If you're waffling along, here's the recipe, which @burnumd was kind enough to write out for me. I'll report tomorrow. One thing you might want to know up front: This produces a BAZILLION waffles.
Alton Brown's Luft-Waffles:
Dry goods:
all-purpose flour 270g (2 cups)
baking powder 5g (1tsp)
baking soda 3g (1/2tsp)
salt 6g (1tsp)
Wet goods:
unsalted butter 57g (4tbs), melted and cooled slightly
eggs 150g (3 large), beaten
buttermilk 454g (2 cups), at room temp
sugar 42g (3tbs)
Sift all dry goods (or pulse for 5s in a food processor)
Whisk the melted butter and the eggs together
Whisk the rest of the liquid goods (yes, that includes sugar) into the butter and egg mixture.
Add the liquid goods to the dry goods and mix just until batter comes together. DO NOT MIX SMOOTH.
Set the batter aside to rest for 5 minutes (or refrigerate for up to 1 hour)
Then you cook them. Forever. Alton says "Yields six 8-inch round waffles" but his iron must be about an inch deeper than mine. I made 18 (18!) 4x5 waffles.
Anyway, they were amazing. More tomorrow. Also: pictures!
ETA: I've not done anything with this post because I had some bad news on Monday and my heart's not in it. But I can at least show you the pictures!
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| 1. Line up All The Things |
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| 2. Mix until you think it's "just" come together... Yeah, I know. |
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| 3. Set aside for 5 mins...and science happens! |
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| 4. Use SMALL spoonfuls for your first attempt. |
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| ARE YOU DROOLING YET? |
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| I hope you've hired a small army to eat them all. |
I came across this old post when looking for Alton Brown's "Luft-Waffle" recipe...
ReplyDelete"Alton says 'Yields six 8-inch round waffles' but his iron must be about an inch deeper than mine. I made 18 (18!) 4x5 waffles."
Presuming your 4x5 waffles are rectangular, that's 20 square inches. Eighteen of them is 360 square inches of waffle (ignoring thickness, for now).
An 8" round waffle is about 50 square inches. Six of them is 300 square inches of waffle.
To get the same volume of waffle, AB's waffles only have to be 20% thicker than yours. Really not much of a difference - if your waffles are 0.5" thick, AB's would be 0.6" thick.
(This recipe appears in AB's book "I'm Just Here for More Food".)