Japanese Souffle Pancakes – Attempting to Make the Most Difficult Pancake

I was gonna do like a one day think Ihate the book and I quit freaking backto the drawing board[Music]my wife and I were recently in a trip toSokka where we tried the beautifulfluffy Japanese pancake excited[Music]and today trying to remake this this isprobably one of my greatest mistakes cuzshe’s pregnant and she has cravings andshe woke up this morning asking forfluffy Japanese pancakes it’s not nothappy with it because it’s it’s morecakey and fluffy remember the ones ofJapan are like yeah I had one hour tomake them so I made a recipe at home andit was more of a cakey recipe I’ll putall these recipes out for you but onething I want to kind of drive home todayis that there are tons of recipes on theinternet and you need to test themmultiple times even as a cook that’sgiving those recipes we need to testthem a couple times to make sure thatevery time you do it it actually worksespecially when it comes to baking orthings like pancakes where you needwhere you kind of like expect certainresults in terms of visual results theseare all tasty but not all of them willhave the results that you want at homeso we’re gonna try out the recipes foryou so that you don’t have to so I thinkthe problem with this first attempt isthe batter is way too soft so when youput it in the mold and if the mold isnot coil that sticks to the sides andthen you won’t really be able to flip itso I’m thinking this is too much offlour maybe for too much eggs and Ithink we should rely heavily just mostlyon egg whites and be able to cook themwithout a moldwhat the hell is that test – were tryingout mini moles they seem like they’ll beeasierthis morning the pancake I made wasquite nice because it had a nice thicklayer their issue with it it was it wastoo too much of a pancake too much of anamerican-style pancake meaning goes tocakey fluffy Japanese pancakes are veryAiry almost closer to what a soufflewould feel like in your mouth and that’sthe result I wanted so this morning itwas great but I had to use a mold tokeep that batter together mmm so goodmmm do you want to try pancake buddyjust not the consistent consistencythe asshole the first recipe we triedwas very exact in terms of weights andmeasurements that we had to use we triedit once the issue with it it was justway too liquidy so we gave it a secondshot these are basic ingredients you’reusing mostly milk oil egg yolks eggwhites sugar citric acid or vinegar orlemon so very basic package recipes themain difference here is that your eggwhites really need to be nice and stiffand have that really stiff peak[Music]and the results weren’t where I reallywanted them to be this morning’s recipethat I did for n use baking powder was abit too batterycake battery and I needed a mold to keepthe batter together once I put it in thepan the second one we did over hereagain I feel like maybe our eggs were alittle bit too small so I adjusted therecipe for hopefully this last try sothat we have kind of like a thicker do Iwant to call it a dough batter a thickerbatter going into the pan because what’ssupposed to happen is the batter issupposed to prop up and stay up ratherthan kind of go all over the place sothis was slightly too liquid which iswhy I had to cheat it use a small pan tokeep the sides nice and up and change itto a bigger pan and it was just thiswhole thing third thing I think we didwrong was we use a glass cover which Ithink created steam and didn’t provide atop heating element so by using now likea metal cover hopefully it kind ofconduces the heat conduces conducts theheat a bit better so that we have thetop heating element that cooks the top alittle bit at the same time so it makesit easier to flip so we’re gonna trythis again and my whole plan here is tojust make thicker batter[Music]so now you’ll see that the egg whitesare super thick you can hold the bowl ontop of my headhopefully doesn’t Falls so it’s nice andthick now I’m gonna slowly incorporatethat with the egg yolks oh I think wemight have a winnercover it up three minutes save littleprayer how does someone flip this ehtextures they’re still not as fluffy asI want it to be in that flip let’s justokay let’s talk consistency muchfluffier much better flavor-wise since awhile ago they’ve been beautiful so I’mgonna try cooking it differently nowmaybe adding a bit more oil so I getmore of that nonstick thing happeningand I’m gonna use a mold let’s try thisokay my mold did pull back to thedrawing board[Music][Music]starting to get a little pissed off hereso we tried a couple recipes from theinternet and the Internetfailed us and lied to us the last recipeit just honestly didn’t work because thethe batter didn’t hold it still kind offlipped to the sides which is not whatwe want and I think we brought the eggwhites to a really hard peak like youwould do a meringue and it’s still thenhold so I feel like maybe the recipethat we did try lack the littleconsistency to kind of keep thingstogether so this is a different recipethat we’re trying now and it has a bitmore flour so hopefully it helps out sosame thing as a while ago or usingbuttermilk this time[Music]so kind of like super thick and clumpywhich is what we’re looking for I thinkso it’s a bit better but still notfreaking fluffy look at it it’s so flatI think I know what’s happening this isthe last time I’m doing this damn recipethis is as stiff as I could get thewhites without breaking them sohopefully it’s enoughwe know the batter works but I justclearly can’t cook to save my lifebecause I don’t know how these peopleare flipping these things becausethey’re so frail they barely have anyflour so there’s nothing really keepingthem up should we call it quits here allright so we’re gonna call it quits fortoday I’m just gonna do like a one-daything and ends up being like three daysto a week I hate this bullsh I quitpack it inside[Music]day two of the saga and asked forpancakes againand here’s another cheat that I’m trying[Music][Applause]jiggly it’s soft it was made in the ovenbut at the end of the day it works[Music][Music][Applause][Music][Applause][Music]I think this is it guys we finally gotthe recipeI think the winning Clause was the panall along it was the pan we thought itwas a recipe that this pan wasn’tconducting heat fast enough and thiscast iron which is completely shockingto me did the trick now I can do itagain and again we were finally able toget the recipe and you can call it it’sa success if you want to say[Music]and all good things my friends have tocome to an end and you should each timeyou do something well especially ifyou’ve worked hard for itcelebrate there’s nothing better to dothat with than a bottle of champagne[Music]happy new years if you want to say[Music]you