@@canaisyoung3601 - no one in vermont is obese. The state isn't big enough for obese people. The muffin tops would be flowing out on to New Hampshire and NY
it's inevitable in the sense that you must give the first fugly pancake to your pet or throw it in the trash to appease the pancake gods and assure bountiful pancake cooking sessions in the future
I'm not gonna lie....best episode EVER! Robots, Giant Pancakes, Monster slab of butter and a Gallon of Maple Syrup!!! PLUS TWO of the best cooks of the internet and a plethora of evil henchpeople to do their bidding! Life is good......
you need a second robot with an extruder that can evenly distribute the pancake batter. The giant turner needs slots in it to keep from creating a vacuum that doesn't release the pancake properly upon flipping. Just a few more iterations and I think you're set for commercial success to start shipping giant pancake makers worldwide.
Pancakes have been one of my favorite foods since I was a kid and I'm 60 now. I can eat pancakes anytime of the day or night. In my 20s when I was going out to clubs a lot, my friends and I would spend countless early mornings in diners and I would almost always have pancakes included in my 3-4 am breakfast. Great memories! In fact, I'm making banana pancakes today using a couple of very ripe bananas I have left. Happy Holidays!
What I did to get pancakes really fluffy, I used seltzer water instead of plain water (more carbon dioxide added to the mixture). I, also use the 10 minute wait time.
This is, without a doubt, my favorite series on RUclips. Dan, you are the man, I love to learn from you. Keep making great content and I will happily keep watching!
Finally!!! a breakthrough in the advancement of Robot Pancake Turners!!! After decades of pursuing this Holy Grail of endeavors, success has been achieved due to the fanatical efforts of an unlikely team of engineers, and cooks. Experts say this is only the beginning. They predict someday we could all have a Robot Pancake Turner in our homes!!! Mind boggling!!😲
I actually clapped when the robot finally tossed the perfect monster pancake. I don’t know if it sounds strange to you but like my father before me we grew up with peanut butter or pancakes. The peanut butter gives the cakes a little more food value, and they taste great!
Well . . . as a member of pancakeloversRus it was absolutely impossible to skip this video. I watched the whole thing and sat here in front of my computer and cheered when you succeeded. Well done! "The" pancake was a thing of great beauty! Greatly enjoy your videos!
@@RaymondHng, Exactly. Even if the metal surfaces look very smooth, there are lots of microscopic surface irregularities that causes air gaps between the two surfaces. Since air is a poor thermal conductor, it is better to fill the gaps with some kind of thermal transfer compound. It doesn't take much, just a very thin layer to fill the gaps when the two metals are in contact. Almost any material to fill the gaps will be better than air (bare metal). If you are concerned with food safety, you could probably just coat the mating surfaces in a thin layer of high-temp canola oil.
I've always used the pancake recipe from my grandma's cookbook that I inherited that she got back in the 1930s, and I've never added oil to the pan as there's already oil in the batter and my pancakes always came out perfect. A couple months ago I found a recipe for Japanese hotcakes (hottokeki) and served them up with fresh blueberry sauce. They were about 1" tall and tasted so good.
That scene from Uncle Buck was one of the funniest in movie history. Seeing a big pancake makes me hungry. Hey Dan, next time team up with Alex from Tasty, and make some more big food!
Two points: As a pancake master, I did not expect to learn much, I was wrong. Secondly, I hoped you were classy enough to include a Uncle Buck joke, and you far exceeded my expectations. I'm sure he'd be love this, I did.
My recommendation: two pans around the same diameter, and one pot has a lid. One has to be a fry pan, but the other can be a wide sauce pan (they can both be frying pans). As the batter rises in one pot, when you are ready to flip, put the pot upside-down on top of the other pan, like a clam. Flip it by flipping both pans. I like using a lid to make sure it's thoroughly cooked. Note that this is for really, really thick pancakes I like preheating pan #2 for this. I prefer nonstick for pan #1 to make it easier.
You didn't need to win me over for a giant pancake video -- or anything to do with John Candy, really -- but you extra won me over with your dad's quote about clamps. You can never have enough clamps.
I haven't had so much fun watching a cooking video since I don't know when. Congratulations to you and your incredible team for such a peace spectacular achievement. 😋😋😋😂
For ultra light, fluffy, and delicious pancakes, pour half a good beer into the batter. The foam in the beer aerates the batter, and the pancakes turn out like fluffy clouds of deliciousness! (The alcohol cooks out, and it doesn't taste like beer; it just tastes better!)..
Everytime I cook anything, I can hear Dan breaking down the recipe in simple, coherent steps, "boil water. Turn off kettle, pour in cup"... Who knew making tea could be so easy.
Dan, Lan Lam (whom I love on America's Test Kitchen), and Andrew Rea, plus gigantic ass pancakes with a gallon of syrup. I want this video to win an Emmy.
"Special thanks to Autodesk, a research and development workspace in Boston" Autodesk is not a single workspace, they're a gigantic software company that makes two of the most important software applications on Earth: AutoCAD (used pretty much ubiquitously in engineering for designing and fabricating parts) and Maya (used in the movie / TV industries for CGI).
I was going to do the "hold my beer," but beer doesn't go well with pancakes. And yes, I DO buy pure Maple syrup, in 5 gallon lots. I may use some in hard Apple Cider. (I'm doing a 5 gallon batch, tomorrow. Found apple juice for $2 per gallon.) (Same store I found the Maple Syrup.) steve
The way Dan and Andrew are looking at the pancake in the preview image is like two gay dads staring lovingly at their new baby. And honestly, I am here for it. Mazel tov on the arrival of your beautiful, baby pancake.
If you want a more cloud cake like pancake experience, you turn to the Japanese and Korean cooks for guidance. Theirs may or may not still have chemical leavening, but they also contain eggs, which have been separated and whipped into stiff peaks and extremely frothy yolks. Then the yolks get mixed with the dry ingredients and milk and then it gets folded and stirred into the whites to result in a ludicrously light and fluffy batter. Depending on how perfect you want them to look when you're done, you can also grease up and preheat some pastry rings on the griddle and pour your batter into the pastry rings to ensure perfectly perpendicular sides and an extreme rise.
At my old work, we just used whole milk instead of water and oil and just enough liquid to mix it to a thick paste like consistency and get lumps out. Ice cream scoop or serving spoon mix into pan. Oil the pan but add some butter ( gotta work quick so not to burn the butter...but I personally like that toasty brown butter flavor) Anyways. The less it’s mixed and thicker the batter the fluffier the pancake. It’s like a breakfast pillow for your butter and syrup 👌🏻😬😎
Love these videos. That was a really big short stack. We have a diner here that makes pizza size pancakes as their norm. Probably not as precise as ya'll did. Great job
"He was like, born to make big pancakes" - nicest thing anyone's ever said about me
do giant waffles next maybe?
It's true!
You've done a lot better. Let's be honest here.
Oh yes daddy babby
Snark.
Was that a hidden insult?
"Where the hot cakes are separated from the hot takes." You're welcome.
Ugh why didn't we think of that
"Where the hot cakes are separated from the not cakes!" :D
damn, hire this person
"Where the hot cakes are separated from the not cakes."
Where the hot cakes are seperated from the flopped bakes
As a Canadian, my preferred syrup delivery method is intravenously.
And from Vermont, unless that was stopped in an effort to curb diabetes.
@@canaisyoung3601 quebec and vermont are united by sugar like no marriage ive seen.
love from montreal
@@canaisyoung3601 - no one in vermont is obese. The state isn't big enough for obese people. The muffin tops would be flowing out on to New Hampshire and NY
I just sip from the bottle...you can tell I live alone with cats, can't you?
@@canaisyoung3601 New Hampshire too!
Mission accomplished, thanks Dan, Andrew, Autodesk, and science!
and John Candy
...But Babish told me the sacrificial pancake was inevitable...
It's still tasty!
"And I... am... @@AmericasTestKitchen "
* Flips pancake *
@@MrPkmngmr cause i'am batman
it's inevitable in the sense that you must give the first fugly pancake to your pet or throw it in the trash to appease the pancake gods and assure bountiful pancake cooking sessions in the future
As a woodworker i can agree....you can never have enough clamps
Amen.
Amen
As a welder and fabricator, I concur!
"Where the Flapjacks are separated from the FlopJacks"
I'm not gonna lie....best episode EVER! Robots, Giant Pancakes, Monster slab of butter and a Gallon of Maple Syrup!!! PLUS TWO of the best cooks of the internet and a plethora of evil henchpeople to do their bidding! Life is good......
Murl Harmon They were missing the Minions. A half dozen Minions would've made the video perfect!
You guys are single handedly saving Cook’s Illustrated and America’s Test Kitchen with this show!
Seriously! The BEST episode of “What’s Eating Dan?” And I have enjoyed them all. Dan, you’re hilarious and smart and fun to watch. Keep ‘em coming!
This is the crossover no one asked for but it was awesome. It's like Magneto and Professor x decided to make a giant pancake.
As someone who has used Autodesk software for a few college classes, I'm glad to see how this experiment turned out.
ATK's Dan Souza + BWB's Andrew Rea = next-level nerdy-cool. Well done.
you need a second robot with an extruder that can evenly distribute the pancake batter. The giant turner needs slots in it to keep from creating a vacuum that doesn't release the pancake properly upon flipping. Just a few more iterations and I think you're set for commercial success to start shipping giant pancake makers worldwide.
I yelled "yay!!!!" so loud with the successful flip that I woke up the cat..... loved the video! p.s. Happy Birthday, Dan!
You are a true icon and this is the sort of content that we need more of on the internet.
Pancakes have been one of my favorite foods since I was a kid and I'm 60 now. I can eat pancakes anytime of the day or night. In my 20s when I was going out to clubs a lot, my friends and I would spend countless early mornings in diners and I would almost always have pancakes included in my 3-4 am breakfast. Great memories!
In fact, I'm making banana pancakes today using a couple of very ripe bananas I have left. Happy Holidays!
The two videos compliment each other very nicely. I appreciate that they weren’t the same things twice.
I high-fived my cat when the robot successfully flipped that pancake😁
"I've never been so excited about pancakes in my life..." 😂 Love this!
What I did to get pancakes really fluffy, I used seltzer water instead of plain water (more carbon dioxide added to the mixture). I, also use the 10 minute wait time.
A nice dark beer or good ginger ale also are excellent in pancakes.
or simple meringue
Yes, I've used seltzer, too.
Dan and Andrew together!!! Epic🤩🤩🤩😍🤯🤯
Happy Birthday Dan!! 🍾🍸🍹🍻🍰🎂🍨🍧🍦
This is, without a doubt, my favorite series on RUclips.
Dan, you are the man, I love to learn from you. Keep making great content and I will happily keep watching!
The most satisfying "What's eating Dan" episode yet!
So glad you liked it! It was pretty fun to make.
I guffawed out loud when Babish walked over "what's up dude?" That was EPIC!!!
Finally!!! a breakthrough in the advancement of Robot Pancake Turners!!! After decades of pursuing this Holy Grail of endeavors, success has been achieved due to the fanatical efforts of an unlikely team of engineers, and cooks. Experts say this is only the beginning. They predict someday we could all have a Robot Pancake Turner in our homes!!! Mind boggling!!😲
I actually clapped when the robot finally tossed the perfect monster pancake. I don’t know if it sounds strange to you but like my father before me we grew up with peanut butter or pancakes. The peanut butter gives the cakes a little more food value, and they taste great!
Well . . . as a member of pancakeloversRus it was absolutely impossible to skip this video. I watched the whole thing and sat here in front of my computer and cheered when you succeeded. Well done! "The" pancake was a thing of great beauty! Greatly enjoy your videos!
❤ this video sooo much for sooo many reasons (ex: the science, the excellent scripts, the humor, the guests, yay Babish!, etc.,)!
I love Dan!!!! He’s so cute!!! 😍😍😍
I hope there will be an episode of the best meats to grind to make the best ground beef!! Love the shows and series
Your videos just keep on getting better. It’s going to hard to top this one!
This is such a happy video. My first time clapping and cheering for a cooking video.
Did you use any kind of thermal transfer compound (grease) between the stainless steel and aluminum?
Like that little dot of thermal paste sandwiched between the CPU and the heat sink of this computer I'm using?
@@RaymondHng,
Exactly. Even if the metal surfaces look very smooth, there are lots of microscopic surface irregularities that causes air gaps between the two surfaces. Since air is a poor thermal conductor, it is better to fill the gaps with some kind of thermal transfer compound. It doesn't take much, just a very thin layer to fill the gaps when the two metals are in contact.
Almost any material to fill the gaps will be better than air (bare metal). If you are concerned with food safety, you could probably just coat the mating surfaces in a thin layer of high-temp canola oil.
Happy Birthday Dan! Great Episode! Very creative! Ingenious! Loved it! I agree with the other viewers, best one yet! ❤️
The world thanks you for this.
I love these collaborations with Babish.
Dan you’re hilariously nerdy & I love you for it. I enjoy your segments so much. Thank you!
I've always used the pancake recipe from my grandma's cookbook that I inherited that she got back in the 1930s, and I've never added oil to the pan as there's already oil in the batter and my pancakes always came out perfect.
A couple months ago I found a recipe for Japanese hotcakes (hottokeki) and served them up with fresh blueberry sauce. They were about 1" tall and tasted so good.
This was great. I had no idea how funny you could be. On the down side, at 11:47pm I'm up making pancakes. They were so good. Thanks Dan.
That scene from Uncle Buck was one of the funniest in movie history. Seeing a big pancake makes me hungry. Hey Dan, next time team up with Alex from Tasty, and make some more big food!
I was just watching some Dan vids. Didn't think a big pancake would really do it for me. Boy was I wrong! This the BEST ATK output EVER!
I'm not even a fan of pancakes. But I love this! And AUTODESK!!!!! I'm DEAD!!!
Two points:
As a pancake master, I did not expect to learn much, I was wrong.
Secondly, I hoped you were classy enough to include a Uncle Buck joke, and you far exceeded my expectations. I'm sure he'd be love this, I did.
This was so dumb but extremely amazing at the same time. You all rock!!!
My recommendation: two pans around the same diameter, and one pot has a lid. One has to be a fry pan, but the other can be a wide sauce pan (they can both be frying pans). As the batter rises in one pot, when you are ready to flip, put the pot upside-down on top of the other pan, like a clam. Flip it by flipping both pans. I like using a lid to make sure it's thoroughly cooked. Note that this is for really, really thick pancakes
I like preheating pan #2 for this. I prefer nonstick for pan #1 to make it easier.
If John Candy was still living today, he would be in tears of joy
I still miss that man - sweeter than maple syrup and full of joy.
Happy Belated Birthday Dan! Great video!
You didn't need to win me over for a giant pancake video -- or anything to do with John Candy, really -- but you extra won me over with your dad's quote about clamps. You can never have enough clamps.
His Dad was correct!
After watching this episode, i am now headed to my kitchen wanting to make pan cakes and its 5 in the afternoon 😂😂😂
I haven't had so much fun watching a cooking video since I don't know when. Congratulations to you and your incredible team for such a peace spectacular achievement. 😋😋😋😂
This was the colab I was waiting for!
I love you guys so much! Outstanding!
This is my new favourite What's Eating Dan video!
So, the best way to make sure your first pancake is perfect is to cook a pancake before it?
I loved this video! TY
For ultra light, fluffy, and delicious pancakes, pour half a good beer into the batter. The foam in the beer aerates the batter, and the pancakes turn out like fluffy clouds of deliciousness! (The alcohol cooks out, and it doesn't taste like beer; it just tastes better!)..
Love the fun collab!
I have no fingernails after chewing them due to the suspense. Great job to all involved, I was totally flipping out at the end!
FLIPPING out ;)
As a Bostonian, I'm proud that the first ever Uncle Buck Giant Pancake Robot was created here lol.
the views on this video doesn't compare to how much cost that have spent.... this vidro deserve more likes!
That was great! Do some more episodes like this!
I love it when Dan and Andrew turn cooking into an engineering project! They’re such nerds, lol.
That was awesome! Love your vids! Happy Birthday Dan and many many more =)
Loved this one Dan ,Happy Birthday.
Bravo guys. Loved this one👍
That looked like a blast in every way. Happy Birthday!
Awesome!!!! Best [ in ] show! 💕🥞
A collaboration between Dan, Babish, and Brad is all we need next
Just for everyone's information... Dan Souza is my favorite and can do no wrong
Dan is my Man!!!!! Great content. Andrew, thank you!!!!
You are 2 of my favorite guys on youtube.
The joy I got watching this... 😊
Everytime I cook anything, I can hear Dan breaking down the recipe in simple, coherent steps, "boil water. Turn off kettle, pour in cup"... Who knew making tea could be so easy.
OUTSTANDING. !!!
Love you both - great video, now off to BWB. ❤️
Dan, Lan Lam (whom I love on America's Test Kitchen), and Andrew Rea, plus gigantic ass pancakes with a gallon of syrup. I want this video to win an Emmy.
Dan should have his own youtube channel. I would pay for that.
That looks like so much fun!
I actually "high-fived" the air when they got the pancake perfected. I never subscribe to anything, but this ... this is great!
Love all your videos
Friends: Why did you get a hamster again?
Me: Dan said I had to.
Happy birthday, Dan!
Production values on this are amazing.
Man even I started clapping when that pancake was flipped properly haha
"Special thanks to Autodesk, a research and development workspace in Boston"
Autodesk is not a single workspace, they're a gigantic software company that makes two of the most important software applications on Earth: AutoCAD (used pretty much ubiquitously in engineering for designing and fabricating parts) and Maya (used in the movie / TV industries for CGI).
I loved the shots of Babish just fucking around
I fist pumped like I had something to do with this when it finally worked!
This looked so fun!
"...a gallon of maple syrup."
(Me) "I gots you covered, hold my milk."
(Goes to pantry, not the small bottle, the
gallon jug.)
steve
I was going to do the
"hold my beer," but beer
doesn't go well with pancakes.
And yes, I DO buy pure Maple syrup,
in 5 gallon lots. I may use some in
hard Apple Cider. (I'm doing a 5
gallon batch, tomorrow. Found
apple juice for $2 per gallon.)
(Same store I found the Maple
Syrup.)
steve
The way Dan and Andrew are looking at the pancake in the preview image is like two gay dads staring lovingly at their new baby. And honestly, I am here for it. Mazel tov on the arrival of your beautiful, baby pancake.
If you want a more cloud cake like pancake experience, you turn to the Japanese and Korean cooks for guidance. Theirs may or may not still have chemical leavening, but they also contain eggs, which have been separated and whipped into stiff peaks and extremely frothy yolks. Then the yolks get mixed with the dry ingredients and milk and then it gets folded and stirred into the whites to result in a ludicrously light and fluffy batter. Depending on how perfect you want them to look when you're done, you can also grease up and preheat some pastry rings on the griddle and pour your batter into the pastry rings to ensure perfectly perpendicular sides and an extreme rise.
I just raised double celebratory Breakfast Club fists at 8:20 on a Sunday night sitting in my recliner over a robot flipping a pancake.
Hahaha! That was silly and fun and interesting. I also learned a few things I'm going to try the next time I make pancakes.
At my old work, we just used whole milk instead of water and oil and just enough liquid to mix it to a thick paste like consistency and get lumps out. Ice cream scoop or serving spoon mix into pan. Oil the pan but add some butter ( gotta work quick so not to burn the butter...but I personally like that toasty brown butter flavor)
Anyways. The less it’s mixed and thicker the batter the fluffier the pancake. It’s like a breakfast pillow for your butter and syrup 👌🏻😬😎
Imagine walking into work that day at autodesk and being like
“Why do I still work here”
I love this video so much!!!
Can someone please gif Andrew gently laying his face on a giant pancake lol
Now I understand the comment about the budget....🥳🥳🥳🥳🥂
Love these videos. That was a really big short stack. We have a diner here that makes pizza size pancakes as their norm. Probably not as precise as ya'll did. Great job