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French Toast - does it get better than this?

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Korea74 said:
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Kimchi Pancakes (Kimchijeon)

Makes 4 pancakes
1 cup cabbage kimchi
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup rice flour
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 scallions, finely chopped
Vegetable oil for frying (I like using grape seed oil)
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D:

Even if that sounded remotely enjoyable, which it does not... making a pancake savory is bastardizing the entire concept of a pancake. :colbert:
I'd kick someone out of my home for suggesting such a thing.
 
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Azraele said:
My French toast usually consists of sprout grain bread, eggs, almond milk, cinnamon, and raisins.
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What are you...some kind of fucking hippie?

We usually make french toast with a good quality cinnamon-raisin bread...then eggs, cinnamon, nutmeg, and a splash of milk.

I prefer mine cooked in a bit more oil...so the edges look like they were deep fried...but my wife is a bit more health conscious than me...so I rarely get them cooked that way. 🙁
 
Blackjack200 said:
"does it get better than this?"

Yes.

Pancakes.
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meh.

i make home made brioche and have crafted french toast of it, fried in a mix of bacon and fuck fat, topped with home made bourbon-caramel

i also made a brioche and substituted some of the milk for duck rabbit milk stout....and then fried it in a mix of duck and bacon fat.

oustanding. truly. martha stewart can kiss my hairy white ass.
 
xSauronx said:
meh.

i make home made brioche and have crafted french toast of it, fried in a mix of bacon and fuck fat, topped with home made bourbon-caramel

i also made a brioche and substituted some of the milk for duck rabbit milk stout....and then fried it in a mix of duck and bacon fat.

oustanding. truly. martha stewart can kiss my hairy white ass.
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D: Not interested.

KT
 
That recipe is about right on. The key is the bread. The best I've made is also utilizing brioche. I pick up the loaf from a local french bakery. I slice it into the thick 1" slices and let those dry on a rack (in the oven is fine) over night. Then I move forward with the simple egg mixture. Amazing.
 
xSauronx said:
meh.

i make home made brioche and have crafted french toast of it, fried in a mix of bacon and fuck fat, topped with home made bourbon-caramel

i also made a brioche and substituted some of the milk for duck rabbit milk stout....and then fried it in a mix of duck and bacon fat.

oustanding. truly. martha stewart can kiss my hairy white ass.
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Yeah, well, in that equation the starch is not the important element. Fry anything in bacon and duck fat and top with bourbon-caramel and it's going to work. Brioche won't have any inherent advantage to pancakes or waffles.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Yeah, well, in that equation the starch is not the important element. Fry anything in bacon and duck fat and top with bourbon-caramel and it's going to work. Brioche won't have any inherent advantage to pancakes or waffles.
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Agreed. We had bacon pancakes with bourbon butter a couple of weeks back and they were amazing.

KT
 
GagHalfrunt said:
Yeah, well, in that equation the starch is not the important element. Fry anything in bacon and duck fat and top with bourbon-caramel and it's going to work. Brioche won't have any inherent advantage to pancakes or waffles.
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pffft, a good bread is definitely going to be better than some cheap thin-slice white bread. that beer-made brioche was also noticeably different from my regular brioche.
 
KeithTalent said:
Sounds delicious. Have a recipe?

KT
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About 5 strips of bacon, fry/bake/nuke whatever, drain, crumble and set aside.

Melt 1 stick of butter, 1 cup of brown sugar and 1/4 cup corn syrup (maple syrup works too if you like maple flavor). Heat until it reaches 250*. Add pinch of baking soda and 2 shots of bourbon. Then stir in the bacon.

Mix something like 6-8 cups of pre-popped, plain popcorn with the sauce, spread on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and bake 250* for about 45 minutes, stir 3 or 4 times during the baking. Let it cool a little and eat it gooey or you can let it cool completely and it'll be like cracker jacks.
 
alkemyst said:
I like Walt Disney's World French Toast from the Crystal Palace.
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Mmmmmm!

Although it's closer to being an elephant ear than a traditional French Toast. 😛
Boma at Animal Kingdom lodge used to serve a good cinnamon-raisin French Toast (now just have a bread pudding)
 
Wow. I think Boomer's recipe is about the closest to anything we would make. Way too much work for all of these.

Bread. Eggs. Milk or half & half. Stir, dunk the bread, poke with fork, let it get super soggy.
Cook in pan, cook through nicely. No raw eggs please. Top with butter and maple syrup.

Maybe some cinammon or strawberries or powdered sugar, but simple and delicious is the goal.
 
notposting said:
Wow. I think Boomer's recipe is about the closest to anything we would make. Way too much work for all of these.

Bread. Eggs. Milk or half & half. Stir, dunk the bread, poke with fork, let it get super soggy.
Cook in pan, cook through nicely. No raw eggs please. Top with butter and maple syrup.

Maybe some cinammon or strawberries or powdered sugar, but simple and delicious is the goal.
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QFT...I have more interesting things to do than spend 2 hours making French Toast.
 
notposting said:
Wow. I think Boomer's recipe is about the closest to anything we would make. Way too much work for all of these.

Bread. Eggs. Milk or half & half. Stir, dunk the bread, poke with fork, let it get super soggy.
Cook in pan, cook through nicely. No raw eggs please. Top with butter and maple syrup.

Maybe some cinammon or strawberries or powdered sugar, but simple and delicious is the goal.
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alkemyst said:
QFT...I have more interesting things to do than spend 2 hours making French Toast.
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That's usually how we always make french toast, and more often than not, will continue to be. Our use of coffee creamer began with the quick and easy style.

But it's a wholly different product. The difference between that french toast and the one in my OP is like the difference between pancakes and waffles. Seriously. It's an entirely different product.

It's totally worth the effort, but not necessarily every single time you desire french toast. Which I agree with. I do not always want to spend a long time making food. Most of the time it's quick and easy, or dine out... but once a week or so, I thoroughly enjoying trying to make a four-star dish, if not an entire meal.
 
GagHalfrunt said:
About 5 strips of bacon, fry/bake/nuke whatever, drain, crumble and set aside.

Melt 1 stick of butter, 1 cup of brown sugar and 1/4 cup corn syrup (maple syrup works too if you like maple flavor). Heat until it reaches 250*. Add pinch of baking soda and 2 shots of bourbon. Then stir in the bacon.

Mix something like 6-8 cups of pre-popped, plain popcorn with the sauce, spread on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and bake 250* for about 45 minutes, stir 3 or 4 times during the baking. Let it cool a little and eat it gooey or you can let it cool completely and it'll be like cracker jacks.
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Cool, thanks. Sounds yummy.

KT
 
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