why do my pancakes (crêpes) take such a long time to cook?
I am making crêpes and I wonder why they take such a ridiculously long amount of time to cook, about 5 or 6 minutes per pancake. I remember once upon a time I was making crêpes cooking them about 90 seconds on one side, and than 30-60 seconds on the other side, and they where ready. Now, after 3 minutes of cooking on one side, they are hardly separable from the pan, and it takes at least 5 minutes in total to make them eatable.
I tried both on medium and maximum flame. I am now doing it on a propane-butane portable stove in a van, but the maximum flame on the stove doesn't differ visually in size from a maximum flame in a brick-house stove. When I was doing them some years ago it was in a brick house on methane gas.
I do it on a simple thin Teflon-coated pancake pan.
I also don't use any eggs, and I am trying different mixtures of flour, usually about 85% of wheat flour, and the rest either: corn flour, rice flour or powdered milk. And 900 ml water per 400 grams flour mixture.
But even when I tried making them once with 900 ml milk plus 400 grams wheat flour, they also took a long time to make.
Is it because of the lack of eggs, the heat is too low, the pan is bad or something else?
What to do to cook pancakes at a rate of 1 pancake per 2 minutes again? On propane-butane without using eggs. Preferably only using grain products and water.
Best Answer
If it doesn't contain eggs, or at least something that serves as a substitute for eggs, it's not a crepe. Crepes cook quickly because eggs need very little time/heat to set up. Like justkt said, what you've described is a tortilla. I'm not exactly sure how or why a tortilla "sets up" (if you can even use that term for a flatbread), but it's a completely different mechanism than cooking eggs, and takes a much longer time.
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Answer 2
Those are not crèpes but rather a sort of flatbread. To make it set, you need to boil most of the water in the milk out. This is what is taking a long time. This is also why they are kind of hard when they are done: it is more or less like a bread crust.
If you had a binder like eggs, then it would a crèpe and it would set more rapidly because the eggs take very little time to coagulate and hold the whole thing together.
To make flatbread set faster, there is little you can do beyond making it very thin (and thus a bit fluid when at the batter stage).
Answer 3
I think it's on the pan. Why not replace it, or why not try using electric crepe makers? I do have this recipe here that I've been using for months, and I got an average of 1 crepe for 1 and a half minutes time! Check it out.
Answer 4
Make a fluider, so it would be thinner.
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