People panic buying eggs and flour for today.

[VR6time]

Every year this gets my goat.

Hoards of people buying flour and Eggs and plastic lemons to make pancales with. In our house these things are deemed essential for normal cooking, so are never without eggs, milk or flour

What's even worse? Pancake mix. How chuffing lazy is that?

[condor]

Basics batter mix is only 7p... a bargain

[oldcynic]

No such problems in our house. Instead a diligent search for gluten-free dairy-free pancake recipes! Any tips out there? Potato pancakes with bacon sound like the hot favourite.

Eggs are OK though, and already in stock in the fridge.

[Slaav]

I must say that I agree with OP - happned to have a glance last night as was going to make them a day early - sad I know - and yep, lemons, flour, eggs and milk!

Not sure that we would ever NOT be able to knock up a pancake to be honest.....

But then we do cook a lot and like our food!

[WhoreSaab]

@oldcynic, what you need are some Paleo pancakes! http://www.funckey.co.uk/news/paleo-pieces-primal-...

[oldcynic]

weSaab said:

@oldcynic, what you need are some Paleo pancakes! http://www.funckey.co.uk/news/paleo-pieces-primal-...

Excellent find!

Shame we don't have any coconut flour or milk in the cupboard / fridge. Might seek some out over the next couple of days and try this at the weekend.

[Simpo Two]

VR6time said:

What's even worse? Pancake mix. How chuffing lazy is that?

Not as lazy as buying pre-made microwaveable ones

[dmitsi]

My housemate came home last night with a bottle of batter mix from waitrose. I opened the cupboard, showed her the flour, eggs, milk in the fridge and some lemon.
Her excuse was she didn't know how to make the batter? WTF!

I'm sure mine will be tastier, and make more. The amount in the pre made pack looked woeful.
I will teach her the comlexities of pancake batter tonight.

[Slaav]

dmitsi said:

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I will teach her the comlexities of pancake batter tonight.

Is that a euphemism?

[dmitsi]

Slaav said:

dmitsi said:

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I will teach her the comlexities of pancake batter tonight.

Is that a euphemism?

Well it is her birthday today too, lucky girl.

[Stevenj214]

I had flour. Needed to buy the rest.

The result?



Num num!

[obob]

Stevenj214 said:

I had flour. Needed to buy the rest.

The result?



Num num!

How dare you have to buy stuff! You should magically have everything like all these ^ geniuses.

[Slaav]

obob said:

How dare you have to buy stuff! You should magically have everything like all these ^ geniuses.

That made me laugh!


Although now have a swollen belly through too many (knocked up in a Heston kind of way) pancakes

[skeggysteve]

oldcynic said:

Eggs are OK though, and already in stock in the fridge.

I don't post in here often because I'm not a cook but even I know that eggs should not be stored in the fridge.

WRT pancakes - we had the eggs and flour, but had to buy fresh supplies of lemon juice and golden syrup.

[zakelwe]

I just did it with my 8 year old daughter, everthing from scratch. So we had a very lumpy batter and somehow mums ended up on the floor. It turns out that pancake day is not about how good it tastes but whether you can toss a pancake 3 times on the trot and whether dad can hit the ceiling and make it stick!

He can't and it's another one on the floor for mum

Andy

[Engineer1]

Simpo Two said:

VR6time said:

What's even worse? Pancake mix. How chuffing lazy is that?

Not as lazy as buying pre-made microwaveable ones

We had pre-made pancakes as we are on a diet and buying 6 with nutritional data on it means you know how good or bad they are, home made means you add more milk a little more flour another egg and end up eating 6 or more each.

[hidetheelephants]

skeggysteve said:

I don't post in here often because I'm not a cook but even I know that eggs should not be stored in the fridge.

[Ultuous]

It doesn't make a lot of difference* but they can allegedly absorb odors/ tastes from other food in the fridge, don't need to chilled to keep them and (this is what settles it for me) don't seem quite as 'easy' to cook with given a bigger temperature differential.

• but is still one of those things that used to wind me up when the ex would insist on moving them into the fridge!

[hidetheelephants]

Ultuous said:

It doesn't make a lot of difference* but they can allegedly absorb odors/ tastes from other food in the fridge, don't need to chilled to keep them and (this is what settles it for me) don't seem quite as 'easy' to cook with given a bigger temperature differential.

• but is still one of those things that used to wind me up when the ex would insist on moving them into the fridge!

Surely you just bring them out of the fridge a bit before you need them? Certainly most recipes work better if the ingredients are at room temp(unless otherwise stated).

[Ultuous]

Indeed... So...

Surely you just don't put them in the fridge in the first place, saving the need to get them out in advance?!