This is wonderful. Could you add European-style (i.e. non-Greek) yogurt as an option? That's what I most often have on hand.
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#42Wow. I really like this, but I want it to support non-dairy options.
Plus one!
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#43This is great but at this point you should also give the calories since you have all the precise ingredients
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#44This is incredible. I wish it had a dairy free option!
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#45Protip: you don't need buttermilk, you need milk and acid. 1 cup milk and 1tbsp vinegar do the same job and are already in your kitchen. Source: Frank Proto's pancakes https://youtu.be/vkcHmpKxFwg?si=a9GeGHKp0WzTmqPr
For sure - if you check "milk" and "lemon" and select maximum tang, you'll get nice tangy pancakes. I opted away from vinegar due to taste but would be curious to hear if someone tests vinegar vs lemon!
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't matter for small items like salt or baking soda, but you can get pretty different results scooping flour depending on how compressed the flour storage is, and how much the scooping packs down that flour. There's a reason that every bakery measures by weight. If you value consistency, and recipes should be consistent, you go by weight. You can say it doesn't matter, and in some cases it might not, but the e…
Flour is always the canonical example and I flat out reject it. It's not true. If you think it's true, you've convinced yourself it's true to avoid addressing other problems in process you have. Here's a thing: a given measure of flour (by any means, volume or weight), a single one kept in a cupboard, not remeasured, is going to have a different weight on different days that have different ambient humidity levels. Th…
I started out baking measuring by volume, and it's not like it doesn't work. You can make amazing things basically measuring by handful, pinch, and feel. I think technique and ratio are more important than careful measurements.
Everything else is optimizing for consistency, which might not be important to everyone. If you care about it, measuring by weight is more accurate. The undesirable variations aren't usually taste, but structure and texture, which can be noticeable.
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#47Protip: you don't need buttermilk, you need milk and acid. 1 cup milk and 1tbsp vinegar do the same job and are already in your kitchen. Source: Frank Proto's pancakes https://youtu.be/vkcHmpKxFwg?si=a9GeGHKp0WzTmqPr
This works with dairy-free milk too. My daughter has a dairy allergy and figuring out we could turn pea milk into pea buttermilk with a tbsp of white vinegar upped her pancake experience significantly.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It certainly can matter for proper baking (which this recipe seems to be?), though for traditional pancakes I would never bother. But there's a reason that bakeries weigh their ingredients. It's more consistent and allows for different people to get more similar results.
The baking industry isn't really measuring by weight, they are measuring by bag, which happens to be delineated in weight. Look, this is arm chair, YouTube cooking. There is so much variation in recipes that 10% here and there is not going to make or break any recipe. There is zero ability to make a "universally better" version of a recipe by micro optimizing ingredients. For one thing, you can't easily control tempe…
The difference between weight and volume measurements could easily be a 20% or 30% gap. I’ve measured two of my cups of flour before and they were off by roughly that amount.
Maybe I’m just bad at measuring, but it’s a lot more than 5%.
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#49Nice... Would be interesting to connect this to pancakebot.com
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#50This is wonderful. Could you add European-style (i.e. non-Greek) yogurt as an option? That's what I most often have on hand.
Done, let me know how it turns out! https://www.absurdlyoptimized.com/recipes/pancakes/?have=pla...