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How do we know restaurants serving pancakes are not using store bought add water mixes?

Posted on 8/16/26 at 4:50 pm
Posted by PelicanState87
Member since May 2024
424 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 4:50 pm
I just had pancakes at a fairly popular restaurant in my area and their pancakes taste just like my homemade pancakes I make at home and I always use the add water mixes.

I feel duped b/c I thought restaurants would come up with their own special recipe. Not take someone elses that most of us already use at home and serve it right back to us.
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Geaux Tigers
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Posted on 8/16/26 at 4:51 pm to
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Posted by TIGERHOLD
Orleans Parish
Member since Mar 2022
1316 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 4:55 pm to
Most restaurants (especially breakfast ones) are serving pre-made or reheated junk.
Posted by Syd
Member since Sep 2012
5159 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 4:57 pm to
Are you bitching because they taste bad?
Posted by BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
17175 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:12 pm to
You pay for the convenience. Always better to cook at home.

Of course the younger generation thinks it’s their birthright to be serviced.
Posted by TygerLyfe
Member since May 2023
4368 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:13 pm to
I KNEW IT
Posted by ItTakesAThief
Scottsdale, Arizona
Member since Dec 2009
10870 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:20 pm to
Haha. Most restaurant food is premade these days in one way or another.
Posted by SlickRick55
Member since May 2016
2955 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:26 pm to
Here are the top two reasons why most restaurant foods just “taste better” than what I could cook at home-

1. Wayyyy more butter than one would normally use,
2. Wayyyy more sugar than one would normally use.
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
31928 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:30 pm to
Plot twist. They're really frozen microwave pancakes.
Posted by billjamin
Houston
Member since Jun 2019
19010 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:31 pm to
Pretty sure Waffle Houses mix you have to add milk and egg. I know their hash browns are dehydrated in cartons.
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
12200 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:38 pm to
There are also pancakes made with cornmeal mixed with flour. There are also much loved buckwheat pancakes in part of the midwest.

Run of the mill pancakes are flour, water/milk/, baking powder, fat, and pinches of salt and sugar. There isn't much you could do to that plain pancake. Put blueberries in it, maybe some crushed pecans, a few slices of banana, but it really isn't open to too much creativity.
Posted by BregmansWheelbarrow
Member since Mar 2020
3419 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:40 pm to
Pancakes aren’t exactly complicated. How much difference do you expect there to be?
Posted by Tarps99
Lafourche Parish
Member since Apr 2017
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Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:46 pm to
quote:

I just had pancakes at a fairly popular restaurant in my area and their pancakes taste just like my homemade pancakes I make at home and I always use the add water mixes.


Sam’s sells restaurant sized boxes of Bisquick. No big secret there.
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
30942 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 5:47 pm to
Did you steal the margarine?
Posted by MFTPC
Member since Apr 2026
145 posts
Posted on 8/16/26 at 6:32 pm to
It’s add black spit not water
Posted by BeerMoney
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 8/16/26 at 7:20 pm to
As long as it tastes great who cares? Sometimes not knowing is a blessing. Example, my grandmothers pecan pie was to die for and the absolute best per my dad. When she died, acted like it was lost in time like who built the pyramids. I called my aunt and she told me to guy buy a bottle of Karo syrup and make that recipe. I did and gave it to my dad telling me that my aunt still
Had the recipe. He couldn’t believe it and was so happy.
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
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Posted on 8/16/26 at 7:22 pm to
My God what world have you been living in?
Posted by Bayou Warrior 64
Member since Feb 2021
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Posted on 8/16/26 at 7:30 pm to
Seriously????
Posted by Obi Wan Ryobi
Member since Feb 2026
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Posted on 8/16/26 at 7:47 pm to
I ate my wife’s bloody pancake this morning
Posted by Lonnie Utah
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