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?

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I never bother weighing any of it, just chuck in a mound of flour, add a coule of eggs and a spalsh of milk and whisk til you get a gloopy mix and slowly add milk. Really simple.

Much prefer the taste of homemade, but thats my preference, couldnt give a flying fig what anyone else does. :)

Because it's cheaper, and means we can still have them when we've not got any much milk in.

In fairness they are probably plentiful in factories etc but I haven't stopped eating biscuits!

I've bought pre mixed just add water and shake pancake batter when travelling.

Much less expensive than buying a small bag of flour, half a dozen eggs and a small bottle of milk. No leftover waste, and no mess, just one saucepan to clean.

It tasted rank.

I've just looked and binned two bags of open flour as I could see red flecks in them. The whole bastard cupboard is a crumb fest - I could live in there for a week just of that alone! I want to set fire to my kitchen. Dp has just took the matches off me.

How fucking horrid!!! I'm off for a shower with bleach

I use the containers you add milk to when we're away in our campervan. The kids want pancakes for breakfast most mornings and I can't be faffed with making my own batter!

1 egg
1 cup flour
1 cup milk

It doesn't matter too much how big the cup is.

(And DD also likes instant mix)

Cause although ive made batter before its never right and for £1 i get a ready batter just add water and perfect pancakes. Its also cheaper than getting everything in!!!!

I bought the mix once and didn't find it any handier tbh, like others I never bother to weigh or measure ingredients though and it just all goes into one bowl, so not exactly challenging to wash up. Are people referring to 'ready made pancakes' for the purposes of this thread, or do you always call them that? Never heard them called that before.

Because I dont eat eggs and I hate the fucking things in the fridge. It's like a 6 pack of chicken periods or abortions in a carton. VILE
There's always one isn't there? What a stupidly incorrect thing to say. Totally disgusting comment.

I definitely don't have milk, flour and eggs at home!

I'd be in a bit of a panic if I run out of eggs. Allergies aside, they're such a staple and we easily go through 20 or 30 a week between the two of us as we have 2 each for breakfast most days, plus baking, yorkshire pads, pancakes etc.

I always have flour, eggs and milk. But I bought a Betty Crocker pancake mix today because it was a quid. And I'm currently going through a lazy as fuck stage of cookery.

I love cooking and baking from scratch but I go through stages of not being arsed, because no-one in my house ever notices if I've spent hours over the hob or if I've used a packet mix. So if they can't even tell then I might as well be lazy!

Does everyone make the crepe style pancakes?

I hate them vile soggy flaccid tasteless things. ugh prefer the small thick American style ones. with lots of maple syrup

MissDuke on a thread about buying different forms/stages of pancake ingredients, saying "ready made pancakes" just helps to be clear what is meant - no, I wouldn't normally call them that.

why on earth not buy it?

have you read the ingredients? bisquick has all sorts of unpronouncibles. tescos looks a lot better, but has dried egg in it.

also, I am one who always has flour eggs and milk in the house.

I'm too lazy to buy the mix. We just go to the all you can eat breakfast buffet down the road.

Frozen yorkies are great, but any form of frozen potato is horrible, sorry. There is some kind of biochemical explanation, if I remember rightly; the freezing affects the flavor and consistency in some way.

Wait - Yorkshire puddings are made from the exact same batter as pancakes? Like, 4oz flour / 2 eggs / 0.5 pint milk? And then what, do I need a special tin? Isn't there supposed to be a ton of fat to make them taste so good?

This could revolutionize my life. I never do roasts as I always thought I couldn't do yorkshires and they're what make the rest of the faff worthwhile. Never occurred to me to look it up or anything...

Far easier than fannying about with several bowls, mixer, weighing ingredients etc.

Bloody hell what goes in to your pancakes? I mix mine in a jug, no weighing, start with about 1/2 pt of milk, and an egg, mix a bit, add flour a spoonful at a time until it is thick, mixing in between and pour in to the pan from the jug.

But then I wonder who buys Aunt Bessies, the same mix in a YP tin takes mins.

BrockAuLit

Before you make the batter put your oven on full, put a metal tin in - it can be a YP tin or a metal roasting tin (traditional) with enough fat that when it is melted it covers the bottom of the tin(s), leave it for about 15 mins - the fat should be smoking when you put your batter in, put it back in the oven for another 15-20 mins.

You can experiment with adding eggs or using duck eggs (favorite of mine), some people seem to need more eggs to get the pud to rise.

If you have a Sunday roast make too much batter and in the morning use the left over for pancakes (it looks disgusting in the morning you will want to throw it but give it a mix and it will be fine).

I buy it ready made as we only ever have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and I cannot be faffed making them from scratch.

Anyway who cares!!!

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I always buy the ready mix, or I would have to make sure i have got flour and whatever else I may need and the flour I don't use would go to waste and take up cupboard space.