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?

No. Bread isn't necessarily asier or cheaper to make yourself and it takes lots of time and practice and wasted ingredients before you get it spot on. And you have to plan ahead.

Unlike chopping and freezing onions or whisking up some pancake batter.

'Everyone has eggs, milk and flour'.

We don't. Got some cornflour but that's it. Kitchen with very little storage so can't have things hanging around 'just in case'.

Rarely have eggs in either. We buy them every now and then if we want something specific. Only have milk because DD drinks it!

That krusteaz american pancake mix from Costco is lush! I'm a keen baker and spent many wasted years trying to tweak recipes to get perfect iHop fluffy pancakes only to find it in a huge bag off the shelf in Costco! Now it's ll done and dusted in 5 minutes, just add water. What's there not to like?!

It's cheaper isn't it? 1/2 doz eggs £1, bag flour 40p, Pt milk 50p. Betty Crocker mix currently on offer for 84p

Does the mix taste the same? I don't know that I've ever tried it. But I'm not mad keen on the thin ones and generally make the massive fat american ones.

For the ones where you only add water I can see the point. Because a batch of pancake batter made with one single egg is still enough for about four people. So if only a couple of people want them you just use half the powder I suppose? Easy peasy :)

DS1 has banned pancakes.

DS2 won't eat them, even lovingly home made from scratch.

Life is so much easier.

I end up with lumpy batter if I try to make pancakes. Luckily DH makes great pancakes so we don't buy the mix, but I would consider the mix if he didn't.

When is pancake day?

Next Tuesday.

And we found some sort of critters in our flour once, so binned it and started to store flour in the freezer. That works really well and you get a refreshing cool breeze when you sift the flour.

No idea why anyone buys it but it did give DS and I a good laugh as we were doing the shopping in Tesco the other week because we were trying to work out what the hell was in it that made it easier to make than whizzing flour, eggs and milk up in the blender

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It's cheaper isn't it? 1/2 doz eggs £1, bag flour 40p, Pt milk 50p. Betty Crocker mix currently on offer for 84p

Err the Betty Crocker mix only makes 6 pancakes! With that shop, you could make triple the number of pancakes and have eggs and flour left over.

Pancakes are the very devil to cook but making the batter is one of the easiest and less messy cooking jobs I can think of.

I do turn my nose up at those mixes, tbh, whilst fully understanding why people buy ready meals which would take hours to make from scratch.

Because it's only 15p in Asda.

This question isn't worth its own thread, but in a supermarket the other day I saw frozen omelettes! Surely no one would buy such things. I can't believe they've been manufactured.

Spatial but I don't want to make 18 pancakes, there's only 2 of us! And I wouldn't want all the flour left over either, nowhere to put it.

You can't compare making bread to making pancake batter!

Pancake batter will take 5 minutes to make, absolute tops.

Yeah but spatial it doesn't matter how many you want to make, if you only want 4 you still have to buy the minimum amounts sold of eggs milk and flour which are generally as I described.

Portion size is perfect for two without getting your measuring scales dirty!

GotToBeInIt - that's fine, that's not the point though. The point was that a comparison was being made about cost which was incorrect, not comparing like for like.

I had weevils,little fuckers. It took months to get rid. I always freeze new flour & all dried stuff is now kept in Kilner jars.

I'm quite surprised that people don't have eggs, milk and flour in the house.

I bake about once or twice a year (mince pies at Christmas and very occasionally an apple crumble or something) and I make the occasional cheese sauce, or thicken something with flour, or make Yorkshire puddings once a year say. We buy flour in the very small bags.

Always have eggs and milk though.

Have never got it either - as you often have to add milk and eggs so it's FLOUR.
People with more money than sense!

Blimey, you've left it a bit late Housewife2010. I was starting to think I wasn't going to read the traditional "why don't people make their own pancake batter" thread this year. It wouldn't feel like a proper pancake day without one.

I've bought some ready done mix to try this year. If it saves a faff I'll try it.

'Frozen yorkshires are acers, frozen roast potatoes not so much sad. I wish they were.'

Agree. But I do get the ready prepared chilled roasties (not frozen) and they're brilliant. No peeling. No par boiling. Just roast in the tray. Highly recommend.

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If chopping and freezing my own was easy for me I'd do it. But I have issues with my hands.

Never judge why someone buys something that makes life more convenient