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to not understand premade 'pancake mix'?

219 replies

LifeIsButtercream · 21/02/2012 17:22

Pancakes: eggs, milk, water, flour - simples?

I know some people can't cook, but if anything, cooking them in the pan is the hardest bit! I was a bit shocked to walk into my local Tesco today and find that they had loads of eggs and flour in stock but had sold completely out of the premade packets......?

Food snob?

OP posts:
HoneyandHaycorns · 21/02/2012 20:13

I can make pancakes from scratch, of course I can. But after a long day in work and then cooking dinner, I really can't be arsed. I don't want the extra washing up, and it's quicker not having to weigh stuff out. So shoot me - I bought the ready-made stuff.

They were yum!

redyam · 21/02/2012 20:23

Haha I can't believe how lazy some people are. If you don't know the measurements, google is only a click away... It takes seconds....

LetsKateWin · 21/02/2012 20:25

I don't think it's being a food snob. I don't understand it either because there are only three ingredients (4 if you add Delia's butter), you don't need scales and you have to mix the powder you buy with something...so is it that different?

I'm not a great baker and I also don't understand the cake mix thing either.

I made these but didn't add the olive oil and cooked them in butter and added a pinch of salt.

I usually just do it by sight though.

PinkPepper · 21/02/2012 20:42

I cook cakes from scratch a lot but for some reason sometimes buy cake mixes because they remind me of cooking when I was young with my mum, I think she bought them mainly because I insisted I wanted to make them with those wafery pictures of cartoons :D

Parker231 · 21/02/2012 21:00

Why make them when the add water and shake ones are so easy ? I don't bake so we don't have any flour and someone has used up the last of the eggs !

MegIet · 21/02/2012 21:02

I've never bettered Sainsburys Basics batter mix, it's 10p or something insanely cheap.

Whenever I try and make my own I make a right pigs ear of it. And I'm usually a good cook / baker.

LittleMissFlustered · 21/02/2012 21:06

Sod the pancakes... Someboby upthread mentioned pre-chopped onions. Where from?! I need to know, I'm fed up of weeping into the pasta sauce:o

catgirl1976 · 21/02/2012 21:08

That was me littlemiss

they do them in Booths (northern). They are amazing

If you don't live near Booths I will send you some :)

sharenicely · 21/02/2012 21:10

Eggs, milk, water? Flour. I didnt use water does it make much difference ?
I made my own pancakes, they were delish and good fun to make. Pre dc I would always buy ready made pancakes or the mix.

brandysoakedbitch · 21/02/2012 21:12

Am not shocked but what do you have to add to a pancake mix anyway? Surelt there must be an egg or milk to be added?

I do think it is spectacularly fucking lazy when is only three ingredients

LetsKateWin · 21/02/2012 21:12

I suppose the cake mix is good if you're making them with young children. And it can become quite expensive if you're buying lots of bits and bobs for a one-off bake so I'll take back the comment about the cake mix.

brandysoakedbitch · 21/02/2012 21:18

NO cake miX is the same. From what I understand it is just flavoured flour and sugar. really not hard and I cannot believe that a small bag of flour would not be useful (and certainly cheaper) - I feel very strongly that children should know what ingredients go into basic foods and should learn to cook.

HoneyandHaycorns · 21/02/2012 21:18

You just add water, up to a little line that is marked on the packaging.

It may be spectacularly lazy, or it may just be an efficient use of a limited resource (time). Perhaps both.

But frankly, who gives a fuck? I mean, it's not like you get a medal for making your own pancakes. Hmm And there are more important things to get all virtuous about.

usualsuspect · 21/02/2012 21:20

I like being spectacularly fucking lazy

At least I'm not a smug tosser

EauDeLaPoisson · 21/02/2012 21:20

I made them from scratch. The kids ate a mouthful and dh said he wasn't hungry. Next year no pancakes home made or otherwise!!!

usualsuspect · 21/02/2012 21:21

Can you buy a bag of flour for 7p?

TitchVida · 21/02/2012 21:22

and sainsburys had pancake mix a 3rd off so it was sooo cheap. And pancakes are so yum, and even better when you don't have to think about it :) I bought a Jif lemon too - is official I am LAZY

wigglesrock · 21/02/2012 21:22

I'm not lazy, I just couldn't be arsed and the shaky ones are nicer, who knew?

Mallinky · 21/02/2012 21:24

My work colleague bought pancake mix last year during lunch.
We laughed our heads off when the instructions read to add milk and an egg.
Told her she'd been ripped off.

Parker231 · 21/02/2012 21:28

I go for the quickest and easiest option every time - cake mix, ready prepared vegetables and everything easy M&S can come up with ! If I was to cook from scratch it would be 8pm before we got to eat and by then DT's would have filled up on crisps and rubbish - time is at a premium !

EauDeLaPoisson · 21/02/2012 21:29

So if you still have to add an egg and milk wtf is in the ready made batter mix? Flour???

dementedma · 21/02/2012 21:31

laziest method ever was used here. Sent DS to grandma's after school. he got pancakes,I got no washing up. Result!

usualsuspect · 21/02/2012 21:34

I have no excuses tbh I just do what suits me

HoneyandHaycorns · 21/02/2012 21:34

You don't have to add milk or eggs - just add water and shake.

Though I like dementedma's method too. Grin

Aribura · 21/02/2012 21:37

I'm not usually big on the dairy. Didn't have any of the ingredients, so it was either buying

a) the mix and milk
or
b) the eggs, the flour and milk

when I probably wouldn't even use the remaining eggs before they went out of date.

Option a) was cheaper and easier and faster, so why do things the harder and more expensive way just to not be "lazy" according to MNers? Hmm