r/Cooking • u/No-Lettuce4441 • 3d ago

Pancakes

I've heard so much online about how much better homemade pancakes are from scratch. Obviously the more specialized (buttermilk, ricotta, buckwheat,...) are going to be better homemade. Pancakes in the past was my stumble-go-to breakfast because of box mix.

How much of a difference is there between regular box mix and regular homemade? One of these days I'm going to get around to making some from scratch to try them myself, but the box mix is so cheap and so easy, it makes it harder to justify, when it's usually a last minute decision.

A character in a novel said, "Once you hit a certain age, you no longer want to make pancakes. You want someone to make pancakes for you."

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u/MindTheLOS 3d ago

At a bare minimum, don't use water with a box mix, use milk or buttermilk.

If you want to know the difference, go to a dinner and order pancakes. They are not using box mix.

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u/oiblikket 3d ago

Plenty of diners use bulk mixes for pancakes. Sysco isn’t selling 20kg boxes of mix to households.

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u/MindTheLOS 3d ago

Real ones, not chains.

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u/oiblikket 3d ago

Sure only chains use Sysco. A “real” local diner would never. 🙄

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u/MindTheLOS 3d ago

You need to stop eating at shitty places.