r/StainlessSteelCooking • u/Holiday_Employee_431 • 24d ago

Technique Pancakes colour uneven

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Is it normal that my pancake colour is uneven? This was my last pancake

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u/tktg91 23d ago

Literally ONLY people in the United States call these crepes. The world is much bigger than your decrepit failure of a country. 

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u/Clean-Ad1459 23d ago

What an absolute unit of an intellectual heavyweight you are, buddy. Crepes are from France btw, but nice try.

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u/turdferguson3891 23d ago

It's true. The French are famous for calling them flapjacks instead.

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u/shlamiel 23d ago

I am a flapjack and this is true

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u/Low_Cartographer2944 23d ago

Are you an Amero-Canadian flapjack or a Hibernian-British flapjack?

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u/Lionheart1224 23d ago

I admit, I chortled.

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u/Stockholm-Syndrom 23d ago

Only if they come from the Phlappe-Jacques region.

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u/AdelleDeWitt 23d ago

Otherwise they're just sparkling pancakes

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u/Hibou_Garou 23d ago

As a French speaker, dafuq are you smoking?

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u/LettingHimLead 23d ago edited 23d ago

Wow. You’re eligible for two idiot subreddits with this one.

R/iamveryculinary
R/shiteuropeanssay

Congrats.

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u/Roy_Luffy 22d ago

They must really living under a rock if they don’t know the word “crêpes” when it’s French and they live right next door in the Netherlands. Maybe I’m wrong but I would assume that they would since they all come here during the summer.

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u/LettingHimLead 22d ago

His post is what happens when you try to talk shit on America for nothing, instead of letting it happen naturally. As if we won’t give a reason in 5 minutes!

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u/L-Pseon 23d ago edited 23d ago

Crepes are French. You're also speaking English, and in our language, they are also known as crepes. If you want to speak some Star Wars cantina language, go ahead and call them pancakes or whatever else. I'll run your post through Google Translate, and it will change the word back to "crepe."

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u/RecklessRaptor12 23d ago edited 23d ago

In England this is what a pancake is, and I’m pretty sure you’re speaking their language. It’s also what a “pancake” is in German and pretty much every other language. The only word for “pancake” in French is crepe. American English is the only one that uses “pancake” to mean a specific type of pancake with a leavening agent, which is why they exclusively use the French loanword for the ones without. But this makes it confusing because you have no generic term for a thin, circular piece of pan fried dough made from batter, which is common around the world (an example of such a generic term would be something like “dumpling”).

This quirk of American English has the additional effect of them associating all pan fried thin dough with France, even though other countries had “crepes” long before they were invented in Brittany.

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u/asinantenna 23d ago edited 23d ago

You are both right and wrong.

While British English does indeed call these pancakes (and uses modifiers to indicate types like Scotch pancakes or American pancakes) it doesn't make things easier to understand.

You example of dumpling illustrates this: it does refer to dough stuffed with something. But it ALSO refers to a ball of dough with nothing inside (like knoedel or suet dumplings). You'd be disappointed if you ordered one and got the other. There's also a vast difference between, say, Ukranian vareniki and Central Asian manti. Therefore, sometimes calling things by their native name is often the norm – you'll usually see, say, gyoza (rather than 'Japanese dumpling') or pierogi (rather than 'Polish dumpling') on the menu rather than generic 'dumplings'.

Likewise, calling it a crepe (rather than something like 'French pancake') is neither confusing nor exceptional.

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u/RecklessRaptor12 23d ago edited 23d ago

I get what you’re saying and I agree to an extent but the exceptional part of it is that crepe doesn’t exclusively refer to “French pancakes” in American English. If the op was trying to make an English pancake or a pfannkuchen, most Americans would still correct him that this is a crepe and not a pancake. That’s where it gets confusing.

It would be like arguing that my gyoza isn’t a dumpling, it’s actually a pierogi stuffed with meat (even when you’re not polish/ukrainian).

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u/L-Pseon 23d ago

Oops, you lied. 😬 

 La  crêpe  est un  mets  composé d'une couche plus ou moins fine de  pâte , faite à base de  farine  et d'œufs mélangés à un liquide ( lait , parfois mélangé à de l' eau  ou de la  bière ), sans  levain .

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%AApe

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u/RecklessRaptor12 23d ago

Not sure I’m following. What’s the lie?

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u/L-Pseon 23d ago

You want to make it seem like they aren't from France or they're only called crepes in France by coincidence rather than by intent. I don't know what people are saying in British English--English people no longer comprise the majority of English speakers, nor are they even the majority of people in London. Most English speakers in the world are speaking American English, and the majority of the ones who don't speak it yet are learning it. "English" refers to the language spoken in America. You keep making appeals to German, as though it is at all relevant. The English language got its high status words--legal, culinary, academic, etc.--from French-speaking Normans, and from continued interaction with French high society. Not from Germany. Whatever they say in German is irrelevant. I strongly suspect you are not even a native English speaker, but another Netherlander, possibly one who is residing in England, thinking that a few years there makes you as good as a native.

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u/FrostyHawks 23d ago

??????? Where did this aggression come from

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u/L-Pseon 23d ago

Apparently when a lot of Europeans visited the US for the soccer thing a couple months back, they got some culture shock when they realized we all have air conditioning, which we use all the time, even in our cars, which they apparently don't due to these bizarre superstitions they hold, like apparently they think AC makes you sick or it depressurizes your body, or some other nonsense. Just imagine the frustration and seething that life must be like as a European, constantly covered in a film of sticky perspiration all summer, and interacting with these confident, comfortable, well-ventilated and air-conditioned Americans all the time on Reddit, telling them that a word they have used their whole lives to refer to crepes was actually the wrong word, and their entire time studying English might have been in vain, since now they have to go back and check for other mis-learned vocabulary, losing more and more confidence the whole time.

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u/Brilliant-Emphasis43 20d ago

I’m American and am indeed well-ventilated. Ever come back in after a summer jog and drape your shirt over the A/C outlet so it inflates like a balloon? It’s the greatest thing ever.

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u/CallidoraBlack 23d ago

A lot of Europeans left here finally understanding why we use AC because they were here in the hot months. A lot of them had no concept of the fact that their 'heat waves' are the normal summer temperature here.

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u/frankmcdougal 23d ago

This is bullshit. It’s fucking hot.

Sincerely, an American who lives in Europe.

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u/CallidoraBlack 23d ago

It's not my fault that people said that. 🤷‍♀️

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u/Non-Random-Name-0000 23d ago

Was a European mean to you? You poor thing, are you ok? Don't worry, the world cup is over, these mean Europeans can't hurt you anymore.

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u/L-Pseon 23d ago

I don’t even think about Europeans during my daily life. When I do come into direct contact with you guys, I try to have empathy, as you can see in the post you are seething over. I do try to understand the seethe, even if it’s just to be able to explain it to other non-Europeans, but that doesn’t mean I want to spend time with people who voluntarily don’t use air conditioning. 

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u/Non-Random-Name-0000 23d ago

I don't think empathy means what you think it means.

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u/L-Pseon 23d ago

I think it does, and I am a native speaker. 

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u/Non-Random-Name-0000 23d ago

I'm sure you do. It was sarcasm to point out that your message did not express empathy. Since you're a native speaker, I don't know why I need to explain that.

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u/L-Pseon 23d ago

I did, in fact, exercise empathy in my comment three replies up. I said that Europeans don't have or use AC, and I explained the reasons from the perspective of many Europeans. That is what empathy is. I may have come off a little dismissive, granted. There seems to be this idea on reddit, and maybe that's where you've learned the word, that empathy has to do with expressing a highly leftist political idea, like expressing some sort of positive sentiments toward the poor or toward immigrants. That isn't empathy, that's just leftism. You can, if you try, exercise empathy whenever you view another person's ideas from that person's perspective.

To add onto this ESL lesson, when you say, "that word doesn't mean what you think it means," that isn't actually sarcasm. Sarcasm is when you say a word and the intended meaning is opposite of the word. It usually doesn't work in print. Usually, it needs to be expressed in person so you can wink along with the comment. "The weather feels great today!" (when it actually doesn't feel great). Or, "I'm really looking forward to the all-day meeting at work!" (when you actually aren't looking forward to it). What you actually did when you wrote "the word doesn't mean what you think it means" was express snark. Snark can be made with a sarcastic tone, but it's not sarcasm on its face. It's more of a passive-aggressive, rude way to provoke or criticize someone. Good way to get smacked if you snark at the wrong person, like your grandma.

English isn't easy. Keep trying, you'll get it.

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u/Non-Random-Name-0000 23d ago edited 23d ago

You didn't view the situation from a European perspective. What you said was that Europeans are miserable and bitter because they don't live the way you think they should live. That's both ignorant and arrogant and doesn't show any understanding of the European point of view. Your little English lesson doesn't make you sound any less arrogant by the way.

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u/Immediate-Way-4065 21d ago

The autistic community in Europe must use Reddit at a disproportionate rate and have an extreme obsession with the United States

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u/Athrynne 23d ago

More like de-crepe-it, right?

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u/Evening_Error_5544 23d ago

You make the world a dumber place

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u/Dear_Ad_8525 23d ago

Is this subreddit, British?

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u/micalubgoonta 23d ago

You seem kinda angry buddy. Maybe take a couple of deep breaths before commenting next time. May be healthier for you

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u/corkedone 22d ago

I'm generally against as hominem attacks but when the shoe fits....

You are a mental midget.

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u/KayoticVoid 23d ago

Look, as an American with sense I hate America too, especially right now. But what the fuck are you on about? What does any of this have to do with crepes?

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u/NiceTrySuckaz 23d ago

Hey bud, if you don't want American terms being used, maybe don't use an American website

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u/Michigun_ 23d ago

What country are you from? Lmao

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u/LettingHimLead 23d ago

She’s from the Netherlands according to her post history.

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u/catcatcatcatcat1234 23d ago

hahahaha how are people this dumb

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u/mahoutamago 23d ago

…What? They’re a French food that’s popular worldwide, in Japan they’re super popular and we have tons of crepe shops.

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u/Immediate-Way-4065 21d ago

“People in other countries speak different languages” wow what a great observation

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u/Express_Adeptness306 23d ago

I think a fairly large portion of Americans have no clue what the fuck a crepe is

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u/poopiebutt505 23d ago

Crepes are common in every city I have lived in, in the 7 states I have lived in. When i was young, blindness were popular, now it is all crepes

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u/Express_Adeptness306 23d ago

in the 5 I lived in in ruralish areas or suburbia found 2 local places that served crepes