How to Make French Toast

hey kids great to see you again uh welcome back to another edition of cooking with dad today I'm going to show you how to make French toast so I'm wearing my attempt at a French hat I don't know uh it'll have to work so um and before we get started I do have a dad joke for you so um since French toast is a nice alternative to Flapjacks you might call them flat jocks so anyway let's get started okay so you'll need a few things uh and you can keep this really really simple all you really need is bread and eggs uh but I like to add a little bit of milk uh as well so I have eggs milk and then I like to also add vanilla extract again optional and then I also like to add cinnamon too Cinnamon's just a nice addition to it so um and if you don't like cinnamon you don't have to add it that's fine and then you got to make sure you have some syrup you know you can eat it without without syrup too but um I think it's just us with some some good quality syrup and then I have it in this container because I like to heat it up it's that was always a nice special treat when I was growing up to have it warm syrup poured over it I think is another nice little touch and then you'll look at my bread here I actually have brioche bread and then I have just some basic bread that I get too and so I'm just going to show you because I want to show you how both of them turn out they're each going to be a little bit different of course uh so I thought I'd do that and we'll go ahead and start mixing the ingredients okay so the first thing we want to do is we go ahead and crack our eggs I went ahead and do did that to save a little bit of time and then like I said I'll add a little bit of milk to that just about that much to make it a little bit more runny and then I I usually just push down on the yolk to try to get it to mix you got to be careful in this particular pan you know you could I'm trying to save from dirtying up multiple pans because this is a great uh dish for being able to dip it into that's why I have this kind of you want to get a nice shallow pan like this and one that's not too big either so that it spreads the stuff out too far right okay anyway so we're just mixing this up okay let's add a little bit of vanilla extract just a little bit okay again totally optional for that now you can add the cinnamon directly to this or I like to just sprinkle it over the French toast when it's cooking so this is about ready already so we'll bring it over to the stove okay so you're going to want to cook it over medium heat you know when I was younger I used to uh I cooked everything on high and I wondered why things came out burnt you wanna I I always kind of err on the side of being not as hot so if anything go a little bit below medium heat especially at start at the beginning and then you can always crank it up just a little bit so we're going to put this on on medium to start okay so we're this one here okay we're gonna put it at five and you can you got choices here you can use nothing because this is a non-stick pan you could use a spray like a Pam you know to to coat this you could use oil we have olive oil here you got all kinds of options but you know what what the best is is butter if you fry this in butter it's gonna be amazing and then you don't have to add butter to your French toast later when you uh when you add the the syrup so you don't have to put butter on first before you put the syrup on because it's already cooked in butter so okay just got like a pat of butter here we go wait for that to to melt I can use this metal I like to use metal utensils and sometimes these would scrap scratch up some of these uh non-stick Coatings I've had good luck with this pan I think I paid less than thirty dollars for the pan and it still has held up for me so I don't worry about it too much if I get you know couple years out of a pan especially at that price I can live with it so because if you use plastic I just don't like to use plastic if at all possible I try to use wood or metal and wood uh I haven't been able to find a good wooden spatula with a thin probably because it's made out of wood you know it might break and so anyway I tend to use metal a metal spatula a nice one that you can slip underneath pretty easy for for my pancakes and my flap jocks so all right let's go ahead and put a couple of these on let me here let's see you're going to have a little bit of Dripping right when you go like this and you put it down you want to put it in and then flip it over like that let it soak up good right make sure it soaks up good and then it's going to drip as you pull it out of here that's why I'm holding it over the over the frying pan okay so we're gonna go ahead and cook these first and then we'll do the brioche afterwards okay just make sure it soaks up good right okay so that's that one and that one and again we got it on medium heat we'll just keep an eye on it okay and then we're going to go ahead and shake some cinnamon on here okay let's do that and you got two sides to this right one with a holes for shaking can you see that and then one where you want to if you're gonna spoon some out right so we're just gonna shake some across the top here again totally optional you don't have to add cinnamon if you don't want to so this will take a couple minutes you can keep an eye on it so many variations on on things as I've tried to point out in my in my videos it's not just you know it's not that's not my way or the highway it's you know I want you to perfect it and you make it however you like so but this will at least get you started so then you can improve on it and then let me know how you improved on it so okay so let's check it out you don't want to turn it too soon right okay so there we go looking good you can see those eggs cooking nice and we can add a little bit of cinnamon on here on this side if we'd like the best French toast I think I ever had was almost like deep fried but again you know we gotta watch your calories at some point so I wouldn't uh you know I'd cut them out you know use them when you can't use the you can use a little bit of butter and I think that that suffices if you deep fry this it would be amazing but also probably not too good for you especially over time okay things are looking good I think this heat is pretty good we could probably go up just a little bit but again error on the side of uh not so hot at first until you get especially when you're getting a feel this is this uh oven stove is is new to us so we're still learning uh the best way to cook with it but uh yeah I think five is just about good for this and that works good on an electric stove as well medium five right I think most scales are from zero to ten on your on your soap okay looking good smelling good oh that one's looking great and I would say probably two minutes on each side and and you're probably about good with that it really again depends on the heat if you go down too low then you're going to need to cook them a little bit longer which is fine okay looking good okay I think I'm gonna go ahead and pull these off and then we'll throw in the brioche okay okay I'll add a little bit more butter again another Pat of butter you can see that thing's much warmer than it was when we first put the first butter in right okay now let's go ahead and do our pre-order I only have a heel left of the the brioche but I think that's still fine I don't mind the heel some people don't like it but I like it I like it a lot okay let's go ahead and start with that and so here's another thing too another little tip if you're only going to make this amount you can use this now for scrambled eggs right so we're only going to make four pieces and so since I didn't add the cinnamon to this now I can just cook this real quick and have a little bit of scrambled eggs on the side here we go let's add a little bit of cinnamon to this one boy it's snowing so good let's let that sit for a little bit because this was a heel the the eggs didn't stick too well to that backside right they absorbed inside the open end but on the closed end they don't but that's okay okay we'll give that just a little bit it's hard with these cooking videos with me because I'm pretty tall and so trying to show you the food and showing you me I'm either kind of having to crouch in here to see you or I'm not in the picture so maybe you'd prefer that if I wasn't in the picture so you could actually see what I'm doing uh yeah anyway so let's go ahead and turn these over oh look at that looks good also looking good so it's got the egg kind of hanging off because it didn't absorb I'm not going to put cinnamon on the back side of these we'll just leave them as is give those a couple minutes while I'm waiting for those to finish up I'm going to go ahead and throw this in the microwave for probably 45 seconds okay so these look like they're about done let's flip them over just to see nice looking good okay all right let's go ahead and remove those make sure you turn the the stove off when you're done right we're going to go ahead and just turn that off okay so there we go there's my nice little meal you can make this for lots of people or just for yourself too like I did here and then I'm just going to try one of each of my brioche and my regular bread that I have and then I always like to have milk with my with my breakfast and we got our warmed up syrup so we can go ahead and just pour that over makes a little bit more runny but there's something about hot syrup that I really like so okay I hope this was helpful for you thanks for watching and God bless you