Why are restaurant pancakes so fluffy?
Chef's answer
The secret to fluffy restaurant style pancakes is baking powder. ... Those little pockets of air will help make your pancakes nice and fluffy. Lastly, make sure your pan or griddle is hot. The heat will cause your baking powder to activate quickly.
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Making Your Bread Lighter and Fluffier How light the bread is is a function of how much gas is in the dough. It's the carbon dioxide that creates all the little bubbles that make the bread lighter and fluffier. Gas is created with the growth of the yeast. The more the yeast grows, the more gas in the dough.
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You're talking a little bit about leavening in your cornbread. That's provided with, in your case, the baking powder and honey/milk. You could try upping that to 1 1/2 tbsp and seeing if that does the trick of making it a bit more fluffy..
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Water makes them lighter. Water doesn't make it as tough as milk." The trick is to add just a splash of water to the bowl after you crack and whisk the eggs. The water, when heated on the stove, creates a steaming effect and aids in a fluffier end result.
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According to Savuer, the Waffle House's secret culinary weapon for creating their fluffy omelettes is actually a milkshake machine. A cook at a Waffle House in East Point, Ga. named Edwin Johnson told the site that the chain is able to achieve ultimate "puffiness" by whipping up the eggs with their milkshake machine.
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Cooking Tips for a Fluffy Omelette Make sure the bowl where you beat the egg whites in is perfectly clean. If there is a little extra oil or grease in the bowl where you beat the egg whites they may not whip up as full as you need them to be.
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The volume of the beaten eggs will increase, the texture will go from liquid to thick and foamy and the color will be a light yellow.
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Butter + Milk = The Best Scrambled Eggs I've found that butter and dairy make the fluffiest, most luxurious scrambled eggs. The fat in the heavy cream coats proteins in the eggs. This restricts the excess loss of liquid and contributes to fluffier eggs.
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