Pancakes Are My Enemy

in #food7 years ago (edited)


No matter how many times I tried making them, I can never cook them just right.

I always try using different recipes, make sure all of my ingredients are of the same room temperature, I experiment with different cookware and they always end up not looking as nice as the ones you'd get at a restaurant.

I'm going to share a recipe I used to make them today, feel free to give me some tips and guides! I really would like to be able to make decent pancakes at home for once. Thanks :)

So here goes the recipe I used:

  • 200 ml milk;
  • 125 g flour;
  • 2 tb. spoons butter;
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder;
  • half of a teaspoon vanilla extract;
  • 2 tb. spoons sugar;
  • 1 egg;
  • a handful of chocolate chips;
  • a pinch of salt.

Directions:

Whisk the egg, sugar, vanilla extract and salt until fluffy, add in the milk, melted butter, stir, now add in the rest of the ingredients - sift the flour in, baking powder. Whisk well. Preheat your skillet on a medium heat, pour a small amount of batter onto the pan, approximately 40-50 ml, when you start noticing the batter bubble up, turn the pancake over and cook on the other side.

Okay, now this is what I got, even though I precisely followed the recommendations, for some reason my pancakes always get a little too charred on the edges, who can tell me why?


Oh yeah, I almost forgot that I used some banana for garnish and poured a little bit of maple syrup over the pancakes



I tried to take nice photos of these ugly pancakes for you guys, since I am also trying to learn more about photography and finally be able to feel confident with a camera.
Anyways, comment, discuss, help me to get better!

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I'm pancakesexual, these pancakes are definitely top tier

I will take that as a compliment :) Nice!

I guess your pan is a little bit too hot. Try lower the heat and use oil spray instead of butter. Practice make perfect :) I share a Japanese style pancake recipe. If you are interested, please have a look of my post. Cheers !

Thank you for the tip @krichy! I only used butter for the batter and I used oil to grease the pan, next time I will cook them on the lower heat!
And YES! Of course I wanna go check out Japanese style pancakes, thanks!

Never used anything but butter for 50 years oil tastes awful......

What kinda oil have you used that tastes awful?

  • I use olive oil or avocado oil for salad dressings;
  • sesame seed oil for stir fry;
  • coconut oil or butter for baking;
  • grape seed or coconut oil for every day frying needs.

Never had an issue.

I was referring to making pancakes I've never cooked them any anything but butter......

Goctha, it kinda sounded like you only use butter, sorry for the misunderstanding.

your pan is little too hott, and i wouldnt add butter to the mix...also make sure to let batter sit for a few minutes...

Gotcha! Thank you! I will leave it out next time and make sure to cook on a lower heat! :)

I know sometimes it's just the way the butter or oil sits on the pan that chars my edges up around:(
Still always taste great:)
But Your Recipe and those Pancakes look Bomb

Thank you very kindly! I think I'm gonna practice some more, they are very rare in my kitchen haha

YIKES!!!!! LMAO! I think your pan is toooooo hot lol.
Here is how I do them...

That's a great tutorial! Thanks a lot for sharing, gives me a better understanding of what I gotta do next time! :)

WOAH, yeah, those were some shitty pancakes! hahaha

Bein' the pancake hero.

Being from the South, I figured you would introduce @kotturinn to the loveliness of biscuits and gravy! lol

I've tried to weed out all of the unhealthiness incorporated into a Southern lifestyle haha. I wanna live a little longer than 30!

As a pancake wizard, I understand the rules of pancakery, the first of which is to love all your pancakes as if they were your own children. Fore in a way... they are. They are of you, from you, a part of you. They are a gift to the world of the magical flavor and syrup holding that only a pancake can give!

It's only by embracing your failures as perfect in their own way, and as edibly delicious as their more symmetrical brethren can you achieve the highest levels of wizardry! And remember the Pancake Wizard creed, sister!

"I will eat your pancakes, anytime"

May the syrupy flat peace be with you.

Thank you @mikedynamo! I'm happy that the pancake wizard gave me a few tips himself!!! I am going to try to follow every bit of the recommendations given!
I'm actually pretty good at cooking crepes, but I fail miserably on the pancake field . . .

Ok here is on sale the perfekt machine for pancakes . I order it and when its here will post how works . My pancakes will be just perfekt :)

But I wanna make mine from scratch! :)

They are from scratch you just use this thing for perfekt backing form :)

Ohhh! I see, I gotta look into that! Thanks!

Those are some delicious looking pancakes @kotturinn, very nicely photographed too!

Thanks for the recipe!

Thank you @shieha! I hope that your pancakes turn out prettier!

Great thing about pancakes is they can't really be messed up!

Hahaha! That picture is cracking me up!

Ahhh good o'l flap jacks

Haha! Sure do wish I could make the real American pancakes!