The Fluffiest Pancakes You'll Ever Eat

Pancakes are one of the most iconic breakfasts and many recipes claim to have the best ones, so we spent s

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al weeks testing a few techniques and discovered what it really takes to make the

fluffiest

best buttermilk

pancakes

ever

. The correct amount of flour is crucial. to achieve a fluffy pancake and many recipes vary in terms of how much they require, so we experimented to find the exact proportion needed for the perfect pancake, so if you use little flour, in this case two cups, you end up with a pancake that tastes great , but it's too flat too much flour creates a deceptively thick pancake, sure it looks great but it lacks flavor and is actually too dense.

I mean, it tastes like eating, you know, like baked flour, nobody wants it, we found the sweet one. Place about two and a half cups of flour, your

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will be slightly spongy and delicious. Pro tip: Make sure you measure the flour correctly by spooning it into the measuring cup and then leveling it with a ruler if you scoop the flour directly into the cup. or just pack it tightly into whatever you make, it's going to be too dense now, flour isn't the only thing that affects how fluffy your pancakes are to increase their fluffiness. Factor that will need a leavening agent.

Leaveners are those ingredients that allow foods to rise when cooking or baking, these are things like baking powder and baking soda. If you use just baking soda, your pancakes will rise, but they will taste too soapy if you use just baking powder, which is a mixture of baking soda and cream of tartar. It will taste like aluminum foil, we use a mix of both because when they work together you will get the perfect amount of lift thanks to the combination of baking soda along with the right amount of Tang from the cream of tartar and baking powder, so now that We have everything figured out, let's prepare our dry ingredients, this is pretty simple, add the sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda to the flour and whisk to combine.

Now there is nothing more classic than using buttermilk for your pancakes. in a pinch you can make your own, it's pretty simple, just add a few tablespoons of lemon juice or vinegar to the whole milk and let it sit for five to ten minutes, once you see the milk starting to curdle you can use it as buttermilk, yes. Up close it looks a little strange. We also did an experiment to see if using buttermilk powder would improve the fluffiness of our pancakes and it actually affected the texture, but the buttermilk flavor was completely lost. Now we're going to move on to our wet.

The ingredients add the buttermilk, melted butter and egg yolks and beat again. Yes, it's a lot of butter, but you're making pancakes. You want them to be buttery, flavorful, and delicious. Improve your life with butter. Okay, this seems simple, but it's actually a crunch time, you'll add the buttermilk mixture to the dry ingredients and gently mix them until combined. I really want to emphasize that you don't overmix the batter, which will result in flat, dense pancakes. You also want to use a rubber spatula. Instead of a whisk that will help you gently mix the ingredients, eggs are now the super important final part to ensure you achieve fluffy, picture-perfect pancakes.

I can't stress this enough, they are also the most controversial we found that adding a whole egg at once doesn't actually make it fluffy, you should add the whites separately from the yolk because the egg white alone has different properties than if you added the whole egg at once, the most popular method is to add the egg yolk to the batter and then beat the separated white to soft peaks before folding it in. This works, but we found that you can save some time by adding the separated egg white on its own for a pancake. that's just as fluffy, I mean who really wants to get out the hand mixer at 7am?

I right now we're going to add the UN whipped egg white on its own and fold it back in until it's combined, you don't want to see anything. of that runny egg, so you don't want it to be over mixed either, this may look bad, but you actually want the dough to show up with some lumps and little pockets of flour. At this point, let the dough rest for 15 to 20 minutes. 30 minutes so that all the ingredients are really known, although it may not seem very important, the pan you use can radically affect the look of your pancakes.

You can use a non-stick pan if you want, its smooth surface will ensure that your pancakes are flat and even, however, we prefer cast iron. The rough surface of cast iron will give your pancakes these glorious craggy pockets, perfect for soaking up all the butter and syrup you're going to put on top. Place the pan over medium heat with a tablespoon of butter, yes more butter, you can use oil if you want, but it will make your pancakes taste more like a donut than a pancake, which is fine if you know that's your thing once you butter melts and begins to bubble, turn the Heat over medium-low heat to ensure everything cooks evenly.

We found that a third cup of batter gives us ideal sized pancakes, but you can make them as big or small as you like. This is also the time to customize your pancakes with blueberries chocolate chips whatever you want I'm a berry type too but you can go crazy so after a few minutes you'll start to see these bubbles appear on the surface that's your green light to flip your pancake. Don't be discouraged if your first pancake doesn't look very good - it usually takes a few tries, I mean, and no one needs to know that it's a snack just for you.

You don't need to let the pancake cook for too long on the side as I cooked most of it before flipping it over, just a minute or two to get that golden bottom. That's it, we like ours with more butter, it's tasty and lots of maple syrup, and there you have it, you have the perfect one. stack of fluffy buttermilk pancakes, sure they're not the most complicated thing to make and they don't take that much time, but if you really want to improve your weekend, skip the box mix, take the extra time to follow these steps that We have taught you and we can guarantee that they will be some of the best pancakes you have ever eaten We are serious, we can't stop making them These are the pancakes that people came running to the office How many pancakes do you think I made again? 400 pancakes 500 maybe someone shook my hand after saying thank you for bringing them into our life.