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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:
brandysoakedbitch · 21/02/2012 22:17

I can think of two people too who don't know what the ingredients are and both in their thirties. Neither of them could tell you what is in pastry or yorkies or other stuff like cakes/flapjacks. I am not judging them, they no doubt know lots of things that I don't know about. I just wonder what happens after that, the generational thing. I learned to cook from my Nana and Mum and did Home Ec at school (old Gimmer) - what happens to those skills if children don't see them in their homes? Maybe cooking shows make up for it??? But a lot of what they cook on the telly needs fancy stuff which might put people off trying? Dunno

2ticks · 21/02/2012 22:20

Years ago on here, I read a phrase that I have said in my head many mnay times and have wanted to use ever since - "why don't you just fuck off back to smug-land on the wanker express" Fits this thread perfectly!

countessbabycham · 21/02/2012 22:20

I'm an old gimmer too brandy but I flat refused to pay any attention to cooking with Mum and my Home Economics teacher despaired of me.I only ever remember making pineapple upside down cake,swiss roll and Eve's pudding anyway......

Cazza72 · 21/02/2012 22:21

How busy can you be?? Well I walked through the door at 6.45 tonight, after leaving the house at 6.30 ... DS wailing for pancakes, DD the same & it's nearly bedtime ... I have frying pan out before even taking coat off - filled bottle with water (yes - bottle if ready made mix), shake et voila - pancakes on plates 5 mins later! Nope making the mix doesn't take long, but you need to get over yourself!

Ineedadollar · 21/02/2012 22:21

At 50p a go it was much cheaper than buying all the ingredients separately. Plus no washing up.
It's a bit like saying 'I don't understand ready meals, why don't you just cook from scratch?' or 'why have a washing machine when you can wash by hand'...

Soccermom2 · 21/02/2012 22:22

I was in supermarket today and was trying to decide to make my own or buy mix so i picked up packet of dry mix to read instructions and it said 'Just add Eggs and milk' So is dry mix just basically flour????

Needless to say i made my own!

DioneTheDiabolist · 21/02/2012 22:22

I bought pancake mix for the first time this year.
'twas because Sainsbos had one on offer for 24p. I bought 8 packets. I was so glad, because it meant DS could mix them as more and more friends "popped in" on their way home from work. I have one packet left.Grin

HoneyandHaycorns · 21/02/2012 22:22

But we don't all eat pastry or yorkies, brandy. So why do we need to learn how to cook them?

countessbabycham · 21/02/2012 22:24

DD2 was born on Pancake Day,and she's always been my little Pancake.

I think I made her beautifully.Grin

Parker231 · 21/02/2012 22:27

I can't cook -have been taught but not interested in spending time stuck in the kitchen. We're veggies so loads of veg each day and we all like fruit. Whoever is in first starts the meal (usually not me !). You don't have to cook from scratch to made healthy food.

FunnysInTheGarden · 21/02/2012 22:27

do you know what? Some people love to cook but have no time at all, so when I got home tonight at 6pm and DH had given the DC premade pancakes after a full day teaching and then picking them up at 5pm I was not in the least judgy. I patted him on the back and thanked fuck I had a good enough DH that he had remembered pancake day.

So op enough with your judgy 'oh it's only milk, flour and some eggs' bollocks

brandysoakedbitch · 21/02/2012 22:28

Don't be crass honey, they were examples of basic recipes off the top of my head. I meant in a rather rounder way than you are interpreting it (as you well know) - I was meaning basic things that a lot of people eat.

Soccermom2 - yes that was what I was thinking re. the flour, i think it may be vanilla flavoured flour actually

takingiteasy · 21/02/2012 22:35

It's shocking isn't it?

I even seen some fucker buying play doh the other day. I mean don't the know how easy it is to make your own?

My bastarding DH bough a loaf of bread the other day - I mean doesn't he know there are only 4 ingredients in bread? Lazy fuck!!

ladymariner · 21/02/2012 22:37

You want to make your own? Make your own.
You want to buy readymade/ mix? Great, buy it.

Why the fuss, surely it's each to their own. Who gives a fuck what anyone else does, as long as you're happy doing it. Stop being so judgmental Op, if this is all you've got to be shocked about then count yourself lucky.

honey couldn't agree more with a lot of your posts!

HoneyandHaycorns · 21/02/2012 22:37

But that's precisely my point, brandy. I don't need to be able to cook the basics that other people eat, I just need to be able to make the food that my own family eats.

Pancakes are a classic example. As it happens, I can make them from scratch, not because my mum taught me (she didn't) but because I googled it one year. It isnt difficult. But we eat them so rarely that it wouldn't really matter if I could make them or not. It just isn't important!

HoneyandHaycorns · 21/02/2012 22:39

Op, if this is all you've got to be shocked about then count yourself lucky.

Quite Grin

FunnysInTheGarden · 21/02/2012 22:48

and Honey here's a seconded from me too. Bollocks to those like Brandy who seem to think that readymade pancakes = poor poor DC who will never learn any basic cooking skills. DH has taught Food, my mum was a Domestic Science teacher and the whole family love to cook. We just don't have the time or inclination to make pancakes after a full days work (which the DC won't eat anyway!)

EmmaBemma · 21/02/2012 22:51

christ! people are so smug about food. It's become another measure of Life Achievement. I love cooking and baking but I don't bang on about it and I wouldn't sneer at anyone else for using pre-made anything.

Bewilderedmum · 21/02/2012 22:54

Ach! I made me own pancakes, cos had the stuff in for em, and I only worked a half day yesterday.

But bloody hell - am all for short cuts - if I have the stuff in, and have time, I will do it - if not - I will shortcut!

It's like aunty bessies roast potatoes - I always used to make me own - then one day last year, I pulled out the roasting tin and dropped all the hot fat on my foot. Cue 6 weeks later was still having dressings on my foot from where the skin came off - it's still slightly discoloured a year later - so now it's aunty bessies all the way! have a slight phobia about hot fat now!

I do batch cook every two weeks - casseroles, bakes, sauces, lasagnes etc - I have to be in the cooking zone though, when the boys are at their dads, I can put the radio on, and get down to it - thats me meals sorted...

As for yorshire puddings - am a complete traitor - am from Yorkshire - I can make my own, and have done so - we don't eat them very often, so again - aunty bessies 5 mins in the oven. Interestingly, I will boil up the chicken bones with various stuff for stock and soup afterwards, cos I don't like waste...

We all have shortcuts - whatever ones they are - I can't get too excited about someone choosing one over the other - life is too short!

Am a studying, working, single mum, and cook most stuff from scratch and freeze. yeah I take short cuts.. and we have a 'crap' meal once a week(fishfingers etc)

Yay for ready made pancake mix! :o

BelleDameSansMerci · 21/02/2012 22:58

My DD had so many pancakes at nursery today that she didn't want any more this evening.

Bewilderedmum · 21/02/2012 23:04

Belle - result! :o

OkayGrrl · 21/02/2012 23:06

It's quick and easier, nothing wrong with it in my opinion.

elizadoulalittle · 21/02/2012 23:07

I used to be smug about food life got in the way

theinets · 21/02/2012 23:09

there are a lot of attitudey, chippy people on this board this evening. just because you can't be bothered to cook properly for your family doesnt mean you need to take the guilt out by bitching at others.

HoneyandHaycorns · 21/02/2012 23:14

There are a lot of smug, judgey people on this board this evening. Just because you can't find anything better to do than mix up some flour with eggs and milk doesn't mean you need to vent your frustration by suggesting that other people are less worthy parents.

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