People at gas stations who fill up their vehicles and then disappear to do who knows what in the little convenience store - vehicle still at the pump, blocking the lane. And they are not going in to pay for the gas….yesterday it was a family of five exiting the store with armloads of snacks and drinks.
I don't know how many dozens of times I have made pancakes in my life, but I am still unable to flip the fkrz without getting batter all over the spatula and the edges of the skillet.
Oh well. At least I don't burn them any more.
Cast iron and a fish turner
Yeah, I have a cast iron skillet, but not a fish turner.
I figured out (too late) that one of my issues is cooking up multiple pancakes at once. If there's only one in the skillet, it has plenty of room to maneuver around it, and I can flip it fine. As soon as there's another pancake in there, I start having trouble. I'm too impatient to do them one at a time.
I should get a cast iron griddle. More room to maneuver without being blocked by the edges of the thing.
What do you do for mickey mouse pancakes?
One big pancake and then cut out the shape? With a spatula?
In my experience, if I'm having trouble flipping a pancake, I either made it too big, or I tried to flip it too soon, or both.
Small pancakes are easier to flip, and a stack of five smallish pancakes tastes just as good as a stack of three biggish pancakes, so why make things hard on myself?
And ideally, a pancake should be like 90% cooked before I flip it, so that only the very top is raw liquidy batter. If you're worried that the first side is going to stick and burn, get the pancake turner underneath it and shift it around a little, then slide the turner back out and let it keep cooking for a while before you actually try to flip it.
Being able to flip pancakes like a boss really justifies all those many hours I spent juggling as a teenager instead of, you know, having friends and kissing girls.
What do you do for mickey mouse pancakes?
Not make them?
Medium high heat, cook until the *edges* are dried and you have lots of bubbles going in the batter. And if you have a lot of "loose" liquid batter remaining, just wait to flip. (If that happens a lot, cook with a bit less heat until you get dry edges with lots of bubbles at the same time.)
also, the thicker the batter, the lower the heat.
also, the thicker the batter, the lower the heat.
*waggles eyebrows*
Paleocon wrote:also, the thicker the batter, the lower the heat.
*waggles eyebrows*
*Laughs in Shohei Ohtani"
People at gas stations who fill up their vehicles and then disappear to do who knows what in the little convenience store - vehicle still at the pump, blocking the lane. And they are not going in to pay for the gas….yesterday it was a family of five exiting the store with armloads of snacks and drinks.
I do that at a gas station near me, the lot is so tiny and wedged into a corner and only has two pumps. Unless somebody us behind me. Most other times I usually fill up at night when nobody is around, so I have the choice of the pumps.
Lent wrote:People at gas stations who fill up their vehicles and then disappear to do who knows what in the little convenience store - vehicle still at the pump, blocking the lane. And they are not going in to pay for the gas….yesterday it was a family of five exiting the store with armloads of snacks and drinks.
I do that at a gas station near me, the lot is so tiny and wedged into a corner and only has two pumps. Unless somebody us behind me. Most other times I usually fill up at night when nobody is around, so I have the choice of the pumps.
I read the OP with confusion. Like I almost *never* have to line up for a pump or have a car waiting behind me at a pump, regardless of time of day. Only exception is Costco, where that "never" is an "always". So I'm happy to leave my car next to the pump while I go get snacks, and I walk out of the convenience store to a rank of empty pumps, and my car. I'm in suburban-ass suburbia, maybe this is an inner city thing?
MaxShrek wrote:Lent wrote:People at gas stations who fill up their vehicles and then disappear to do who knows what in the little convenience store - vehicle still at the pump, blocking the lane. And they are not going in to pay for the gas….yesterday it was a family of five exiting the store with armloads of snacks and drinks.
I do that at a gas station near me, the lot is so tiny and wedged into a corner and only has two pumps. Unless somebody us behind me. Most other times I usually fill up at night when nobody is around, so I have the choice of the pumps.
I read the OP with confusion. Like I almost *never* have to line up for a pump or have a car waiting behind me at a pump, regardless of time of day. Only exception is Costco, where that "never" is an "always". So I'm happy to leave my car next to the pump while I go get snacks, and I walk out of the convenience store to a rank of empty pumps, and my car. I'm in suburban-ass suburbia, maybe this is an inner city thing?
Same, but in a rural area.
The very idea of getting back in my car without paying for my gas first would make me incredibly anxious, like to any observer it would clearly look like I was trying to steal it. Or heck, that I might have a brain fart and actually drive off without remembering to pay.
Yeah it's a constant when we travel home to visit family. Everyone knows the cheapest gas spots right off the interstate and they are slammed.
So I pay with credit, my wife goes to pee, and then I move the car over by the building when she comes out and I go in to pee. System has been working for 15 years.
This f*cking PayPal commercial. I hope it kills Will Ferrell's career.
Medium high heat, cook until the *edges* are dried and you have lots of bubbles going in the batter. And if you have a lot of "loose" liquid batter remaining, just wait to flip. (If that happens a lot, cook with a bit less heat until you get dry edges with lots of bubbles at the same time.)
Or, just make waffles instead! Much less guesswork, and better end product.
A couple of weeks ago I made waffles instead of pancakes. Our wafflemaker hasn't been used in... maybe since we got married? But we decided to try the George Foreman Grill waffle plates which have definitely never been used.
Turned out terrible. Dense and chewy. Bisquick said to use the same recipe for waffles as I do for pancakes so I did and now I don't know if the problem was the batter or the grill. Probably the grill.
I don't make waffles often, but when I do I use a different recipe for waffles than I do for pancakes. The different ratios of ingredients matter a lot.
No waffle iron here, nor room for it. I guess I could use cast iron waffle irons and put them in the oven maybe?
I am more of a pancake person anyway. I know, heresy.
You want some heresy? Pancakes NOR waffles belong on a breakfast plate. Just a bunch of empty carbs that you COVER in sugar.
Worst. Breakfast. Ever. May as well snort crushed Fruit Loops.
That is absolute heresy, as advertised.
My personal preference is an egg pancake (probably more popularly known as a dutch baby, but never called that in my area) but they take like half an hour just to make one so I don't make them often.
Yeah there's caveats to my heresy, like a dutch baby, for instance. The wife has a "cloud waffle" recipe that is made with cottage cheese and sour cream, and is a protein powerhouse of a breakfast, much more sensible than your average pile of syrup and flour.
May as well snort crushed Fruit Loops.
Challenge accepted!
I mean I would probable try this...
I am more of a pancake person anyway. I know, heresy.
My wife and I fight about this all the time, but I do all the cooking so waffles it is 
Jonman wrote:May as well snort crushed Fruit Loops.
Challenge accepted!
Report back with stories of what your boogers were like afterwards.
WizKid wrote:Jonman wrote:May as well snort crushed Fruit Loops.
Challenge accepted!
Report back with stories of what your boogers were like afterwards.
I'm gonna be Tik-tok famous...
I don't make waffles often, but when I do I use a different recipe for waffles than I do for pancakes. The different ratios of ingredients matter a lot.
Do you make them from scratch? Like i said, I use Bisquick for pancakes and its recipes for pancakes and waffles are the same.
Stengah wrote:I don't make waffles often, but when I do I use a different recipe for waffles than I do for pancakes. The different ratios of ingredients matter a lot.
Do you make them from scratch? Like i said, I use Bisquick for pancakes and its recipes for pancakes and waffles are the same.
Yes, both from scratch. I'll use the box stuff sometimes for pancakes, but not for waffles. The box telling you not to alter the recipe is technically true, you can use the same ratio of ingredients for both, but you've seen the results you get. I can't say what specific adjustments to make though as I've never done that myself.
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