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@TV-qm8ob

2 жыл бұрын

Hi

@dio1803

2 жыл бұрын

3 days ago..

@lunarlady03

2 жыл бұрын

is this ticket one way or?

@TheAkioBlack

2 жыл бұрын

its waffle batter

@littenguy

2 жыл бұрын

I got an idea so what if it's just a jumble of stuff for the bug type that is just full of glitches and stuff things that people thrown away sings like technology or sings that bugs my crawl on and I can be the bug type Rotom

The “sesame seeds” are more likely the seeds of the berries which settle at the bottom of the mold. Given the mold is likely dome shaped, it makes sense for the poffins to have a domed top with berries seeds and a flat/smooth bottom.

@DanielPereira-ey9nt

2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't the seeds burn tho ?

@Zolanark

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanielPereira-ey9nt No, as the seeds would be flowing in the poffin liquid while being stirred continuously during the cooking portion and as the above commenter said, would only settle out in the mold, which is used for cooling

@DanielPereira-ey9nt

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zolanark ohh

@AetherSA

2 жыл бұрын

I read "sesame seeds" as something else

@Kosmid

2 жыл бұрын

@@AetherSA ?

There's a sweet called Karume Yaki (カルメ焼き) in Japan where you swirl liquid ingredients around quickly before they get burned. They're cooked in a small container over a flame and also puff up almost instantly after a certain point due to a chemical reaction. They may be one of the inspirations for Poffins since they're a part of many 8th grade chemistry carriculums, making them a widely known food that many people have tried during their childhood!

@kiraminakyousei1993

Жыл бұрын

Hi! I just looked it up and I think that it's a pretty good answer. Although Lockstin's hypotheses are good, yours seems much more likely. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

@twitter.comelomhycy

Жыл бұрын

Wow this must be the answer!

I always thought that “Poffin” was like a pancake-muffin or a muffin top of sorts. Cause the little things on top aren’t seed, they’re sprinkles

@madnessarcade7447

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what I thought too

@nitroweeb41

2 жыл бұрын

I just kept thinking to myself "What about something akin to pancake batter?"

@DuoVisen

2 жыл бұрын

Same, though as I apparently didn't read as a kid, I always thought in the games you put them in a pan that you were spinning to spread the mix into a proper shape.

@nitroweeb41

2 жыл бұрын

@@DuoVisen I was talking about just in this video, but that also works.

@DuoVisen

2 жыл бұрын

@@nitroweeb41 nah my stupid kid brain just thought that's what it always was supposed to be.

If I were to take a culinary guess, I would think of that "brown stuff" as a Roux that you then add Berries to. The longer you cook Roux, the darker it gets, but it also starts to lose it's thickening properties, so adding an additional starch or thickener, like Pectin, is highly likely. Plus, the Berry Pot does look special enough to possibly add said thickener toward the end, that's why you only make Poffins, and PokeBlocks for that matter, at those special machines. So basically, your making a very thick White Sauce, like a Bechamel minus the cream, adding berries, then letting it cool until solid. Sounds like it would be interesting to try...

@IRuleEverything101

2 жыл бұрын

Oh! That makes a lot of sense compared to what I was thinking lol. I always assumed it was like when you make a dough for eclairs/cream puffs lethal you flavor and simultaneously while still cooking in the pot.

@theinsanegamer1024

2 жыл бұрын

I just assumed they took a bread and used the process for making a jam in it's place. Or possibly that berries become more like a baked potatoes when cooked, so if they are instead reduced they become something more resembling mashed potatoes, then they congeal into a much more solid mass held together by the inherit stickyness of their juices, giving them a unique flavor and color based on the juice.

@chester1882

2 жыл бұрын

Trying this later

@DarktheEagle

2 жыл бұрын

@@chester1882 Let us know how it goes

@laxelford3533

2 жыл бұрын

But that wouldn't make the product we get with poffins

I always saw poffins as being similar to poffertjes, which are little Dutch pancakes. The shape's close enough. I never really saw the stuff in the pot as dough or as a soup, I could have sworn they straight up refer to it as batter in the games. The takoyaki comparison's a good one though, you might be on to something there.

@brandonprater4613

2 жыл бұрын

🤔👍

@kimberleyligtvoet9049

2 жыл бұрын

Dutchie here! Was thinking the same thing tbh, but Im pretty sure poffertjes still need to cook in the special pan though, but they just let it cool off in there? But the shape does add up and they do look like they would be that kind of soft consistency ^____^ Also the name would still be close, poffertje and poffin 🤔

@kamichan127

2 жыл бұрын

Me too, it's like pancake batter lol this was incredibly bizarre to me haha 😆 lots of yummy things to make tho

@Riley_Storm

Жыл бұрын

that point you see your country fun facted like this already like it

My guess is that the 'water' is probably filled with some kind of thickening agent that makes it akin to a batter, and the berries are added for color and flavor.

They're not called Poffins in every language. In german it's called "Knursp", which is not an actual word but looks similar to "knusprig" (german for crispy). So apparantly they're also crispy now.

@flohjaeger8110

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, German here, I'm remotely remember a Party-Snack (something like Crackers and Pretzels) that looks like Poffins. Maybe thats why they are called Knursp in German

@Gnoggin

2 жыл бұрын

Leave it to German to be the odd one out!

@jackiegerlach

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gnoggin every time xD

@TBG1

2 жыл бұрын

I thought I was just makin that up from back when I watched the diamond and pearl anime and wasn't paying attention

@PinHeadSupliciumwtf

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gnoggin still prefer fuegro over incineroar.

5:53 Another hint to the fact that the poffin mixture solidifies as it is cooked is that, at least in the gen 4 version, it becomes increasingly hard to spill as the process goes on, eventually becoming impossible. This is also acknowledged by Dia in the DP manga (actually where I know it from. The manga often gives you tips that really do work in the games), so it very much isn't game mechanics. Also I went an reread the chapter where Dia makes Poffins to see if there's any evidence in there. Theorists often leave out Adventures (every video on Mewtwo being part human or Rotom was supposed to be a legendary would be really short if they didn't). All I got is that the material actually shrinks as Dia stirs it at the end, going from berries and the mixture, into the poffin. Which means to get from what's in your bowl at the end of the mini-game to a shaped poffin, you just keep stirring. I think that helps with the reduction theory, and throws out the filling theory.

@susear5939

2 жыл бұрын

Get this to the attention of more Poketubers.

@josephschubert6561

2 жыл бұрын

I spent 30 minutes looking up the chapter online to find this part. I could've just scrolled down in the comments. Yes, it definitely shows the poffin mixture solidifying into te shapre as it's stirred.

@Vexal50

2 жыл бұрын

I find it weird that theorists will often leave out the manga (unless its related to gen 1) but will *always* go to the anime

@DMP64

Жыл бұрын

I actually tried to make a dough (kinda) that just lacked half flour and the baking powde and put in the blended fruit and reduced it, then i added the other ingredients and baked them and turned out decent... I think if i keep trying i'll get something pretty good.

The official description I read somewhere (possibly in the OG Instruction Booklet) states that the berries are added to batter, making them very much a cake or bun of some kind. Also, the English prerelease name for Poffins is “Pokébread,” most likely as an alliteration of “Pokéblock,” and given the sheer variety, loose definition and/or cultural interpretation of various types of bread as a staple food source, it’s fair to say that the humble Poffin is one such variety.

Honestly that idea of Poffins being some kind of fruit snacks or the takoyaki theory make a lot of sense. I've always thought they were just a little cupcake-esque things, but you brought up a lot of good points to convince me otherwise.

You know; there's also choux pastry, which is originally made on the stove. This is baked as well, yes, but you have to not burn the pastry first just like making a poffin. Maybe the poffin cooker in game is like....almost like a bread machine (for the US) or a Rice Cake maker (for Japan). Those usually do the mixing and cooking on thier own; HOWEVER, they could have just added the manual stirring bc minigame. You have to stir the batter as it cooks before it goes down into molds to bake.

@hilotakenaka

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s choux as well, especially since the starting mixture looks like a roux

@veryyelloo4130

2 жыл бұрын

I was actually thinking about choux as well!

@jypsridic

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of the obvious answer.

Theres this dutch mini pancake type thing called: poffertjes. Poffins used to really remind me of that, so maybe thats the secret to making poffins🤔

@_cityjunk

2 жыл бұрын

Yah when he got to takoyaki he was so close to poffertjes, and that was definitely my impression from the anime

@TheNadiaSmits

2 жыл бұрын

Thats exactly what I though! They seem very similar, the baking trays in the anime are very similar in shape as the pans used to make 'poffertjes' and you can add all types of flavors or toppings!

@mariewegenand8511

2 жыл бұрын

Had the same thought!

@myheartismadeofstars

2 жыл бұрын

Oh! Even the names are similar! I never even thought about that but it does seem pretty close! I was on team Anpan before but this could be the answer!

@tbknick6703

2 жыл бұрын

@@myheartismadeofstars thank you!! Like i always considered poffins to be poffertjes since ofc every kud in the netherlands have had that alot in their childhood XD

The only bread recipe I know that you cook in a pot as a liquid and you need to carefully stir at a good heat until it thickens into not a liquid is Pâte à Choux. Which I always assumed Poffins we're made with.

You might want to look up "poffertjes" or "poffertje", a Dutch/Belgian/French treat from 1720. Looks rather similar if you ask me, it's a soft doughy substance and Takoyaki can be made with the same tools, I wouldn't be surprised if Japan also has fruity variations.

@chester1882

2 жыл бұрын

I need some poffertjes now, I remember cooking them in my mum’s poffertjes pan

You can't tell me the contents of that vat in the game isn't batter. It's thin and liquid-y at first, sloshes around as you stir it, then gets thicker and solidifies as you cook it. It has to be gluten or flour-derived in some way.

@brandonprater4613

2 жыл бұрын

I was also wondering about that with the berries. They too could have glutenous or even protein-based properties.

@Blissy1175

2 жыл бұрын

That isn't how you make batter, though.

@R9000

2 жыл бұрын

@@Blissy1175 It's how certain batters might behave under such conditions.

The yellowy substance could be honey. When heated honey is super runny but when cooled its more solid then the fruit helps keep the shape when poured into the moulds

@AzazinNote

2 жыл бұрын

Well, honey was intoduced as an iten in pokemon in gen 4.

@homoqueersly2487

2 жыл бұрын

That would also make sense thematically in Sinnoh because of the honey trees

“You do not stir empanadAs!” made me laugh so hard. He sounds so upset 😭

There is an interesting detail in the games, you switch the stirring direction. Usually that's wrong, because it prevents what you're stirring to form the fiber that would make it more dense or make it stay in shape. So perhaps there isn't any fiber to begin with (or negligence amounts of fiber). That could be a clue, or it could be me overanalyzing a game mechanic

@jypsridic

2 жыл бұрын

I literally cannot think of a single thing that would care which way you stirred it. I think you're conflating fiber with protein, but neither would care either way.

@outrage_swampert979

2 жыл бұрын

@@jypsridic I might've not used the correct term, idk how is called in English. In things that are chemically unstable, like mayonnaise, stirring force and direction is vital, otherwise the composition will separate from the oil and the mayonnaise is ruined. Stirring is also important I'm breads, you must constantly stir the dough in one way, in order to make it thick and strong. Hope this make sense

Regardless on what poffins are made of, they still look delicious to eat!

@olliegaming4015

2 жыл бұрын

I agree.

@Gnoggin

2 жыл бұрын

Something abou tthe color and rounditude... is mouthwatering.

Lockstin-“what are puffin’s” Finally the question I’ve been asking myself for years in my head all this time heck yeah Lockstin.

Minus the mold thing poffins kinda reminds me of how you'd make mochi at home with out the machine or other classic equipment. You have to cook a rice starch and water mixture and constantly stir it to form the mochi "dough". Yoy can add colours and fillings and flavorings as you go. Maybe pokemon berries naturally have a rice starch like compound in them so when you cook them with water they become mochi esque?

I love Lockstin screaming in the background as if he was in another room whenever there's a pause

Another mystery of the Pokeverse that will remain unsolved forever unless the original creator of the Poffins comes out and explains maybe an old family recipe they are based of.

"This month's theme is Hokkaido Holiday." The Ainu peoples suffered so Japan could market that.

This was great, I would love to see you cook/explain the other regions treats: lava cookie, old gatteau, rage candy bar, castellia cone, lumiose gallette. ( if I spelled any of them wrong, oops, I had to go off memory)

@haroldtan7806

2 жыл бұрын

Rival feast of fiction to the ground when it comes to pokemon food, i consider their work blasphemy to what should be the canon food item in pokemon

@hanakoisbestgirl4752

2 жыл бұрын

Granted I think a couple of those are different than what you might think because they changed them into something more people would understand. I know the lava cookie is actually a rice cracker for one

@jordancockrell5783

2 жыл бұрын

@@hanakoisbestgirl4752 I would still like to see him do a video on it, based solely on the fact it would be fun to watch him try to cook/make them all.

@christianlorre

2 жыл бұрын

Or the malasaka or whatever it is in alola.

@jordancockrell5783

2 жыл бұрын

@@christianlorre I forgot that one, thanks for the reminder, and yes I would love to see him try to make a malasada.

i always just assumed the in-game process was putting the berries into like, pancake/yorkshire pudding batter

I have been asking this for years now. The ingame making of it it reminds me a making vanilla custard but with berries. When you have added the hot milk the eggyolks and put it back on the stove you must stir it, but not too fast or you will spill out the still very liguidy custard, but once it get up to the right temp you need to stir fast or you get vanilla scrambled eggs. And you can flavor it with fruit purees, alcohol and cirtus peels. And you can cook it firm enough/or freeze it to put some kind dough around it.

2:29 DIO Crobatto: How many poffins have you eaten in your life? Gloria: What the bloody hell is a poffin?

Background voice lockstin is my favorite. Also Drifloon balloon is still here!

poffins in the game always reminded me of making yorkshire puddings. making the batter, then cooking them until they have risen and are golden brown. so my best guess would be a type of pancake/yorkshire pudding type batter.

I thought they were more like pate a choux, which is a dough that you do cook on a stovetop, and it’s what cream puffs are made from! And you can definitely find them filled with jams and jellies and berry type things!

Wanna make your Feebas into a Milotic? Make Poffins using four different blue coloured berries and try not to spill/burn them. You can actually use both thumbsticks to stir though i may make you go too fast. It also helps get you up to speed when changing directions. Overspill isn't in an issue in the third stage of cooking as the mix is solid so go as fast as you like.

If we’re talking about liquid that turns into some bread-like textures. In Africa, they have this dish called fufu. It starts off as a liquid but you have to stir it a bunch before it becomes paste like and then until it’s bread like. It’s not exactly a bread though it’s made of a certain type of vegetable. So tbh maybe poffins are the pokemons take of fufu

Anime version kinda reminds me of cocada, a Brazilian candy. You just throw shredded coconut and sugar into water, reduce it a bunch, pour it into whatever depending on the size and shape you want it, and when it cools down it becomes solid. And it has different colors if you add some extras like strawberry or passion fruit, but the usual base color is a light golden brown.

Maybe a poffin is just a generic sort of "sweet berry thing for pokemon", kinda like how we refer to both cheesecake and carrot cake and ice cream cake as cakes, even though they all have totally different ingredients and cooking methods

If I had to guess, the games give a more accurate process. Whatever those poffin making machines are, they start with a base and as the berries cook and the next stage is reached, thickener is added. At the end, the mix is mixed enough and once put into a cooling mold will harden up not unlike fudge. That would explain the case you have to carry it in. Unless you keep it in something it'll breakdown and melt or something.

I always thought of it like banana bread or blueberry pancakes. You have a batter and fruit that you stir, then you bake it either on the oven or on stove top.

When you mentioned that the anime's version of Poffins could have had gelatin or agar added to the water, you did forget one important thing. The berries themselves could have one of those already in them. Most likely agar since it is already plant based. There may not be any real world fruit that contain both pectin and agar, but as said in the video the Pokemon berries are fictional. It might also explain why the raw berries (at least in the games) seem to be unpalatable to humans. I don't know about anyone else but raw unprocessed agar doesn't sound like anything I'd want to eat.

They might be based on Dutch Poffertjes! They're like a dessert takoyaki, and even have "poff" in the name!

Finally! I've been wondering what Poffins really were ever since I first played Pearl as a wee lass. **Gets to the end of the video** O-oh... well, the effort and research that went into this video was appreciated and entertaining to watch. I liked the takoyaki speculation the most, and I had no idea that's how fruit snack were made. The more you know.

"In every language in fact" Me, a german, knowing it as "Knursp" which doesnt even come close to anything with Pokemon and Muffins

"If you like wasabi... I don't" LMAO

I think the way poffins are made is kinda similar to how churros are made, minus the frying part. The dough is liquid and needs to be stirred over heat, clumps together into a ball, and tuns into a sort of bread when baked or cooked.

As far as I know poffins are based on "poffertjes". Basically pancake batter baked using a grid or pan similar to the ones used for takoyaki. They're a Dutch delicacy we probably either brought to the Japanese or got from them. The exact origin is unclear. We only know for certain they became widely known in the 17th century and that they used to be made primarily by our monks back then.

They look like Dutch mini pancakes we call poffertjes. You can definitely use fruits in those, and the pan with molds also fits poffertjes.

I’ve been trying to figure out how to make poffins for months now, and you perfectly went through my entire journey in this video. Happy to know I wasn’t the only one slowly going crazy over this

the one thing that gets me is that in the games, the poffins i thought made a very distinct crunch sound, and every time someone made "irl poffins" they never actually sounded or looked crunchy

@candlelightcookie

2 жыл бұрын

i could be wrong but i swear i thought anyways

my theory was that they're akin to mochi; the original ingredients are slowly cooked and constantly worked so as to develop the mix's structure enough to hold shape. this would explain the anime and game's insistance that "stirring is what gives a poffin its flavour", as working a mochi dough is critical to getting a good end result, plus the poffins in the game and the anime closely resemble the coloured mochi you can find in some snack stores. that said mochi dough is CERTAINLY not a liquid, so some liberties would have to be taken... but perhaps rice starch might be the mystery thickener we're looking for to complete the recipe?

Yess I’ve always loved the poffins, can’t wait to see how this goes 👀 Gotta love that mustache lol

Hi lockstin! I’m currently in college for cullinary arts and have a special love for cooking. I’ve come down to say that POFFINS TERRIFY ME. I stay up at night thinking about how the heck they work and wondering how to make them. The only thing that I’ve figured out is that poffins are cursed by witches. Have a great day!

@but_heres_the_homestuck

Жыл бұрын

Mochi

I believe one kind of dough you forgot is Pate a choux. Which is the dough that is used to make cream puffs and eclairs. It is made in a pot and you stir it until it solidifies into a squeezable dough after which you put it into a piping bag and squirt it out on a baking sheet into round shapes for cream puffs and long twist shapes for eclairs. you bake them then take them out to cool and fill them with cream or fruit filling with a piping bag.

Poffins remind me a bit of these mints my mom makes, at least in the final shape and relative lack of ingredients. The mints are egg whites, cream of tartar, sugar, and salt, and you beat it and beat it and beat it and beat it for like forever until it resembles the consistency of silghtly melted ice cream, and then you scoop it onto a cookie sheet and put in a preheated oven that you immediately turn off, then you keep the oven closed for hours. The mints are crumbly when bitten into, though, not flexible like dough.

10:00 Lockstin’s unintentional Southern pronunciation of ‘anime’ killed me 🤣

There is a technique where you are supposed to spin the dough on a special stove which reminds me of the later portion of the poffin mini game, look up gallette kabyle/Aghroum (pronounced ow-rum or R. Rum) recipe videos. My guess is that the poffin is some sort of pancake like batter that you start off stirring with a spoon but then begin to spin it with your the palmside of your fingers, removing the spoon, when the batter solidifies enough. I've always assumed, lore-wise, that, you stopped using the spoon once the poffin mix is solid enough because you can't splash the mixture anymore once the poffin has passed a certain colouration no matter how fast you spin it. Also, those sesame sesame seeds on the poffins always looked like sugar strand/hundred-and-thousand sprinkles to me.

Since they set up and we always see the berries added to something, my guess would be that liquid being some kind of Gelatin or Agar agar mixture with something making it opaque since it sets when cooled. It would also explain the sheen being a stat of the end result. It also explains why all the Poffins are a uniform color in the main games since they aren't making multiple batches and why the seeds are on the top, since they could sink to the bottom when cooling.

When I was a kid, I thought they were some kind of cookie. Now I'm leaning more towards a scone.

No video game can show food being made without some KZreadr trying to recreate the food. I love it

Honestly with these food videos I would love for you to collaborate with cooking channels. Your guesses/insights then giving those ideas to someone like CHEFPK to try to make work. Seems like it'd be fun.

I had always assumed they were like muffins or cakes. They looked the part and the mixture seemed close enough to cake mixes I was aware of. In the games at least, it's very easy to believe the mix is already made for you and you just add the berries to that.

I think it may be more like a patachou (pa-ta-shoe) which you stir into a runny dough and add egg or something to thicken the batter and not have to bake, like baked flour.

Or it's custard. The Japanese are mad for custard/flan. Boil a loose custard base with fruit (and maybe we assume Pokemon fruit is high in pectin) until it reduces a lot and then pour it into a mold to cool and turn solid.

Japanese water cakes are much more likely to use agar agar (It was originally created for this very reason, to act as a gelatin substitute, but vegetarian. Its other properties has since given it a myriad other applications in microbiology. Those petri dishes for growing microorganisms for example? They are usually filled with a mixture of agarose and nutrient broth.) I personally prefer it a lot to gelatin despite not being a vegetarian, it just has a nicer texture and flavor, if you can call it that.

@twitter.comelomhycy

Жыл бұрын

Yeah

Hey, about that "poffins are named after muffins in every language" part: a poffin is called a Knursp in German. I have no idea what that word as based on, though, so that information might not be that helpful. When I was younger, I just assumed it came from "knusprig" which would mean crispy or crunchy.

The way that the poffin machine only cooks ~1 (iirc you can make more but a typical session yields one) poffin at a time and looks the way it does reminds me a lot of the trend of cooking pancackes in rice cookers a few years back. And pancakes are easy to add berries to, and have a liquid batter (though over-stirring is typically not advised). Additionally, when you said "sweet takoyaki", I got super curious and looked it up to try to make. A good few recipes say to use pancake batter!!

I always thought that puffins were just madeleines with different flavors depending on the berries you put in it. I always thought the texture of these things were soft inside and outside, well, like a madeleine.

I interpret poffin as mashing up a fruit into a pot of cake mix which is cooked and stirred over a stove.

the only stovetop dough i know of is a Pate a Choux (the dough for creampuffs and eclairs) which you do have to stir and cook in a pot before piping it out into shapes and then baking. but i'm not sure you could add berrys to it directly...you could fill the baked dough though.

@Yashael341

2 жыл бұрын

I think that's what they were going for, but it was simpler to just toss the berries in and do a little mini game instead of going through an accurate process. Mini games are just as delicate as choux pastry, and you don't want to bog them down too much.

Brock- it's a jelly filled donut! ~holds a rice ball~

As a cook, my brain wants to go to like a pâte à choux(french pastry dough) that is cooked and stirred in a pot, and you COULD add stuff to it... but... that dough still requires fussing with after, adding eggs after its cooled and then some secondary cooking like frying or baking, though it would produce a small bready treat. Thats a thought from me.

Could possibly the secret liquid ingredients are one of the cornstarch or arrowroot it because this type can also made into jello. I don't know about if gypsum also applicable 🤔 because I imagine just like tofu made Edit: why Gamefreaks didn't recreate Poffin into Daifuko sweets it look so much like that kind

This is the best entertainment for my mental state recently. Thank you for making these

One thing; you do get multiple poffins from each cooking session in the games though, but it only shows one

If I had to choose one of the most logical idea what a poffin is from the video, I'd go with the takoyaki.

Could be condensed milk. That's a similar colour, which thickens and darkens as it cooks and becomes dulce de leche. So maybe like a caramel or toffee type snack?

ok so what I have in mind is that either the berries have some kind of starch (in the anime they do look like potatoes) and so just water and berries would make a dough or the starting liquid is mochi! it would explain the stiring (if you stir rice while its cooking, it turns into mush)

since we don't exactly know the density or texture profiles of Poffins it could be some form of Divinity, which in it's basic form is just egg whites, corn syrup, water and sugar. Add some fruit, nuts or your preferred extract(vanilla, mint, or the like) for flavoring.

well ... homemade custard, does involve simmering on the stove, cooling it down and it can get solid enough if given enough amount.

As a dutchman, ‘poffins’ have always reminded me of ‘poffertjes’, basically dutcch mini pancakes which are made with molds as well. But has nothing to do with mixing berries in, theyre plain mini pancakes

@ARJAY_NO

2 жыл бұрын

Those mini pancakes are damn delicious too. A reason in itself to sneak past your borders. And the caramel waffle crackers. Shoot you dutch are the masters of "ey, what you want with that coffee?"

@idrissb9742

2 жыл бұрын

@@ARJAY_NO haha, I disagree though. I think Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, hmm I think most countries still, outdo us in terms of sweet snacks. im half French, so I know the limits of dutch gastronomy hahah

honestly the title is perfect because going into the video i thought that lockstin would find what a poffin was but he didnt. its perfect.

I mean you mix muffin mix in a bowl and pour it into molds to be baked, it's not exactly liquid since you don't add that much milk, but you presumably would you add berry juice for poffins

I always felt that it was last last idea where you’d make a filling, and then the people around you put that filling into a pre determined bread pastry. It would give it more of a reason as to why they all look like the same thing while having very different effects and flavors. That said if we’re going by the game exactly the fact that you can’t spill the poffin in the last stage makes it even weirder like at that point it’s literally a solid.

I absolutely love that you reference that video in the end. Top tier video as always Lockstin!

Maybe they're Poffertjes! They're *Small* Dutch *pancake* things that are a *liquid* batter that are to be poured into a *mold* . I'd assume it's easy to mix a berry reduction into the batter to make it colored or flavored!

I think the Takoyaki theory sounds the most reasonable

that looks to me like a Tanzhong to me in game, a mixture of flour milk and water that you stir constantly and cook down into a paste which is then used as part of a starting thing to a bread I'm not sure if you could add fruit to one as it's cooking without ruining it though

When i was a kid, I always thought of Poffins as a sort of Fruit "Puto". It's a delicacy from the Philippines that's unrelated to the word in spanish, it's a Colorful Steamed Rice Cake that you eat in celebratory occasions and holidays. It's very soft and delicious and had the same consistency as the pokemon poffins, so I just assumed it was that.

I've always thought of poffins like little muffin tops, and the in-game liquid that the berries go into reminds me a lot of batter.

You had too much fun doing this. 😆 I was dying 😭. Also, that blue poffin eating piplup in the thumbnail reminds me of Rimuru from Reincarnated as a slime

I keep thinking about vietnamese jelly. We use either agar , or mung bean starch. Usually its coconut, or coffee, flavor but I've seen them in lots of colors and flavors. But it is quite firm. Where growing up i could just pick them up with no issuess as they can be made into what is small moon cake size. And dont just disolve in your hand or flop over. Even the sprinkles on the poffins are reminiscent of coconut shavings that are sometimes mixed into the jelly

Maybe the pokémon world berries contain flour or a similar substance that allows it to look like bread. Or maybe a poffin is like that sweet from Squid Game, but made different and with berries. Nice of you to add a bit of Egoraptor's Pokémon parody. "I need nourishment!"

You could also look into dutch POFFertjes wich are poffin size pancakes often eaten with berry sauce

i've been thinking about poffins for so long..! game and anime poffins really can't be the same thing, since anime poffin batter is really wet when poured, but game poffins are fairly solid; like choux pastry, i imagine. for game poffins: it's likely that they do have an additional molding step not seen in-game, since you can fit a bunch of them in one key item but the poffin pot is about the size of your head. additionally, in DPPt you'd recieve a number of poffins equal to the number of participants (and therefore berries since we were limited to 1 berry per person,) which seems like a variable batch size thing, and you'd need a molding step to both divide the finished dough, and not have a weird thin poffin with a smaller batch. game poffins being something like a choux pastry (the kind of pastry used for cream puffs) isn't out of the question when looking at how they're made (cook together wet [and maybe berries too?], add flour all at once, cook until flour gels and mixture becomes dough-like, beat in eggs, shape, bake), but choux pastry rises a little unevenly, while poffins are smooth. this might be resolved by serving poffins molded side up? adding some flour after the stove may also help, since it interferes with leavening (this is just a rather long-winded way of saying poffins probably don't quite match any real pastry as they're commonly made, and that's fine. people definitely made oil-shortened egg-leavened cakes before chiffon cake was formally described. there's more novel pastry styles out there)

I love the egoraptor throwback at the end of the video, very nice video btw Lockstin

Another interesting wrinkle to consider: if we buy that there’s another ingredient involved, it would also have to be something that is still tasty when your base ingredient isn’t just sweet but spicy or uh dry.

I honestly REALLY like the Takoyaki answer, I feel that best combines what we see in both the anime and the games

Always thought they where similar to poffertjes, small little pancake things we have in the netherlands

I’m sorry, is that a Snom fork at 0:33? This is what Snom collection has been missing and I didn’t even know it! 😃

Each gen after 3 has a food you feed to your Pokémon except gen 5, not to be confused with the local specialties. Gen 3 has pokeblocks, Gen 4 has poffins, Gen 6 has Pokepuffs, Gen 7 has pokebeans and gen 8 has Curry, Aside from the Pokepuffs and curry none of these look like actual food. I would assume pokeblocks are like starbursts in terms of consistency and taste. Pokebeans could be jelly beans but they grow from bean sprouts. Idk

@JackieOwl94

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I always thought Pokéblocks definitely had the texture of gummies or gelatin, or some sort of candy.

I was snacking on some mochi (no, not the ice cream) while watching this. And those actually look kind of similar as well and need stirring so they don't burn - at least according to the recipe I found. And you could put sprinkles on top.