To wonder why on earth people buy ready mixed pancake batter

[Housewife2010]

When it only takes a minute to mix an egg with some flour and milk?

Thanks to this thread (and the many positive reviews!) we went and bought ready cooked ones. Kids and DH loved them :)

I have just made my batter and put it in the fridge to rest. It will be all the more delicious because it was made from scratch with smuggery. (Just kidding, everyone should do what suits them best, so long as it tastes ok nobody gives a shit about exactly how it was made.)

The Ikea ready-made ones are amazing, much better than I can make, and they're frozen so I can use them a couple at a time for dessert for the DCs. I find some of the other brands of ready-made have sugar and vanilla flavouring which doesn't suit my tastes.

I can't comprehend people not having the basics of flour and eggs at homeboy general. I mean even without baking often flour is used as a thickener in casseroles/ to make breaded chicken/ fish, as well as the odd birthday cake, Xmas biscuits and pancake day of course

I don't cook casseroles/breaded chicken/fish, birthday cakes or Xmas biscuits. I almost never need flour, ever.

Eggs, however - I have them every single day, and we always have a basket full on the side.

I can't comprehend people not having the basics of flour and eggs

I can't comprehend that people can't understand that not everyone has a similar lifestyle to them.

I made the Betty Crocker mix ones this morning and they were shite. Made six pancakes, flabby and sticky, hard to flip.

I've gone old stylee and mixed up some flour eggs and milk for dinner tonight.

It could be I'm just not used to the consistency of the premade mix, glad I tried it though - it's not for me.

I've got them at home I just can't be bothered to use them right now for reasons which make sense to me, but no doubt Art will find it impossible to understand. I hope it's nice I'm also using Betty Crocker

I do have all food basics but dream of the day post family when I will always eat out, even for pancakes!

We have pancakes every Sunday and I never measure. I just chuck 3 eggs, around a cup and a half of plain flour and milk into a big jug and whizz with my hand blender. As long as the mix has the consistency of unwhipped double cream and you have a good pan, you can't go wrong.

2cats2many you are wise but with the experience and knowhow. I often do this. Chuck it all in is my general cooking philosophy. But I often have to sacrifice the first one to the pancake gods. Don't know why but the pan seems to need it to become non stick.

Is anyone else on all the pancake threads?

I eat the first pancake, because it's never as good as the rest. You must be right about pancake gods, because it was the same for my parents growing up.

Thought it was just me and my dodgy pan HSMM. I now fool the pancake gods by doing the first one very small and sort of wiping the pan with it. Hope the pancake gods aren't on this thread.

Because some of us do not like to and have no interest in cooking so I could:
1/. Buy a bag of flour (I would then be throwing out any unused flour afterwards)
2/. Buy a mixing bowl or similar because the only bowls I own are cereal bowls and I doubt that would work (?)
3/. I assume the quantities of flour & milk used bear some relevance to the success of said mixture so I would need to go buy scales and measuring jug.
4/. Then measure, mix and wash up everything
Or

I can spend £2 at M&S - and wash up a frying pan - bargin!

We have just eaten 18 ready made pancakes. Some savoury, some sweet. There were no tears although I feel a bit sick now.

Happy pancake day everyone, regardless of how your pancakes are made.

< happy pancake.

All this rubbish about it being cheaper - It might be cheaper than a bag of flour - but then you still have most of a bag of flour left afterwards for more pancakes, cakes, sauces, etc etc. And I really can't be bothered to calculate the costs of half a pint of milk and an egg but I guess it's less than 84p. It took me precisely 3 minutes to mix the flour, egg and milk together tonight.

We can't use the ready mix anyway because we have to use gluten free flour, but even so I really can't see the point. I can't see the point of pre-mashed potatoes, pre-sliced veg and Aunt Bessies roast spuds either.

And I couldn't care less if I'm being judgy. I've had a bad day.

Mrscakes - i love your happy pancake and happy pancake day to you too.

Ready mix doesnt work.....dam you betty...who can i complain too?

Mrscakes dh and myself need just one pancake each? Please.....

It doesn't matter if I buy pancake mix or make my own. I literally struggle to get pancakes to look like pancakes. They look like poorly made scrambled eggs.

Wordsmith it's not common to buy A egg or half a pint of milk though is it?* you have to buy a pint and 1/2 a dozen. So it is cheaper.

*waits for half of mumsnet to claim they can go and remove a single
Egg direct from the chickens bottom for a 3p donation to the farmer and fill a cup of milk direct from the udder

I'm now consoling myself with popping candy chocolate spread straight out of the jar as I feel upset that pancake is always ruined because I am crap.

elton - removing an egg from a chickens bum is a very specialist request which will cost you far more. Most chickens want extra for that kind of malarchy.

Just made our pancakes as didn't have time this morning. And bloody nice they were too!

groove I am a bad workman for sure and I suspect your pan is to blame. You need a fairly new non stick pan where the non stick is still in good nick.... So get one quick.