Pancake artwork (no, really)

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**DarkTraveler777**

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/08/dad-pancake-art-brek-nebel_n_5786370.html?cps=gravity

This kid scored in the dad lottery.

Brek Nebel lives in Marysville, Washington. He’s a field service technician who works on aircrafts and has a preschool-aged son.

He also happens to be a frying pan genius whose pancake art will knock your socks off.

Nebel’s pancake creations captured the imaginations of netizens last week, after a friend of his posted photographs of the artful breakfast treats on Reddit.

“This dude is better at making pancakes than most people will ever be at anything in their lives,” quipped one awestruck Redditor.

Nebel told The Huffington Post in an email that he started experimenting with pancake art about a year ago. He said he now makes a different design for his son every single week.

“It took a lot of trial and error and experimentation to get the style I've been using for the last 4 months,” he said. “It started out using molds and cookie cutters and has slowly evolved with food coloring and finding the right tools.”

Nebel added that his son, Koen, who happens to be his number-one fan and sous chef, usually provides the inspiration for new designs.

“On average [the pancakes] take about 45 minutes, but he's very patient for his age and he takes part in most of the process. He pours the ingredients in the bowl, mixes the batter, helps separate and add colors, and even helps flip sometimes,” Nebel said.

He added that while Koen “really enjoys the pancakes and requests them a lot,” the youngster's favorite part of the process right now seems to be “tearing them apart.”

If the pancakes are as pleasing to the tummy as they are to the eyes, we can probably guess why.

**KingCracker**

Those are awesome

**Paradigm**

Wow! That's... Unusual.

But brilliant!

**Mr. Burning**

would eat but...Would be mightily cold by the time they were put to the knife and fork.

**Tannhauser42**

Very nice, the best I can manage is a Mickey Mouse shape.

**squidhills**

Every time I try to make pancakes, they come out looking like Freddy Kreuger. And not on purpose.

**mega_bassist**

I feel like I need more shark-themed pancakes in my life.

**Wilytank**

No. A million times no. Pancakes and their very existence is a gift from the pantheon. They're meant to be eaten, not ruined like this!

*ahem*

I really don't care for "food art" as it seems rather pointless. It really doesn't matter if it looks like a shark, a t-rex, or a giant phallus. Does it taste good?

**DarkTraveler777**

Wilytank wrote:
No. A million times no. Pancakes and their very existence is a gift from the pantheon. They're meant to be eaten, not ruined like this!

*ahem*

I really don't care for "food art" as it seems rather pointless. It really doesn't matter if it looks like a shark, a t-rex, or a giant phallus. Does it taste good?

Texas Ranger can field this one:

Someone didn't love you enough when you were little, did they?

Did you read the story? These pancakes are (happily) eaten by the son of the chef who makes them.

**Wilytank**

DarkTraveler777 wrote:

These pancakes are (happily) eaten by the son of the chef who makes them.

That gives me zero information about how they taste.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

DarkTraveler777 wrote:

Texas Ranger can field this one:

Someone didn't love you enough when you were little, did they?

and I'm supposed to be hurt by the comment of a steer?

**DarkTraveler777**

Wilytank wrote:
DarkTraveler777 wrote:

These pancakes are (happily) eaten by the son of the chef who makes them.

That gives me zero information about how they taste.

Automatically Appended Next Post:

DarkTraveler777 wrote:

Texas Ranger can field this one:

Someone didn't love you enough when you were little, did they?

and I'm supposed to be hurt by the comment of a steer?

Troll harder, friend. And brush up on your back log of movie watching. You should feel bad for missing that reference.

**kronk**

That's pretty awesome stuff.

**Slarg232**

Honestly, I came here expecting Jesus.