to be very proud of myself for making pancakes from scratch?

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I am a terrible cook. really, truly awful. I can barely boil an egg. but last week I made some currant buns, on sunday ds and I made some cookies and fairy cakes.

today I hovered over the ready-made pancake mix but instead left it, and have just made a batch of truly lovely pancakes. am preening. a LOT!

Well done you!

I made eggless pancakes last night (without an egg replacer) and they were GOOD

It doesn't matter if making pancakes is easy or not - for you it's an achievement - so, well done!! Try scones next

My 7 yr old ds can make them by himself so YABU

but the point is i KNOW its easy. and it did only take a couple of minutes, but i did it myself. dh does all the cooking in our house, i have no confidence in the kitchen and my lack of ability is a pretty big running joke on both sides of our family as well as among my friends.

YANBU if cooking is something new to you well done for trying and making them lovely! I never toss mine ever due to being crap at that.

YANBU - ignore the people sneering.

Def YANBU - you've overcome the fear of flipping! If you can do that you can do anything if you put your mind to it.

I think it is the fear. Once you actually cook them you realise how easy it is. You just have to be brave. And it is an actual fact that the first one is always crap. I use a tiny omelette pan then I can flip them easily!

I consider myself to be good at pancakes but tried a new batter recipe tonight. after 6 attempts the air was very blue so if you managed them in a more graceful manner then yanbu.

we are going to have the rest of them this morning!

dd is/has finished ours off too this am.

how are they this morning kitten?

dittany, exactly. it would have been far easier (and the type of thing i'd have done last year) to pick up a pack of aunt bessies ready mix, or even a packet of ready made pancakes, but i didnt.

What is even in the premix though?? Don't you have to add an egg anyway - in which case it must be milk powder and flour.

Having said that it's not the batter that's the difficult bit, it's the timing, fat and temperature.

Annoyingly my first one was cooked perfectly but the rest were a bit burnt! I made them for the first time as well DS ate his first pancake ever and liked it until he clocked the chocolate raisins!

riven, anut bessie does one, saw it in tescos yesterday, comes in a little carton.

My FIL made the worst pancakes I've ever had. MIL made the mixture and he just had to cook them. He managed to make them BOTH uncooked and burnt at the same time.

It's good that yours came out well the first time did it.

YANBU i am an ok cook for everything else but pancakes always go horribly wrong I dont know if its the mix or how I cook it I have no idea but they always go wrong. I bought a packet this year I give up !

YANBU at all! I'd consider myself a passably competent cook, but pancakes are really easy to fuck up, especially if you're making loads of them! The pan can be too big, too small, not hot enough, too hot, not enough batter, too much batter, not enough oil/butter, too much oil/butter, and then if you try and flip it too early or make any of the above mistakes and it scrunches up into a little wrinkly mess of gloop.

And when you're making them under the watchful gaze of beady, hungry eyes, it's even more difficult.

Congratulations on your pancakes. Now you'll want to make them all the time!

I'm very pancake fixated, as are my children and we have them every saturday morning for breakfast.

I've got the hang of it now took about a year of eating leathery, leaden disasters unless I stuck rigidly to a recipe.

Now I just hurl it all together without measuring - I just know what the batter needs to look like.

You know how I had mine yesterday? With whipped cream and buttery caramalised apple slices. I recommend!

Today it was just lemon, butter and sugar. And the pancakes were light and lacy round the edges..... [drool emoticon]

sigh at grown humans not being able to cok a pancake ffs

Sorry, need to add - if you get the right pan it makes a HUGE difference to your chances of success. I use a big, non-stick, round griddle and stick it on the wok burner on a very high heat. My pancakes are immaculate now - very thin, crispy at the edges, golden brown.....

kitty - anyone can make pancakes.

But not everyone can make perfect, delicious pancakes.

According to dd they were very nice

sometimes if I'm making yorkshires I'll do double the batter and cook the rest off as pancakes to be reheated as breakfast in the am

good grief. dc made the pancake batter from the recipe on the kids' cooking pull out in Saturday's Times. I did the frying and the best ones were 3 or 4 in , once pan was evenly hot and grease had soaked in.

gaga is so right btw, and when they go wrong (like last nights first batch) it is hideous - esp when I get all stressed and say things in a very huffy way like 'these are supposed to be a treat not stressful' and 'I just want some pancakes' sometimes things might bet hurled into the washing up bowl/bin.

my poor family, they must dread me making pancakes - will it be successful or will Mummy explode?'