Pro Chef Tries Pancake Art for the First Time _ Bon Appétit

The Art of Pancake Portraits: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Creativity

Trying to strike a balance is something that we pay a lot of attention to actually in our everyday work. I'm just working on my blending technique, which is what I did here. Ultimately, I will write one large format pancake that says Molly tries pancake art. Wow, here's sort a pancake mural like pancake street art. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm doing cool backwards is just like I'm sorry, I just can't do that, that's just asking too much of me. Okay, and I'm gonna try doing whoops, like some blending with this guy, so that it's messing around with the way they interact underneath, that's gonna suck if this doesn't flip out.

I quit doing that project because I realized I wasn't as good at drawing animals as I thought I was, even though I love tuna. I think I was impressed with myself at the time, but not when I look back, I'm like amateur hour. Hello, watch is that me? So, my challenge to you is for you to make your face a pancake, and I have a lot of faith and I know it seems hard, but I know you can do it. I'm gonna get to it. We're just gonna stick this right in here, and for some reason, feel like I need to start in the middle of my face which is my nose. It's just helping me orient myself.

So, maybe I should have started with the eyes, sorry, I don't listen. Look like a freak of nature from here, the bubbling that's happening is the leavening in the pancake activating with the heat, and the other thing that's happening is that moisture is cooking off, and steam is coming off of it when you start to see the pancake sort of have that opaque sheen that's when you know the batter has pretty well cooked all the way up to the top. And that's when you can flip, we have liftoff. I'm going right back onto the good guy, and I'm going forward.

Okay, it's me, I made a portrait of me for you, I'll treasure it, how much money do you think I could sell this for? This one, this particular unique eBay portrait, I try to put it on lines look around eBay. That's like a whole episode right there totally, this is too embarrassing, some new on Instagram, highest bidder takes the pancake, putting it up holy moly yes, tester, new abilities by creating a pancake portrait of a colleague.

Your subject is waiting in the other room, and is this the other room? Oh my god, wait, do I get to guess who it is? I definitely didn't know that I was then gonna be presented with no let's just go for it, rad as my muse. I knew it would be you, disappoint ya, actually I didn't think it would be you, but I totally got this, make me beautiful Molly, beautiful, I'm thinking this is kind of part of your look, is your what do they call those shirts? I was thinking naked; they're not pay enough. You'll be able to sell this one for six bucks no problem, a big party it was obviously your beard.

Yeah, characteristic all right, well, a little fun fact, I won best eyes in high school, okay, so you better make your eyes blue, oh, I got the perfect color right here, yeah, and then we got the beanie. Oh, goo Bellini black jet, you got it, damn, you moving pretty confidently over there with that thing, yeah. Well, you know it's not my first rodeo, yeah, good at this, yep, three, not too shabby Molly. Oh hey, I mean that freaking Leone, yeah, you know this is exactly like you. It's it's not bad, could barely tell the difference.

I agree well, sorry, bye she doesn't um sup next time, I think Brad was kind of impressed with Brad, I did a great job at that. I thought I really captured his spear in a pancake, I feel like Emily's on my way towards something with this pancake art journey, the technique is actually pretty easy to master, I figured it out within a day as far as like figuring out how to get the color down and have it be picked up by the flood. And flipping it and that whole process, what's difficult is actually putting your art onto the griddle.

And that's obviously the thing where I suffered the most, but if you're interested in it, it's not actually that hard to do, just takes a little bit, three tuck-in, I'm new on Instagram, okay, blowing up one sent someone says I would buy this in an instant. Global shipping remark $14,000, so sold. You know, I wonder if anyone is looking for art like this, or if it's just going to sit there and collect dust.

The journey of creating pancake portraits has been a journey of self-discovery and creativity, not just about making food on a griddle, but about experimenting with new techniques and pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI had very little information going into this shoot all I knew was I needed to clear my schedule for two days and walk into the Test Kitchen oh my god a real present okay what's that you won't tell me anything okay okay I was given a lot of presents flu batter a bunch of clues experiment a really wacky scavenger hunt watch that 1 2 3 it led me through a journey to discover pancake art push the button pancake bot oh my god what is it gonna do my first guess it's gonna be tuna I know little to nothing about pancake art I've seen some like Instagram videos on my feet but I haven't really stopped to watch it I've never taken much notice of it to be honest it sounds like a robot it's making weird robot noises who the design is gonna be on the other side that's why you cook at different times so they'll be different darkness and those will delineate the image that make sense I knew it was tuna you guys are so freaking predictable I know how to make pancakes I grew up eating pancakes is basically a cake batter it's not as sweet and it rises really quickly when it hits the hot heat of a griddle and you'll slick it well in butter or some kind of grease and that helps encourage the Browning I feel like I'm gonna have to make some art with pancake batter you guys lose really funny oh to ensure your art is not grotesque take a trip back to your desk this is insane because I was at my desk like ten minutes ago so you guys have been sneaking around behind me what does it call with Tim Allen a home-improvement yeah that would be the name oh yeah right look I got another big present Oh what's in the what's in the present Molly pancake molds frog an owl Kitty pink batter glue batter regular batter Oh Phil got me - my favorite apron and my tools so what I learned from watching that robot was that the way to make designs that aren't just silhouette is by layering down the batter a different period so that certain lines get darker than the other and that's how you get shadows and delineate certain things in a design although who the hell knows anymore I know what I know now is I know nothing did I miss something Oh call this number it's just like am I at work or am i living my dream right now hello this is Molly paws I was given your number in an envelope and told to call you and that is all I know about you you're in the kitchen yeah okay I'll see you in like three minutes if I reckon Ebel let's dock him on instagram pancake breakfast I hope wreck without a/c holy you guys have to see this Frankenstein Wow look at that elephant all right he's waiting we gotta go meet back okay you guys in the kitchen I honestly had never really seen pancake art like this before so when I pulled up Breck's Instagram is a little flabbergasted by how detailed the work was hi nice to meet you please meet I just stopped you on the instagrams oh did you I know what's are all about oh good that makes it easy scene okay so you're just sketching it like a pencil exactly I keep the temperature a little warmer just to move it along a little faster the really detailed stuff yeah it's a good secret don't even turn the grid along cause then you're not fighting a when you make pancake art you want a griddle that's pretty low temperature so that you have enough time to get all of the detail that you want onto the surface of it and let it really gently cook throughout that process you're doing very fine lines so it can kind of stay on the griddle exactly and turn it on once you're done drawing that's right this is light enough where I can erase if I need to if I make mistakes so who's this guy Benny Benny sure Benny the bear yeah that's my husband because he really yeah that's we're just drawing my husband yeah I like to keep a chopstick handy you can push out for things like that yeah I do often start a lot of processes in the kitchen off heat in a cold pan like crispy chicken thighs but I never had really considered that that would be an option for pancake cooking we're just sealing in this so then you can grab on to exact got more hefty outline I kind of had to reverse that whole understanding of how pancakes cook when trying to make art with them so after we do this outline I actually fill it in with normal batter so you don't end up with a thin crepe like pancake it's a full thick pancake on top of the exact first and then fill it marry you look I'm into the coloring it's like shadowing on the underbelly exactly wait can we back it up ass coach absolutely how did you get into this and how is it that you make pancakes for breakfast in your last name's Brock your first name is back that's just a coincidence but I got into it I have a son who's almost eight now when he was about two years old beaten in breakfast I started with like pancake molds and stuff yeah and I still got some of those yeah like this yeah stuff like that started with pancake my shirts eventually started adding food coloring and it just evolved into me sketching out the drawings and filling them in with colored batter so I showed you some quick basics I think now we should have you do one and check your baseline and I'll watch and see if I can give you notes okay I will accept that challenge this is what I'm gonna attempt I once was tasked with styling a movie called the Meyer with stories I had to make between five and six hundred pancakes the same pancake on repeat all day long because I had to fly in a new one every time so every pancake had to look exactly like the last do I start with the head or the body that's a personal thing that's a person I'm gonna start with the body I don't feel like I nailed the shape of her nuzzle nuzzle nuzzle muzzle muzzle if you could rate how I'm doing on a scale of 1 to nailing it where would you say I am you can be totally honest I would put you at a 5 to 5 I mean she's not that bad she's not bad I mean did we nail it you're like that's not even close to being nailed I think he did a great job thank you you don't have to say that if you don't really think I do think it thank you so the one thing I would mention remember to work foreground to background so you added highlights on the other side but you put them on the back essentially over the eye you know I mean no you added the reflection to the eye I want you to flip it what I would focus on your focal point first eyes are always a good starting point because they're gonna set the size of your picture and your your eyes and then the face gets built out from the proportions of the eyes and the sides of the head exactly flooding the pancake with neutral colored batter afterwards in order to pick up all of the color that you put down means that you really have to consider what you want to be in the foreground of the pancake first which is not really how the brain works you typically would draw front to back not back to front I need to tell someone to come down here now we're gonna try making some pancakes side by side I'll give you some tips as we go we'll use the same reference photo and then anything that comes to mind that might help you make your own I can tell you as we go along okay so when you go to flood it these aren't gonna be strong enough to flip obviously and trying to do a single line isn't very strong a there's so group all that together when you outline it and cover it I'm just starting to fill in some of the detail now that I got an outline new move scrape it out and inject the highlight when you forget about it inspired by you that's right you have to train your brain to think backwards a little bit yeah one two three I'm so into that now good job I just don't like this slightly more subdued palette so it's not really driving home the whole raccoon thing necessarily I'm gonna have to ask him to do my portrait who is that are you gonna go from here to here so I'm gonna try to start center of your eyes yeah so playing focal point and then try to work my way out from it there one two oh my god I look a little mad oh I was just saying that I look a little pissed I have like good attitude in the highlight yes yeah last thing is to give you this oh you have the fourth card yes I wonder how many there are I appreciate you teaching me everything you're welcome I'm glad I could help so crack just left and he left me with this envelope hand cake laced extremely thin pancakes like a doily I think the first thing that I would like to do is make my own batter so we have a really awesome recipe I'm gonna eat calm its bees best buttermilk pancakes so I think I will use that as a starting ground and then figure out how to tweak the thickness of the batter to do the different things that I need to do flour sugar baking powder baking soda and salt combined and then we'll do the wets 2 whole eggs 2 tablespoons melted butter and then I'm gonna fold it into the dry ingredients we have 4 different tips here to choose from I feel like the thinnest one is going to give us the finest designs there is definitely an artistic side to cooking that is the plating and the styling and the presentation of the food and certainly in some of the fine dining restaurants that I've worked at I've had to really meticulously lay down little gels and sauces and tweeze things and that sort of feels like an art form in a similar way needed to get a little more color I turned my griddle off heat pancake lace pancake Lee is just a little fussy I don't see the point and also like I'm trying to bite into a fat pancake I don't want some stringy bits falling out of my mouth I don't know maybe it's for people with small appetites I'm coming into this idea of calligraphy with pancake so I feel like I better try my hand at it here I know what I can do I can write I can write see Sal my favorite food Caesar salad mollified delicious oh I was supposed to write it backwards oh my god you have to sort of think about the mirror image and I ran into a little bit of trouble when I tried to write the words see Sal and then realize that I had to flip it out and it was the mirror image so yeah the whole process flipped and reversed my relationship to how you cook pancakes so I can just look through this and trace I'm having ideas in the next 12 hours I need to find someone who has either really sick handwriting or can do graffiti who's gonna write out for me Molly makes pancakes and then I am gonna figure out how to reverse that image and make pancakes all right Sal okay we're getting somewhere I feel good about this I'm ready for day two I think I got a good night's sleep last night and I thought a lot about everything that happened yesterday not that that necessarily is gonna help me because I can see that there is a card here which means I have to open an experiment I just like to shout out to Kip in Hinsdale who wrote this for me because without him we wouldn't have this pancake why is pretty wacky this is the fun part oh okay that was cool okay I'm just gonna do like a block like a weird shape here and play around with shading all the different colors the griddle needs to be off when I do this so that I can get all the colors down and blend them in enough time we certainly think about color a lot in the Test Kitchen one of the first things we think about is what are the colors that are being used in these dishes are they being repeated again and again does it feel like it's too monochromatic is there too much green too much herbs so trying to strike a balance in that sense is something that we pay a lot of attention to actually in our everyday work you got his I'm just working on my blending technique which is what I did here and then ultimately I will write one large format pancake that says Molly tries pancake art Wow here sort a pancake mural like pancake street art yeah yeah that's what I'm doing cool backwards is just like I'm sorry I just can't that's just asking too much of me okay and I'm gonna try doing whoops like some blending with this guy so that it's messing around with the way that they interact underneath that's gonna suck if this doesn't flip out I quit do you like it better I would have done that's a sure fine job oh thank you I think I really hit my stride when it came to writing and more into that than drawing animals even though I love tuna though I think I was impressed with myself at the time but not when I look back I'm like amateur hour hello watch is that me so my challenge to you is for you to make your face a pancake and I have a lot of faith and I know it seems hard but I know you can do it I'm gonna get to it we're just gonna stick this right in here I for some reason feel like I need to start in the middle of my face which is my nose it's just helping me orient myself so Thank You Bradford I've chosen to go a different way this chin is looking pretty large okay so maybe I should have started with the eyes sorry I don't listen you Breck I look like a freak of nature from here the bubbling that's happening is the leavening in the pancake activating with the heat the other thing that's happening is that moisture is cooking off and steam is coming off of it when you start to see the pancake sort of have that opaque sheen that's when you know the batter has pretty well cooked all the way up to the top and that's when you can flip we have liftoff I'm going right back onto the good guy I'm going forward okay it's me I made a portrait of me for you I'll treasure it how much money do you think I could sell this for this one this particular unique ebay portrait I try to put it on lines look around eBay that's like a whole episode right there totally this is too embarrassing some new on Instagram highest bidder takes the pancake putting it up holy moly yes tester new abilities by creating a pancake portrait of a colleague your subject is waiting in the other room is this the other room oh my god wait do I get to guess who it is I definitely didn't know that I was then gonna be presented with no let's just go for it rad as my muse I knew it would be you disappoint ya actually I didn't think it would be you but I totally got this make me beautiful Molly beautiful I'm gonna make you beautiful I'm thinking this is kind of part of your look is your what do they call those shirts I was thinking naked they're not pay enough you'll be able to sell this one for six bucks no problem a big party it was obviously your beard yeah characteristic all right well a little fun fact I won best eyes in high school okay so you better make your eyes blue oh I got the perfect color right here yeah and then we got the beanie Oh goo Bellini black jet you got it damn you moving pretty confidently over there with that thing yeah well you know it's not my first rodeo yeah good at this yep three not too shabby Molly oh hey I mean that freaking Leone yeah you know this is exactly like you it's it's not bad could barely tell the difference I agree well sorry bye she doesn't um sup next time I think Brad was kind of impressed with Brad I did a great job at that I thought I really captured his spear in a pancake I feel like Emily's on my way towards something with this pancake art journey the technique is actually pretty easy to master I figured it out within a day as far as like figuring out how to get the color down and have it be picked up by the flood and flipping it and that whole process what's difficult is actually like putting your art onto the griddle and that's obviously the thing where I suffered the most but if you're interested in it it's not actually that hard to do just takes a little bit three tuck-in I'm new on Instagram okay blowing up one sent someone says I would buy this in an instant global shipping remark $14,000 so sold you know been on those again that was not a monetary offer I want to see dick pics thanks Internet I'm so sorry for both of us really I wasn't even that good-looking was it that guy OhI had very little information going into this shoot all I knew was I needed to clear my schedule for two days and walk into the Test Kitchen oh my god a real present okay what's that you won't tell me anything okay okay I was given a lot of presents flu batter a bunch of clues experiment a really wacky scavenger hunt watch that 1 2 3 it led me through a journey to discover pancake art push the button pancake bot oh my god what is it gonna do my first guess it's gonna be tuna I know little to nothing about pancake art I've seen some like Instagram videos on my feet but I haven't really stopped to watch it I've never taken much notice of it to be honest it sounds like a robot it's making weird robot noises who the design is gonna be on the other side that's why you cook at different times so they'll be different darkness and those will delineate the image that make sense I knew it was tuna you guys are so freaking predictable I know how to make pancakes I grew up eating pancakes is basically a cake batter it's not as sweet and it rises really quickly when it hits the hot heat of a griddle and you'll slick it well in butter or some kind of grease and that helps encourage the Browning I feel like I'm gonna have to make some art with pancake batter you guys lose really funny oh to ensure your art is not grotesque take a trip back to your desk this is insane because I was at my desk like ten minutes ago so you guys have been sneaking around behind me what does it call with Tim Allen a home-improvement yeah that would be the name oh yeah right look I got another big present Oh what's in the what's in the present Molly pancake molds frog an owl Kitty pink batter glue batter regular batter Oh Phil got me - my favorite apron and my tools so what I learned from watching that robot was that the way to make designs that aren't just silhouette is by layering down the batter a different period so that certain lines get darker than the other and that's how you get shadows and delineate certain things in a design although who the hell knows anymore I know what I know now is I know nothing did I miss something Oh call this number it's just like am I at work or am i living my dream right now hello this is Molly paws I was given your number in an envelope and told to call you and that is all I know about you you're in the kitchen yeah okay I'll see you in like three minutes if I reckon Ebel let's dock him on instagram pancake breakfast I hope wreck without a/c holy you guys have to see this Frankenstein Wow look at that elephant all right he's waiting we gotta go meet back okay you guys in the kitchen I honestly had never really seen pancake art like this before so when I pulled up Breck's Instagram is a little flabbergasted by how detailed the work was hi nice to meet you please meet I just stopped you on the instagrams oh did you I know what's are all about oh good that makes it easy scene okay so you're just sketching it like a pencil exactly I keep the temperature a little warmer just to move it along a little faster the really detailed stuff yeah it's a good secret don't even turn the grid along cause then you're not fighting a when you make pancake art you want a griddle that's pretty low temperature so that you have enough time to get all of the detail that you want onto the surface of it and let it really gently cook throughout that process you're doing very fine lines so it can kind of stay on the griddle exactly and turn it on once you're done drawing that's right this is light enough where I can erase if I need to if I make mistakes so who's this guy Benny Benny sure Benny the bear yeah that's my husband because he really yeah that's we're just drawing my husband yeah I like to keep a chopstick handy you can push out for things like that yeah I do often start a lot of processes in the kitchen off heat in a cold pan like crispy chicken thighs but I never had really considered that that would be an option for pancake cooking we're just sealing in this so then you can grab on to exact got more hefty outline I kind of had to reverse that whole understanding of how pancakes cook when trying to make art with them so after we do this outline I actually fill it in with normal batter so you don't end up with a thin crepe like pancake it's a full thick pancake on top of the exact first and then fill it marry you look I'm into the coloring it's like shadowing on the underbelly exactly wait can we back it up ass coach absolutely how did you get into this and how is it that you make pancakes for breakfast in your last name's Brock your first name is back that's just a coincidence but I got into it I have a son who's almost eight now when he was about two years old beaten in breakfast I started with like pancake molds and stuff yeah and I still got some of those yeah like this yeah stuff like that started with pancake my shirts eventually started adding food coloring and it just evolved into me sketching out the drawings and filling them in with colored batter so I showed you some quick basics I think now we should have you do one and check your baseline and I'll watch and see if I can give you notes okay I will accept that challenge this is what I'm gonna attempt I once was tasked with styling a movie called the Meyer with stories I had to make between five and six hundred pancakes the same pancake on repeat all day long because I had to fly in a new one every time so every pancake had to look exactly like the last do I start with the head or the body that's a personal thing that's a person I'm gonna start with the body I don't feel like I nailed the shape of her nuzzle nuzzle nuzzle muzzle muzzle if you could rate how I'm doing on a scale of 1 to nailing it where would you say I am you can be totally honest I would put you at a 5 to 5 I mean she's not that bad she's not bad I mean did we nail it you're like that's not even close to being nailed I think he did a great job thank you you don't have to say that if you don't really think I do think it thank you so the one thing I would mention remember to work foreground to background so you added highlights on the other side but you put them on the back essentially over the eye you know I mean no you added the reflection to the eye I want you to flip it what I would focus on your focal point first eyes are always a good starting point because they're gonna set the size of your picture and your your eyes and then the face gets built out from the proportions of the eyes and the sides of the head exactly flooding the pancake with neutral colored batter afterwards in order to pick up all of the color that you put down means that you really have to consider what you want to be in the foreground of the pancake first which is not really how the brain works you typically would draw front to back not back to front I need to tell someone to come down here now we're gonna try making some pancakes side by side I'll give you some tips as we go we'll use the same reference photo and then anything that comes to mind that might help you make your own I can tell you as we go along okay so when you go to flood it these aren't gonna be strong enough to flip obviously and trying to do a single line isn't very strong a there's so group all that together when you outline it and cover it I'm just starting to fill in some of the detail now that I got an outline new move scrape it out and inject the highlight when you forget about it inspired by you that's right you have to train your brain to think backwards a little bit yeah one two three I'm so into that now good job I just don't like this slightly more subdued palette so it's not really driving home the whole raccoon thing necessarily I'm gonna have to ask him to do my portrait who is that are you gonna go from here to here so I'm gonna try to start center of your eyes yeah so playing focal point and then try to work my way out from it there one two oh my god I look a little mad oh I was just saying that I look a little pissed I have like good attitude in the highlight yes yeah last thing is to give you this oh you have the fourth card yes I wonder how many there are I appreciate you teaching me everything you're welcome I'm glad I could help so crack just left and he left me with this envelope hand cake laced extremely thin pancakes like a doily I think the first thing that I would like to do is make my own batter so we have a really awesome recipe I'm gonna eat calm its bees best buttermilk pancakes so I think I will use that as a starting ground and then figure out how to tweak the thickness of the batter to do the different things that I need to do flour sugar baking powder baking soda and salt combined and then we'll do the wets 2 whole eggs 2 tablespoons melted butter and then I'm gonna fold it into the dry ingredients we have 4 different tips here to choose from I feel like the thinnest one is going to give us the finest designs there is definitely an artistic side to cooking that is the plating and the styling and the presentation of the food and certainly in some of the fine dining restaurants that I've worked at I've had to really meticulously lay down little gels and sauces and tweeze things and that sort of feels like an art form in a similar way needed to get a little more color I turned my griddle off heat pancake lace pancake Lee is just a little fussy I don't see the point and also like I'm trying to bite into a fat pancake I don't want some stringy bits falling out of my mouth I don't know maybe it's for people with small appetites I'm coming into this idea of calligraphy with pancake so I feel like I better try my hand at it here I know what I can do I can write I can write see Sal my favorite food Caesar salad mollified delicious oh I was supposed to write it backwards oh my god you have to sort of think about the mirror image and I ran into a little bit of trouble when I tried to write the words see Sal and then realize that I had to flip it out and it was the mirror image so yeah the whole process flipped and reversed my relationship to how you cook pancakes so I can just look through this and trace I'm having ideas in the next 12 hours I need to find someone who has either really sick handwriting or can do graffiti who's gonna write out for me Molly makes pancakes and then I am gonna figure out how to reverse that image and make pancakes all right Sal okay we're getting somewhere I feel good about this I'm ready for day two I think I got a good night's sleep last night and I thought a lot about everything that happened yesterday not that that necessarily is gonna help me because I can see that there is a card here which means I have to open an experiment I just like to shout out to Kip in Hinsdale who wrote this for me because without him we wouldn't have this pancake why is pretty wacky this is the fun part oh okay that was cool okay I'm just gonna do like a block like a weird shape here and play around with shading all the different colors the griddle needs to be off when I do this so that I can get all the colors down and blend them in enough time we certainly think about color a lot in the Test Kitchen one of the first things we think about is what are the colors that are being used in these dishes are they being repeated again and again does it feel like it's too monochromatic is there too much green too much herbs so trying to strike a balance in that sense is something that we pay a lot of attention to actually in our everyday work you got his I'm just working on my blending technique which is what I did here and then ultimately I will write one large format pancake that says Molly tries pancake art Wow here sort a pancake mural like pancake street art yeah yeah that's what I'm doing cool backwards is just like I'm sorry I just can't that's just asking too much of me okay and I'm gonna try doing whoops like some blending with this guy so that it's messing around with the way that they interact underneath that's gonna suck if this doesn't flip out I quit do you like it better I would have done that's a sure fine job oh thank you I think I really hit my stride when it came to writing and more into that than drawing animals even though I love tuna though I think I was impressed with myself at the time but not when I look back I'm like amateur hour hello watch is that me so my challenge to you is for you to make your face a pancake and I have a lot of faith and I know it seems hard but I know you can do it I'm gonna get to it we're just gonna stick this right in here I for some reason feel like I need to start in the middle of my face which is my nose it's just helping me orient myself so Thank You Bradford I've chosen to go a different way this chin is looking pretty large okay so maybe I should have started with the eyes sorry I don't listen you Breck I look like a freak of nature from here the bubbling that's happening is the leavening in the pancake activating with the heat the other thing that's happening is that moisture is cooking off and steam is coming off of it when you start to see the pancake sort of have that opaque sheen that's when you know the batter has pretty well cooked all the way up to the top and that's when you can flip we have liftoff I'm going right back onto the good guy I'm going forward okay it's me I made a portrait of me for you I'll treasure it how much money do you think I could sell this for this one this particular unique ebay portrait I try to put it on lines look around eBay that's like a whole episode right there totally this is too embarrassing some new on Instagram highest bidder takes the pancake putting it up holy moly yes tester new abilities by creating a pancake portrait of a colleague your subject is waiting in the other room is this the other room oh my god wait do I get to guess who it is I definitely didn't know that I was then gonna be presented with no let's just go for it rad as my muse I knew it would be you disappoint ya actually I didn't think it would be you but I totally got this make me beautiful Molly beautiful I'm gonna make you beautiful I'm thinking this is kind of part of your look is your what do they call those shirts I was thinking naked they're not pay enough you'll be able to sell this one for six bucks no problem a big party it was obviously your beard yeah characteristic all right well a little fun fact I won best eyes in high school okay so you better make your eyes blue oh I got the perfect color right here yeah and then we got the beanie Oh goo Bellini black jet you got it damn you moving pretty confidently over there with that thing yeah well you know it's not my first rodeo yeah good at this yep three not too shabby Molly oh hey I mean that freaking Leone yeah you know this is exactly like you it's it's not bad could barely tell the difference I agree well sorry bye she doesn't um sup next time I think Brad was kind of impressed with Brad I did a great job at that I thought I really captured his spear in a pancake I feel like Emily's on my way towards something with this pancake art journey the technique is actually pretty easy to master I figured it out within a day as far as like figuring out how to get the color down and have it be picked up by the flood and flipping it and that whole process what's difficult is actually like putting your art onto the griddle and that's obviously the thing where I suffered the most but if you're interested in it it's not actually that hard to do just takes a little bit three tuck-in I'm new on Instagram okay blowing up one sent someone says I would buy this in an instant global shipping remark $14,000 so sold you know been on those again that was not a monetary offer I want to see dick pics thanks Internet I'm so sorry for both of us really I wasn't even that good-looking was it that guy Oh\n"