This is very, very heavy I have to say.

Like 15 pounds of batter.

Open your eyes, guys.

- Oh! - Oh (beep).

- I'm a little turned on right now I think.

- Me too.

(triumphant music)

- What's up, guys?

I'm Alvin.

I love making giant food and today on Tasty's Making It Big,

I'm gonna do some crazy stuff.

Ned and Zach from the Try Guys are coming in.

I'm super excited because I've always been

a huge fan of their videos.

They do these crazy things and they never back down

from a challenge.

I don't think I will either.

I will be challenging myself to make

the giant food of their dreams.

So let's go see what they want me to make for them.

What's up, guys?

- Hey. - How's it going?

Good to see you again.

- How's it going? - How are you?

How are you guys doing?

I haven't seen you for a while.

Have you guys been up to something?

- In the last year we've launched a new YouTube channel.

- YouTube.com/TryGuys.

Now, we're going on a nationwide tour.

We have a new book coming out.

June 18th. - Oh, okay.

- Boom.

- It's called "The Hidden Power of (beep) Up."

- What's this book about?

- It's a self help book from four people

that can't help themselves.

- You guys are like no strangers to like food videos.

- Yeah, we love making food videos.

Ned has a food series.

Actually, fun fact, Ned and I are the Brunch Boys

of the Try Guys. - Oh.

That's fun.

- You know, get some mims, mimosas.

- Oh, okay, got it.

Are you like pancake guys, or are you guys waffle guys?

What is your preference?

- Oh, I think we all know that the greatest breakfast food.

- We'll say it on three.

We know we're both obviously the same thing.

- [Zach And Ned] One, two, three.

- Waffles. - Pancakes.

- What? - What?

- It sounds like you guys have different opinions

on what your favorite food might be.

I'm gonna make something giant for you guys.

What should I make?

- Man.

- Look, I don't think you're gonna get

a waffle iron big enough.

- That is true.

- Here's the gauntlet I'm throwing down.

- Okay. - If you make me

a giant fluffy pancake that is delicious,

perhaps you can convince me.

- Okay.

All right, guys, I'm gonna get to work.

I'll see you guys in a bit.

You guys feel free to hang out but I'm gonna see

if I can make your dream come true

and I'm gonna see if I can create

one of your first memories of pancakes

to be the best thing ever.

(upbeat music)

Let's make these pancakes.

They're gonna be pretty big so we have a lot of batter

to get through.

I'm gonna dump in a lot of eggs,

and we're also gonna dump in a lot of milk.

Ooh, I feel like the rapper in the music video

when they like pour champagne.

This is actually a family recipe.

It's been passed down for many generations.

This one is by my Aunt.

We call her Aunt J.

Her very, very famous secret pancake recipe.

My Uncle Ben kind of fights over it.

He'd rather, you know, eat rice instead of pancakes.

That's kind of how it goes.

Ooh, this is looking nice.

So I don't know if you guys have seen,

I made a 100 layer lasagna video

and that one kind of used foil as the walls.

I kind of wanna take that idea

and make a pancake ring to kind of cook

in this pan over here.

Let's do some origami over here.

Now you gotta kind of roll this around.

So this ring goes into this pan.

Let that kind of hang out.

Give it a nice spray.

See, the worst part about making pancakes

is every time you pour the batter into the pan,

it always kind of gets everywhere.

I don't think there's a solution for that.

Okay, so this pancake has been cooking

for about five to 10 minutes.

It kind of looks done on this side

so let's give it a check.

Okay, so batter on top is a little raw.

It's fine if you flip it.

Hopefully, it's okay.

Well, I don't know if you guys can see, that's burnt.

I don't think this technique is working out so well.

So I think the issue is I need a pan that's thicker

and bigger and we're gonna go and try to find a bigger pan.

Cast iron.

That's not big enough.

Should I just square pan?

No, it's not a pancake if it's square anymore.

Oh, what's this?

Ooh.

Wait, this is perfect.

This is our paella pan.

I think this is gonna work perfectly.

Let's go for round two.

Okay, let's put this big boy to work.

I actually set up a double hot plate situation

because this guy's gonna need a lot of heat.

I'm naming him Jim.

He will be my guide for today.

We're gonna see if he can make the big pancake

that I wanna make.

This kind of feels like I'm making a pancake

for an entire village.

Here we go.

That was an entire box of pancake mix.

Family recipe.

I wanna check it when the edges are starting to firm up

and a lot of bubbles are coming through.

Fingers cross because this pan was a godsend

and I just really wanna make a big pancake.

I'll see you guys in a bit.

So it's been like 20 minutes.

As you can see, it's kind of looking a little weird.

There's like a ring of like semi-cooked batter

on the outside.

I'm gonna say it's pretty much raw.

I think the issue is that there is

actually not enough heat to cook this pancake through.

I don't want all this batter to go to waste

so I'm gonna send this to the kitchen

and they're just gonna make some really nice

pancake bread pudding.

I'll be right back for a hopefully correct attempt

at making this giant pancake because this is heavy.

Him is not cooperating right now.

I have a plan for a different kind of batter

that I think will be able to do it correctly.

So we're just gonna melt a lot of butter

because everything tastes better with it.

Essentially what this is, it is more of

a Japanese style pancake.

Essentially they made a lighter batter

that was more focused on egg whites

to help make it fluffy.

Instead of cooking it directly on the pan and flipping it

they kind of cooked it almost like in a steam

or a grill kind of oven situation

so that they rose a lot and they kept their shape

and the heat was even.

So I'm gonna kind of go for that.

So this butter is just going to melt down.

That's looking pretty melted.

I'm just gonna take that off.

The next thing that we're going to do

that is part of a lot of the Japanese style pancakes

was the egg whites.

So I've got a nice, trusty, old stand mixer here.

I'll name you Dave.

We've got Dave and we've got Jim hanging out

in the back.

My trusted buddies with this giant pancake.

So just gonna get egg whites in here.

So we're gonna whip these egg whites

until they get softened peaks

and then we're gonna fold them into the rest of the batter.

So this, we're gonna do the melted butter

and then we're gonna add some warm milk

and then we're gonna add in four beautiful egg yolks.

Bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop.

This is gonna get nice and foamy.

Cool, and then in this big bowl

we're gonna do flour,

and we're gonna do some baking powder.

We're gonna get this.

Ooh, this is heavy.

In here.

Look at Dave over there.

He's doing work.

Those egg whites are looking nice and fluffy.

Thanks, Dave.

We're going to gently fold these into the batter.

I need to do the double folding technique.

I'm pretty sure this is not how you're supposed to do it.

Sorry, pastry chefs.

Sometimes you gotta just roll with the punches.

I'm pretty optimistic about this batter.

This is nice.

It is silky.

It looks pretty smooth so we're just going to transfer this

to give Jim hopefully one more last attempt.

Ooh.

That's nice.

Okay, so I do wanna smooth this out a little bit.

This is very nice and very smooth.

I'm going to actually take this to our grill

and pray this it does work.

Fingers crossed, and I'll see you guys out there.

Ooh, you're a heavy boy, Jim.

Or is your name Dave?

I forgot.

So this is our grill.

I'm glad that the pan fits perfectly within the grill.

We're gonna turn it on to about 300 or so degrees.

So we're gonna let this guy hang out.

Hopefully it's fully cooked and really nice

and golden brown by the end of it.

Pretty nervous, so we'll see.

Please.

It's been 45 minutes.

I hopefully think that's enough time to cook this pancake.

I really wanna see what it looks like.

So here we go.

Whoa.

This is crazy.

Holy crap.

This is like a giant souffle biscuit,

which is pretty cool.

Okay, there's a couple of cracks.

I think that's fine.

We're gonna turn it out.

The cracks are gonna be on the bottom anyways.

All right, let's go back and flip this out.

(dramatic music)

Okay.

We have one successful pancake attempt.

The battle is not over yet.

We do have to flip this guy.

I think I'm gonna put this tray on top

and then kind of do something like this.

This is like really, really heavy.

One, two, three.

Woo!

Okay.

Let's see what this guy looks like.

Whoa.

Oh, my God.

Look at this.

Woo!

This is a pancake.

That is right.

It's just a cake made in this pan.