffier like American pancakes but smaller. We would usually have piklets with butter and jam or just butter.
Dutchie here, the base recipe for the German one is similar to the Dutch version. I've made and eaten both Dutch/German and US style pancakes and I enjoy both, but for me the Dutch/German style reigns supreme in the end. I go for those probably 9 out of 10 times. 13:43 Personally I prefer the version with bacon (and sometimes cheese), topped with molasses and a bit of sugar for crunch. The version topped with onion, bell pepper, mushrooms, leek and cheese is also delicious.
My parents were Donau Swabian and I grew up eating something to the German style pancake batter but it was thicker and it was cut up into smallish dumplings. We called it shmorah, or something like that.
my husbands family are also danube swabians and i was wondering what you mean with schmora... and then it hit me like a brick.. you mean "kaiserschmarrn". A traditional austrian dessert. super tasty. The pancakes Phil made in the video does my husband know as "pallatschinka"
@@ClaudiaG.1979 Yeah, they are called Palatschinken in former Österreich-Ungarn...👍 And my mother from Siebenbürgen (Romania) called them Platschinten...
I am from the U.S., but I have lived and studied in Germany. I like both but the american one is sweeter. Except I do not make it with sugar. I use a cooked strawberry sauce on top instead of a bit of syrup. I really love is the Kartoffelpfannkuchen with sour cream on top.
I'm 49, single, and I make Pfannkuchen regularly. But I make eier Pfannkuchen, with extra eggs. Just like my grandpa did. And I use Apfelkompott and cinnamon sugar. Just great! Pancakes are not my favorite. I don't like the backing powder and natron taste.
So, I am being raised in America which I always have been... although my Oma comes to cook pancakes for me, and they sometimes look like the pancakes from Germany or the pancakes from America. I personally like the German Pfankuches much better. As Deana said, she likes the Pfankuches better as a savory dish and I agree!
I think that the German pancake is the soft American crepe pancake, the German should be a bit crisp.. 😊 My grandmother dit put a bit of beer in the batter. You should try to put kardemomme and nutmeg in the batter, it taste amazing 😊 Big hugs from Denmark 🌹🥰
I love making pancakes I add cinnamon to the batter served with bananas and strawberries topped with maple syrup yum I would definitely try the German ones too yum thanks so much for sharing I’ve added apples baked in Splenda and butter just in case were out of syrup my husband is always in charge of the eggs either scrambled or Sunny side up I call them dippy eggs 😊😊😊 we’ll also have French toast yum bread dipped into eggs and Cinnamon then fried yum
7:33 I laughed so damn hard the whole neighborhood must've heard me! 👏🤣😂 P.S.: My favorite for the sweet version would be a thin crepe with Nutella and сирене (white cheese) and for the savory version - thick катма with patterned salt, кашкавал (melty yellow cheese) and ham. 🤗😘
I'm American but grew up with my mom making "German pancakes" for us. It's close to Phil's recipe but you put the pan in the oven. Top it with powdered sugar & lemon after it comes out. They are fantastic!
Those sound like they could be "dutch baby" pancakes which are based on Pfannkuchen but actually are an American recipe. I make them for special occasions since they are so filling.
The German pancake is very similar to the Hungarian (or rather, European?) one, down to the addition of seltzer water to it. Although, we cook it in hot oil, not butter; fill it with jam, sweetened quark or sweetened cocoa powder, roll it up and eat it. Hungarian apple pancake also exists, which has grated apples added to the raw batter. There's also a Hungarian specialty pancake, Gundel (named after a Hungarian restaurateur), which is similar to Schoko-Nuss-Palatschinke. Never had American pancake before. Don't you use buttermilk, though?
Both look good, but I’m from the US and love Pancakes with Maple Syrup and butter....my add in is pecans, I love pancakes with pecans added in, and covered with syrup. Plain ones are good too. I can eat them any time of day, lol!❤
I've never seen anyone put sugar into the pancake batter before. I've never made them that way. The sweetness from the maple syrup is more than enough.
The Netherlands,, basically a Dutch version of the German Pfannkuchen , Yes i had them as a kid and still eat them today but without the Apfelmuse appelmoes. With chees or with sugar, jam or fruit and Nutella
I just spent a month in America and Phil's rolled up pancake is an IHOP commercial I saw way too many times. They sell folded pancakes with fruit in them and say, "If you fold a pancake, you have a taco!!!!" No you don't IHOP. You have a rolled up pancake.
Ok guys when we going out too eat 🤗 I know what to get Phil for Christmas!! That was two shots of Sprudel Wasser Phil!!! As always you guys making me hungry!!!! 😉
An American here and aside from The syrup the pancakes I grew up with were not as sweet as that. They didn’t include sugar as part of the recipe. We were a Bisquick pancake house and they’re still my favorite pancakes. The pancakes are just ever so slightly savory and then you put the syrup on it it’s a nice contrast. One of the key things though when making pancakes was letting the batter rest just a little bit to allow the first action of the baking powder. of course without double acting baking powder that wouldn’t work.
Our recipe for Apple pancakes used either a small packet of vanilla custard powder or some regular vanilla pudding powder. We also made this in a blender including the peeled apple. The apple gave it body and texture. While hot out of the pan sprinkle with white sugar. Our pancakes were smaller making them flippable as they weren’t crepes nor did we have a crepe pan. 14:27 🇩🇪heritage living in 🇨🇦
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Being American and having been raised in a very German family along with a three year tour on Ramstein Flugplatz I've had both in my lifetime and have to agree that both are very good depending on mood.
YESSS! - Sometimes both during one meal isn't a bad idea!
Spot on. They're both delicious. An American pancake with maple sirup and some berries is mindblowing. But so is a German Pfannekuchen with a mushroom-cream sauce. It's stupid to make a competition. They are very different dishes, after all.
Yummie!😂❤
Some couples talk about gardens and houses. Deana and Phil talk about pancakes.
You can get the effect of double-acting baking powder by combining cream of tartar (Weinstein) with single-acting baking powder. Sometimes you do see Weinsteinbackpulver in German supermarkets, and that's double-acting.
I grew up on the American style since I live in Canada, but when I was in Germany for 3 weeks last summer (visiting my best friend), I fell in love with the German style - and savory all the way with them - YUMMY. We have the pancakes I am used to for breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner as well.
German here. When I eat Pfannkuchen I always play around with the toppings: Nutella, cinnamon, fruit yoghurt, apple sauce, cherry or plum compote and so on. I like the variety. But you also may use marmelade, honey, maple sirup, nuts, icecream, chocolate (sauce)....
Canadian here - nice to see our maple syrup in Germany! The pancakes I grew up with were pretty much the same as those that Deanna made. Schöne Grüße aus Ottawa. 🇨🇦
I'm from the (north) west of Norway (Sunnmøre), we have both french-style pancakes, or crepes, and something resembling American pancakes, called "svele", made with Kefir or other soured milk, and leavened with ammonium carbonate (called "hornsalt" in Norwegian). The svele is served as a dessert either with jam or with "brunost" which is a whey product resembling cheese.
Bei uns in Mittelfranken isst man meistens Pfannkuchen; auch genannt "Pfannakoung" mit Erdbeermarmelade, Zimt und Zucker oder Apfelmus. Manche essen sie auch herzhaft mit Schinken und Käse. Ich mag die deutschen und auch die amerikanischen gleich gerne, kommt immer drauf an, auf welche man Lust hat.
13:32 Deanna, "This is why we can't have nice things." 🤣My Mom (in TX) would say that every time we kiddos broke or damaged anything during play. Between American style pancakes, French style crepes or Belgian style waffles...My vote is on the waffles because they allow you to load up the toppings without so much spillage. My personal fave is sliced banana, chopped roasted pecans and maple syrup. Yummy, or as we say in the South .. 'Larapin'. Hahaha cheers youze guys.
My wife and I are Keto, so we don’t eat pancakes, but we always enjoy watching your videos.
My mom and grandmother would peel green apples and slice them thick. Regular granulated sugar thinly covered the pan, and in went all of the apples (covered the bottom of the pan). Then the batter went in on top of the apples and sugar. The batter was thicker than yours. After the sugar and apple caramelized, and the batter stiffened, they flipped it. After plating they sprinkled a bit more sugar and cinnamon on top. Delicious. My mom was from Dusseldorf.
I love your videos guys. Love Phil sense of humor and Deana's kind and sweet demeanor.
Swedish here. Our pancakes are flat like the German one. But we eat it with either sugar or whipped cream and jam
Yes but we don’t have soda water in ours. I never have whipped cream on my pancakes, just jam or sugar.
LOL! I was thinking the same thing as Deana said "Who's cleaning the kitchen up"
I like the idea of less ingredients and less/no sugar in the pancake batter though fresh fruit added in the cooking process. Yum. Great job on both and Deana can work in an American and German pancake shop
Test pancakes are definitely a thing! I usually make just a tiny one, but I do that every single time. 😁
Sometimes, we just want a little snack while cooking!
Growing up in the States with an Army mess hall cook for our father and a German mother we had both kinds of pancakes. Loved both. Dad always offered peanut butter with pancakes and sometimes we had Karo syrup instead of maple syrup. Mom’s German pancakes were so good! We always had them spread with grape jelly and rolled up then sprinkled with powdered sugar. Kid heaven! I later experimented and tried them with maple syrup and they are great that way too!
I feel like UK pancakes are very similar to the German ones, however I’ve never heard of putting apple sauce on! We eat apple sauce with roast dinners and Christmas dinners!
UK pancakes are usually crepes with sugar and lemon on top or nutella. New to the scene is Biscoff. Have you guys tried this?
American pancakes are just perfection aren’t they! Maple syrup and blueberries are great!
We just went to Alberta and we had fluffy pancakes with Saskatoon berries and all Canadian maple!
I also find it’s often hard to find decent maple syrup that North Americans approve of in the UK, but I found some in Lidl in all places last week.
Love the friendly marital competition. Cultures are all different for the most part. In the end we are all human and should experience and appreciate. Keep up the great content!
Oh btw I'm in Texas USA. Pancakes and waffles are kinda split but in Texas we have Waffle House which is pretty awesome!
Thanks for the recipe für American pancakes. I always wanted to cook them and I love maple syrup. 👍👍👍
I think nearly every family in Germany has their own pancake recipe. Mine is like Phils, an apple pancake but the dough is slightly thicker (I take less milk if I add water) and I add much more apples instead of apple sauce. A little bit of butter in the pan is a must.
Give a little bit more dough into the pan and take it off the heat/stove. I take much more Appleslices (peeled) and press them a little bit. Heat it again and turn it carefully 🙃. Now the most important thing is: The apples should get a little bit of brown color. Let them caramelize but not burn. Now the apples are soft. If it is not sweet enough, spread the sugar after cooking, and if you like, add a little cinnamon to the sugar first. Then you have the taste of brown butter, the apples can be a little sour, and the sweet topping. 😋
Looking at the ingredient list, it's clear to me that my favorite is the German pancakes. No sugar! Whereas the American pancakes have sugar and syrup.
Some sugar make sense, it turns into caramel when you heat it
So much better with syrup. I’m German and can’t stand the German pancakes
i'm from the US and grew up eating pancakes. i like them with lots of fruit cooked in them. i have also had the german style pancake and also like those. i agree, they are very different. you could eat them together like Phil said, one for a hearty dish and one for dessert.
Cinnamon, brown sugar with squeeze of lemon...the best
I am from Germany, we sprinkled the pancake with sugar. I live in Idaho now. I prefer the German one.
South of Europe. My family used to do it German style, but a bit thicker. Rolled up with sugar and cinnamon and a lil bit of sugar in the batter. They were a rare dessert food. Not breakfast. Nowadays though when you get pancakes in any brunch place or cafe that started selling them in the last 10 years, it is american style. But I do not think we do them well. They tend to be drier (you /need/ a drink). I prefer the version I grew up with or a basic thin crepe with ice cream and strawberries. BUT the US ones ARE MUCH prettier. At home I often do "healthy" american pancake style (basically banana, oat flour, egg, stacked up with yogurt and blueberry) for breakfast.
Bei uns am Niederrhein gabs immer Apfelpfannekuchen, aber nicht so dünn und die Apfelspalten (auch nicht so dünn) sofort mit rein dicht gedrängt rund herum, so dass die nach dem Wenden auch etwas karamelisieren. Kindheitserinnerungen … 😀
Kenne ich auch so (komme aus Köln)
English pancakes with lemon and sugar can't be beaten 😋
When I grew up, in my family (German) pancakes were a typical Friday lunch dish. We would either have the hearty and savory version with for example ham, salami, or apples baked in, or the sweet version with for example sugar and cinnamon, strawberry jam, or Rübenkraut (sugar cane syrup) on top. Another version were smaller ones (size like the American pancakes) with cooked noodles baked inside of them, then topped with sugar and cinnamon. Those were called "Nudelplätzchen".
I am not a traditional pancake person, although I do prepare crepes once in a while. However, I am a big fan of German Potato Pancakes. My wife's family loves those and I prepare those whenever we visit together. My wife prepares apple sauce from real apples (not from the jar) and that is a delicious meal.
Team German Pancake, i love to roll them up with some sugar inside or some homemade jam.
Same here from Austria, and in the summer sometimes we put vanilla icecream, grated hazelnuts, chocolate sauce inside and whipped cream ooutside on the top!
@@nelerhabarber5602 Ice Cream sounds nice, gonna try it.
I cannot wait for my trip to Germany! I love watching you both.
I make pancakes or waffles just about every weekend so I'm more partial to those. That being said, I do like a nice crepe on occasion.
I'm Swedish and we have thin pancakes here that are similar to the German ones. We also have a version cooked in the oven which is made from a similar batter but then baked in oven in a casserole dish and like the thin pancakes it can be either sweet or savory. I mostly make the oven pancake because it's less effort to just toss it into the oven compared to frying individual pancakes, and I also often add some fried bacon to the batter before putting it into the oven
Grew up in Canada with German parents and always had apfelpannkuchen. Yummy!!!!!
Denmark and by looks closer to Phils. And still eat it sometimes. Some are desert pancakes, others for a mainmeal. Difference is how sweet they are made.
Desert pancakes are covered in multiple ways. Plain suger, marmelade of your choice, vanilla icecream, syrup, nutella, and a few using ketchup ;-)
Sounds like something we want to try!
I always make Crêpes with Nutella (or bacon & onion). My mom always makes Apfelpfannkuchen (apple pancakes) because my dad loves them.
I am from the netherlands and we have great pancakes. With bacon and sirop, Apple with cinnamon and sugar, strawberries and ice cream, etcetera.
In our region, i.e. in the Ruhr area, we also like to put cinnamon and sugar on the apple pancakes. That takes it to another level. Pancakes with leftover boiled potatoes from the day before are also popular. Bake the same way as the apple pancakes, only with slightly thicker slices.
For my taste you are a bit too shy with your amount of salt. I put a lot more into it.
They could also stay in the pan a little longer to be a touch browner
My way of remembering the recipe for German pancakes:
Where I live, we usually call them Eierkuchen. Now I combine this word with the word for two: "Zwei".
Zweierkuchen.
- Two eggs / Zwei Eier
- 200ml milk / Zweihundert Milliliter Milch
- 200g flour / Zweihundert Gramm Milch
- (optional) 1/2-1 TSP backing powder / 1/2-1 TL Backpulver
- (optional) Shot of mineral water / Ein Schuss Mineralwasser
If still runny, add more flour bit by bit until it is slightly viscous. Then put into a pan with a bit of oil, so that you get a little crust.
I am from Vermont, USA. More familiar with a version similar to Deana. I also prefer mine with blueberries cooked in the batter. To get a nice balance, you sprinkle the blueberries on after you put the batter in the pan, rather than mix it in with the batter. And also being from Vermont, real maple syrup is a where it's at. Often I do like a small amount of butter on the hot cake as well. I am very familiar with applesauce on pancakes or even waffles though! So good! I am a preschool teacher of three year olds and serve pancakes and waffles to them with applesauce rather than syrup (the school only serves the fake syrup--bleck!) what Phil made looks more like the crepes I know, which we have usually with strawberries, maybe some nutella, and whipped cream and usually on Valentine's Day for some reason--probably because of the chocolate and strawberries.
Oh my god … I laught so hard at the pancake flip of Phil😅
I'm German and my mum often made Pfannkuchen when I was a kid. In our household it was common to roll up the standard Pfannkuchen with a slice of ham. We never ate it with apple sauce though, that's how we had our Reibekuchen. And I wonder why you didn't peel the apple before you sliced it, we always peeled it.
And another tip for the turning part: slide it out of the pan on a plate, then take a second plate on top, switch it and then slide it back into the pan.
Using buttermilk helps with the fluffing of the pancakes. I find the baking powder and soda to not be as strong as I like, and the buttermilk helps add that extra acid to activate the soda.
Take your thumb, middle and index finger to grab the salt. Grab almost as much as you can and there you have it a pinch of salt.😁 Normally it's just the thumb and index finger but that just doesn't cut it.
I like them both. We usually had pancakes on Sunday morning. At times, my parents would go out for dinner or to a friends house for dinner. My mother grew up in Germany, so she would make schmarn and affelmuss for dinner for my bothers and me before they went out
I haven’t had the German pfannkuchen but I did have Dutch pannekoeken once (which appear to be similar or the same) and loved them. I love American pancakes too though especially with butter and real maple syrup (not pancake syrup).
I grew up with both. My dad was American and my mom is German. I like eating my phannenkuchen with jam and my sister loves hers with Nutella
I think jugs are very useful for pouring pan cake batter. I reckon you can find vanilla extract. Over here in NL we have vanilla extract in supermarkets.
AMERICA BABYYYY!!!!!! Come thru DEANNA!!!!!
Hands down!! Always the German pancakes!!
In Deutschland ist der süße Pfannkuchen sehr beliebt!
Vor allem mit Apfelmus aber auch mit Nutella oder einer leckeren Marmelade!
Aber auch der herbe Pfannkuchen ist sehr lecker mit Schinken, Zwiebeln oder kleinen Salamistückchen und Käse!
Ich liebe sie beide!👍😋🇩🇪🇺🇲
Grüße aus Ratingen!👋
Living in France I do crêoes. Very good too, I lived in the statesmand normally there was ampancake mix. Not really done from scrarch.
Not a fan of American pancakes but we make what is called a German pancake. Basic same ingredients but we pour the batter into a 13" x 9" pan that has a half a stick of melted butter and bake it. Squeeze some lemon juice over it and serve with fruit or syrup or both! Sometimes I add apple when baking if my mom is coming over. She grew up in Bavaria and seems to prefer the apple version. It remains thin like your German pancake in the middle but puffs up around the edges. I have not yet had anyone say they don't love it.
When I visit The Netherlands, I have to have a savory Pfannkuchen. Honestly, I have not seen a northern-style Pfannkuchen here in Wiesbaden, but there are a lot of Americans/Brits here in this area.
Dutch pancakes are thin ones or poffertjes . My mom made a mix between the american and dutch pancake with raisins in it . That is my favorite. Thicker pancakes with butter, raisins and topped with fruit or jam or "schenkstroop" with powdered sugar. Also big fan of "hartige pannekoeken" so the savoury ones like with cheese in the batter melting together yummy🎉
Phil is hilarious....😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
They have both a time and place when they are the best 😍
Palatschinken! Mmmmh 🤤 But we ate them most of the time with sugar & cinnamon or strawberry marmelade. Then we rolled them up like a wrap and cut them into mouth fitting pieces.
And for the apple pancakes, my mom made so called „Apfelküchle“ (small apple cakes) but with the pieces of apple already in the batter. And afaik the recipe is a little bit different. But they were also the best with sugar & cinnamon.
English pancakes, like the German ones .sprinkle with sugar and lemon juice and roll them up. Delicious
Watching Phil roll up a pancake reminded me of another American pancake use..."pigs in a blanket." Basically a small pancake rolled around a link breakfast sausage (with or without syrup). Yum!
Pigs in a blanket is stuffed cabbage
@@jeffhampton2767 I have never heard stuffed cabbage referred to as pigs in a blanket. Are you from the US?
@@hollywebster6844 Yes I am from the USA. Look up on the internet Stuffed cabbage pigs in a blanket. Stuffed cabbage being called pigs in a blanket goes back hundreds of years. Hot dogs wrapped in pastry or a sausage wrapped in a pancake being called pigs-in-a-blanket is a more recent thing that goes back just a few decades.
@@jeffhampton2767 I'm old...but not hundreds of years old. My entire life PiiB has been sausage wrapped in dough. When you mentioned the cabbage version I Googled it. Nearly every picture was sausage wrapped in dough. Here in Texas (and back in Indiana)...you guessed it...wrapped in a dough.
Is that yum or yuk?
You should get Phil the double-sided pan for Xmas. So he just has to turn it around and no pancake landing on the ground....🤔😂🥞
Also works for Spanish tortillas de patatas
I am from the U.S., and my family had American pancakes for breakfast every Saturday when I was a child (my Dad usually cooked them). Love them! Now as an adult, my husband makes homemade waffles occasionally, maybe twice a month.
The German pancakes look really yummy, and I imagine that they are similar to crepes if another egg or two were added to the batter.
Phil, if American pancakes are too sweet for you, perhaps you could reduce the amount of sugar in them. Let the maple syrup and/or fruit help sweeten the American pancakes.
I'm in my sixties and growing up we never ate pancakes for breakfast, there were five women in the house and they were all concerned about their weight. They were all trying to stay nice and thin. I think in my entire life I eat pancakes maybe five times and did not even like them that much.
As an American born in the South, we had regular pancakes with butter and syrup, but on special occasions we made them with blueberries, butter and Smuckers Blueberry syrup. I've never had German pancakes, Swedish with lingonberry preserves yes, so I will have to give it a go. Have to say though the German pancakes remind me of a crepe, and the Swedish is like a small crepe. Thanks guys!
I'm Australian, and we make them Phils way but no soda water. I like lemon juice on top with sugar sprinkled on top. That's what we had growing up. We do have German influence here though.
Dial back the sugar if the NA pancakes are too sweet for your tastes, especially if you use maple syrup. Both pancake styles look great. I’d happily eat either!
I grew up on Dutch pan cakes. But recently I've dabbled with home made American style ones using spelt flower. You'll get a heavier pan cake, but using baking powder it has a good rise and had a bit of a nutty flavour. Spelt batter smells nutty and has a slight nutty taste when baked.
The thin pancakes are so much better, consider other toppings though, whipped cream, strawberry jam(or other jam), real vanilla icecream and berries(dont use the big american blueberries ones in the video though, use wild picked smaller ones with some taste). Toppings can be used in any combination the go to at least in Sweden is whipped cream and strawberry jam, ingredients is close to the German ones, thick sugary pancakes are as bad as pan pizza is to regular Italian pizza.
US pancake styles widely vary. I put only 1-2 tablespoons of sugar and no vanilla in a batch of 10 pancakes. We like our pancakes made with buttermilk, soured milk or sourdough. In the South, we often eat pancakes with molasses or sorghum syrup. Yum!
Buttermilk is what makes pancake next level: ) Germans love buttermilk so I was surprised she didn't use it.
As a child of an american and german we grew up having both versions. The american was for breakfast and the german for dinner. Also Phil a little butter when making yours would help with the browning and also we start with let the batter sit in the frig for at least 4 hours before making and that helps with them. The american need to sit in a warmer environment for the baking soda to act.
Phil, next time first the batter in the pan and you mount the apple slises on top. when you turn you, bake the apple side. and maybe alittle
more brown?
Deana did a great job her pancakes are beautiful. The only thing missing is butter. Phil's look very nice but look more like crepes. I would probably like them both. Phil's would look good filled with something. Some fruit or ricotta cheese.
I'm German but spent quite a lot of time in the US (Derby, KS and Greer SC) I know the difference between both, because i had em both a lot. whenever I'm in Germany I crave the US Pancakes (and american and mexican food in general) and vice versa when in the US 😅 😵💫the grass is always greener on the otherside 🙃
In Australia I grew up having crepes with butter, sugar and lemon juice. We would role them up then cut and eat them. We would also have piklets or drop scones which are fluffier like American pancakes but smaller. We would usually have piklets with butter and jam or just butter.
Dutchie here, the base recipe for the German one is similar to the Dutch version. I've made and eaten both Dutch/German and US style pancakes and I enjoy both, but for me the Dutch/German style reigns supreme in the end. I go for those probably 9 out of 10 times.
13:43 Personally I prefer the version with bacon (and sometimes cheese), topped with molasses and a bit of sugar for crunch. The version topped with onion, bell pepper, mushrooms, leek and cheese is also delicious.
My parents were Donau Swabian and I grew up eating something to the German style pancake batter but it was thicker and it was cut up into smallish dumplings. We called it shmorah, or something like that.
my husbands family are also danube swabians and i was wondering what you mean with schmora... and then it hit me like a brick.. you mean "kaiserschmarrn". A traditional austrian dessert. super tasty. The pancakes Phil made in the video does my husband know as "pallatschinka"
@@ClaudiaG.1979 Yeah, they are called Palatschinken in former Österreich-Ungarn...👍 And my mother from Siebenbürgen (Romania) called them Platschinten...
I am from the U.S., but I have lived and studied in Germany. I like both but the american one is sweeter. Except I do not make it with sugar. I use a cooked strawberry sauce on top instead of a bit of syrup. I really love is the Kartoffelpfannkuchen with sour cream on top.
We have the Dr. Oetker baking soda in Canada as well. I've used it before. In Vancouver we also have 3 different companies that make Dutch Pannenkoek
We often had pancakes on Saturdays, with canned fruit and often with ground beef "haschee".
From the rest on Sunday "Flädlesuppe" yummie❤
I'm 49, single, and I make Pfannkuchen regularly. But I make eier Pfannkuchen, with extra eggs. Just like my grandpa did. And I use Apfelkompott and cinnamon sugar. Just great!
Pancakes are not my favorite. I don't like the backing powder and natron taste.
eierpfannkuchen ist ein omlett
I’m definitely on Deanna’s side for pancakes ☺️
So, I am being raised in America which I always have been... although my Oma comes to cook pancakes for me, and they sometimes look like the pancakes from Germany or the pancakes from America. I personally like the German Pfankuches much better. As Deana said, she likes the Pfankuches better as a savory dish and I agree!
Am American that lived in Mainz & truly love both.
Try going to Aschaffenburg. There is a lovely palace in amazing condition with a pretty garden and a good view of the Main.
I think that the German pancake is the soft American crepe pancake, the German should be a bit crisp.. 😊
My grandmother dit put a bit of beer in the batter.
You should try to put kardemomme and nutmeg in the batter, it taste amazing 😊
Big hugs from Denmark 🌹🥰
I love making pancakes I add cinnamon to the batter served with bananas and strawberries topped with maple syrup yum I would definitely try the German ones too yum thanks so much for sharing I’ve added apples baked in Splenda and butter just in case were out of syrup my husband is always in charge of the eggs either scrambled or Sunny side up I call them dippy eggs 😊😊😊 we’ll also have French toast yum bread dipped into eggs and Cinnamon then fried yum
I'm Team Deana!😂
7:33 I laughed so damn hard the whole neighborhood must've heard me! 👏🤣😂 P.S.: My favorite for the sweet version would be a thin crepe with Nutella and сирене (white cheese) and for the savory version - thick катма with patterned salt, кашкавал (melty yellow cheese) and ham. 🤗😘
I'm American but grew up with my mom making "German pancakes" for us. It's close to Phil's recipe but you put the pan in the oven. Top it with powdered sugar & lemon after it comes out. They are fantastic!
Those sound like they could be "dutch baby" pancakes which are based on Pfannkuchen but actually are an American recipe. I make them for special occasions since they are so filling.
The German pancake is very similar to the Hungarian (or rather, European?) one, down to the addition of seltzer water to it. Although, we cook it in hot oil, not butter; fill it with jam, sweetened quark or sweetened cocoa powder, roll it up and eat it. Hungarian apple pancake also exists, which has grated apples added to the raw batter. There's also a Hungarian specialty pancake, Gundel (named after a Hungarian restaurateur), which is similar to Schoko-Nuss-Palatschinke. Never had American pancake before. Don't you use buttermilk, though?
Both look good, but I’m from the US and love Pancakes with Maple Syrup and butter....my add in is pecans, I love pancakes with pecans added in, and covered with syrup. Plain ones are good too. I can eat them any time of day, lol!❤
Ohhhh yeah! with pecans sounds delicious!
I've never seen anyone put sugar into the pancake batter before. I've never made them that way. The sweetness from the maple syrup is more than enough.
The Netherlands,, basically a Dutch version of the German Pfannkuchen , Yes i had them as a kid and still eat them today but without the Apfelmuse appelmoes.
With chees or with sugar, jam or fruit and Nutella
I will confess I love American pancakes for breakfast but have not tried the German ones but now I am going to try and cook them
I put peanut butter and jam on my pancakes
I just spent a month in America and Phil's rolled up pancake is an IHOP commercial I saw way too many times. They sell folded pancakes with fruit in them and say, "If you fold a pancake, you have a taco!!!!" No you don't IHOP. You have a rolled up pancake.
Ok guys when we going out too eat 🤗 I know what to get Phil for Christmas!! That was two shots of Sprudel Wasser Phil!!! As always you guys making me hungry!!!! 😉
The uk pancakes are the same recipe as the german ones for the batter.the pancakes even have their own special day
mmmmm sounds delicious!!!
An American here and aside from The syrup the pancakes I grew up with were not as sweet as that. They didn’t include sugar as part of the recipe. We were a Bisquick pancake house and they’re still my favorite pancakes. The pancakes are just ever so slightly savory and then you put the syrup on it it’s a nice contrast. One of the key things though when making pancakes was letting the batter rest just a little bit to allow the first action of the baking powder. of course without double acting baking powder that wouldn’t work.
Our recipe for Apple pancakes used either a small packet of vanilla custard powder or some regular vanilla pudding powder. We also made this in a blender including the peeled apple. The apple gave it body and texture. While hot out of the pan sprinkle with white sugar. Our pancakes were smaller making them flippable as they weren’t crepes nor did we have a crepe pan. 14:27 🇩🇪heritage living in 🇨🇦