Pancake: how to choose?

With the approach of Maslenitsa, almost every housewife remembers about such a primordially Russian dish as pancakes. Thin, lacy, soaked in oil, they are so delicious! Furnace pancakes - a kind of art, and technical progress now allows you to make this time-consuming procedure as easy as possible. Of course, the pancake is not the first necessity in the kitchen, but for those women who like to pamper their household with pancakes will become an indispensable assistant.

Types of pancakes and their features

A common pancake pan is relatively inexpensive, easily fits in any kitchen cabinet and allows the stove to be effortless. Covering the frying pan makes it easier to turn pancakes, in addition, it is made of thin metal and weighs very little. The lack of such a pancake is a quick cooling, a thin-walled frying pan can not maintain the desired temperature and instantly cools as soon as you remove it from the fire. It is for this reason that experienced housewives still choose heavy frying pans with thick walls.

In the range of household appliances stores to date, you can easily find an electric pancake maker that can turn baking pancakes into pleasure. Let us consider in more detail what electric pancakes are. Household electric pancake can be classic or submersible. Classic allows you to bake a few pancakes at the same time, while a submachine pancake takes up a minimum of space and will be an ideal solution for a small kitchen.

Classic Pancake Maker

This unit in appearance resembles an electric oven, but instead of the burners there are grooves in which the dough is poured during operation. The upper panel of the pommel is made of a special non-stick coating, under which there is a heating element equipped with a thermostat to maintain the optimum baking temperature. Note that some models are equipped with several upper removable panels, where the number of grooves and their diameter will vary. Complete with a pancake maker, you will receive one or more special spatulas for turning over pancakes, allowing to involve other members of the family or, for example, guests. The pancake case can be equipped with a box for storing blades, replaceable panels, which greatly simplifies the use and storage of the unit.

Submerged pancake maker

Such a pancake is like a pan with a curved bottom. During cooking, the curved part is immersed in a container with a test, and then the halves are joined and the pancake is baked inside. The advantage of this technique in obtaining thin pancakes, which is almost impossible to cook in a frying pan, the disadvantages are the ability to bake only one pancake and the relative rarity of the appearance of such models in our stores.

On sale you can meet a pancake with a ceramic coating in the form of a frying pan. Its main advantage lies in the no need to use oil during cooking. In addition, the ceramic keeps the heat well, so the ceramic pancake will not have time to cool down for the time it takes to pour a portion of the dough into a frying pan. A relatively new technology is sometimes perplexing, but pottery from ceramics has already proved itself, because it can be washed in a dishwasher, and the coating is resistant to external influences.

Turn the long and complex baking of pancakes is a real pleasure!