- It's Pancake Day, it's Pancake Day!
(sings) Pancake Day, Pancake Day!
(fanfare music)
(popping)
Hello, I'm excited, what day is it?
The day before Pancake Day.
- Okay.
- Welcome, if you are watching this video correctly,
it is Monday the 24th of February, 2020.
- Yes.
- Which means tomorrow in the UK we celebrate Pancake Day,
Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday right?
Why do we celebrate Pancake Day?
- It's the day before Lent.
So you're meant to use up what's in the cupboard.
- That's right.
- And eat lots and lots and lots and lots and lots,
so then you'll go 40 days and 40 nights without any food.
- And our pancakes here in the UK are different
to the American big fluffy ones, which we also love.
But basically Pancake Day, people here have savoury ones,
they have sweet ones, we love them here on the channel.
Why am I so excited?
(shrieks) It's because it's Pancake Day!
We've done loads of videos over the years.
There's a real basic one that I probably put on
all my social media, I do that every year.
It helps everyone out.
Might have seen it already.
We've done a stack, we've done smiley faces last year,
the pug pancakes?
- Yeah, yeah we did, and that was good.
- But today,
the sun is coming out, do you know why?
(sings) It's Pancake Day!
Today we're doing something,
I don't know if we can do it again.
I'm trying to think of other options with it,
but, we're doing gadget, 'cause I'm the kinda gadget guy,
versus hack, 'cause you're kinda like the hacker.
- Hacker
So, we are gonna do gadget versus hack,
or hack versus gadget, whatever.
We're gonna return to a hack that we've tried before.
I came up with this idea last night,
which was two days before Pancake Day! (laughs)
Sorry.
We're gonna return to it, and let you have another go at it.
I thought it was bloomin' rubbish but the gadget for it
is basically the same thing.
- Okay.
- So we're gonna try that too, but first of all,
let's just show you how to make a pancake
or sometimes known as a crêpe.
Yeah, so you can have a crêpe yourself.
You can't remember how to do it?
Don't worry, I'm the pancake master
'cause it's Pancake Day!
- Can we sieve the flour?
- Yeah, we're gonna batter up, make our batter.
Flour, plain flour being sieved in there.
You wanna go crazy, you want 'em thick and fat?
Use some self-raising flour, that'll surprise your guests.
Flour sieved first of all, boove!
Egg-shell-ent, oh look at that yolk.
So we're actually doubling up the batter,
the pancakes are very thin indeed anyway.
But because we wanna make a couple to show you.
Four eggs, in a bowl.
- [Rebecca] Yeah
- [Barry] Just like two pugs in a bed.
Look, this is like the Titanic scene.
You've got loads of room on there,
you can probably chuck Rose if you want.
Milk is going in,
you also put some salt in.
So do you wanna do unnecessary salt bae?
C'mon let's see the salt bae, let's see it.
That looks perfection. (laughs)
And sometimes you can add a bit of sugar in there,
you can have a little bit of butter,
we gonna add a teeny bit of oil today
about a tablespoon,
and this just gets beaten together.
All right, so we've let this stand for about five minutes.
All right mate, I'm gonna do this.
I would normally use some spray oil
but I just wanna, I like the idea
of smearing butter on a pug.
- Okay
- So we're gonna let this melt over the heat.
It shouldn't take too long
but once you start to see some bubbles
- I think that's enough
- I was just about to stop
- That's a lot of butter
- So I've been told off.
You get a nice golden colour with the butter.
Ah, you hear that sizzle?
So the first thing that you wanna do,
when it's like, runny like that,
just keep moving it around like that
and make sure you get the coverage.
And you'll see if you keep moving it,
you get that sort of coating around there
that'll be thicker in certain areas
and it won't take long to set.
And what happens is its starts to peel
around the edges already.
- Mmhmm
- That's quite key to the hack and the gadget.
Remember that.
Aww, are you gonna flip it?
You can just turn it over onto a plate
and then turn it back safely
but you gotta flip it.
It's Pancake Day!
- All right, ready?
- Okay, Mr Bean is overseeing this safety advisor,
here we go, ready
- Three, two, one
- Hey! Look at that!
Nice one!
- We did it
- Smells so good in here
Do you know what it smells like in here, Beck?
Pancake Day!
- It's Pancake Day!
- (laughs) Look at that Mrs B, I think that's done.
So this is just your standard pancake.
I mean, the video should really be
gadget vs hack vs real life.
- Normal
Really cool hack for your pancake,
get a fork, if you want, put your toppings on
and then you can roll it like that, huh?
And then you've got a tube of pancakes.
I'm sure I've shown that before
but it's one of my favourite ones
'cause then you've got like a cylinder,
you've got a cigar.
Okay kids, you gonna have a cigar, a pancake cigar.
Is that good?
So I could teach kids that?
- No
- No, have a pipe instead.
Okay then Beck let's see this.
- Some people say it takes the fun out of Pancake Day
'cause you don't actually get to flip them.
- What? Did you just say (sings) Pancake Day?!
It says to dunk the bottom of the pan, right?
So we've gone for the smaller pan
like we used in the original hacks video
into the batter,
which we'll put into something like this
so it can sit there.
I said, "Ah Beck, can we just check?"
and that's why you're having a little look, yeah.
You did as you were told for once.
I said, " Can you just check to see if there wasn't like,
it wasn't greased or anything like that?" But no.
- Apparently not
- No
- Unless they missed that step off
- Well I think that's good for the colour
'cause otherwise it's just gonna cook and fall off
and be a bland pancake.
And you're not gonna get that rus-ti-ness, rustiness,
you know that golden colour that you get on
(sings) Pancake Day!
By the end of the video, you'll be joining in.
All right, nice and warm?
- Yeah
- All right
- I'm going for it
- The hack... ooh
Did you hear that sizzle?
- I heard the sizzle
- Yeah, don't leave it in too long,
or we're gonna cook the whole bowl.
That's it
- It's like, oh no. Look, look, hang on, woo
- What are you doing?
- But it's not gone all over it
Woo! I don't know what I'm doing, help!
- Well I'm filming.
If I help you, there wouldn't be a video, will there?
- Oh no, this is messy, I don't like it.
I think I've done it wrong.
- Let's check again.
I mean, you look like you're having a lot of fun,
that's the important thing.
- I'm making a big mess
- You were saying, what was it?
This bowl is too high-ridged,
so you wanna use it on this instead?
- Yes
- 'Cause it's shallower, okay.
That stinks by the way, look at it.
- Stinks?
- It looks like someone's foot.
Well, happy Pancake Day
- Aww, it's burning
- Yeah well, this is why the hack
didn't really work for us innit?
To be honest, that's why we're doing the gadget.
Ooh, you got something. (laughs)
- I think we should grease this pan
- Yeah I agree too but no one else does
and obviously putting grease
and it could drip off onto the flame
- No, if we just squirt it with a little bit of oil
- Fresh pan
- I wonder if it'll come out printed
with all the patterns into first
- (laughs) Logos on it. Yeah, right?
- I think what I'll do,
I'll do that
- It's hard... yeah, okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That might help it.
Right, so our Mrs B is having fun trying that out.
I have got here a non-stick electric pan for a pancake.
You see? That's the gadget.
It's even got it's own batter bowl that it sits in,
so you know what we're doing over there.
It's got this little tray,
this is it.
This is basically, it's like a confused pan
with no, like recess.
It's just flat and smooth.
On/off button and it even comes, piece of mind
with a really dodgy connector thing.
What's the worst that could happen?
- No, we're not using that
- But Beck, (sings) it's Pancake Day!
- This is rubbish
- Well, we know it's rubbish
'cause we tried it before, didn't we?
And that's why we're hoping that the gadget
will help us.
- This is just stressful. Who came up with this hack?
(gasps)
- Who puts carrots in a pancake though?
Our house phone's ringing.
- I'll get it
- 100% that is my mother-in-law.
A lovely lady called Leslie, only person that rings
the house phone, other than prank callers.
- Yeah, yeah, it's Rebecca Lewis.
- It's really cool.
All these people ring us up and tell us that we're like
Ugandan prince and princesses and we're owed loads of money.
Becky's just basically given them our card details
and it'll be fine.
- (laughs) Don't make jokes 'cause I nearly
did something like that once.
- (laughs) Let's put Lassie's food in a bowl.
This is a dog bowl for batter, it's brilliant, yeah.
- This is what I serve your dinner in every night.
- Is it?
Right, let's plug that in.
That looks really safe, yeah.
- Yeah, oh my gosh!
- Right, so yeah, turn that on.
Ooh god, oh no, we left it on!
I was gonna turn it off (gasps)
- It's not gonna heat up straight away
- I mean, how reliable does that look?
That looks proper shady, doesn't it?
- Oh gosh, yes
- I'm quite skilled in this area, so please be careful.
- Yeah, I might just go and hide outside.
- Oh yeah, that stinks.
Is it the power in the socket
or is it 'cause it's a new product?
I think it's 'cause it's a new product.
- Let's not risk it
- Oh okay, let's not risk it.
Let's go for it.
- The wire's not long enough
- (laughs) It's not. Oh gosh!
There we go, yeah. Just sit it in there.
Ooh did you hear that? Yeah, let it rest in.
And then up. Up, up, up 'cause you're cooking...
Turn it over, turn it over, okay.
- Do you think that was long enough?
Yeah, that's not worked.
- Grease it
- No
- And longer in there?
- I think you'd need longer
'cause look, it comes off easy
- Okay, yeah
- Yeah
- Oh yeah
Yeah, I think yeah, all right.
For a first go, that looks really appetising.
(laughs) went straight for it again.
- Yeah
- Ooh that's better! Yes, set it down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
That's exactly like that video was.
And you can see it's cooking.
It helps, doesn't it?
The only English non-stick electric pan with pancake.
Everything else is not in English.
Not even a single word.
(laughs) So it got you with the title.
- I'd much rather be flipping pancakes in a pan.
- Oh look, there we go.
Yeah it's coming out,
yeah 'round the edge like that.
I mean, it's nowhere near as smooth as it shows in the video
but I would say we're pancaking right now Beck, oh Mrs B.
Oh Sarah Connor, Sarah Connor what have you done?
Ah! Get to the chopper.
- Baby I don't feel like the other side's cooked.
- Oh, it's cooked enough, it's just not browned.
Mrs Barry's letting me play and I'm gonna do it my way.
(sings) My way!
'Cause it's Pancake Day!
With a bit of butter on here
- [Rebecca] A big whoa
- Well that's a lot, sorry.
I'm literally pushing down on it
to try and get some absorption.
I might leave it a teeny bit longer.
(groans)
- [Rebecca] No, see it doesn't,
it slides off with the butter
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well maybe the butter's in there now.
Two coats? (laughs)
It's cleaned it for me
- [Rebecca] What did I say? Pardon?
Let's just keep to it on the pan, old school.
- Well let's have one more go with no butter
but keep it in there longer.
- [Rebecca] All right
- Well whisk this up.
Whisk this batter up one more time
and then we'll go for it.
- It's got smoke coming off of it!
- [Barry] That's 'cause you just, like, cleaned it.
Just a little bit of moisture, that's all it is.
What are you on about?
Look how short that lead is.
That needs to be way better.
- Well maybe it's health and safety,
maybe so that it doesn't get in the way.
- [Barry] Yeah, ooh, you've done it again Gardner.
Well done mate.
Look at the lumps in that though, look at that.
- (laughs) Is that from our batter?
- [Barry] I don't know!
Now let's give Mrs B a little bit of coaching, all right.
- [Rebecca] I put that in
- (laughs) wait for her to go "Shut up"
- [Rebecca] I put that in and then you went,
c'mon let me have a go.
- I wanted to have a go because, like,
I saw you, like, doing the sides
and you're, like, jabbing at it, all right?
You've gotta be like, caress it and love it.
- [Rebecca] There's a big air bubble.
- I know, I know, I'm sorry about that.
- [Rebecca] Everywhere, hey!
(laughs)
- [Rebecca] That was good!
(Barry doing an impersonation)
- Ow, geez! Yes, but why?
Look at this.
Why is there a hole in that one and that one
in the same spot?
- [Rebecca] Maybe because of the way it's shaped
- Maybe, that's where the least amount of batter's gonna go,
isn't it?
- [Rebecca] Yeah
Can I put it down? It's heavy.
- Its heavy?
- [Rebecca] The camera's heavy
- Well actually, while you're there Becky
I really need to...
We're making the thumbnail (laughs)
And it smells like a really awkward family photo.
Look at our kids, oh my gosh! All right?
- Yes
- We've got pancakes, I don't know,
what's the real winner
has gotta be, I mean, I don't see the point in these.
It's simplicity for a restaurant maybe?
- Maybe
- That other hack that you've got there
with the pan there is has never really worked for us.
- No, I think
- It's just simple, yeah.
- I think just the normal way of making pancakes
- Well there we go.
As I said, don't forget to check out the rest of
the Pancake Day inspiration on the website.
Just search "pancakes" or on the YouTube channel
because... why?
- (sings) It's Pancake Day!
- I need more
- (sings) It's Pancake Day!
- (sings) It's Pancake Day! Yay!
- [Barry] Check your level player.
No matter what your style, the kitchen's for me.
Sideburns, moustache, goatee, maybe all three.
All right folks, this is something
I want you to try this year.
Not this combination necessarily
but lemon is very popular on pancakes.
Now instead of that, go to the jam isle
where the Nutella is
and get a little bit of lemon curd.
Don't usually do lemon with Nutella and banana
but I didn't think we'd end up with just one decent pancake.
(laughs)
I'm gonna be kind and let you try this Mrs B, all right?
- [Rebecca] Okay
- [Barry] Because, you know, to be fair that's...
Well actually no, we're sharing (laughs)
This is my flavour of the year.
- Okay
- I feel like I should do that every year,
Flavour of the Year.
- Flavour of the Year
- I like that
You don't like that, do you?
Is there too much going on?
- There's a lot going on
- I like this, this spank, this citrus spank
'cause you're thinking that the Nutella's naughty,
you got the texture of the banana
and then you've got a little zing.
- But actually, that's really nice
- It's cool right?
- I do like it, yeah
- It's just an idea of putting lemon curd,
rather than zest or juice actually.
It's the juice you put on normally
- The juice is probably better for you though
- Yeah