the.com/batter
the messy in-between state where flour stops being ingredients and starts being breakfast
means A thin, pourable mixture of flour, liquid, and often eggs, used to make pancakes, cakes, and fried coatings — and also, in a separate sense, a person who hits or strikes something.
from The cooking sense and the hitting sense are tangled together. Both trace back to the Old French 'batre,' to beat or strike, from Latin 'battuere.' Batter the mixture is literally beaten stuff — flour and liquid whisked into submission. Batter the striker (and the verb 'to batter,' to pound repeatedly) come from the same beating root. So whether you're whipping pancakes or storming a castle, you're doing the same ancient thing: hitting until something gives.
- viscosity matters
- too thin runs, too thick refuses to rise
- gluten control
- overmixing makes pancakes tough as rubber
- tempura science
- icy batter fries crispier by limiting gluten
- raw warning
- flour, not just eggs, carries E. coli risk
- word twins
- same spelling means both pancakes and baseball hitters
ted williams — last player to hit .400 average in mlb (1941)
barry bonds — hit 73 home runs in a single season (2001)
ty cobb — highest career batting average at .366 across 24 seasons (1905-1928)