I recently stayed at a friends house and we all made breakfast, lunch and dinner together and had a real good time.
But on two occasions we made pancakes, and I discovered that they cook them differently from the way I cook them. They squish the pancakes as they cook them, which made them very thick, heavy and not so tasty.
I was wondering if other people squish pancakes as the cook them. It seems strange to me since I have been told not to ever do that.
I don’t squish it. It’s more of a light pressure to test resistance. It’s worked for me, but I have yet to find a pancake that wasn’t delicious (excluding burnt pancakes). I even enjoy the batter.
I dont squish them. I wait till the bubbles in the batter rise and break, then flip it and wait until the edges are dry. Then its usually done and it hasn’t been mushed.
No touching except for flipping - they’re doing it wrong. A visual assessment (yay, I used one of my science tests) of the uncooked side gives enough information on when to flip.
What I do is take the mix, use a soup scoop to pour maybe about half a cup’s worth into a buttered pan. Then I spread it with a plastic spatula around the entire area of the pan to make a thin crepe. I roll these and serve with real maple syrup and frosted sugar.
This, but I don’t watch the edges. By the time the bubbles break through the other side the pancake has been cooked through pretty well. I just flip and wait a minute or two before flipping again and checking.