So, I whipped up a batch of pancakes this morning for my 5 yo great-grandson.

[Arkansas Granny]

We were talking away while he watched me mix the batter. When I poured it onto the griddle he says "Granny, what are you doing to my pancakes? They go in the microwave!".

[MyNameGoesHere]

1. Ha that's good

It is amazing that one of the easiest breakfast fares has been relegated to quick mixes and frozen globs of something.

[Major Nikon]

2. This is as funny as can be

However, I freeze my own pancakes all the time. They are actually quite good that way in the microwave. Commercially frozen pancakes aren't as good as homemade, but they aren't bad either. Some (perhaps most or all) use HFCS instead of sucrose, but other than that they use the same ingredients you'd use at home.

[Warpy]

6. Well, except that they use vegetable gum

to cover the fact that they don't use enough eggs in a run of frozen pancakes.

Frozen waffles are much more successful, IMO. The frozen pancakes have a weird texture and sit in my gut like a cinderblock.

Pancakes are one of the most simple breakfast foods out there. They can also be held in a warm oven until there are enough for everybody.

[Major Nikon]

7. That's how I do it

I have two 10" round cast iron griddles made by lodge so I can get two large pancakes going at the same time. I keep them warm in my oven until ready to serve. The leftovers I put on an aluminum sheet pan in the freezer then ziplock them once frozen.

I can't speak for all the commercial frozen pancakes out there since I haven't tried that many, but the ones made by Pillsbury aren't that bad. Here's the ingredients list for their Homestyle version:

Water, Enriched Flour (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Canola Oil. Contains 2% or less of: Leavening (baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), Eggs, Salt, Buttermilk.

The leavening ingredients are better known as baking soda and baking powder. No gums are used.

[MyNameGoesHere]

8. You got it, like a rock of glutenous yuck.

Light, airy and aromatic any day. My sis made Maple syrup this year and stingily gave me a quart. I can't think of a better breakfast.

[surrealAmerican]

3. Aw.

... love those "teachable" moments ...

[Tien1985]

4. Awww :)

Bet you when he grows up he'll remember G. Grandma making pancakes for him

[cbayer]

5. Hilarious!

My kids lived on those things at times.

One thing the microwave did was allow kids to fix their own food at an earlier age.

While not always ideal, all of my kids love to cook now and I think it started when they could fix their own at a very early age.

I hope he liked your pancakes better!

[Lucinda]

9. LOL Adorable.

And now he knows where pancakes come from!

[azurnoir]

10. that's great

my son wouldn't eat regular homemade pancakes for a time because "they looked weird" at least as compared to micrwave ones

but the first sign of over modern convenience food kids I had was long ago when I was making real cocoa for my daughters and they asked why I was adding milk to it-'cause according to their knowledge milk didn't go in hot chocolate !

[Nay]

11. Funny and sad at the same time, because pancakes are so easy to make that one

wonders why, at his house, the microwave is involved.....but I have the same observation at my house. My grandson always asks me to make MY oatmeal with blueberries when he is over here. He loves it, and has noticed that the garbage in the packet is NOT the same as thick-cut health food store oatmeal cooked on the stove for 15 minutes! One can only hope he'll turn out to be a health food addict!

[pipoman]

12. my mother made pancakes

For my son...my mom died 3 years ago..He has a pancake stack tattoo for his grandma and wants to pick up her cast iron skillet while he is home for Christmas. ..it is how she is remembered by him...