There's got to be a better way to make pancakes
 

Than standing over the stove for 2 hours!

Any ideas to make pancakes in the oven?

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How many are cooking for? If you have extra fry pans to use it goes much faster.
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A hotel we stayed at had a conveyer belt machine that made them. Iys easier if you have a griddle but it is still a pain.

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There are recipes for oven pancakes. The ones I have seen are large and cut into wedges to serve.
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I dont know any recipes to make individual pancakes, but there are recipes out there for skillet pancakes. I use an electric griddle that I can make 6 to 8 panckaes at a time, so it's not too time consuming for me.

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Yes, a griddle cuts the time down considerably.

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Get thee a griddle. I can do 8 pancakes at a time. That gets the kids started (3 for B 3 for M 1 for each of the girls) 8 more fills out the girls (they usually eat 1 more each) and then DH. It really helps to make a pan of scrambled eggs or something to tide the whiners over. :giggle

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I have an oversized griddle that cuts down the time considerably. I usually make a double batch but with the big electric griddle I am done in 20-30 min start to finish.

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wow...I wold love a griddle like that...we have the same issue...takes forever one pancake at a time in our tiny frying pan.

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We have a griddle - much faster. There are always great deals on them for black Friday.

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I have a double-burner griddle. I can make 6-8 pancakes at a time, and it still takes 2 hours. DS1 eats 3-6 pancakes, I eat, ummm... 10 or 15. :O (They come out kind of thin - if I make them any thicker, they are gummy in the middle. :yuck) DH eats his own breakfast, as he's not a fan of GF cooking. I make a huge batch of them to have leftovers for another day or sometimes 2 days. But I'm sure once DS2 starts eating solids, it won't be enough anymore.

We're egg-free, so no scrambled eggs or anything on the side. I have to make enough pancakes to fill us up. And even then, we're still hungry 2 hours later. :doh

I tried a recipe for one of those giant oven pancakes, but it asked for a lot of eggs, and so it didn't really come out well using egg replacers. DS1 refused to touch it, so I ate it. The whole thing. At one sitting. And was hungry 2 hours later. :bag

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Can you make some sausage or bacon with your pancakes? I know that just pancakes alone does not last long for us either :no Is your oven gas or electric?

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We eat our pancakes with peanut butter or vanilla yogurt to fill us up better. Can you do something like that?

What about biscuits instead of pancakes? You can cover them with butter, jam, honey, or syrup just like pancakes. A regular biscuit recipe doesn't call for any eggs, you can make tons at a time without standing at the stove, and if you do a drop biscuit, there's no kneading or rolling out.

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Yep then you'll need to fill up with some sort of protein :yes I vote bacon :yum :giggle

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Even better than bacon WITH pancakes? Bacon IN pancakes! Pre-cook it in the oven (wiht a drizzle of real maple syrup if you've got it :yum), dice it, and add to the batter as you pour it on to the pan.

AMAZING.

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I haven't figured out how to afford meat with breakfast. :(

Oven is electric.

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I haven't found a GF biscuit recipe I like yet. The closest one comes out more like bread than biscuits, and they're a ton of work. Still, it's probably less work than the 2 hours I spent over the stove this morning. :think DS1 refuses to put anything on them, though. We're dairy-free, so no butter. He won't eat jelly. Sunbutter (no peanuts here) is already a daily staple, but the bread is too soft to spread anything that firm on it.

We have sooooo many food allergies. I hate dealing with food issues.

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Sounds super-duper yummy! Does the extra fat in the bacon affect the texture of the pancakes?

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I quit making pancakes in favor of waffles.

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I don't understand why, if you are cooking 6-8 at a time it's taking you that long? Is that part of the gluten free thing that's different from "regular" pancakes? I make 4 at a time and in 15 minutes I have enough for my family plus some... I'd say about 50. So if I were making 8 at a time that would be 100 pancakes in about 15-20 minutes. Now, that's not counting mixing time, just cooking time, but that doesn't add in too much extra time, maybe 5 minutes. I let the pan preheat while I'm mixing and by the time I'm ready it's hot.

But I agree, just pancakes will not make you not be hungry.... they'll fill you up then, but not keep you that way.

Oh, and sometimes I'll use my cast iron skillet and just pour my regular pancake batter in it and bake it. It takes longer, but I don't have to be right there.

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sounds like your pan is not getting hot enough. and I understand, meat is so expensive :(

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I wonder if they'd cook through better with a lid?

Agree with the pp that perhaps the pan isn't getting hot enough? That might help with the gumminess. :think

Would it help to add a bean flour or sprinkle some quinoa on them? Trying to brainstorm protein. :hug2 I haven't prieced those, so forgive me if they're still out of reach (and/or disgusting)...I'm sorry it's so complicated. :(

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I have to keep the pan on medium heat or they burn without getting solid enough to flip. :shrug It takes 3 to 4 minutes on a side, so 6 pancakes takes, 7 minutes or so. I probably made 75 pancakes yesterday, so that's about 90 minutes of actual cooking time. It takes me a while to mix them up, too. I have a pancake mix, but then I have to make my egg replacer, add several wet ingredients, and put in the other ingredients that can't be put into the mix for whatever reason. So maybe 15 min or so? Naturally, I get interrupted 30 times in the process, so it's hard to know for sure. :rolleyes

I make my flour mix with bean flour and I add hemp protein powder to the pancakes just before cooking them. I use flax seed meal for an egg replacer.

I don't think I can put a lid on the griddle - or do you mean when I try baking it?

BB - how on earth are waffles faster than pancakes? :scratch Whenever I've made waffles, they take longer because you can only make one at a time.

DS1 is eating his 4th plate of pancakes this morning. So for my nearly 2 hours' effort yesterday, we both ate breakfast yesterday, he had pancakes today, and then there will be just enough for both of us to have breakfast tomorrow. So 2 hours = 5 portions. If I was cooking for a family of 5, it would take me 2 hours to make 1 breakfast that doesn't fill us up.

:blah

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I splurged for a waffle iron that makes 4 at a time. Then I can spend one day a week making a ton of waffles. Freeze, and toast for breakfast as needed.

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I was thinking a heat resistant lid (like metal) over the pancakes on the griddle to see if that would reduce the 3-4min per side, to get them solid faster. It would only work over 2-3, but you might be able to group them to do 3 under one lid and 3 under another, depending on how big you make them. It's how we manage to get french toast solid in the middle, so it might work for pancakes.

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I also don't get how waffles are faster... I have a 4 waffle iron and it takes FOREVER to make waffles.

I'm thinking that maybe you need a heavier griddle? My griddle I set on 350 and it is super fast, my pan on the stove I set on medium and it takes like, two minutes on one side and one on the other, so half the time. My griddle I can cook 8 at a time and it's less than 2 minutes till I'm pulling them off. Literally by the time I get the last one poured it's time to flip the first one and then by the time I flip all of them it's time to take them off.

But again, Ive never cooked gluten free, so I'm not sure how much that affects it.

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Do you guys eat beans or cheese? When I lived in Nicaragua, those were staples with breakfast :yes I used to eat banana pancakes with gaello pinto (you can google for a recipe, but it's a way of cooking beans and rice) and fried cheese for breakfast every morning :yum

ETA: I missed that you're dairy free, so the cheese is out.

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Can you opt for muffins for breakfast instead? It might not be faster, but you don't have to babysit them as much.

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DS1 won't eat beans in any form except bread (bean flour). I've been experimenting with muffins, but the recipes I've found so far are a ton of work (it seems that to make a palatable muffin with my restrictions, one must use 35 ingredients and a 25-step process :rolleyes) and sooo sweet. When I try cutting the sweet, DS1 won't eat them. :doh

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How big are your pancakes? Can you just use a larger pan and make the pancakes bigger and thus fill everyone up with less?

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I was actually thinking about suggesting to make them smaller...see if silver dollar pancakes cook through faster than regular sized ones.

So, between me and hey mommy, I guess our advice is to experiment with size and see what works?

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I've tried both sizes, actually. The small ones don't take any less time to cook. :shrug Large ones are harder to flip, so I try to make them smaller.

I may borrow my MIL's waffle iron and experiment with that. BlessedBlue - what flour mix are you using? Do you grease the iron before each waffle? What kind of fat do you use?

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Do you do oats? I make waffles that are just beans and oats, supper cheap, simple and filling.

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Part of the difference you and I have lies in the fact that I can use eggs, and you can't. So I've already got protein built in. :-/ My waffle iron has a non-stick coating, so as long as it is clean, it doesn't need any extra oiling. The mix I have is currently sweet rice flour, tapioca flour, amaranth, buckwheat and potato starch flours.

:think If you're using bean flours, that might take care of the protein issue.

I use olive oil in the batter.

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Recipe? :poke GF oats aren't that cheap, but I'm willing to try out a new recipe if it's tested and approved. :yes

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http://www.plantea.com/oat-bean-waffles.htm
I mostly followed the reciepe the first time :shifty. I have never used dry beans, always cooked because that was what I had. Now I put the oats in a bowl, then the beans, cover with hot water for a bit, process in the food proccessor adding hot water to get a thick-ish batter, put it back in the bowl, add a bit of salt a bunch of cinamon and maybe some vanilla. They do take a while to bake in the waffle iron, but the reheat REALLY well in the toaster, even from frozen, and my biggest eater (the one who can eat 2 frozen pizzas and be confused about why we won't gie him more) has never eaten more than 4 at a meal. I have been making them for months and the kids still eat them freguently.

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i think a non-stick griddle is the key. i got rid of all my non-stick stuff b/c i know it's horrible to use. but when we moved in this house, the ppl who lived here before us left behind a HUGE, non-stick griddle. i resisted using it for a long time but finally gave in. i can cook a whole batch of pancakes in like half the time it used to take me. :giggle

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I'm borrowing MIL's waffle iron and trying this tomorrow! I love the fact that there's no eggs in the recipe! :rockon

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I think the key must be including ingredients that fill you up more, or other things with breakfast. Pancakes do take a while here, but but my kids and I each have 2 medium sized ones each, but we top with things like nut butter, or sliced almonds with bananas (softened in the skillet), or have them with a glass of soy milk or a little bit of green smoothie. We use ground whole grains, usually oatmeal, and usually no eggs.

We have tried versions of this: http://www.suegregg.com/recipes/brea...erwafflesA.htm
Which are VERY filling. Some grain combinations were not too tasty; you'd want to experiment a little bit.

I'm definitely trying Abbiroads' waffle recipe. :)

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So I started experimenting with the waffle iron tonight while I'm in a low-pressure environment. I'm not sure waffles are for me. It took me over a half-hour to make 2 waffles. They were burned on the outside, gooey on the inside, and had to be pried from the waffle iron one square at a time, both top and bottom, despite liberal application of olive oil. :sigh

I'm going to try the oat-bean waffles tomorrow. Hopefully there's some magic there that will make my efforts edible.

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Is it a non-stick iron? DON'T oil it - clean it.

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I think it's non-stick. :scratch It's a $2 thrift store find that looks like it's from the 70's or 80's. How do you clean a hot waffle iron if you can't oil it? :scratch

FWIW, BIL made "regular" pancakes yesterday, and burned them, too, using the exact same settings I use on the stove. So maybe it's not just me. :shrug

:sigh Maybe I should just give up and feed the child cereal every morning. I mean, it has no protein, it's expensive, but it's easy. DH and I both grew up on daily cereal and we managed to grow up. I'd say we're fine, but alas, I'm sure we're not.