to wonder why they sell ready-made pancakes?

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Do people actually buy them? Is anyone that lazy or useless in the kitchen that they can't make proper pancakes?

Maybe IABU, I've never tried them but they just look awful and don't appeal to me. If I couldn't be arsed to make them I'd rather go without tbh.

All this food snobbery gets my goat

Not everyone makes everything from scratch

Waiting your turn for a freshly made pancake is all part of the fun of pancake day. Well, in a small family anyway!

Katey, Nigella has a Home Mode Instant Pancake Mix recipe to which she 'just has to whisk in egg, milk and melted butter '

But as you can make perfectly good pancakes without baking powder, bicarb, salt or sugar (or come to that, melted butter) - yes, its flour

All you need is flour, eggs, milk and a good non-stick pan - and toppings.

Oh i didn't know you suppose to leave the batter, i made them straight.

They are really thick & rubbery. I used to buy them & scoff the lot with jif & sugar when I was being a fatty not eating as consciously as I am now

Some of them are actually quite nice!!!

MY DH makes the panakes (from scratch) in our house - if it was down to me we would have the ready made ones as I cant make them without them looking like a road accident.

Lazy...no
Useless....just at some things

The flat shop onces aren't very nice. But they're still nicer than the half-batter half-charcoal monstrosities I turn out due to impatience! I prefer shop-bought scotch pancakes :)

they sell them because people want them same as everything.

I don't care. They can taste like shit and be like chewing leather for all it bothers me. Cos I make my own you can make dozens that way

Leave the batter for at least 30 mins, it makes much better pancakes.

OP - do you make everything from scratch then?

I can see the point of ready made pancakes if you can't successfully fry one, or if you want to whip one out of the freezer for a single serving. But not pancake mix. What's the point?

I don't know really, so you don't have to weigh out the flour?

I buy scotch pancakes, in the same way that I buy crumpets or hot cross buns. I've never tried to make them but I do make regular pancakes (well, once a year anyway).

I buy Aunt Bessie's frozen mash as it's a great shortcut when making fish pie or shepherd's pie. Sometimes potatoes I buy are a bit new or the wrong type for mashing anyway.

The shop ones just don't taste anything like the home-made ones, but they don't taste horrible either, just different.

I make mine from scratch possibly because my mother would disown me if I didn't (being French and all that), and she can't even cook herself.

The basic recipe only requires flour, eggs and milk - and the odd splash of dark rum or orange flower water... and they taste wonderful if I may say so myself (I can also eat more of them than DH any day). I can never be bothered with leaving the batter to rest though. It is recommended but mine haven't suffered as a result that I'm aware of.

The key as far as I know (for crepes; I'm rubbish at american pancakes) is a decent pancake pan i.e. big diameter, shallow and as flat as possible, fairly liquidy batter, and make sure the pan's hot before pouring the batter.

yes I am useless in the kitchen and I've bought the ready made ones simply because I can't put my dc through the shame, humiliation and horror of watching their mum fail for yet another year at making pancakes ( even the ready made batter ones)
Am I lazy? no
Are you being unreasonable? yes

I like baking but I certainly don't make everything from scratch. Pancakes are really quick and easy though, especially when most people normally have the ingredients at home anyway

It is for when you have no cooker/kitchen. very kind of the manufacturers to be so thoughtful like that. I have also discovered this week that you can get microwave mashed potato.

what's with the orange flower water? Tell me more, I know nothing about using this in pancakes.

Right, have just made some pancake mix - the batter is lumpy no matter how much I whisk it with a fork - what can I do?

I thought pancakes are one of the easier things to cook? I usually make them but DD1 likes to buy the readymade ones sometimes - they are more like thin sponge cakes than the pancakes you make at home.

I use a hand whisk. Do you have one of those?

Mmmmmm, probably do have a hand whisk lurking in the back of the pantry somewhere. Thanks.

betty crocker shake to make pancake batter in a carton is quite handy.

i mean we could all bake our own bread but there's too much good stuff on telly....

I buy the pancake mixes, not because I don't have flour at home, but because it's only seven pence. You only need to add egg and water and I reckon it'd be more than seven pence worth of milk if I made them from scratch.
Just economics really.

I'm not lazy or useless in the kitchen (for the most part) I can knock up a chocolate fondant pretty perfectly, ditto for lots of other "tricky" stuff.

The perfect pancake evades me. So I am getting some help with mine tomorrow

I'm rubbish at pancakes - if my DCs weren't so uncritical then I'd definitely buy ready made, but fortunately they'll more than happily eat my crappy ones if they have enough maple syrup on.