Every six to eight months I make The Pancake Mistake. I forget that I don’t know how to cook the damn things that I always mess them up. But then I love them so much that I go back and make the mistake again. This week was that week.
"I forget that I don’t know how to cook the damn things' there are these things called 'recipes' you know. Some even come without five page travelogue about how it brings back memories of the cooks youth in Tuscany, or Alaska with pancakes its probably Alaska. I blame Proust for the endless remembrance of foods past that seems to clutter every recipe you read, you know where I'd shove his madeleine cake?
Ok so I have this one weird trick that has solved the pancake dilemma for me.
I have a best friend who not only makes them for me, but does so effortlessly, because she's a BAMF in the kitchen.
Her washing machine died today, so guess who's getting a pancake breakfast tomorrow in exchange for letting her bring all her washing to my place and borrowing my machine? #Winning 🥳😇
Did you feed an AI instructions "pancake disaster" to get that picture? Is it a case of If at first you don't succeed, just fuck up some more? Why did you use every pan that you own? Why do you keep carkeys in a pot directly next to the stove?
I don't understand how you can mess up pancakes (other than by burning them by not keeping an eye on them), but then I've never tried to cook them on such weird-looking frying pans, or one of those new-fangled glass stove tops. Perhaps it's the sharp corners?
So reporting back from another successful outsourcing of pancake manufacture to my BFF, I made enquiries as to how the 'experts' make pancakes.
JB, since you've not specified if the failure of your pancakes lies in the recipe or equipment I enquired as to both:
Recipe. Taryn cooks pancakes in bulk to have leftovers because she has a 19 year old son and an Army husband, but it's designed to be scaled up or down as required:
3 x cups self raising flour
3 x tablespoons sugar
approx 75g of melted butter
3 x cups of milk (this is a estimate. She eyeballs the milk and adds until the batter's consistency meets her requirements for fluffy American style pancakes. If you want thinner crepe style pancakes add more milk).
Equipment:
Apparently what you need is one of these bad boys:
The flat plate is ideal for cooking multiple pancakes at a time, and then you can flip it over to the ribbed side to do your bacon and other bits to go with your pancakes. Apparently a game changer in the BFF household pancake manufacture process.
I have photographic evidence to back all this up 🤷♀️
"I forget that I don’t know how to cook the damn things' there are these things called 'recipes' you know. Some even come without five page travelogue about how it brings back memories of the cooks youth in Tuscany, or Alaska with pancakes its probably Alaska. I blame Proust for the endless remembrance of foods past that seems to clutter every recipe you read, you know where I'd shove his madeleine cake?
Ok so I have this one weird trick that has solved the pancake dilemma for me.
I have a best friend who not only makes them for me, but does so effortlessly, because she's a BAMF in the kitchen.
Her washing machine died today, so guess who's getting a pancake breakfast tomorrow in exchange for letting her bring all her washing to my place and borrowing my machine? #Winning 🥳😇
Did you feed an AI instructions "pancake disaster" to get that picture? Is it a case of If at first you don't succeed, just fuck up some more? Why did you use every pan that you own? Why do you keep carkeys in a pot directly next to the stove?
I have so many questions.
I don't understand how you can mess up pancakes (other than by burning them by not keeping an eye on them), but then I've never tried to cook them on such weird-looking frying pans, or one of those new-fangled glass stove tops. Perhaps it's the sharp corners?
I am permanently banned from pancake manufacture.
So reporting back from another successful outsourcing of pancake manufacture to my BFF, I made enquiries as to how the 'experts' make pancakes.
JB, since you've not specified if the failure of your pancakes lies in the recipe or equipment I enquired as to both:
Recipe. Taryn cooks pancakes in bulk to have leftovers because she has a 19 year old son and an Army husband, but it's designed to be scaled up or down as required:
3 x cups self raising flour
3 x tablespoons sugar
approx 75g of melted butter
3 x cups of milk (this is a estimate. She eyeballs the milk and adds until the batter's consistency meets her requirements for fluffy American style pancakes. If you want thinner crepe style pancakes add more milk).
Equipment:
Apparently what you need is one of these bad boys:
https://www.sunbeam.com.au/kitchen-and-home/cooking/sandwich-presses-and-grills/diamondforce-reversagrill-bbq-grill
The flat plate is ideal for cooking multiple pancakes at a time, and then you can flip it over to the ribbed side to do your bacon and other bits to go with your pancakes. Apparently a game changer in the BFF household pancake manufacture process.
I have photographic evidence to back all this up 🤷♀️
JB, is your mistake trying to cook too many pancakes at once?
Where are the pancakes? I just see some skillets and some scraps of what looks like scrambled eggs? Hard to judge without seeing the actual flopjacks
When I learnt to make pancakes (my daughter is mad for them) I sought out the easiest to remember recipe and it has never lead me astray.
1 cup of flour
1 egg
1 cup of milk
1-1-1 - even I can remember it and I haven't made the damn things in ages!