I give the edge to French toast, mainly because I like to add orange zest to them along with the vanilla and baking spice. Sometimes I dust them with caramel sugar before frying. But I do love me some blueberry cakes, as mine taste a lot like blueberry pie when they’re done.
French toast out. You can get interesting bread and a nice cinnamon flavoring.
At home thick and fluffy Eggos aren’t bad. Not counting that, french toast because it is easier, then pancakes.
I like all three just fine, though.
Same for me. I made waffles this morning because they’re easier to make. And we’re out of bread.
Yes, exactly. I loved those little waffle squares as a kid with the butter and syrup, and I still do.
French toast, thanks.
Moooom, post the recipe please?
Pancakes, waffles a close second. French toast a very distant third. Only eat it to be polite when I am served it as a guest.
When we visited my sister in Salt Lake City she took us to a waffle place that boasted they made real Belgian waffles. They were delicious.
But pancakes are first. Then waffles. Then French toast.
Precicely because of the texture, for me. Done right, they shouldn’t be “hard” on the outside – I honestly don’t ever remember getting Cap’n Crunch mouth from them. Freshly made, they should have a light crispness on the outside and a delicate interior on the inside. That textural contrast makes it for me (and I love all sorts of food with that contrast, like a freshly baked baguette, or a French cruller for instance.)
Pancakes, on the other hand, are just bland syrup sponges and little else for me. Sure, mix in some blueberries or bananas and they’re a little better, but their texture is so one dimensional. And I don’t get the love for French toast, other than as a way to use up stale bread. At least a pancake is freshly made.
For my family’s weekend breakfasts, I cycle through pancakes, waffles, French toast, and crepes. I love them all. French toast is the easiest to make. Waffles have the crispness. Pancakes soak up the butter and syrup so well. Crepes give the most options: sweet or savory.
Occasionally I’ll do fried mush, but it’s too hard finding unsweetened cornmeal in SoCal.
I buy tubes of unseasoned polenta to slice and fry up as cornmeal mush. It’s essentially the same as the pre-cooked blocks of it we had when I was a kid that was labeled cornmeal mush.
I keep meaning to try this, but never got around to it. Yet.
For pancakes I like to undercook them a little, so they’re almost raw in the middle (but not quite). Anybody else?
1. Waffles (bring them on! regular, Belgian…I even like frozen ones [Eggo Buttermilk FTW!])
2. Pancakes (a close second, but sometimes they’re too dense)
3. French Toast (usually too egg-y for me, unless it’s been sweetened to within an inch of its life but then it’s more like dessert)
I should look for it. I prefer making from scratch, but you got to make do sometimes.
Where they rank depends on who is making them. In high school, a friends mom made the best Belgian waffles, and syrup was a no-no - butter, powdered sugar, & lemon juice. I’d kill for those waffles, and I’ve never been able to eat any others. For hotcakes, my homemade sourdough hotcakes are up my alley, but they’re not quick - 24 hours to feed the sourdough & let the little critters really get to rockin’ before you can make the hotcakes. If I go out, I generally have French toast, as most of the places I go out to eat make a passable, if somewhat bland, version of it. Special mornings I’ll make crepes, cream cheese/sour cream filling, & some sort of fruit compote.
For whatever reason, waffles and I have rarely crossed paths. If I had to choose, I’d waffle (hah!) between pancakes and French toast. I love the taste and texture of pancakes with butter and maple syrup, but French toast brings back wonderful childhood nostalgia. My mother used to make French toast at our summer cottage over a wood-burning stove, using bread that was among the many lovely things delivered daily from a French bakery in our very rural Quebec village.
This turned out to be much more complicated than I expected.
French toast the way my Mom used to make it, with cinnamon sugar on top, is a special kind of comfort food for me. It’s the only one of the three I make at home, because it’s got to be just so. But at a restaurant it can be a crapshoot.
Waffles are the most likely to disappoint me, so I seldom order them out. Unless I’m at a Waffle House - then I’ll take two, please. Waffle House waffles are the greatest, and I’ll fight you over that. Elsewhere though, I don’t want to take the chance that they’ll be hard and dry, which happens way too often.
So pancakes, by default, are what I usually get if I’m out for breakfast. They’re hard to screw up, and they’re tasty and satisfying. However, they still rank behind my Mom’s French toast and Waffle House waffles on my list of favorite things to eat.
I voted French toast, but we had blueberry pancakes for supper a couple days ago. Yummm!
I have trouble comparing french toast to the other two options. Pancakes and waffles are arguably different preparations of the same starting material (as are crepes) while french toast uses a pre-cooked ingredient, bread, and eggs. So I’m choosing all three.
I also find it hard to fit French Toast into this poll. French Toast implies the cooking of the bread- soaked in egg and vanilla and cinnamon and such- on a butter-slathered griddle.
Pancakes and waffles a different animal. If pressed at thread of death, I’d order them as:
French Toast
Pancakes
Waffles