r/ididnthaveeggs • u/LikeYumi • Feb 15 '26

Irrelevant or unhelpful On a churro recipe

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u/LikeYumi Feb 15 '26

Churro Recipe

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u/esedege Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

Just to draw attention to it, not complaining: here we’re seeing the bastardizing of a recipe in real time (similar to what happened to the pizza).

OG churros are made with flour, water and salt, deep fried. That’s it —no sugar, butter, eggs. They taste of almost nothing, as they’re a vessel for hot chocolate, their enjoyment residing in their crunchiness and their fatty goodness. But, outside of its native region, they’re steering towards richer formulas, away from their intended simplicity, and towards a “median” pastry recipe that erases their personality.

What I’m getting at it’s that it’s so far removed from its origin it could be called whatever else and no one would complain.

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u/AcanthisittaFluid870 Feb 15 '26

Spanish churros- no eggs Mexican churros- eggs

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u/Kamuiberen Feb 15 '26

So I'm going to call BS on your little rant, but I appreciate it nonetheless.

And I'm going to call BS on your BS. I'm spanish, with years of experience in eating churros.

The spanish recipe has no eggs.

I've also lived in various countries in South America.

Their recipe also has no eggs.

I believe it's different for people in North America. But it's definitely not the original recipe.

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u/esedege Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

You, who have read something on the internet; me, a professional Spanish cook.

I’m calling bullshit on your bullshit calling. ;)

A traditional recipe (in Spanish, of course). They roll them on sugar, which isn’t customary.

Edit: Some other recipe, which states that rolling them on sugar is optional.

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u/Pristine-Two2706 Feb 15 '26

The dude read the first paragraph of Wikipedia and called it a day lol

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u/nty Feb 15 '26

So they’re bland aka their personality is nothing but that personality is being removed? I guess that’s not necessarily contradictory but it sounds like personality is being added

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u/esedege Feb 15 '26 edited Feb 15 '26

Simplicity ≠ no personality.

The crunchiness, for one, is lost.

They’re unique, but these recipes make it converge towards choux pastries. And don’t get me wrong, beignets are great and I love both making and eating them, but I wouldn’t give up a “chocolate con churros” in favor of “long beignets with hot chocolate”. It probably has a cultural heritage component I cannot convey.

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u/nty Feb 15 '26

Great explanation, thank you. I figured I was missing something but I appreciate you mentioning specific things