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I made some pancakes with a total of 15g of sugar. This produced 4 pancakes, so less than 4g of sugar per pancake. These were sweeter tasting than the cupcakes i made which had 10g each of sugar.

What's going on?

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago

Can't say for sure, but if I had to venture a guess, it's likely the surface area and browning. Carmelizing the sugars makes them sweeter and have a more distinctive and noticeable taste. In addition, flour is a starch which is a complex carbohydrate. When you break down complex carbs through cooking, they become simpler carbs like sugars. I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that heats high enough to cause the browning is also enough to cause some of that break down of the carbs at the surface of the pancake.

P.S. If you have the self control, you can demonstrate for yourself this carb breakdown into sugars. Take a saltine cracker, chew on it for something like 5 minutes without swallowing (hard to do, honestly). It will turn into a mush and slowly start being broken down by the enzymes in your saliva. After long enough, the complex carbohydrate molecules will be broken down into glucose molecules and the mush will start to taste noticeably sweet. Kinda trippy.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Also, some added salt can make things noticeably sweeter. To really say more we’re going to need the full recipe for everything; as well As cooking procedures. (Though i assume those were the same?)

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

must be the 200g of syrup you bathe them in

[-] radix@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

The other ingredients matter. Certain other flavors can mask or enhance sweetness.

https://www.spiceography.com/too-much-sugar/

[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Is that for the same weight, volume, what?

[-] Mrgruesomel@lemmy.zip 8 points 8 months ago

Did you put maple syrup on the pancakes? That would probably explain it 😉

[-] timetravelingnoodles@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I noticed this with coffee a while back. Was putting several ~~tablespoons~~ teaspoons of sugar in to make it palatable but got distracted one day and only put in two, it was sweet and it was much better tasting

[-] prowess2956@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago
[-] loobkoob@kbin.social 5 points 8 months ago

Some people like their sugar to have a hint of coffee flavouring to it.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 3 points 8 months ago

It's really more of a coffee syrup.

[-] timetravelingnoodles@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

Stupid autocorrect, I fixed it, thank you

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

How much smaller were the sweeter pancakes than the other ones?

[-] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

I had the same thought when I ate chupa cups. The small one only has 6 grams of sugar, the big one has 12 grams, but they are equally sweet, how can that be...

this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023
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