I make crumpets and muffins. Crumpets have lots of little air bubbles ,so the yummy butter can seep down the the bottom of the crumpet. Muffins are a soft round bread roll that have a dusting of semolina on top or flour . Both very yummy and can be eaten any time of the day with either sweet things on top or savoury.
I love English muffins for breakfast, but the prices at the store have become outrageous since the "BIG C" happened. Thanks for sharing a simple and delicious recipe! Cheers from Alaska!!
Watching your video, and reading the list of ingredients, I was extremely perplexed and confused. The title seems to suggest that crumpets and muffins are different names for the same item. They are not! Your video shows a method of preparing and cooking muffins. Crumpets are quite a different commodity. Although the mixing and cooking of a crumpet is very much the same as with a muffin, crumpets differ in the way they look and taste. A crumpet is necessarily full of holes (into which the butter melts when you eat them). This is achieved by adding bicarbonate of soda to the batter. This reacts to bubble up and create the necessary - vital - holes. The texture of a crumpet is quite unlike that of a muffin, which is nothing more than a bread-like texture. Also, crumpets are NOT split and buttered inside. They are eaten whole with butter and jam spread on top (often after toasting them). There are countless videos available on RU-vid (from the UK) showing the technique for making proper crumpets. Here is one of the better videos on crumpets: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-41wf4jYA0Tg.html
@@stephenbuttriss5396 Indeed. When I make crumpets and there is batter left over after filling the rings I just pour it onto the hot plate and it spreads out making a pikelet.
Your crumpets are a disaster. The top should be a mass of holes from where the bubbles formed in the batter as they cook rise to the surface and burst - the reason: your batter is too thick and needs to be runnier. You do NOT slice open a crumpet. Your crumpets are more like a muffin which you do slice open. Go back to square one and start again - I've been cooking for 70 years now, Yep 82 this year.
That is the reason it is difficult to find the proper rings these days, they were all snapped up by fast food places for frying eggs on a griddle, way back 60 years ago.
a crumpet as a sandwich never heard of such a thing and I have been eating crumpets for over 70 years you probably mean a muffin which is something completely different,
English muffin is not to be confused with Crumpets they are two diffarent sweet breads, the only thing they have in common is the use of the same shaper
It's no wonder people from the US get confused and think crumpets are just muffins, when people use the terms interchangeably like this. Crumpets ARE NOT muffins. Muffins are normally baked - in an oven. Crumpets are effectively griddle pancakes. Anyone who's eaten them knows they are VERY different. Crumpets are eaten whole, because of the vertical holes running through the structure, while muffins are split to eat. (a la McMuffin.)
Learned so much from this entertaining and informative video. Looking forward to making English muffins following Comfort Dad's clear and easy (at least easy when he does it) instructions. Also looking forward to trying pickled beets and sharp cheddar together - would not thought of combining those two but sounds yummy!
Watching this gives me some relief as I made crumpets the other day and the did not bubble up on top, so I flipped them and they had the same brown top. Not what I wanted but my family loved them. Aesthetically were not up to my standard sadly.
This batter is more dry than other crumpet batters I have seen. Maybe that’s why he calls these both muffin and crumpet. My first time attempting crumpets my batter was too dry and the crumpet was more dense and had very few holes, much like a muffin.
Love this ! I just wish I didn’t have to modify every bread recipe I eat. Being gluten free can be such a challenge. Love your recipe and instructions I have hope that I can use a batter yeast bread gluten free recipe as a substitute. Totally love your griddle!
I bet there is a gluten free crumpet recipe out there! The principle of how to make them is the same once you have the batter. Let me know how you get on!
I love this video because it’s very difficult to find crumpets in the United States. I want to make my own because my wife will love them! I am curious if I make them and store them in the fridge Would you recommend toasting them in a toaster and do I cook them completely through before or do I just toast the completely cooked ones?
Freezer sandwiches with a variety of filling make for a fast breakfast or snack. Take them out of the freezer, wrap in a paper towel, a mixrowave. Ready in just a few seconds. Very yummy.
I wish I knew the brand of his electric griddle as well as the crumpet rings! I’ve searched Amazon and other websites for hours trying to find products that match what I am seeing in this video!
@@1molossus no- clotted cream is a totally different beast -fresh cream heavy cream slow simmered to reduce it to a thick consistency. Goes best on Scones with a strawberry or raspberry jam- oh my!
Thank you, but please edit your ingrediants list to correct the name and the amount of each ingrediant e.g. flour amount = xxx, milk amt = xxx, : etc..
Bit puzzled by by swapping between Muffins and Crumpets. Crumpets, as far as I know have little holes blown in them from the bubbling during the first cooking phase whereas Muffins (in England) also know as English Muffins elsewhere are a bready type things which is what you have there I think. The title of the video is misleading in that it implies you will cook both types. That is unless I am missing something.
Too bad there are about 20 pages of various English muffin rings on Amazon to choose from! Still looking for the anodized aluminum ones mentioned here in this video since there were two tried and not liked.
These ARE crumpets. They are made with a batter and has baking soda ( which causes the holes for the butter to melt through) and yeast. Whereas English muffins is dryer, a dough; uses no baking soda and has butter/ oil as one of the ingredients.
These are crumpets they just don't have that many holes. English Muffins are made with a dough not a batter as well as having butter added to the dough unlike crumpets.
I think your batter is just a little too thick, it’s more like a bread dough. sorry. English born ex pat in Australia. If thinner you would have more bubbles in your crumpets. (Yours are more like a muffin to me. Just saying lol)
@@carolynknight7670 - I think you have must have replied to the wrong Stephen Buttriss, I am an ex pat, but I happen to live in Germany. Check my comment.
Thank you for your comprehensive instructions. BTW, we, ( the U.S. ) didn't have to 'wait' for the results of the Presidential election. Just a bunch of loud, sore losers here : (
Muffins and crumpets are NOT interchaneable. Completely different . Your American style crumpets looked good, but were not in any way English. The tops should be full of holes. No need to brown the tops so much on the griddle. You don't cut in half horizontally. They should be toasted before buttering.
Very confusing as you keep talking about muffins, then crumpets, then muffins! English crumpets are full of holes/bubbles. Check other videos to see how to make proper crumpets!
Maan, Fahrenheit, really? I'm British, and I've never used Fahrenheit! Saying that, I use a bakestone, on the gas hob, so don't have a temperature gauge anyway :D
What's this nonsense? I'm pushing 60 years old and have never seen or heard of anyone cutting a crumpet like that. Literally never. You sound (middle class) English but who is this aimed at? No one calls them 'English crumpets' in Britain and what Americans call 'English muffins' are not the same as crumpets. What the hell is going on? It's one thing to pitch British recipes to Americans etc, and should be congratulated if anything, but to perpetuate nonsense like English crumpets and suggest they're the same as 'English muffins' is ridiculous. If you're filming that in America, dont come back, mate, you're dead to us.
